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U.S. CONSUMERS CUT SPENDING AS MOOD CONTINUES TO DARKEN
Foot traffic in American brick-and-mortar stores was 4.3 percent less in early March than a year earlier, continuing a reduction in shopping that began early this year, research service RetailNext reported.
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TRILLION-DOLLAR SELL-OFF HITS INDIA’S STOCK MARKETS
A prolonged slide in India’s stock values has erased $1 trillion in value from investors’ holdings. The flagship Nifty 50 index has retreated 14.5 percent from its September high. The Sensex, a catalog of 30 major companies traded on the Mumbai exchange, has dropped 13.9 percent.
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U.K. GDP SHRINKS IN JANUARY
The U.K.’s economic activity contracted by 0.1 percent in January, surprising economists who had foreseen a 0.1-percent increase that would have built on December’s 0.4-percent gain.
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INFLATION AND HIGH GOVERNMENT DEBT ARE LINKED, STUDY FINDS
When a government borrows to fund its programs, that puts pressure on consumer prices, according to research by Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics at Yale University’s Budget Lab and former chief economist for President Joe Biden’s White House Council of Economic Advisers.
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ECB CUTS KEY RATE TO PROTECT AGAINST SHOCKS
On 6 March, the European Central Bank (ECB) shaved a quarter point off its key interest rate, dropping it to 2.5 percent.
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IN JANUARY, U.S. TRADE DEFICIT SET ANOTHER RECORD
January’s trade deficit soared 34 percent from December as American businesses stockpiled goods from other countries ahead of Donald Trump’s promised wave of stiff tariffs on all goods coming into the U.S.
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INFLATION EASES IN JANUARY AS CONSUMERS CUT BACK SPENDING
The U.S. annual inflation in January ran at 2.5 percent, a slight slowdown from December’s 2.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The month-to-month rate was up 0.3 percent, the same as it was in December.
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CONSUMER SENTIMENT TANKS IN NEW SURVEY
Consumers have taken an increasingly dark view of the U.S. economy and its future, the newest monthly University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment has found.
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DELINQUENT LOANS ON THE RISE AMONG U.S. BUSINESSES
The share of U.S. business loans falling behind in their payments is the highest since 2017 and could rise even higher as the impact of Donald Trump’s trade war begins to bite, the Financial Times reported.