Australia retail sales rebound after fall, annual rate slows further
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian retail sales rebounded in July after a sharp fall the previous month, but the annual rate slowed further, a result that should not upset the outlook…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian retail sales rebounded in July after a sharp fall the previous month, but the annual rate slowed further, a result that should not upset the outlook…
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s employment in the second quarter rose 1.7% from a year earlier, slowing from a 2.4% increase in the previous three months, the state planning agency said…
By Chijioke Ohuocha ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s annual economic growth rate slowed to 2.51% in the second quarter, data showed on Friday, hurt by a fall in oil production amid…
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s annual consumer inflation slowed to 11.3% in July compared with the same month a year ago, the statistics service said on Wednesday. It said in a…
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British employers reduced the number of new permanent staff they hired through recruitment agencies by the most since mid 2020 last month due to…
By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indonesia’s economy likely grew 4.93% from a year earlier in the April-June quarter, the slowest since the third quarter of 2021, due to weakening…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. services sector slowed in July, but businesses faced higher prices for inputs as demand continued to hold up, suggesting a long and slow road to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. worker productivity rebounded sharply in the second quarter, helping to curb growth in labor costs and offering another boost to the improving inflation outlook. Nonfarm productivity,…
By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s manufacturing sector contracted for the third straight month in July as an uncertain economic outlook held back new orders, offsetting a pickup in…
By Karin Strohecker and Vincent Flasseur LONDON (Reuters) – The pace and scale of interest rate hikes across major developed and emerging economies shifted into a lower gear in July…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s annual inflation rate cooled further to 3.08% in July, moving closer to the middle of the central bank’s target range and roughly in line with expectations,…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter from a year earlier, advance government data showed on Monday, with the momentum softening after a strong…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. labor costs increased less than expected in the second quarter as wage growth cooled a bit, offering a boost to the Federal Reserve in the fight…
By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Core inflation in Japan’s capital slowed in July but remained well above the central bank’s 2% target, data showed on Friday,…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Lending to euro zone companies slowed again last month, adding to already mounting evidence that sharply higher interest rates are putting a brake on credit creation and…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s business-to-business service inflation slowed in June, data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that companies remained slow in passing on rising labour costs despite a tight job market.…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. existing home sales dropped to a five month-low in June, depressed by a chronic shortage of houses on the market that slowed the pace of decline…
(Reuters) – Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 2.8% in June on lower prices for gasoline as a result of the base-year effect, while food and mortgage interest costs remain…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday that he expected the nation’s jobless rate to lift from near a 48-year low on the back of higher interest…
MILAN (Reuters) – European shares, currencies and bonds rallied on Wednesday after U.S. inflation slowed in June, feeding bets the Federal Reserve is nearing the end of a series of…
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Growth in Britain’s private sector slowed sharply last month, despite businesses facing lower inflation, as higher Bank of England interest rates weighed on demand,…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Growth in Germany’s services sector slowed in June amid signs a recent resurgence in demand was losing steam, a survey showed on Wednesday. The HCOB final services…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s services sector grew in June for a sixth month running, albeit at a slower pace than in May, with higher interest rates weighing on sentiment in…
By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) – Contraction in Canada’s manufacturing sector deepened slightly in June as an uncertain economic outlook weighed on both domestic and foreign demand, data showed on…
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – The value of Chinese debt relief decreased by over 50% between 2021 and 2022, a report from Rhodium Group showed, with Angola alone receiving…