Slowing Inflation Primes G-7 Central Banks for June
Inflation-related releases across the Group of Seven will prime central bankers for crucial June interest-rate decisions, just as they meet in Italy to discuss the state of the world economy.
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Inflation-related releases across the Group of Seven will prime central bankers for crucial June interest-rate decisions, just as they meet in Italy to discuss the state of the world economy.
Big US bond investors have been aggressively shifting money into long-dated notes, betting that the unloved asset class will be one of the winners from eventual interest rate cuts.
A measure of underlying US inflation cooled in April for the first time in six months, a small step in the right direction for Federal Reserve officials looking to start cutting interest rates this year.
Emerging-market currencies dipped Friday on dwindling optimism over Federal Reserve rate cuts, paring their fourth-straight week of gains.
The owner of a historic office building in Manhattan’s Financial District has filed bankruptcy to sell the property, which has been subject to foreclosure and suffered from a lack of tenants due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aug 16, 2019
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- In the two most expensive U.S. real estate markets, both in California’s Bay Area, home values declined in July.
The price of a typical home slumped 10.5% from the same month last year in San Jose and fell 1.1% in San Francisco, according to a report issued Friday by Zillow. A year ago, home values were growing 24% annually in San Jose -- a 34.5 percentage point price swing. In San Francisco, the difference was 10.5 percentage points.
The markets of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim and San Diego were also among those California areas with at least a five percentage point swing in home values compared to a year ago.
Last year’s surge in Bay Area property values encouraged more homeowners to list their properties, according to the report. Inventories in San Francisco jumped 21.5%, while in San Jose, they surged 32.6%.
Among the top 50 markets, San Jose and San Francisco are the exceptions as prices are increasing in the other 48 markets. The median U.S. home is worth $229,000, up 5.2% from a year ago.
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