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The following are forecasts for this week's remaining U.S. data from a survey compiled by The Wall Street Journal. The FOMC meeting statement is scheduled for release Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ET, followed by a press conference with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell at 2:30 p.m. ET. DATE TIME RELEASE PERIOD CONSENSUS PREVIOUS Tuesday 0900 S&P/Case-Shiller 20 City Jul +6.2% +6.3% HPI 1000 Consumer Confidence Sep 132.0 133.4 1000 Richmond Fed Mfg Svy Sep 20 24 Wednesday 1000 New Home...

The euro rose to more than a three-month high against the dollar on Monday after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said he sees a vigorous pickup in euro zone inflation, backing moves toward ...

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Surging U.S. growth has one big downside: Rising inflation. The cost of borrowing money in the U.S. is going up this week thanks to the Federal Reserve-- and a pumped-up economy. The central bank on Wednesday is all but certain to lift a key short-term interest rate to a range of 2% to 2.25%, putting it at the highest level in a decade.

This time may be different, says Peter Hooper of Deutsche Bank Securities. The Federal Reserve has a chance to do something no U.S. central bank has done before, if it can slow the economy and raise the unemployment rate without pushing the economy into recession, said Peter Hooper, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities. "The Powell Fed can make history by engineering a soft landing from below," Hooper said in an interview.

By Kate Duguid. U.S. Treasury yields across maturities were steady on Monday afternoon having mostly recovered from early losses on a flurry of conflicting reports about whether Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing a Justice Department probe into Russia's role in the 2016 election, would leave his post.

The euro zone should be preparing for a big hit if the protetionist measures announced by the United States and China are implemented, the head of the European Central Bank said on Monday. "For the time being, we don't know what the final size of all this will, be but we know it's going to be big and we should do our best to be prepared," Mario Draghi told the EU Parliament in Brussels.

The euro rose to more than a three-month high against the dollar on Monday after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said he sees a vigorous pickup in euro zone inflation, backing moves toward ...

The European Central Bank has published its bond holdings as of Sept. 21: PSPP 2,075.9 billion euro. ABSPP: 26.957 billion euro. CBPP3: 258.784 billion euro. CSPP: 169.097 billion euro.

BRASILIA--Brazil reported its second monthly current-account deficit in a row as trade performance worsened, the central bank said Monday. The country recorded a $717 million shortfall in its transactions with foreign nations in August. It was an improvement versus the $4.4 billion deficit posted in July, but wider than the $320 million hole reported a year earlier, the bank said.

MEXICO CITY-- Mexico's inflation slowed in the first half of September as a drop in agricultural prices partially offset higher energy costs and increases in school fees at the start of the fall term. The consumer-price index rose 0.22% from the end of August, bringing the annual inflation rate down to 4.88% from 4.9%, the National Statistics Institute said Monday. The rise was below market expectations, and could give some comfort to the Bank of Mexico ahead of its Oct. 4 monetary...

The European Central Bank sees a muted impact from Brexit on the euro zone's economy and financial markets, with the clearing of financial contracts the biggest area of concern, the ECB's President Mario Draghi said on Monday. "By and large, our estimates show that, on the real side of the negotiation, the impact should be, in the aggregate, quite muted," Draghi told the European Parliament.

Mexican annual inflation rose less than expected in early September, official data showed on Monday, supporting bets that the central bank will leave interest rates steady next week. Inflation in the 12 months through the first half of September rose 4.88 percent, the national statistics agency said.

The recovery in inflation expected by the European Central Bank is conditional on market interest rates staying low through the summer of next year, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Monday. Draghi described an acceleration in underlying inflation in the euro zone as "relatively vigorous" and expressed confidence that a pick-up in wage growth would continue.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on Monday said he expected a rise in eurozone consumer prices. Harmonized European inflation would likely hover around 1.7% every year until 2020 and 1.8% excluding food and energy in 2020, he said in introductory remarks at a hearing on economic and monetary affairs in the European Parliament. "This stable profile conceals a slowing contribution from the non-core components of the general index, and a relatively vigorous...

Fed widely seen hiking rates to a range between 2% and 2.25%. Ask any Wall Street economist if the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its September meeting and the answer is "of course." "For now, the FOMC appears comfortable with quarterly rate hikes," said Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Barclays, with the economy continuing to hum, the unemployment rate around 18- year lows, and core inflation just about at the Fed's 2% target.

Euro zone bond yields rose on Monday, with Germany's 10-year Bund yield hitting its highest since mid-June, with analysts citing European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's comments on wage growth and vigorous inflation. Germany's 10-year yield rose to 0.51 percent, up more than 5 basis points on the day.

