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Business inventories in the United States increased in January by 0.3%, following a 0.8% rise in December, data by the U.S. Department of Commerce showed on Tuesday. Inventories declined by 1.8% compared with their level in January 2020. Retail inventories declined by 0.5% in January, after rising by 1.7% in …

Industrial Production in the United States contracted by 2.2% on a monthly basis in February, the US Federal Reserve reported on Tuesday. This reading followed January’s expansion of 1.1% and missed the market expectation for an increase of 0.6% by a large margin.

Retail Sales in the US fell by 3% in February to $561.7 billion, the data published by the US Census Bureau showed on Tuesday. This reading followed January’s increase of 7.6% (revised from 5.3%) and came in worse than the market expectation for a decrease of 0.5%.

Data from the Treasury on Monday showed that foreign holdings in US Treasury bonds rose for the second month in a row in January. Foreign investor holdings reached $ 7.119 trillion in January, up from $ 7.07 trillion in the previous month. Holdings of Japan, the largest non-US holder of …

The Biden administration will be closely monitoring the small risk of a rise in inflation following the $1.9 trillion relief plan, said the Chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Cecilia Rouse, on Monday “Any economic investment is going to have some risks,” Rouse told MSNBC. “Yes, there …

Producer prices in the United States grew steadily last month, recording their largest increase in about two and a half years, data showed on Friday The producer price index (PPI) increased by 0.5% in February, after rising by 1.3% in January, according to data by the U.S. Department of Labor …

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Thursday signed the $1.9 trillion relief bill into law, officially ratifying what he originally proposed as the “American Rescue Plan” to help the U.S. economy recover from the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. After Congress passed the bill, following a long …

The number of job openings in the United States rose by the end of January to 6.917 million, data showed on Thursday. The reading shown by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) came better than expectations of 6.6 million job openings. The number …

Democratic House of Representatives passed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill Wednesday, sending one of the largest stimulus plans in US history to President Joe Biden’s office for signature. The president hopes to sign the bill on Friday after Congress formally sends it to the White House, which could take …

The United States public budget deficit hit an all-time high in the five months to February at $1.05 trillion, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The surge in budget deficit is attributed to the increase in governmental stimulus spending to help the economy recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. …