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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 December 3, 2021
FINANCIAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK • The ISM manufacturing index showed signs of easing supply chain conditions in financial news. Supplier delivery times shortened while production, employment and new orders indexes all increased. • This week’s…