Inflation
Financial News for the Week of December 17, 2021
FINANCIAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Evidence of accelerating price pressures continued to trickle in this week. Producer prices accelerated to 9.6% year-on-year in November. This was accompanied by an elevated share of small businesses raising…
Financial News for the Week of December 10, 2021
FINANCIAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK • Consumer prices continued to accelerate in November. On year-on-year basis, headline CPI was up 6.8% (from 6.2% previously), the highest in nearly forty years in financial news. Core inflation (ex. food and…
Financial News for the Week of August 14, 2020
FINANCIAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Markets were in a good mood overall this week, despite no deal in Congress on the next round of assistance. The big political news was Biden’s historic VP pick. With 81 days until the election, the race is on!…