To curb inflation and promote economic growth, the US Federal Reserve has implemented a series of interest rate hikes and related tightening monetary policies since March 2022. As of today, the latest...
Inflation in the US continues on a cooling trajectory, with the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showing a 2.9% YoY increase in the CPI for July and a 3.2% YoY increase in the core C...
Even though the traditional peak season has arrived, the US and China, as the world’s two major consumer markets, are facing issues such as slow progress in cooling inflation or recovering from deflat...
In early June, the 2024 Computex, a major global electronics trade show, kicked off in Taipei. Building on the AI industry revolution initiated by NVIDIA last year, this year saw both NVIDIA and AMD,...
According to the Consumer Confidence Index data released by the University of Michigan in May, the index for American consumers has reached 67.4, hitting a six-month low. Hence, there is a lack of pro...
On March 19, the Bank of Japan announced the end of its 17-year policy of maintaining negative interest rates. The country’s unsecured overnight call rate, which had previously been in the -0.1% to 0%...
The National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which are the two major annual events for observing the directions of the Chinese government’s economic polic...
Industries in East Asia have gradually resumed operations following the Lunar New Year. However, the arrival of the Year of the Dragon has not brought about a significant economic recovery worldwide.....
At the start of 2024, Japan was hit by a strong earthquake. There were especially concerns about the impact of the earthquake on Murata’s MLCC plant in Fukui and Taiyo Yuden’s Plant in Niigata...
As the year 2023 comes to an end, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts that the annual growth rate of global GDP will shrink slightly from 3% this year to 2.9% next year...
Inflation in Europe and the US continues to cool down. In October, the YoY growth of the US CPI shrank to 3.2%. The UK, which has been severely affected by inflation, saw the YoY growth of its CPI red...
The international political and economic situation remains unstable. As the Russia-Ukraine military conflict continues, the Middle East has unexpectedly plunged into another major crisis. In early Oct...
Recently, members of the OPEC extended their production cut to the end of October, causing international crude oil prices to become volatile again and leading to a resurgence of inflation. In the US,...
According to the latest announcement by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, there have been changes in excess savings resulting from the subsidies provided by the US government to households du...
The US CPI continued to show shrinking growth in June, with a YoY increase of just 3% and reaching a 26-month low. The core CPI, which has been the main concern of the US Federal Reserve, also reached...
