Chile unemployment rate to rise further in August
Sep 30, 2015 00:26 am UTC| Commentary
Chile employment growth in July was the sharpest in fifteen months but, with the labour force having posted its sharpest rise in eight months, the unemployment rate rose from 6.5% to 6.6% (actually from 6.52% to 6.57%). A...
South Korea's inflation expected to rise slightly in September
Sep 29, 2015 23:43 pm UTC| Commentary
South Koreas headline and core inflation are likely to have rebounded slightly on a year-on-year basis in September. Month-on-month headline inflation is expected at just 0.1%. The rise in fresh food prices ahead of the...
Japan's unemployment rate to rise in August
Sep 29, 2015 23:20 pm UTC| Commentary
Japans unemployment rate is expected to rise to 3.4% in August, from 3.3% in July. The number of job seekers that dropped out of the labour force increased in March and April, but jobseekers returned to the labour force in...
Euro area HICP inflation to slow down in September
Sep 29, 2015 22:42 pm UTC| Commentary
Euro area HICP inflation is expected to slow down from 0.1% yoy in August to 0.0% in September, with risks tilted to a negative printing (-0.1% yoy). The main culprits are lower fuel prices as a result of persistently weak...
New Zealand building consents fall back, but trend is up
Sep 29, 2015 22:33 pm UTC| Commentary
As expected, New Zealand building consents fell on a seasonally-adjusted basis in August, down 4.9% from the month before. This was largely the result of a spike in consents in Auckland in July. Multi-unit consents (mostly...
US labor market conditions expected to tighten further in September
Sep 29, 2015 22:07 pm UTC| Commentary
Government statisticians are expected to report that payroll employment growth reaccelerated, while civilian joblessness dipped to yet a new cyclical low in September. The average number of persons filing initial claims...
US construction spending likely remained on an uptrend
Sep 29, 2015 21:39 pm UTC| Commentary
Paced by an anticipated acceleration in home-building activity, the nominal value of new construction put-in-place probably expanded by 0.8% in August, boosting the cumulative rise since last November to 11.8%. Residential...
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects