February 2024 Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey

Total SAAR housing starts for all areas in Canada decreased 10% in January 2024 (223,589 units) compared to December 2023 (248,968), according to Canada Mortgage and Housing ...

post: BOE’S GREENE: POLICY WILL NEED TO REMAIN RESTRICTIVE FOR SOME TIME. post: BoE’s Greene: UK Inflation Is Stickier Than In US And This May Not Be Reflected In The Market Pricing Of Rate Paths - Need To See Further Evidence That Inflation Persistence Is Less Embedded Than Previously Feared Before I Would Consider Voting To Loosen PolicyWorlds apart? UK inflation and monetary policy in an international context I’m delighted to be at Fitch, where a lot of my former colleagues have migrated to work over the years. I’ll keep my initial remarks relatively short to save time for a fireside chat and then, most importantly, your questions. My speech today sets out the UK economy in an international context. I am going to focus primarily on how the drivers of inflation compare and contrast in the UK and US and how this impacts my policy stance as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England. If you knew nothing about the UK or US economies and looked at the market-implied path for interest rates in each—shown in Chart 1—you might conclude these economies are performing fairly sim

Following a 1.5% increase in November, manufacturing sales fell 0.7% to $71.2 billion in December, mainly attributable to the motor vehicle industry group (-13.5%) as well as the ...

Prices for U.S. imports advanced 0.8 percent in January following a 0.7-percent decline the previous month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Higher prices for ...