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The week ahead brings a busy economic calendar with inflation data due from the US and China plus GDP and labour market updates from the UK. Trade data from China and the UK, plus US retail sales, are...

Worldwide services PMIs will be in focus next week following the manufacturing PMI updates. The highly watched September US labour market report will also be due on Friday. Ahead of which, central...

An action-packed week ahead promises an abundance of central bank meetings, including the US Fed FOMC, BoE and BoJ policy meetings, while flash September PMIs offer all-important fresh clues on...

The global economy expanded for a fourteenth straight month in August, according to the JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) Global PMI™ (compiled by IHS Markit). However, the rate of expansion was the slowest...

Global economic growth slowed to the lowest since January in August as the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant disrupted activity around the world, led by a renewed downturn in the emerging...

Central bank meetings in the eurozone, Australia and Malaysia pack the week ahead, with the focus firmly on whether the European Central Bank (ECB) will update its asset purchase programme. China and...

A mild decline in the headline global PMI masks a more worrying downturn in manufacturing production revealed by the survey's sub-indices. These sub-indices also add colour to what has caused the...

IHS Markit's PMI business surveys provide leading signals of economic change ahead of comparable official data. In this example we look at how the UK PMI surveys accurately foretold of an economic...

Flash PMI surveys showed the eurozone enjoying the strongest expansion of the major developed economies in August. The eurozone has also avoided the lockdown measures associated with rising COVID-19...

August flash PMIs will offer updates on economic conditions at the crossroads of improving COVID-19 vaccination rates and the spread of the Delta variant. US economy watchers will also be kept...

A marked divergence between GDP and PMI numbers in 2017 fueled speculation that the latter were sending misleading signals. The PMI numbers were climbing close to all-time highs during the year, and...

Meeting minutes from the Fed and RBA will be released in the coming week while a series of economic data will be closely watch, including eurozone and UK inflation data. China will also share more...

Inflation updates will be due from the US and China in the coming week alongside a series of Q2 GDP releases. Several Fed members will also be speaking over the course of next week while a monetary...

July saw the UK economy's recent growth spurt hit by a rising wave of virus infections, which subdued customer demand, disrupted supply chains and caused widespread staff shortages, and also cast a...

Taiwanese export data show the growth rate cooling in the second quarter, corroborating recent PMI survey findings of slower export gains as the global economy cooled amid further COVID-19 waves....

he first glimpses of worldwide economic growth and inflation trends at the start of the third quarter will be revealed by flash PMI surveys for July, and the European Central Bank and Bank Indonesia...