(New York Fed) The New York State posted an unchanged manufacturing activity in January, with the general business conditions index down by third-three points to the negative territory of -0.7.…
(ONS) UK employment for the September to November quarter 2021 was 75.5%, up by 0.2 percentage points. The number of employees on payrolls in the last month of the year…
(FT) Unilever has come out to defend the much criticized 50-billion-pound acquisition of GlaxoSmithKline consumer health unit, calling it a “strong strategic fit.” The company says the acquisition will build…
(NBS) China’s economy expanded by 4% in the fourth quarter of 2021 from the prior year, faster than the projected growth of 3.6%. For the full year 2021, the economy…
(Bloomberg) China’s 10-year government bond yield fell by two basis points to 2.78% as the central bank cut its interest rate on one-year policy loans by 10 basis points. The…
(University of Michigan) US consumer sentiment fell in early January, with the index down 2.5% to the second-lowest in a decade of 68.8. The fall in consumer sentiment reflected concerns…
(ONS) The UK posted a trade deficit of 9.3 billion pounds in the quarter to November 2021, up by 2.8 billion pounds. The widening deficits in the three months reflected…
(Eurostat) Euro area posted a trade deficit of 1.5 billion euros in November 2021, the first negative balance since January 2014 and a fall from a surplus of 25 billion…
(NBS) China posted a trade surplus of $676.43 billion in 2021, up from $523.99 billion in the prior year and the highest on the series record since 1950. In the…
(Department of Labor) US jobless claims for the week that ended January 8 totaled 230,000, up 23,000 from the previous week. On a four-week moving average, jobless claims rose by…
(NIH) Researchers affiliated with Oregon State University have found that compounds found in cannabis blocks the virus that causes Covid-19 from invading the cells. The researchers say that two cannabinoid…
(BLS) US inflation hit a 40-year record after rising by a monthly 0.5% in December, a lower gain compared to 0.8% increase in November. Despite the slower increase in consumer…