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🇺🇸 Tariffs promised a smaller deficit and calmer prices. This week's data broke both.

August's trade deficit widened to $105.6bn on record $420.8bn imports, while the services survey's Prices Paid gauge jumped to 74.0, a three-year high. The Fed, meanwhile, is playing down chances of an October rate cut.

🇺🇸 Tariffs promised a smaller deficit and calmer prices. This week's data broke both.
August's trade deficit widened to $105.6bn on record $420.8bn imports, while the services survey's Prices Paid gauge jumped to 74.0, a three-year high. The Fed, meanwhile, is playing down chances of an October rate cut.
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🇪🇺 Europe's PMI headline is hot, but the capital-intensive economy underneath it is already in recession

German factory orders fell 10.6% in August on a one-off transport-equipment swing, while the eurozone construction PMI held at 43.4, extending a four-year contraction. The services PMI hit a 41-month high of 53.1, which is testing the ECB's rate path to 2.50%.

🇪🇺 Europe's PMI headline is hot, but the capital-intensive economy underneath it is already in recession
German factory orders fell 10.6% in August on a one-off transport-equipment swing, while the eurozone construction PMI held at 43.4, extending a four-year contraction. The services PMI hit a 41-month high of 53.1, which is testing the ECB's rate path to 2.50%.
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🇬🇧 Mann calls UK inflation embedded, but there's no wage spiral behind it

Bank of England (BoE) rate-setter Catherine Mann calls UK inflation "embedded" as headline inflation heads toward 4%, but a 24-month services-employment contraction suggests the driver is energy costs and margin repair, not a wage-price spiral, ahead of the 5 November rate decision.

🇬🇧 Mann calls UK inflation embedded, but there's no wage spiral behind it
Bank of England (BoE) rate-setter Catherine Mann calls UK inflation "embedded" as headline inflation heads toward 4%, but a 24-month services-employment contraction suggests the driver is energy costs and margin repair, not a wage-price spiral, ahead of the 5 November rate decision.
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🌏 Turkey cools, India tightens and the Philippines overheats in the same week

Turkey's inflation cooled to 29.73%, India looks set to hike into strength, the Philippines is tightening against an inflation overshoot, and Brazil's stocks jumped 7.7% after a market-friendly election result forced an October 25 runoff.

🌏 Turkey cools, India tightens and the Philippines overheats in the same week
Turkey's inflation cooled to 29.73%, India looks set to hike into strength, the Philippines is tightening against an inflation overshoot, and Brazil's stocks jumped 7.7% after a market-friendly election result forced an October 25 runoff.
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🇨🇳 Hong Kong's labor market hasn't looked this bad since the pandemic

Hong Kong's PMI fell to 49.2 in September and employment contracted at its fastest pace since April 2020, even as the mainland's own survey jumped to 50.7 and the PBOC cut a targeted lending rate to support growth.

🇨🇳 Hong Kong's labor market hasn't looked this bad since the pandemic
Hong Kong's PMI fell to 49.2 in September and employment contracted at its fastest pace since April 2020, even as the mainland's own survey jumped to 50.7 and the PBOC cut a targeted lending rate to support growth.
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