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Japan's yen-based import price index was up 24.5% from a year earlier, illustrating how international costs and currency movements can pass throu...
The issue is open to competing interpretations and future data may change the picture. Discussion question: Does a large Argentine trade surplus sign...
A goods-trade surplus can support foreign-currency availability, but it is not the same thing as growing central-bank reserves or improving living sta...
For ordinary households, the investment question also affects future housing availability and jobs. That makes a construction indicator more than a st...
Construction is sensitive to financing, public works spending, materials costs and households' confidence in future income. A single monthly rise...
The issue is open to competing interpretations and future data may change the picture. Discussion question: Is the UK’s large services surplus a comp...
In August alone, goods exports fell £1.1 billion and goods imports fell £1.3 billion compared with July, in current prices. A narrower monthly goods g...
The issue is open to competing interpretations and future data may change the picture. Discussion question: Can a services-led UK recovery last if co...
The divergence matters. A services-led economy can post respectable aggregate growth even while construction and factories struggle with costs, fundin...