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Tag: interest rates
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U.S. ECONOMY GREW MODESTLY IN THIS YEAR’S FIRST HALF
Adjusted for inflation, the U.S. GDP grew by 1.25 percent during the first six months of this year, initial government data indicates.
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JOB MARKET BUST: ONLY 73,000 NEW JOBS ADDED IN JULY
The U.S. economy added a net 73,000 nonfarm jobs last month, well below economists’ modest expectation of 100,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
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FED FREEZES INTEREST RATES AMID TRADE WAR UNCERTAINTY
On 18 June, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee held its policy interest rates steady at 4.25 percent for deposits and 4.50 percent for loans. The decision to do so was unanimous, notes from the meeting showed.
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LEADING INDICATORS SHOW A WEAKENING U.S. ECONOMY
The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index (LEI), a broad survey of economic signals, ticked down in May from 99.1 to 99 to match economists’ forecasts.
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AS FORECAST, PRES. TRUMP DEMANDS FED LOWER INTEREST RATES
As we had long forecast, President Trump will keep pushing the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. After the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the U.S. economy added 139,000 jobs in May—more than expected—Donald Trump took to social media to demand that the U.S. Federal Reserve and its Chairman Jerome Powell lower the central bank’s interest rate.
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NEW HOME PRICES RISE IN CHINA. IS THE PROPERTY CRISIS ENDING?
Last month, the average price of new homes across 100 Chinese cities edged up 0.3 percent, more than doubling March’s increase of 0.14 percent, according to a new survey by the China Research Academy.
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RISING MORTGAGE INTEREST RATES WILL HOBBLE EUROPE’S ECONOMY, ECB SAYS
Although the European Central Bank (ECB) has lowered its interest rates, the cost of a mortgage is likely to continue rising throughout the 20-country Eurozone until at least 2030, the bank has warned.
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IN MEETING WITH POWELL, TRUMP AGAIN PRESSES FOR LOWER INTEREST RATES
Donald Trump and Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, met for about 30 minutes on 29 May at Trump’s invitation, the White House press office said.
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INFLATION FALLS TO 2.1 PERCENT, VIRTUALLY MATCHING FED’S TARGET
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s favorite measure of inflation showed prices rose at a 2.1-percent annual rate in April, next door to the Fed’s long-held 2-percent target rate.
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