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US inflation drops to 8.5%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... 40-year peak of 9.1%, recorded in June. The drop beat market expectations of 8.7% and comes as a welcome relief for the Biden government. The reason for the fall is a slowdown in rising energy prices. Energy CPI rose by 32.9%, down from 41.6% in June ...

US Senate passes $1tn Inflation Reduction Act

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
... deficit and everyday expenses for working families. Following the Senate Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden said: "I ran for president promising to make government work for working families again, and that's what this Bill does ...

US enters recession - or does it?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... months after a recession has begun before announcing one. Responding to the second quarter GDP report, US president Joe Biden said: "Coming off of last year's historic economic growth - and regaining all the private sector jobs lost during the pandemic ...

CPI rises, IMF lowers global outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... recession evaluation method of two consecutive quarters of falling GDP - just one week before GDP data is released. The Biden Administration said: "While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is ...

US rocked by inflation disaster

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... year, shooting up a torrid 1.3% in June alone. While inflation has surged to its highest level in 41 years, US president Joe Biden said the CPI data doesn't reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices. Biden stated: "Those savings ...

US inflation wavers near a 40-year high

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022
... having risen 1.2% in March. This decline is the first month to month inflation rate fall since August 2021. US president Joe Biden said that it was heartening to see that annual inflation moderated in April but that it remained unacceptably high. "I'm ...

Biden signs executive order on digital assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on ensuring the responsible development of digital assets, in a move that has seen the price of Bitcoin jump. Signed overnight, the executive order outlines the first whole-of-government strategy ...

New LGBTIQ investment option

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... COVID-19 relief through its Global LGBTIQ Emergency Fund, and its former executive director Jessica Stern was appointed in the Biden Administration as US Special Envoy to Advance the Rights of LGBTIQ Persons. Newday offers a range of impact portfolios ...

Chief economist update: US inflation may not be as transitory as the Fed believes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... purchasing used cars. They have the wherewithal to do so - compliments of the Federal Reserve's low interest rates and the Biden administration's generous fiscal spending. Would inflation turned out to be transitory as the Fed assures? Or would ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... stimulus spend from the US government in response to COVID-19, at $5 trillion, is more than the US spent on World War Two. "Biden thinks domestic strength is the best defence in foreign policy," she said. Cantrill theorised that in light of the geopolitical ...