Market overview

  • S&P 500 7,671.23 +0.62%
  • STOXX Europe 600 640.66 +0.77%
  • Nikkei 225 62,189.65 −0.80%
  • Euro / US dollar 1.1188 −0.04%
  • Brent crude oil 110.87 −0.74%
  • Gold 4,027.50 +0.49%
  • Bitcoin / US dollar 79,770 −0.85%

Markets

Indices

Indices
Instrument Last Change Observation
S&P 500 7,671.23 +0.62%
STOXX Europe 600 640.66 +0.77%
Nikkei 225 62,189.65 −0.80%

Foreign exchange

Foreign exchange
Instrument Last Change Observation
Euro / US dollar 1.1188 −0.04%
US dollar / Moroccan dirham 9.8406 +0.41%
British pound / US dollar 1.3348 −0.15%
US dollar / yen 157.445 +0.41%

Commodities

Commodities
Instrument Last Change Observation
Brent crude oil 110.87 −0.74%
WTI crude oil 102.01 −1.22%
Gold 4,027.50 +0.49%
Copper 6.5470 +0.61%

Digital assets

Digital assets
Instrument Last Change Observation
Bitcoin / US dollar 79,770 −0.85%

MACRO PULSE

  • US headline inflation

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  • US core inflation

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  • US unemployment rate

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  • US nonfarm payroll change

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  • US real GDP quarterly growth

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  • US industrial production

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  • Fed funds target range

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  • ECB deposit facility rate

    2.50%

    Previous 2.50%

WORLD INDICATORS

Structural economic indicators across selected economies

Structural economic indicators
Economy Real GDP growthInflationUnemploymentGDP per capita
United States 2.16% 2.95% 4.20% $90,027
Canada 1.74% 2.07% 6.91% $55,698
Mexico 0.56% 3.81% 2.67% $13,889
Brazil 2.29% 5.02% 5.97% $10,713
Argentina 4.37% 219.88% 7.15% $14,898
Chile 2.46% 4.21% 8.97% $17,995
Germany 0.24% 2.17% 3.71% $60,496
France 0.84% 0.94% 7.54% $48,986
United Kingdom 1.39% 3.88% 4.75% $57,602
Italy 0.54% 1.53% 6.39% $43,309
Spain 2.82% 2.67% 10.38% $38,627
Netherlands 1.78% 3.20% 3.87% $73,684
Switzerland 1.30% 0.15% 4.87% $114,769
Poland 3.57% 3.81% 2.98% $28,420
Russia 1.00% 8.72% 2.13% $17,547
Kazakhstan 6.50% 11.38% 4.77% $14,692
China 4.96% 0.06% 4.62% $13,862
Japan 1.19% 3.17% 2.45% $35,951
India 7.57% 2.40% 4.22% $2,702
South Korea 1.01% 2.12% 2.68% $36,227
Indonesia 5.11% 1.91% 3.24% $5,060
Australia 1.35% 2.87% 4.09% $65,130
Vietnam 8.02% 3.31% 1.52% $5,066
Singapore 5.03% 0.90% 2.82% $98,814
Thailand 2.44% -0.13% 0.78% $8,057
Malaysia 5.17% 1.38% 3.76% $13,125
Philippines 4.40% 1.66% 2.24% $4,171
Saudi Arabia 4.50% 2.04% 3.04% $34,537
United Arab Emirates 3.99% 1.25% 2.17% $50,274
Türkiye 3.60% 34.88% 8.52% $18,599
Israel 2.93% 3.04% 3.49% $60,337
South Africa 1.11% 3.21% 32.39% $6,598
Nigeria 4.01% 23.01% 3.06% $1,224
Egypt 4.39% 14.07% 6.78% $3,086
Algeria 3.82% 1.42% 11.63% $6,051
Kenya 4.63% 4.07% 5.45% $2,363
Ethiopia 9.77% 13.23% 3.32% $933
Côte d’Ivoire 6.50% 0.13% 2.32% $3,050
Senegal 6.68% 1.46% 2.74% $1,955
Morocco 4.60% 0.70% 9.00% $4,672

Source: World Bank

INSTITUTIONAL MONITOR

Latest publications from selected institutions and primary sources.

  1. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises: lending conditions tightened

  2. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Frank Elderson: Taking action for nature – investing in economic resilience and prosperity

  3. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – September 2026

  4. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Piero Cipollone: Pontes and Appia: unlocking opportunities for banks

  5. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: Euro liquidity lines and the international monetary system

  6. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Frank Elderson: From climate and nature risks to economic resilience and competitiveness

  7. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Christine Lagarde: IMFC Statement

  8. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Basel Committee finalises measures to address window-dressing in the G-SIB framework and consults on G-SIB methodology review

  9. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    PPI for final demand increases 1.3% in September; goods advance 2.6%, services rise 0.8%

  10. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    CPI for all items increases 0.6% in September; gasoline rises

  11. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Global standard-setting bodies publish final report on guidance for FMIs on general business risks and general business losses

  12. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Frank Elderson: Ensuring resilience in the face of uncertainty

  13. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: The AI opportunity for Europe

  14. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on August 17, September 9, and September 16, 2026

  15. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Basel Committee finds Australia, Japan, Korea, Switzerland compliant, and Canada, United Kingdom largely compliant with its leverage ratio framework

  16. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Meeting of 9-10 September 2026

  17. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026

  18. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Results of the September 2026 survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (SESFOD)

  19. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Frank Elderson: Effective supervision through timely remediation

  20. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Piero Cipollone: Money in the digital age: digital euro, tokenisation and the role of central banks

