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The world’s largest economy is grappling with rising inflation levels. Per the latest Labour Department report, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped 8.5% year over year in March, reaching the highest level since December 1981. The reading also surpassed the already high Dow Jones estimate of 8.4%. The high inflation …

Britain’s inflation rose to a 30-year high of 6.2 percent last month, official data showed on Wednesday, the highest end of analysts’ expectations. The median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists had called for a reading of 5.9 percent.

Official figures revealed on Friday that Britain’s economy grew 7.5% in 2021, recovering from its historic 9.4% decline in 2020 when coronavirus restrictions curbed economic activity. On a quarterly basis, UK gross domestic product is estimated to have risen by 1% in the final three months of the year, and …

Ahead of Thursday’s key US Consumer Price Index data scheduled for New York’s morning session, the White House says tomorrow’s inflation data will show a high year-on-year figure.The White House states that its irrelevant month on month number will continue trending lower the rest of the year.The consensus in the …

The AUD/USD has held onto the corrective pullback from more than a month’s low around 0.7140, after two successive trading days of risk aversion.The recovery moves could be linked to the consolidation of losses by the risk-sensitive assets while the Aussie pair particularly awaits key inflation data during early Tuesday …

Several economists believe the cost of borrowing will increase several times this year. UK inflation is expected to rise to a 30-year high when December’s data are released on Wednesday as upward cost pressures are felt across the economy. Economists polled by Reuters forecast inflation to hit 5.2 per cent, …

Sometimes, rumours take part in shaping the market’s overall mood even partially, though such rumours have no relation to reality. Something of this kind seems to have happened last week. The EUR/USD pair has been in a sideways trend since November, fluctuating in the range of 1.1220 – 1.1385.   …

Friday’s session exhibited mixed performance. It has been a choppy day for US equity markets, with tech and growth stocks doing better while value did worse.Nasdaq 100 outperformed, gaining 0.5%, whilst the Dow underperformed, shedding 0.7%. It was a choppy and mixed session in US equity markets, marked more by …

The S&P 500 Index has dipped under 4600 and is down by another more than 1.5% as the equity downturn continues. Concerns about Fed’s tightening policy and higher US bond yields continue to be the main driver of the selling. The equity bears have picked up where they left off …

The US is suffering from its highest inflation wave in 40 years according to newly released federal economic figures. For anyone hoping there would be an end to the exorbitant climb in prices before year-end, this was a disappointment. But it could be the peak.The Bureau of Economic Analysis released …