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...The growth 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 of last year....
...Industrial production increased 6.1 per cent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, the NBS said, while industrial producer prices fell 2.7 per cent as deflationary pressures continued to weigh...
...that was forecast.Organic sales during the period rose 1.4 per cent, compared with analyst estimates of 2.9 per cent....
...Energy prices fell 1.8 per cent, a slower decline than the 3.7 per cent fall in February. Goods prices rose 1.1 per cent, the slowest pace since 2021....
...Like-for-like sales excluding fuel were up 7.5 per cent but growth decelerated from 9.8 per cent in the first quarter to 4.8 per cent in the last quarter....
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...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 data is expected to show that headline inflation rose slightly to 2.6 per cent in March, year on year, from a rate of 2.5 per cent in February....
...Net revenue rose 9.4 per cent to €6.8bn, ahead of the 7.2 per cent rise forecast by analysts....
...There was also growth of 5.7 per cent in carmaking and 4.6 per cent in chemicals as supply bottlenecks and energy price pressures eased....
...The decline reflected slower annual price rises in all areas, including a drop in services inflation to 3 per cent, a fall in energy inflation to 3.4 per cent and a sharp slide in food inflation to 1.7 per...
...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....
...However, the government announced last month that the 2023 deficit reached 7.2 per cent of GDP, well above the official target of 5.3 per cent....
...Among the 10 Asean countries, the possible alignment to China was most evident among respondents from Malaysia, at 75.1 per cent, followed by Indonesia and Laos at 73.2 per cent and 70.6 per cent....
...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...
...There were large regional variations, with house prices rising at an annual rate of 4.8 per cent in Scotland but contracting 3.9 per cent in London....
...The former eased from 5.4 per cent to 4.9 per cent, while the latter — which refers to items that can be stored at room temperature — fell from 8.4 per cent to 7.7 per cent....
...Russia received one of the biggest upgrades, with growth now projected to be 3.2 per cent this year, 0.6 percentage points higher than previously expected, followed by growth of 1.8 per cent in 2025....
...“This last mile of inflation — getting from 3 per cent to 2 per cent — is going to be really hard. Much harder than getting from 9 to 3 per cent.”...
...CPI had previously risen to 3.2 per cent in February from 3.1 per cent in January and bumper jobs figures last week led markets to further rein in expectations of Fed rate cuts....
...The CLEWI climbed 4.9 per cent in 2023 — above the 3.4 per cent rise in US CPI in the same period — following increases of 7 per cent in 2022 and 10.1 per cent in 2021....
...On a like-for-like basis, UK sales were up 7.7 per cent, Ireland sales were up 6.8 per cent, and Booker (the wholesale part of the business) saw a sales uplift of 5.4 per cent....
...That was down from a summer peak of 8.5 per cent and compared with a pace of 7.2 per cent in the three months to October....
...Annual inflation fell in half of the 20 countries that share the euro and ranged from 0.7 per cent in Finland to 5 per cent in Estonia....
...The first-quarter estimate is now 2.8 per cent, up from 2.4 per cent. The expectations of higher growth were accompanied by expectations that inflation will also stay higher....
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