The Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed on Tuesday, the UK's average weekly earnings, excluding bonuses met expectations, arriving at 3.4% 3m y/y versus 3.3% last and 3.4% expected while the gauge including bonuses came in at 3.4% 3m y/y versus 3.4% previous and 3.5% expected. The Kingdom's official jobless rate steadied at 4.0% in Dec, while the claimant count change showed a bigger-than-expected increase. The number of people claiming jobless benefits rose by 14.2k in January, against expectations of a 12.3k increase and +20.8k seen previously. The claimant count rate remained...
U.K. retail sales rose at their fastest pace in six months in January as consumers flocked to snap up cut-price clothing. Excluding auto fuel, the volume of goods sold in stores and online rose 1.2 percent from December, when they fell 1 percent in a Black Friday hangover, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. Total sales grew 1 percent. The figures were boosted by clothing sales, which grew 2.1 percent, the most since May, in a month of heavy discounting, as well as food. But there were also signs of pressure on the high street as sales at department stores eased and household...
China's producer price index (PPI) rose 0.1 percent year-on-year in January, the weakest pace since September 2016 and slowing from the previous month's 0.9 percent increase, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected producer inflation would cool to 0.2 percent. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.7 percent in January from a year earlier, slower than the 1.9 percent increase in December and below market expectations for a 1.9 percent rise. Source: Reuters
Sales at U.S. retailers fizzled in December and posted the biggest decline in nine years, according to a long-delayed government report. Retail sales sank 1.2% in December, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. Its the largest drop since September 2009, a few months after the end of the Great Recession. Economists polled by MarketWatch expected sales to be flat. Sales fell in every retail category except auto dealers and home centers. Auto sales rose 1% and home-center sales edged up 0.3%. Sales fell 5.1% at gas stations, but that was not unexpected. Gasoline prices have been falling...
The producer price index fell 0.1% in January largely because of lower energy prices, the latest evidence of waning inflation. Economists polled by MarketWatch had predicted a 0.1% gain. The increase in wholesale inflation over the past year slowed to 2% from 2.5%. Wholesale prices rose in January for services and warehousing, but another decline in gasoline mostly offset those increases. Gas prices slumped 7.3%. Wholefood costs fell 1.7%. Excluding food and energy, the so-called core PPI rate rose 0.2% last month. The yearly rate of increase in core prices tapered to 2.5% from...
China's exports unexpectedly accelerated last month in a possible sign of solid external demand for Chinese goods, official data released on Thursday showed. The country's exports surged 9.1% from a year earlier in January, reversing a 4.4% decline in December, according to data from the General Administration of Customs. Economists polled earlier by The Wall Street Journal expected the value of overseas shipments to slip 4.1%. Imports dropped 1.5% in January, following a 7.6% decrease in December, according to customs data. Economists polled in the survey expected an 11% decrease in...
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