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What’s the future for inflation? Joachim Nagel, the new president of Germany's central bank, believes the rapidly ageing global population...
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What’s the future for inflation? Joachim Nagel, the new president of Germany's central bank, believes the rapidly ageing global population...
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Along with energy prices, global food prices have emerged as a key driver of the eurozone's current inflationary surge. Like...
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Australia's terms of trade (the ratio of export prices to import prices) increased sharply through the pandemic due to a...
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The minutes from the April ECB meeting confirm the hawkish tilt initiated a few months ago continues to gain momentum....
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Households' financial surpluses sharply increased in 2020 and remained high in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic. Most of the...
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We have lowered our 2022 GDP growth forecast for Finland to 1.5% from 1.7% last month, as weakening confidence further...
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We have revised our 2022 eurozone inflation forecasts sharply higher, to 6.0%, since the start of the Ukraine war, as...
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We have lowered Sweden's growth outlook for this year to 2.6% from 2.8% amid rising downside risks. The main headwind...
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Inflationary pressures continue to build, with input costs rising at a rapid pace. The economic landscape is also constantly shifting:...
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Global supply chain disruptions are impacting regions of Europe that are heavily dependent on the two key industrial sectors of...
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UK commercial real estate costs will increase more sharply than inflation this year, resulting in the widest margin since records...
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Although GDP rose 0.8% in Q1, the monthly numbers showed that growth was concentrated entirely in the first month of...
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Survey evidence paints a mixed picture of the London economy, with continuing growth but some signs of slowdown and of...
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Supply chain conditions remained highly strained in April, though cooling goods demand helped ease pressures modestly. Inflation stress increased for...
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Around 3.2mn Ukrainian refugees, over half of the total number, have escaped to Poland since the start of the Russian...
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Amid headwinds to the UK economy from high inflation and geopolitical uncertainty, loose financial conditions offer a bright spot. That...
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Higher international food prices will have a more aggressive impact on African CPI readings than those in advanced economies. This...
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President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr faces a tricky balancing act between supporting the economic recovery and containing the Philippines' burgeoning fiscal...
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Like in other major economies, we expect inflation in Japan to remain elevated in 2022 – we project Japan's inflation rate will hover around 2% y/y over the year.
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In 2022, cities see bigger variations in employment than GDP growth, but over the 2022-26 the reverse is true.