Date: July 19, 2019 United States:  Fed Officials Shake Markets With Rate Cut Comments Two senior Federal Reserve officials stressed the need to act quickly if the U.S. economy looked likely to stumble, reinforcing bets the central bank could cut interest rates by as much as half a percentage point later this month. Fed Vice

Date: July 18, 2019   United States: U.S. Job Growth Looks Set to Power Record Back-to-School Spending “Last Christmas may have been a let down, but American shoppers are finally warmed up just in time for back-to-school spending. U.S. outlays this summer will rise 5.1% -- the most in eight years -- as wage gains

Date: July 17, 2019 United States: U.S. Housing Starts Fell in June on Fewer Multifamily Units  “U.S. new-home construction fell in June for a second month as a drop in apartment building outweighed a pickup in single-family projects. Residential starts declined 0.9% to a 1.25 million annualized rate, the slowest in three months, according to

Date: July 15, 2019 United States: Trump may face more court battles over giving citizenship data to states “ (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s order that all federal agencies provide citizenship data to the Commerce Department could open a new legal front over whether states can redraw their voting maps based on citizenship status.

Date: July 12, 2019 United States: U.S. Producer Prices Increased More Than Forecast in June “A measure of underlying U.S. producer prices increased in June by more than forecast, driven by trade services and indicating inflation may be starting to stabilize. Excluding food and energy, producer prices increased 2.3% in June from a year earlier,

Date: July 11, 2019   United States: U.S. Core Consumer Inflation Tops Projections in Broad Gain “A key measure of U.S. consumer prices rose more than forecast in June, potentially complicating the Federal Reserve’s assessment of inflation as policy makers weigh an interest-rate cut as soon as this month. The core consumer price index, which

Date: July 9, 2019 United States: Obamacare's future in play as U.S. appeals court weighs its constitutionality "NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The future of Obamacare could be at stake on Tuesday when a group of Democratic-led states and the House of Representatives urge a federal appeals court to overturn a Texas judge’s ruling that the

Date: July 8, 2019   United States:   The Trump Tariff Twist That's Cost U.S. Steel $5.5 Billion “President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign steel have sped the decline of some of the U.S. mills he vowed to help. Exuberance over the levies dramatically boosted U.S. output just as the global economy was cooling, undercutting

Date: July 5, 2019 United States: U.S. Jobs Top Forecast as 224,000 Gain Dilutes Case for Fed Cut “U.S. hiring rebounded in June and topped all estimates of economists, a sign of labor-market strength that may ease calls for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut. Payrolls climbed 224,000 after a downwardly revised 72,000 advance the prior