February

U.S. job openings barely changed in February, staying at historically high levels in a sign that the American job market remains strong. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 8.76 million job vacancies in February,…

The question here is: Do you take comfort in the step down from January or do you worry that core inflation is still above 3%?One month annualized trimmed mean 3.4% vs 5.7% priorSix month 3.1% vs 3.0% prior12 month 3.1% vs 3.2% priorOne of…

On Tuesday, Australia’s latest inflation report signaled the CPI growth rate held steady  at 3.4% y/y in February, holding at that rate for three months now (but coming below the 3.5% y/y forecast). Food prices are finally growing a…

BNZ – BusinessNZ Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI).more to come BusinessNZ’s Catherine Beard:improved February result showed signs of a gradual turnaround in the sector. “The key sub-index of Production (49.1) was at its highest…

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Bitcoin’s price went up and down by several hundred dollars after the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index numbers for February 2024. The actual numbers were slightly higher than predicted, but…

Consumer price inflation data from China for February 2024 shows an exit from deflation CPI +0.7% y/yexpected +0.3%, prior -0.8% (that -0.8% in January was the sharpest the steepest fall in more than 14 years) for the m/m, comes in at…

Stocks climbed on Friday after the February jobs report showed an uptick in the unemployment rate, bolstering investor confidence that the Federal Reserve will cut rates following its June meeting.The S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.2% on the…

The forex and Contract for Difference broker Exness experienced a 9% decline in client trading volumes for February at $3.534 trillion compared to $3.868 trillion reported in January. Dedicated Forex cloud solutions with stable and fast…

Prior +1.3%; revised to +1.2%The average house price in the UK rises to £291,699 as prices rose for a fifth month running in February. Halifax notes that:"The average price tag of a home is now only around £1,800 off the peak seen in June…