U.S. consumer prices
Down Day for Stocks and Dollar
April 11, 2018
Military conflict between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria appears at hand. Trump is promising missile strikes, and Russia claims to have the ability to knock them out of the sky before targets are hit. Investors are uneasy that these hostilities will escalate further. U.S. consumer price inflation accelerated further in March in spite of […] More
Weaker Aussie Dollar and a Bunch of Items of Interest
January 16, 2014
The Aussie dollar fell 1.2% against its U.S. counterpart. The U.S. dollar otherwise slipped 0.3% against the loonie and Swiss franc, 0.2% relative to the yen and 0.1% against the euro. The dollar also firmed 0.2% against the kiwi, yuan and sterling. Brazil’s Selic interest rate has been raised by a further 50 basis points […] More
North American Data Run-Down
January 19, 2012
U.S. inflation is benign. Total U.S. consumer prices slid 0.4% at an annualized rate in the final quarter of 2011, cutting on-year inflation to 3.0% in December from 3.9% in September. Core consumer prices increased 2.2% between end-2010 and end-2011. That represents a slight acceleration from 1.8% between end-2009 and end-2010. Core consumer prices, which […] More
Total and Core U.S. Inflation
June 15, 2011
U.S. core consumer price inflation, which excludes food and energy, was still fairly tame at 1.5% in the year to May. Such was more than double the low of 0.6% in the year to October 2010 but below the 1.8% rate of increase in the year to May 2009, which encompassed the severest part of […] More
Crude Oil Prices and U.S. CPI Inflation
February 23, 2011
Oil prices were volatile but ultimately trendless through the latter 1980s and the 1990s. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices averaged $19.37 from 1987 through 1998. Broken down into three-year sub-periods, the overage price of oil was $18.26 per barrel in in 1987-89, $22.18 in 1990-92, $18.03 in 1993-95 and $19.01 in 1996-98. There are 42 […] More
