Gold slips as rising oil prices fuel fears of inflation

Gold prices faced short-term pressure during early Asian trading on Tuesday, easing toward $4,443 per ounce at the timing of publication as escalating Middle East tensions pushed crude oil...

Stocks at record highs; cooler US inflation eclipses oil rally

Global stocks traded around record highs on Friday, set for a third weekly gain after benign inflation ‌data dented expectations for a US rate hike next month, although faltering...

Gold prices rise to two-month high

Gold rose for a third straight session on Tuesday ‌to its highest in more than two months, while investors focused on upcoming inflation data for clues on the US...

US Fed Reserve’s inflation challenge

The Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve at the end of its two-day meeting on July 29 kept the interest rate unchanged at 3.5 per cent to...

Fed report cites 'stepped-up' inflation due to tariffs, Iran war

By contrast, the labour market has stabilised, with demand and supply roughly in balance, and the June unemployment rate of 4.2% still low: Fed report WASHINGTON: US inflation 'stepped...

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Inflation's maths

Broke or not

Workers struggle despite full-time employment

Estelle O'Brien never expected to need to use a food bank. The 45-year-old, from south London, has always worked full-time, weaving the everyday complexities of raising two young children...

India says retail inflation may accelerate on fuel price rise

NEW DELHI: India's retail inflation could rise as a result of recent fuel ‌price hikes and weaker-than-normal monsoon rains, the country’s ​finance ⁠ministry said in a report on ‌Saturday,...