“It could be down to sticky inflation, worries about government borrowing levels, or the absence of along-awaited recession, but investors are starting to cut back on the number of interest rate cuts they are expecting from the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.” This means expecta...
TheAnnual inflation Ratepeaked in June 2022 at 9.06% which was the highest level since November 1981, when it was slightly higher at 9.59%. Inflation fell to 4.93% in April 2023 and by June 2023 it was down to 2.97%. Then it rebounded to 3.7% in September 2023 before falling to 2.44...
The consumer price index (CPI), a broad measure of the price of everyday goods, increased 2.4% on an annual basis in September and rose 0.2% month-over-month, compared to 2.5% in August, less than the 2.3% rate that was expected, according to the BLS. Core CPI, which excludes the ...
Themisery indexattempts to quantify how the average citizen is doing economically. It is calculated by simply adding the Annualinflation rateto the Seasonally Adjustedunemployment rate. One of the charts below includes inflation, unemployment, the misery index, and who wasPresidentat the time. As in...
Long history of inflation in Latin America High inflation rates are nothing new in Latin America. In 2023, the region's inflation rate was 14.41 percent, while the global average was much lower at 6.78 percent. Nonetheless, the main drivers of this are Venezuela and Argentina, both being ...
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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Recently, one big name money manager after another is on record telling people to buy hard assets. Why? Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter says they all know what is coming. Holter contends, “They understand that...
Each month’s trimmed mean import price inflation rate is calculated using the following steps. 1. Compute the monthly percent change (without annualization) in each component import price index. 2. Sort the percent changes in price from smallest to largest, and sort the relative importance...
INFLATION, RECESSION, AND INTEREST RATE POLICY.When inflation (blue line) rises, the Federal Reserve pushes interest rates (red line) higher to cool things down, often resulting in a recession (shaded areas). When inflation gets too low, the Fed lowers rates to stoke the economic embers. ...
The possibility of obtaining hints about causal variables in the BIAM procedure is based on the fact that the headline inflation could have similar rate values at two time moments, but the inflation situations could be quite different because the variables causing inflation in these cases differ ...