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Commodities Wrap 18 September: A Third Lower Oil Settlement Leaves the Week Little Changed as Cocoa Falls Again
Oil settled lower for a third straight session and went out close to where the week began. Brent settled 0.91 percent lower…
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Fitch Says Kuwait’s New Fund Borrowing Law Opens About 57 Percent of GDP in Financing Room
Kuwait's amended Future Generations Fund law, in force since 1 September, lets the government borrow from the sovereign wealth fund to support…
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German Producer Prices Rise 4.6 Percent as Mineral Oil Products Run 40.5 Percent Above Last Year
Producer prices of industrial products sold within Germany were 4.6 percent higher in August than a year earlier and 1.1 percent higher…
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Saudi Ports Moved More Than 341 Million Tons in 2025 as Imports Grew More Than Twice as Fast as Exports
Saudi Arabia's ports handled more than 341 million tons of inbound and outbound cargo in 2025, the General Authority for Statistics said…
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Europe Market Wrap 18 September: Two Rate Rises in One Week and the Board Falls End to End
Europe spent Friday pricing the week's tightening. The Stoxx Europe 600 fell 1.11 percent to 635.45 on the administrator's final value, two…
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Euro Area Consumers Lift Inflation Expectations to 3.0 Percent for the Year Ahead
Median expectations for inflation over the next 12 months rose to 3.0 percent in August from 2.9 percent in July, and expectations…
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A BIS Paper Dates the Hormuz Effect at 4 to 6 Months and Puts Its Reach at Up to a Year
Disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz work through the world economy as a stagflationary shock, lifting energy and fertiliser prices,…
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British Retail Sales Volumes Rise 0.5 Percent in August While Fuel Volumes Fall on Higher Pump Prices
Retail sales volumes in Great Britain rose 0.5 percent in August from July and were 2.4 percent above August 2025, the Office…
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Services Exports Reached 9.6 Trillion Dollars and a Record Share of Almost 28 Percent of Trade
Global services exports totalled 9.6 trillion dollars in 2025 and made up almost 28 percent of world trade on a balance of…
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Euro Area Current Account Surplus Narrows to 28 Billion Euros in July as the 12 Month Goods Surplus Shrinks
The euro area recorded a current account surplus of 28 billion euros in July, 7 billion less than the 35 billion recorded…
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The Bank of Japan Raises Its Policy Rate to 1.25 Percent on a 7 to 2 Vote
The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by a quarter point, from 1.0 percent, to around 1.25 percent on 18 September,…
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Report: The Speed Gap: AI’s Fastest Layers Are Growing at Triple Digit Rates, the World Economy at 3 Percent, and Trillions Are Being Repriced in Between
The artificial intelligence economy is growing far faster than the world it is being built to change, and in the week of…
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- The Week Ahead: The Federal Reserve Decides on 29 July, US Growth and Inflation Data Land, and the Megacap Technology Earnings Peak
- Commodities Wrap 1 July: Precious Metals Rebound as Oil Drops Below US$70
- Market Wrap US-Europe 2 July: Dow Hits a Record and Europe Rallies as Soft US Jobs Data Reset Rate Expectations
- Market Wrap US-Europe 30 June: Wall Street Extends Gains and Europe Rises to Close the First Half
- Market Wrap US-Europe 1 July: Wall Street and Europe Slip to Start the Second Half as Warsh Keeps a Firm Line on Inflation