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Consumer confidence in the US appeared to stabilise at the start of September after plunging during the month before as the Delta variant of Covid-19 rolled across the country, the results of a closely-followed survey revealed.
Consumer price inflation in the euro area accelerated in August on the back of dearer energy and base effects, potentially piling on the pressure on the European Central Bank.
Manufacturing conditions in the US mid-Atlantic region exceeded forecasts by a wide margin in September, the results of a closely-followed survey revealed.
Manufacturing activity in the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York surged in September, according to the results of a closely-followed survey.
Euro area industrial production bounded past economists forecasts in July, recovering its level from before the pandemic as supply chain disruptions eased.
Consumer level inflation in the US slowed more quickly than expected last month as the Delta variant of Covid-19 took its toll on travel-related sectors, including airlines and hotels.
A top European Central Bank official said the monetary authority did not believe rapidly rising consumer prices were a risk, emphasising that the "extremely" low level of inflation seen in 2020 needed to be taken into account.
Rate-setters in Frankfurt decided to lower bond purchases under their emergency asset buying programme "moderately" but kept all the other main policy levers unchanged, including the size of the bond buying programme not linked to the pandemic.
The number of job openings in the US hit a fresh record high in July despite slower hiring as Americans increasingly chose to 'quit' their current employment.
The European Central Bank may slow its asset purchases when rate-setters in Frankfurt next meet, but the monetary authority is not set to start phasing them out, a former head of the institution said.
A top official at the Federal Reserve brushed off concerns about a slowdown in hiring and said the central bank remained set to start tapering its debt purchases before year-end.
The Bank of England may need to raise interest rates over the "next year or so" if the UK economy continues to recover and inflation remains persistently higher than expected, a top official said.
