India's barriers to financing

Oct 22, 2015 09:57 am UTC| Commentary

The Indian government does not have sufficient means to finance the countrys transformation, for 2014-15, public debt still stood at 66.3% of GDP and the combined government and public-sector deficit was estimated at 6.4%...

Commodities continue to play a role in global inflation trends

Oct 22, 2015 09:47 am UTC| Commentary

Global commodity price influences are also continuing to play a role in UK inflation trends, which in September relapsed to a -0.1% annual rate, entering shallow deflation for the second time since April.Inflation is...

Global growth ability to gain traction continues to ease

Oct 22, 2015 09:45 am UTC| Commentary

With anxiety mounting about the ability of global growth to gain traction as activity in emerging markets, and most notably China, continues to ease, the associated softness of commodity prices is set to continue weighing...

Factors hinder India's development

Oct 22, 2015 09:43 am UTC| Commentary

The Indian economy is a service economy. Over the past three years, 75% of its growth has come from service activities, and the situation is likely to remain the same in the short and medium term. Growth is expected to be...

Euro area's CPI likely to rise next year

Oct 22, 2015 09:15 am UTC| Commentary

The renewed fall in commodity prices since the middle of this year has helped to push Euro areas headline CPI inflation back into negative territory at -0.1%y/y in September.More importantly for policy makers, it looks as...

China likely had limited impacts on Eurozone

Oct 22, 2015 09:13 am UTC| Commentary

The slowdown in economic growth in China and other emerging market economies seems to have had a relatively limited impact on the eurozone economy.Although downside risks to growth and inflation have increased, past rises...

Fed policy rate hike likely before year end

Oct 22, 2015 09:02 am UTC| Commentary

With concerns about the external environment contributing to the Feds decision to leave policy unchanged in September, evidence of abating strength in the US labour market have cast further doubt on the prospect of a first...