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Global Inflation Check, Carney's Outlook, Marie Kondo: Eco Day
Global Inflation Check, Carney's Outlook, Marie Kondo: Eco Day
12 Feb 2019, 02:48 PM IST
(Bloomberg) -- Welcome to Tuesday, Europe. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your day started:
- The world economy is set to get fresh insight into whether inflation is turning sluggish again as the U.S. and China publish price data
- Summing up. Mark Carney may give some color later today on what lies ahead after enduring the worst year of growth since he arrived at the Bank of England
- European Central Bank officials shouldn’t overreact to individual points of incoming data when setting monetary policy as the current environment is highly uncertain, incoming Executive Board member Philip Lane said
- The world’s lowest interest rate will be around for longer than previously anticipated, with economists forecasting that a dovish shift for central banks around the world will also affect Switzerland
- After raising interest rates late last year, Sweden’s central bank now has little choice other than to wait for a better economic outlook before pushing ahead with its long-awaited tightening cycle
- Retake. The U.S. sees a meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi ‘soon’ as talks get under way in Beijing
- Sparkling opportunity. The global success of Marie Kondo -- Japan’s queen of tidying -- points to an important truth for Japan’s economy: there’s massive latent value still to be unlocked as women enter the labor force
- Wait and watch. New Zealand’s central bank may acknowledge the rising risk of an interest-rate cut when delivering its first rate decision of the year tomorrow
- Renewed worries. Italy’s promise to meet ambitious budget targets faces growing skepticism by the euro area, after the country slipped into recession at the end of last year
- Erratic moves. Investors are riding helter-skelter markets -- causing headaches as they try to figure out whether Goldilocks is back or recession is nigh
--With assistance from Ashutosh Joshi.
To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Jeffrey Black in Hong Kong at jblack25@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey Black at jblack25@bloomberg.net, Karthikeyan Sundaram
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