Resilient global growth and concerns about supply shortages are shoring up oil prices. On 28 August, the OPEC oil basket...
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Saudi Arabia: Supply shortages and strong fundamentals continue to support oil prices in August -
Korea: Forward-looking business confidence increases for September The Bank of Korea’s forward-looking business confidence indicator (BSI) for the manufacturing sector has registered pessimism among businesses for every... -
Netherlands: Business confidence moderates in August Sentiment in the manufacturing industry eased for the third consecutive month in August, as business confidence dropped to 5.9 from... -
Thailand: Manufacturing production growth slows in July but beats market expectations Manufacturing output growth slowed to 4.6% year-on-year in July from June’s upwardly revised 5.0% (previously reported: +4.7% year-on-year) but nevertheless... -
Hong Kong: Retail sales growth falls to a six-month low in July Retail sales volumes expanded 5.9% in annual terms in July, decelerating from June’s 9.8% increase and marking the weakest reading... -
Japan: Consumer confidence falls to one-year low in August Consumer sentiment decreased from 43.5 in July to 43.3 in August. The print was in line with market expectations and... -
Brazil: Economic activity rebounds in June In June, economic activity rebounded, growing 3.3% from the previous month in seasonally-adjusted terms, according to the Central Bank’s monthly... -
Portugal: Industrial production records sharper contraction in July Industrial production contracted 1.7% over the same month of last year in July, following a revised 0.2 % year-on-year decline... -
Portugal: Consumer confidence remains in pessimistic territory, while economic sentiment stabilizes in August According to the National Statistics Institute’s (INE) survey of consumer sentiment released on 30 August, consumer confidence showed marginal improvement... -
Sweden: Economic sentiment rises for third straight month in August The economic tendency indicator rose from a revised 109.7 in July (previously reported: 109.6) to 111.5 in August. Values above...