05 May 2022
Chris Scicluna
,
Emily Nicol
- French IP posts modest decline in March
- UK new car registrations exceptionally weak again in April
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04 May 2022
Chris Scicluna
,
Emily Nicol
- German goods exports drop in March as shipments to Russia fall more than 60% on sanctions; import values higher but only due to inflation; trade surplus smallest in more than 20 years
- UK retail survey suggests that prices on the high street in April rose at strongest rate since 2011 despite intense competition among supermarkets on everyday essentials
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29 April 2022
Chris Scicluna
,
Emily Nicol
- While French inflation was expected to be unchanged on the EU measure in April, it rose to 5.4%Y/Y with increasing food and core pressures more than offsetting the impact of lower energy prices.
- UK house prices rose for the ninth successive month in April according to the Nationwide index.
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27 April 2022
Chris Scicluna
,
Emily Nicol
- French consumers also the most downbeat since the yellow vest protests in late 2018, with proportion of households assessing it a good time to buy similarly well below long-run average.
- US advance goods trade likely to report ongoing sideways trend in exports, but a cooling in imports.
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26 April 2022
Chris Scicluna
,
Emily Nicol
- Ahead of its latest monetary policy announcement on Thursday, the BoJ announces another two days of special unlimited purchase operations of 10Y JGBs at a fixed rate of 0.25%, to continue to defend its yield curve control framework.
- BoJ’s estimate of trimmed mean CPI highest since 2008, but still well below 2% target and considerably lower than the US and euro area rates.
- UK public finances data confirm that deficit more than halved as a share of GDP in FY21/22.
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