
Jackson Hole, ten PMI releases, and the BRICS summit. This week will be full of market movements, and we will be there to trade them. Get ready, and let’s roll!
In June, American consumer prices managed to edge up, although the underlying trend kept pointing to a firm buildup of inflation pressures. It definably could keep the US key financial institution on a path of gradual interest rate lifts.
Other Thursday’s data disclosed that first-time applications for unemployment benefits headed south to a two-month minimum the previous week because the labor market keeps tightening. In June, the Federal Reserve had interest rates lifted for a second time in 2018. Additionally, the major bank has predicted two more rate lifts before the end of this year.
American inflation keeps drifting gradually higher reacting to an almost fully employed economy. It feels like the Federal Reserve has grounds to raise lifts once again already in October.
As the Labor Department informed, its Consumer Price Index added 0.1% because gasoline price jumps relieved and the cost of apparel headed south. In May, the CPI gained 0.2%. For the twelve months through June, the CPI managed to leap by 2.9%, thus demonstrating the biggest revenue since February 2012, having ascended by 2.8% in May.
The CPI tacked on by 0.2% without the volatile energy and food components, being in line with May's outcome. It increased the annual leap in the core CPI to about 2.3%, which is the greatest jump since January last year, from May’s outcome of 2.2%.
Market experts surveyed by Reuters had predicted both the CPI as well as core CPI soaring by 0.2% in June.
According to Thursday’s report by the Labor Department, initial claims for state unemployment benefits headed south 18,000 to a seasonally updated 214,000 by July 7, which is the lowest value since early May.
It definitely hints that firm labor market conditions dominated early July. As a matter of fact, in June, the economy generated up to 213,000 jobs.
Jackson Hole, ten PMI releases, and the BRICS summit. This week will be full of market movements, and we will be there to trade them. Get ready, and let’s roll!
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