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...The figure from the Bureau of Economic Analysis was far below analysts’ expectations of a 2.5 per cent rise and the revised rate of 3.4 per cent for the fourth quarter....
...In the previous month, industrial production grew 4.5 per cent year on year and retail sales rose 3.1 per cent year on year....
...It predicted inflation would subsequently fall to 1.9 per cent in two years’ time and to 1.6 per cent in 2027....
...Core inflation, which strips out volatile energy and food prices, declined to 4.2 per cent in March from 4.5 per cent in February. Analysts had expected a decline to 4.1 per cent....
...The S&P 500 ended 1.6 per cent lower on Tuesday for its biggest one-day drop since the end of January, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 2 per cent....
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...Economists polled by Bloomberg had forecast a March reading of 2.5 per cent....
...Waitrose’s sales rose 5 per cent to £7.7bn, driven by an average 6.6 per cent increase in prices. Sales at John Lewis were down 4 per cent to £4.8bn....
...The figures showed that core inflation, which excludes food and energy, fell to 4.5 per cent in February from 5.1 per cent in January. Analysts had predicted a reading of 4.6 per cent....
...The strong first-quarter growth rate released on Tuesday, which exceeded a Reuters poll of analysts that forecast 4.6 per cent and an expansion of 5.2 per cent for the full year in 2023, followed mixed economic...
...The WTO, which does not provide forecasts for services trade, expects goods trade to rise by 2.6 per cent in 2024, after falling by 1.2 per cent last year....
...Israeli spending increased 24 per cent, rising from an average of $1.8bn per month before Hamas launched its assault on Israel in October last year to $4.7bn in December, said Sipri....
...France on Tuesday reported higher consumer price growth than expected of 2.4 per cent in April, following similarly above-forecast inflation figures of 3.4 per cent for Spain and 2.4 per cent for Germany...
...The 0.6 per cent figure also represented the strongest growth for any G7 country with available data, comparing with 0.3 per cent for the Eurozone over the same period and 0.4 per cent for the US....
...That is in line with a figure guided to by President Vladimir Putin on January 1, but is higher than the forecast of the ministry of economic development, which assumed growth of 3.5 per cent....
...Services inflation, which is heavily affected by trends in pay, rose at an annual rate of 6.1 per cent in February. Headline inflation stood at 3.4 per cent, the lowest since 2021....
...The eurozone still underperformed the US, which reported quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.4 per cent in the three months to March. Both lagged behind China’s first-quarter GDP rise of 1.6 per cent....
...UK inflation eased slightly less than expected in March, falling from 3.4 per cent to 3.2 per cent rather than the 3.1 per cent analysts had forecast, while annual growth in the price of services also slowed...
...Goldman Sachs expects it to cut its forecast for eurozone inflation this year from 2.7 per cent to 2.3 per cent and for next year from 2.1 per cent to 2 per cent....
...Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 stock market index climbed 1.4 per cent on Tuesday, while the Australian dollar weakened 0.5 per cent to A$1.52 per US dollar following the RBA’s announcement....
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...While European defence spending grew 4.5 per cent in 2023, to reach an average 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product, Asian countries boosted their defence budgets by 4.7 per cent to hit an average 1.8...
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