Prices
Fed Governor Miran wants a half-point cut this month, while Waller backs another quarter-point move
Key Points Fed Governor Stephen Miran said Thursday he plans to repeat his push for a half-percentage-point interest rate cut when the central bank meets later this month. Governor Christopher Waller advocated a quarter-percentage-point reduction at the meeting later this month, a position that appears more in line with the Fed consensus. Earlier this week, […]
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Top European Central Bank board members see sticky inflation but clear rate path
Joachim Nagel, Germany’s central bank governor and ECB member, shares his latest thoughts on inflation and the possibility of rate hikes in the euro zone. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel said that while inflation will remain sticky, the current path for interest rates remains clear. Speaking […]
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UK economy sees meager growth of 0.1% in August, in line with expectations
Millennium Wheel And Skyline At Sunset. London, England. Design Pics Editorial | Universal Images Group | Getty Images The British economy expanded by a lackluster 0.1% in August, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. “Production grew by 0.4% in August 2025, whereas services showed no growth and construction fell by […]
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CPI inflation report will be released by Labor Department, while other data is delayed by shutdown
A large US flag is seen on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington DC, United States on September 8, 2025. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images The Labor Department will bring back staff to work on a key consumer inflation report despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, CNBC has […]
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WTO hikes global trade forecast for 2025 — but next year doesn’t look so good
A cargo ship sits outside of the Port of Elizabeth marine terminal seen from Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S., April 9 2025. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters The World Trade Organization on Tuesday hiked its forecast for global trade growth in 2025 but warned that the outlook for 2026 had deteriorated. In its latest “Global Trade Outlook […]
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Japan’s bond vigilantes brace for looser fiscal stance after Sanae Takaichi wins party vote
Atlantide Phototravel | Corbis Documentary | Getty Images Japan’s government bond market, long shielded by the Bank of Japan’s yield curve control and decades of deflation, faces a test of faith under Sanae Takaichi, who is set to be the country’s first female prime minister. Markets are betting that Takaichi, who won the race to […]
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Global week ahead: Bull markets, bubbles and ‘Swiftonomics’
Siegfried Layda | Getty Images “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,” Charles Dickens famously wrote. That aptly captures the dislocation between political events and market action as we go into the next week. The U.S. government shutdown […]
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Russia’s economy is creaking — and the Kremlin wants Russians to pay more for the war
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on development of ‘new regions’, annexed from Ukraine, at the Kremlin, June 30, 2025, in Moscow, Russia. Contributor | Getty Images Russia is set to hike taxes on businesses and consumers as the government looks for ways to support military spending while its war-focused economy creaks at the […]
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Cleveland Fed’s Hammack warns of ‘challenging time’ amid inflation worries
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2025 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, “Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy”, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, U.S., August 21, 2025. Jim Urquhart | Reuters Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack on Monday said the U.S. central […]
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The resilient stock market may be keeping the economy out of a recession. Why that’s a bad thing
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock market growth that seems impervious to tariffs, politics and a moribund jobs picture is in turn powering consumer spending and putting a floor under an economy that many expected to be […]
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