Inflation

Last Week’s Highlights Australia’s unemployment rate rises to 6.2% The latest labor market statistics from Australia saw the national unemployment rate rising to 6.2% in April. This was higher than the unemployment rate for March, which… Read More

Tomorrow we have some key data which could give us some insight into how the world's economies will evolve in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have the release of inflation data from the world's two largest economies.… Read More

Last Week’s Highlights US manufacturing PMI from ISM falls to an 11-year low The latest manufacturing PMI from the Institute of Supply Management showed activity falling to an 11-year low. The index fell to 41.5 in April, down from 49.1… Read More

It seems like almost daily, governments are announcing new spending programs, many of which are the largest in history. US debt is expected to balloon to levels not seen since WWII. Central Banks have taken off almost all limits on asset… Read More

The Fed's announcement was taken to heart by some of the institutions trading FX yesterday. Do you know why the new liquidity operations are riskier than ever seen before? And did you get a chance to see how gold has performed since… Read More

The US Dollar was knocked lower again this week as a further bout of data weakness has put a fresh focus on a potential rate cut at the upcoming October FOMC. September's retail sales were heavily disappointing. The headline figure printed… Read More

Tomorrow is a pretty busy day on the economic calendar! Key data is coming out both in Europe and the Americas. Here we'll be focusing on inflation data from the UK and Canada. As most central banks around the world are heading… Read More

The monthly consumer price index data will be released by the US Department of Commerce today. According to the median expectations, consumer prices are forecast to rise slightly higher in July. This would mark a modest increase in… Read More

Tomorrow is a big day for central bank watchers! We will be getting the UK and eurozone CPI figures one after the other in the middle of the trading session. We could expect some extra volatility this time around in both the pound and… Read More