U.S. PPI and retail sales
Much Data to Digest… U.S. Stock Futures in the Red Ahead of PPI and Many Other U.S. Reports
May 15, 2025
The dollar, U.S. stock futures and 10-year Treasury yield lost ground overnight, reacting in part to greater-than-anticipated U.S. oil inventories last week and OPEC downwardly projected energy supplies. The dollar fell 0.5% below Wednesday closing levels against the yen and Swiss franc. The greenback is also down 0.3% against the Mexican peso, 0.8% versus the […] More
Continuing Focus Upon Inflation Data
March 14, 2024
Several price data were released this Thursday even before the highly awaited U.S. PPI report. The monthly increase of Spanish consumer prices in February got revised higher to 0.4% from 0.3% reported initially, by year-on-year CPI inflation remained unchanged at a 6-month low of 2.8%. Spanish inflation peaked in July 2022 at 10.8%. Irish CPI […] More
More Favorable Data Reported for the U.S.
November 15, 2023
The U.S. producer price index dropped 0.5% on month (most in 42 months) and recorded a 3-month low of 1.3% when compared to the same month a year earlier. Core producer prices — unchanged versus September and +2.4% year-on-year — was 0.3 percentage points below expectations. U.S. October retail sales contracted by a smaller-than-anticipated 0.1% […] More
More U.S. Dollar Declines
March 14, 2018
The dollar lost some additional ground overnight, dipping 0.7% against the Aussie currency, 0.5% relative to the peso after Trump examined border wall prototypes, 0.3% versus the loonie, and 0.2% vis-a-vis the yen, kiwi, yuan, and sterling. The dollar, however, is unchanged on net against the euro and Swissie. In U.S. news prior to the […] More
