Category: CPI

  • Newsquawk Week Ahead: Highlights include US CPI, US Retail Sales, UK and Australian Jobs

    Next week May 13-17: He sat down: Chinese inflation (April) Monday: Eurogroup meeting, New Zealand inflation expectations (Q2) Tuesday: OPEC monthly report, German final CPI (April), UK jobs report (April/March), German ZEW survey (May), US PPI (April) married: People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Multilateral, Riksbank Minutes, IEA OMR, Australian Wage…

  • Dollar up slightly after consumer sentiment data, CPI eyed By Reuters

    Written by Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar rose on Friday after a reading on U.S. consumer sentiment as investors sorted through a batch of comments from Federal Reserve officials, with focus beginning to shift toward key inflation readings next week. The dollar pared its declines and turned…

  • China’s April CPI +0.3% y/y (vs. +0.1% expected) and PPI -2.5% (expected -2.3%)

    For y/y data: CPI +0.3% Continuing to claw its way out of the downturn This is the third month in a row that the CPI has exceeded zero on an annual basis Expected +0.2%, Previous +0.1% Producer Price Index -2.5% The economy remains in a deep contraction, as it has…

  • Dollar firm as US CPI data looms; hawkish BOJ policymakers pause yen slide By Reuters

    Dollar firm as US CPI data looms; hawkish BOJ policymakers pause yen slide By Reuters

    Written by Brigid Riley TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar was mostly steady on Thursday as traders kept their nerve ahead of next week’s U.S. inflation data and what it could portend for Federal Reserve (US central bank) policy, while hawkish views from members of the Bank of Japan helped the…