July Core Tokyo CPI Marks 1st Y/Y Rise in A Year on Higher Energy Costs
— Smaller Processed Food Price Drop, Newspaper Markups Also Support CPI— Total CPI in Capital Dips on Slump in Volatile Fresh Food Prices By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Consumer prices in Tokyo, a leading indicator of the national average, posted the first year-on-year rise in 12 months in July in the core measure, as gasoline-led […]
Japan June Core CPI Up Slightly for 2nd Straight Month on Higher Energy Costs
— Total CPI Marks 1st Y/Y Rise in 10 Months on Energy, Processed Food— Mobile Phone Fee Discounts in April Remain A Damper on CPI for Now By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Japan’s core consumer prices continued showing a modest gain in June in light of recovering overall energy costs, although gasoline prices posted a […]
Tuesday Washington Schedules from MaceNews
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are Tuesday’s schedules for the White House, Treasury, the State Department, the Capitol and for upcoming Federal Reserve events: The White House DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021 In the morning, the President will receive the President’s Daily Brief in the Oval Office. This meeting will be […]
Monday Washington Schedules from MaceNews
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are Monday’s schedules for the White House, Treasury, the State Department, the Capitol and for upcoming Federal Reserve events: The White House DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, JULY 12, 2021 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the President’s Daily Brief in the Oval Office. […]
Saturday/SundayWashington Schedules from MaceNews
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are the Saturday’s and Sunday’s schedules for the White House, Treasury, the State Department, the Capitol and for upcoming Federal Reserve events: The White House WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORSATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021 AND SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 On Saturday, the President has no public events scheduled. On Sunday […]
US Data Preview Commentary: CPI, PPI, Retail Sales, Powell Testimonies, IndPro, Beige Bk and More
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Be brave, it’s peak fraidy-cat week for inflation horrors to descend upon us, or rather, to show up in the data, having plagued us last month. If the price-pressure nightmares show up as expected, the Fed folks will be forced to accelerate their consideration of tapering at the very least (Wharton’s Jeremy […]
Japan June Tokyo CPI Flat Y/Y After Recent Drops on Energy Cost Pickup
— Higher Air Conditioner, Education Prices Also Ease Mobile Discount Impact By Max Sato (MaceNews) – Consumer prices in Tokyo, a leading indicator of the national average, were unchanged from a year earlier in June after several months of declines, as recovering energy prices and gains in some food prices eased the downward pressure from […]
Japan May Core CPI Posts 1st Y/Y Rise in 14 Months on Energy Pickup
By Max Sato –Lower Mobile Data Fees at Govt Request To Weigh on CPI for Now–Drop in Total CPI Eases on Smaller Fall in Fresh Food Prices (MaceNews) – Japan’s core consumer price index edged up on the month to mark its first year-on-year gain in 14 months as higher energy costs continued to offset […]
FOMC Seems Ready To Tip Toe Toward Tapering At Mid-June Meeting
–Powell Could Signal Consideration of Less Bond Buying Is Coming By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – Movement away from the most aggressively expansionary monetary policy in the Federal Reserve’s history may seem glacial, but it is not imperceptible. It seems clear, as the mid-June Federal Open Market Committee meeting approaches, that a shift in sentiment […]
Thursday Washington Schedules from MaceNews
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are Thursday’s public schedules for the White House, Treasury, the State Department, the Capitol and for upcoming economic data: The White House COMPREHENSIVE TRIP GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, JUNE 10 – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021Thursday, June 10, 2021 In the afternoon, the President will receive the President’s Daily Brief. This […]