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Labor Department data released on Thursday showed that the number of people making initial claims for unemployment benefits in the United States. The reading is slightly worse than the market expectation of 1.25M, but almost unchanged from last week’s reading at 1.310 million, revised from 1.314M previously reported. 4 week …

At its monetary policy meeting held on July 16th, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to leave the interest rates on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50%, respectively, as …

The ECB rate decision on Thursday just came out. As expected, the central bank leaves the interest rates unchanged. Later today, we will be looking at the June retail sales report from the United States. It’s expected to post a 5.0% rise after a 17.7% rise in May.  We will …

Oil prices retreated after OPEC + agreed to taper record supply curbs from August, although the drop had received some bailouts from the rapid recovery of US demand after crude inventories fell in. Brent fell 33 cents, or 0.8%, to $ 43.46 a barrel, with WTI down 42 cents, or …

Industry data showed on Thursday that European car sales fell in June compared to last year, although they showed an improvement since May we ease of Covid-19 and lockdown measures  Statistics of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) showed the registration of new cars in June decreased by 24.1% YoY …

Asian shares and US stock futures fell on Thursday, due to concerns about the trade tension between the United States and China and the economic cost of the Covid-19 waves. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell by 1.18%, while Tokyo’s Nikkei fell 0.74%. Shares in China fell …

Data published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that the UK official unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.9% posted in May while the number of claimants count change fell unexpectedly last month. The number of people claiming jobless decreased by 28.1K in June, compared to expectations for +250K …

Data released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday showed industrial production in the U.S. increased 5.4% in June after expanding 1.4% in May. This reading was better than market expectations of 4.3%. Other details of the report revealed that manufacturing output rose 7.2% in June and capacity utilization improved to …

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Wednesday that he sees “very difficult hours ahead.” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven met for talks before the European Union summit. The economy of Spain is one of the most affected economies in the European Union from …

Official data released today in the United Kingdom showed that British inflation rose unexpectedly in the previous month as the Office for National Statistics said that consumer price inflation rose to 0.6% in June from 0.5% in May. A Reuters poll had expected the rate to drop to 0.4%. Core …