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🇺🇸 Williams cracks the Fed's hawkish unanimity as consumer confidence hits an 11-year low

Core inflation cooled and Q2 GDP growth was revised up to 2.2%, but New York Fed President John Williams cracked the central bank's hawkish unity, saying "there is no need for urgency" on further hikes, as consumer confidence sank to an 11-year low of 81.9.

🇺🇸 Williams cracks the Fed's hawkish unanimity as consumer confidence hits an 11-year low
Core inflation cooled and Q2 GDP growth was revised up to 2.2%, but New York Fed President John Williams cracked the central bank's hawkish unity, saying "there is no need for urgency" on further hikes, as consumer confidence sank to an 11-year low of 81.9.
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🇪🇺 Five eurozone countries just ran hot on inflation, and core is starting to move too

Spain, Belgium, France, Italy and Germany all posted hotter September inflation prints this week, with Spanish core rising to 3.1% and French services inflation to 2.2%, testing the ECB's view that wages aren't yet feeling the pass-through ahead of its October 29 rate decision.

🇪🇺 Five eurozone countries just ran hot on inflation, and core is starting to move too
Spain, Belgium, France, Italy and Germany all posted hotter September inflation prints this week, with Spanish core rising to 3.1% and French services inflation to 2.2%, testing the ECB's view that wages aren't yet feeling the pass-through ahead of its October 29 rate decision.
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UK growth tops the G7, but the Bank's own risk committee isn't celebrating

UK Q2 GDP was revised up to 0.5% quarter-on-quarter, the strongest first-half pace in the G7, but the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee flagged gilt yields at 2008-era levels and roughly $450bn in global AI-related debt issuance as rising systemic risks.

UK growth tops the G7, but the Bank's own risk committee isn't celebrating
UK Q2 GDP was revised up to 0.5% quarter-on-quarter, the strongest first-half pace in the G7, but the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee flagged gilt yields at 2008-era levels and roughly $450bn in global AI-related debt issuance as rising systemic risks.
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🌏 Korea's factory slump and Brazil's jobs beat are both too messy to take at face value

South Korea's industrial output fell 4.8% in August, the steepest monthly drop since 2008, while Brazil's formal jobs data beat forecasts by nearly triple ahead of the October 4 election. Both prints owe more to one-off timing quirks than any real shift in trend.

🌏 Korea's factory slump and Brazil's jobs beat are both too messy to take at face value
South Korea's industrial output fell 4.8% in August, the steepest monthly drop since 2008, while Brazil's formal jobs data beat forecasts by nearly triple ahead of the October 4 election. Both prints owe more to one-off timing quirks than any real shift in trend.
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🇨🇳 China's PMIs clear 50 the same week Beijing piles on more stimulus

China's official manufacturing PMI hit 50.1 in September, the first reading above 50 in three months, days after the PBOC cut a policy lending rate and unveiled a first-time-buyer mortgage subsidy, stimulus stacked before the data even printed.

🇨🇳 China's PMIs clear 50 the same week Beijing piles on more stimulus
China's official manufacturing PMI hit 50.1 in September, the first reading above 50 in three months, days after the PBOC cut a policy lending rate and unveiled a first-time-buyer mortgage subsidy, stimulus stacked before the data even printed.
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