The recovery in inflation expected by the European Central Bank is conditional on market interest rates staying low through the summer of next year, the ECB's President Mario Draghi said on Monday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2018  The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for India increased 1.2 percent in August 2018 to 114.4. The Conference Board Coincident Economic Index® for India increased 0.9 percent in August 2018 to 112.9. The composite economic indexes are the key elements in an analytic system designed to signal peaks and troughs in the business cycle.

Index of national economic activity steadies at positive 0.18 last month. The numbers: A measure of the U.S. economy from the Chicago Federal Reserve steadied in August owed to a modest ramping up of output at the nation's factories compared to earlier in the summer. The Chicago Fed's index of national economic activity registered at a positive 0.18 last month, unchanged from a slightly upwardly revised July reading.

Business confidence among Turkish manufacturers tumbled to a nine-year low this month and two other measures of economic health also declined, data showed on Monday, reinforcing expectations of a ...

Ghana's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 17 percent on Monday as expected, mindful of possible inflationary headwinds as the dollar strengthened, governor Ernest Addison said.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. "The cost of college continues to relentlessly rise," said Sara Molina. "Borrowers are faced with a difficult choice to take on debt that will impact their lives or forego a college degree which may also impact their lives. From 2007 to 2017 the Consumer Price Index rose 21 percent, about two percent per year, according to the Bloomberg article.

* Key week for world bond markets. * Italy govt must present budget targets this week. * Fed to hike rates this week, ECB's Draghi speaks Monday. * Euro zone periphery govt bond yields http://tmsnrt.rs/2ii2Bqr. By Dhara Ranasinghe.

* Ifo business sentiment index edges down to 103.7. * Economists had expected bigger drop to 103.2. * Strong domestic economy providing buffer. * Consumer spending strong as manufacturing lags. * Trade tensions, Brexit cloud growth outlook. By Michael Nienaber.

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Teranga Gold Corporation (TGCDF) is pleased to announce the results of an updated mineral reserve estimate and feasibility study for the Wahgnion development project in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The update adds 450,000 ounces to reserves, increasing proven and probable mineral reserves at Wahgnion by almost 40% to 1.61 million ounces.

Huttig Building Products (HBP), one of the nation's largest wholesale distributors of millwork and specialty building products used principally in new residential construction and home improvement, today announced the appointment of Philip W. Keipp  as Vice President – Chief Financial Officer effective September 24, 2018.

Central European currencies eased slightly on Monday on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will increase interest rates again this week.

The French government's economic growth and public deficit assumptions underlying its 2019 budget are "plausible", France's independent fiscal watchdog said on Monday. The government said earlier this month that the public sector budget deficit was expected to rise to 2.8 percent of gross domestic product next year from 2.6 percent this year.

German business morale deteriorated slightly less than expected in September, a survey showed on Monday, suggesting that company executives have become somewhat less confident about the growth outlook of Europe's biggest economy. The Munich-based Ifo economic institute said its business climate index fell to 103.7 after a revised 103.9 in the previous month.

* Key week for world bond markets. * Italy govt must present budget targets this week. * Fed to hike rates this week, ECB's Draghi speaks Monday. * Euro zone periphery govt bond yields http://tmsnrt.rs/2ii2Bqr. By Dhara Ranasinghe. Italian government bond yields rose on Monday, reflecting some unease among investors given this week's deadline for the new government to present its budget targets.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell about 1.6%, led by property stocks. Markets in Japan, South Korea, mainland China and Taiwan were closed for holidays. Some of the short-term rates banks in Hong Kong charge each other leapt to their highest levels in roughly a decade, in the first trading session after a sudden surge in the city's tightly controlled currency.

The United States and China imposed fresh tariffs on each other's goods on Monday as the world's biggest economies showed no signs of backing down from an increasingly bitter trade dispute that is expected to knock global economic growth.

Global Economy Week Ahead: Fed Policy Statement, GDP Estimate and Other Data. In the week ahead, the Federal Reserve releases its policy statement, while the U.S. Commerce Department releases gross-domestic product revisions, personal-income and durable-goods data.

* "Zombies" have low profitability & productivity, high debt. * Number of zombie firms has increased since 80s. * Zombie firms survive for longer in low rate environment. By Helen Reid.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's anticipated interest rate hike this week will make cash the most attractive it has been in about a decade and end the era of stocks as the only game in town.

SINGAPORE--Singapore's consumer prices rose as expected in August, driven by higher food, clothing and health-care costs. The consumer-price index rose 0.7% in August from the previous year, accelerating from a 0.6% gain in July, data from the Department of Statistics showed Monday. The cost of food, which has an index weighting of 21.7%, gained 1.7% in August from a year earlier, the data showed.