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Eurozone inflation ticked up more than expected in May, to 2.6% from 2.4% the previous month. Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, also accelerated as wages grew rapidly.
With the aim of boosting the recovery in the eurozone economy by lowering interest rates for businesses, the ECB cut its bank rates in multiple steps in 2012–2013, reaching an historic low of 0.25% in November 2013. The lowered borrowing rates have also caused the euro to fall in relation to other currencies, which is hoped will boost exports ...
The World Bank predicts global economic growth of 2.7% this year amid concerns living standards ... at a time when inflation remains above the 2% target set by central banks in the eurozone, UK ...
The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is an indicator of inflation and price stability for the European Central Bank (ECB). It is a consumer price index which is compiled according to a methodology that has been harmonised across EU countries. The euro area HICP is a weighted average of price indices of member states who have adopted ...
The key macroeconomic data in the eurozone countries are: General government net debt / Percent of GDP; General government net lending/borrowing / Percent of GDP; inflation rate; gross domestic product (real GDP); unemployment.
But overall, of the approximately 50 economists surveyed on the U.S. alone, more than half view Trump's policies as ultimately having "some negative effect" on the economy, while a further 10% ...
The European Central Bank increases rates for the 10th time in a row to a record high.
There has been substantial criticism over the austerity measures implemented by most European nations to counter this debt crisis. US economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman argues that an abrupt return to "'non-Keynesian' financial policies" is not a viable solution [18] Pointing at historical evidence, he predicts that deflationary policies now being imposed on countries such as Greece and ...