  21. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, August 2026

  22. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: Diagnostic Challenges for ECB Monetary Policy

  23. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Basel III applicable in almost all member jurisdictions by 2027

  24. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)

  25. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment

    Both payroll employment (+29,000) and unemployment rate (4.2%) change little in September

  26. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Boris Vujčić: Resilience, integration and competitiveness: building the future of European banking

  27. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Isabel Schnabel: Central banks on-chain

  28. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Christine Lagarde: Where AI risks meet

  29. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Basel Committee meets to advance supervisory and regulatory initiatives and discuss risks and vulnerabilities to the global banking system

  30. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    International supervisory community meets to discuss the future of global bank supervision and regulation

  31. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Isabel Schnabel: Monetary policy in a world of overlapping shocks

  32. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    Personal Income and Outlays, August 2026

  33. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    GDP, (Third Estimate), Industries, Corporate Profits, State GDP, and State Personal Income, 2nd Quarter 2026; State PCE, 2025

  34. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Frank Elderson: Supervisory risk appetite, efficiency and effectiveness

  35. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    ECB amends monetary policy implementation guidelines as part of regular review

  36. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Christine Lagarde: Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament

  37. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel to resign to take senior role at IMF

  38. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: The outlook for the euro area economy

  39. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: The Outlook for the Euro Area Economy

  40. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    The digitalisation of money, payments and finance

  41. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Almost ten million people took part in ECB survey on new euro banknotes

  42. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Basel III risk-based capital and leverage ratios are stable while liquidity indicators show limited movements for large internationally active banks, latest Basel III monitoring exercise shows

  43. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    ECB to invest part of own funds in tokenised securities, with settlement via Pontes

  44. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Eurosystem brings central bank money to tokenised finance

  45. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – August 2026

  46. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

  47. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting

  48. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    ECB wage tracker at 2.7% in H1 2027, pointing to a modest uptick in negotiated wage growth

  49. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Christine Lagarde: A new age of capital: growth, sovereignty and AI

  50. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Piero Cipollone: The future of euro cash: trusted today, designed for tomorrow

  51. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Isabel Schnabel: Macroeconomic, fiscal and financial stability in a shock-prone world

  52. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Christine Lagarde: Europe seen from Normandy

  53. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: Outlook for the euro area economy

  54. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    CPI for all items increases 0.4% in August; gasoline rises

  55. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Christine Lagarde, Boris Vujčić: Monetary policy statement (with Q&A)

  56. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Monetary policy decisions

  57. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    PPI for final demand moves up 0.4% in August; goods advance 1.1%, services rise 0.1%

  58. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Christine Lagarde: The choice facing Europeans

  59. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Frank Elderson: Fireside chat

  60. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Global standard-setting bodies publish a toolkit for cyber resilience at FMIs and a discussion paper on FMIs’ reliance on third-party service providers

  61. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment

    Payroll employment increases by 162,000 in August; unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1%

  62. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: Diversity at the European Central Bank

  63. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, July 2026

  64. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Boris Vujčić: Listening to households: expectations, behaviour and monetary policy

  65. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Isabel Schnabel: Central banks on-chain

  66. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Meeting of 22-23 July 2026

  67. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    GDP (Second Estimate) and Corporate Profits, 2nd Quarter 2026

  68. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    Personal Income and Outlays, July 2026

  69. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Piero Cipollone: From vision to delivery: building Europe’s tokenised financial market

  70. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026

  71. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – July 2026

  72. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026

  73. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Philip R. Lane: The rise in defence spending and the euro area economy

  74. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    PPI for final demand unchanged in July; services advance 0.2%, goods fall 0.7%

  75. European Central Bank Monetary policy

    Cash remains most widely accepted payment method in euro area

  76. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    CPI for all items increases 0.1% in July; shelter rises

  77. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment

    Both payroll employment (-23,000) and unemployment rate (4.1%) change little in July

  78. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    Personal Income and Outlays, June 2026

  79. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

  80. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    Direct Investment by Country and Industry, 2025

  81. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    PPI for final demand declines 0.3% in June; goods fall 1.4%, services increase 0.2%

  82. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on June 8 and June 17, 2026

  83. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    CPI for all items falls 0.4% in June; gasoline down

  84. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises, 2024

  85. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Federal Reserve announces the leadership and objectives of its task forces to advance the conduct of monetary policy

  86. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, June 16-17, 2026

  87. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment

    Both payroll employment (+57,000) and unemployment rate (4.2%) change little in June

  88. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Global economic pressure points call for policy discipline: BIS

  89. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    Personal Income and Outlays, May 2026

  90. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    U.S. International Transactions and Investment Position, 1st Quarter 2026 and Annual Update

  91. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    The path to the next-generation monetary and financial system lies in safeguarding trust in money: BIS

  92. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

  93. Federal Reserve Monetary policy

    Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the June 16-17 FOMC meeting

  94. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    PPI for final demand advances 1.1% in May; goods rise 2.8%, services increase 0.3%

  95. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2025

  96. Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation

    CPI for all items rises 0.5% in May; gasoline and shelter up

  97. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment

    Payroll employment increases by 172,000 in May; unemployment rate unchanged at 4.3%

  98. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Basel Committee publishes report on information and communication technology risk management

  99. Bureau of Economic Analysis Macroeconomy

    Personal Income and Outlays, April 2026

  100. Bank for International Settlements Financial stability

    Project Agorá shows how tokenisation can improve wholesale cross-border payments; work will advance to real-value testing

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