These observations are compatible rather than contradictory. One strong month's output need not imply a durable quarter-long acceleration, and tr...

For Germany's manufacturing and retail firms, the question is whether the squeeze proves temporary or forces lasting changes in pricing and inves...

This is a wholesale selling-price index, not the household consumer price index. Retail firms can absorb a part of higher procurement costs, pass them...

The issue is open to competing interpretations and future data may change the picture. Discussion question: When official averages and local accounts...

This publication is not a national statistical census or a substitute for GDP, jobs or CPI data. Its value is qualitative: it reveals pressures that a...

The issue is open to competing interpretations and future data may change the picture. Discussion question: Is US industrial strength broad enough to...

Readers should distinguish the industrial production index from gross domestic product and from survey-based manufacturing sentiment. Production growt...

The issue is open to competing interpretations and future data may change the picture. Discussion question: Could sustained higher Japanese yields re...

Yet a five-month flow is not proof of a permanent global capital repatriation. Insurers, banks and pension funds have different mandates, hedge exposu...

The issue is open to competing interpretations and future data may change the picture. Discussion question: How much of Japan’s wholesale inflation s...