Inflation in British grocery prices fell to 9.7 percent in the four weeks ending 29 October, the first time monthly food price gains have been limited to single digits since July 2022, research service Kantar reported.
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FED NOT READY TO DECLARE VICTORY OVER INFLATION, POWELL SAYS
U.S. inflation is not yet tamed and the U.S. Federal Reserve is more likely to raise interest rates than cut them if any change is needed, Fed chair Jerome Powell said in a 9 November speech to a conference of the International Monetary Fund.
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U.S. ECONOMY GREW 4.9 PERCENT IN THIRD QUARTER
U.S. GDP grew at an annual rate of 4.9 percent in this year’s third quarter, the commerce department reported.
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INFLATION LARGELY UNCHANGED IN SEPTEMBER
Consumer prices grew by 0.4 percent in September from August and 3.7 percent on the year, the U.S. Labor Department reported. Dow Jones had estimated 0.3 and 3.6 percent, respectively.
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INFLATION ASSAULTS COMMODITIES
In 2021, Liontown Resources had budgeted $300 million for its new Australian lithium mine. The budget now is twice that.
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BUNDESBANK PRESIDENT WARNS AGAINST ENTRENCHED INFLATION
“At all costs,” the European Central Bank (ECB) must prevent inflation from becoming entrenched across the Eurozone’s economy, Joachim Nagel, president of Germany’s central bank, said in a speech last week.
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IS INFLATION HEADING BACK HIGHER?
In August, U.S. inflation moved up to 3.7 percent after registering 3.2 percent in July. It was the first month-to-month increase in a year.
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U.S. CONSUMER INFLATION, WHOLESALE PRICES SPEED UP IN AUGUST
U.S. inflation rose from July’s 3.2 percent annually to 3.7 percent in August, driven higher by rising gasoline prices, the U.S. labor department reported. Analysts had expected the figure to rise to 3.6 percent.
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AS INFLATION SLOWS, PROFITS FALL TOO
After-tax corporate profits in this year’s second quarter were 9.4 percent below those of a year earlier, the U.S. Commerce Department reported in late August, although companies listed in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index showed only a 2.9-percent decline in earnings per share, data service Refinitiv said.
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INFLATION EASES BUT FOOD PRICES WILL KEEP RISING
Global food prices will continue to increase even though inflation in many countries is waning, analysts are predicting.