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🇺🇸 Consumers keep borrowing for a slowdown they say they see coming

August payrolls rose 162,000, but a New York Fed survey found consumer expectations of higher unemployment at their highest since April 2020, even as consumer credit expanded $18.06bn on debt-financed borrowing, complicating the case for a Fed pause before September 16.

🇺🇸 Consumers keep borrowing for a slowdown they say they see coming
August payrolls rose 162,000, but a New York Fed survey found consumer expectations of higher unemployment at their highest since April 2020, even as consumer credit expanded $18.06bn on debt-financed borrowing, complicating the case for a Fed pause before September 16.
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🇪🇺 The ECB is about to hike into a sentiment rally, not a hard-data recovery

Germany's industrial production fell 1.1% in July while the Sentix investor confidence index hit a four-year high, a gap the ECB must weigh before Thursday's expected quarter-point hike to 2.50% with inflation running at 3.3%.

🇪🇺 The ECB is about to hike into a sentiment rally, not a hard-data recovery
Germany's industrial production fell 1.1% in July while the Sentix investor confidence index hit a four-year high, a gap the ECB must weigh before Thursday's expected quarter-point hike to 2.50% with inflation running at 3.3%.
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🇬🇧 Bailey denies a secret plan to hike as London's house prices roll over

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey denied any secret plan to raise rates as UK inflation climbed to 2.9% year-on-year and house prices fell 0.4% nationally, even as London slides and Northern Ireland keeps climbing, exposing a split on the Bank's own rate committee before the 17 September...

🇬🇧 Bailey denies a secret plan to hike as London's house prices roll over
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey denied any secret plan to raise rates as UK inflation climbed to 2.9% year-on-year and house prices fell 0.4% nationally, even as London slides and Northern Ireland keeps climbing, exposing a split on the Bank's own rate committee before the 17 September...
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🌏 An oil shock, not the chip trade, breaks South Africa's growth streak and splits EM policy

South Africa's economy contracted 0.2% quarter on quarter. The real driver isn't the AI chip trade: it's an oil shock now splitting emerging-market central bank policy across Chile, India, Brazil and Turkey.

🌏 An oil shock, not the chip trade, breaks South Africa's growth streak and splits EM policy
South Africa's economy contracted 0.2% quarter on quarter. The real driver isn't the AI chip trade: it's an oil shock now splitting emerging-market central bank policy across Chile, India, Brazil and Turkey.
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🇨🇳 China's chip exports are surging on price, not volume, and factory-gate deflation is finally breaking

China's chip exports rose 103.9% in value but only 4.1% in volume in August, as factory-gate deflation eased for a second straight month. Producer prices rose 3.8% year on year and the trade surplus widened to $119.09bn.

🇨🇳 China's chip exports are surging on price, not volume, and factory-gate deflation is finally breaking
China's chip exports rose 103.9% in value but only 4.1% in volume in August, as factory-gate deflation eased for a second straight month. Producer prices rose 3.8% year on year and the trade surplus widened to $119.09bn.
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