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The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual WEO exercise, which begins in January and June of each year and results in the April and September/October WEO publication.
US consumer sentiment unexpectedly fell to the second-lowest level on record and inflation expectations climbed to ...
Despite soft April inflation data, rising tariffs are starting to pressure margins, prices, and Fed policy. A summer rebound ...
US inflation rates have finally started to relax over the past 12 months: Prices rose at an annual rate of 2.3% in April, ...
Stagflation is a recession with a combination of high inflation and high unemployment. This economic worst-case scenario is ...
The US CPI is rising at the slowest rate in more than four years, but economists believe consumers will soon see the effects ...
The numbers: The cost of U.S. goods and services was flat in March and put the Federal Reserve closer to its 2% inflation target, but tariffs and trade wars threaten to undo the latest progress.
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies will likely lift inflation, lower growth, and raise unemployment later this year, Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said, leaving ...
Weak growth is likely to keep the Bank of Japan -- and its rate-hike cycle -- on hold for now. China’s April inflation data is set for release over the weekend. We’re looking for consumer price ...
We provide new evidence that inflation inequality surged during the 2021–2023 cost-of living crisis, driven by systematically higher price growth for lower-quality goods disproportionately consumed by ...
A significant increase in tariffs could higher inflation, slower growth and rising unemployment, said U.S. Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell in a press conference. Powell added that ...
The soaring price of rice was the biggest contributor to food inflation in March, followed by fish, vegetables, and fruits, according to a report released today (7 May) by the General Economics ...