Core Insights - Stock futures rose ahead of crucial inflation data, with S&P 500 futures up 0.2% and Nasdaq futures rising 0.4% [2] - The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down by 15 points, or less than 0.1%, indicating mixed performance among major indexes [2] - The core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation metric, is expected to be a significant market event, being the first PCE data since late September [3] Market Performance - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes are on track for a fourth consecutive day of gains, while the Dow closed lower on the previous day [1][2] - The upcoming PCE data is critical as it precedes the Federal Reserve's next rate decision scheduled for December 10 [3]

US PCE Inflation Wall Street Estimates, Expert Insights, What Crypto Market Can Expect — Source: CoinGape Bitcoin and Crypto market waver ahead of the September US PCE inflation release today. Wall Street expects PCE remaining sticky, headline inflation at 2.8% and core PCE at 2.9%. The cooling PCE inflation report would lock 25 bps Fed rate cut. The US PCE inflation data, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, is set for release today. Wall Street estimates the September PCE and Core PC ...

U.S. household electricity bills have been rising steadily, causing difficulty for consumers whose budgets have already been stretched thin amid lingering inflation and slower real income growth. Consumers are increasingly pointing to data center power demand as the culprit behind higher electricity bills; while this is true to some extent, significant nuances exist at the state and regional level. Post COVID, electricity prices swung with natural gas markets. Yet even after gas prices fell, electricity inf ...

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Let's bring in Mark Summerland, Evanflow of Evanflow macro Managing Partner, and Steve Moore, Unleash Prosperity co-founder and former Trump adviser. Uh so gentlemen, remember the day. It wasn't too long ago uh when during the Biden inflationary period, the media was saying everything was great despite the fact that the substantive facts, the the the the data we were getting all showed it wasn't so great.That inflation wasn't just transitory. that that that investment wasn't drying up or was drying up and a ...

Luxury brands have a new, unlikely competitor for the well-heeled consumer’s wallet: the discount aisle. Dollar General, the largest dollar store chain in the US, on Thursday reported 2.5% year-over-year increases in same-store sales and customer traffic during the third quarter. A day earlier, rival Dollar Tree reported a similarly rosy picture. Executives said consumer worries about affordability have earned them legions of new customers, especially from higher-earning brackets. SUBSCRIBE:  Receive more ...

Group 1: Monetary Policy and Economic Indicators - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.25%, aligning with economists' forecasts, due to weakness in key economic indicators despite easing headline inflation [1] - The economy expanded by 8.2% from July to September, surpassing expectations, while inflation remains subdued [2] - Industrial activity fell to a 14-month low in October, with manufacturing PMI dropping to a nine-month low in November, indicating signs of economic slowdown [3] Group 2: Trade and Tariff Impact - Exports to the U.S. decreased for the second consecutive month in October, down 8.5% year-on-year to $6.3 billion, with overall outbound shipments falling 11.8% to $34.38 billion [3] - The U.S. imposed a 50% tariff on Indian goods since August, prompting New Delhi to reduce goods and services tax rates to stimulate domestic demand [4] - GST tax collections improved sharply in October to 1.95 trillion rupees ($21.7 billion), a 4.6% increase from the previous year, but growth slowed in November with collections of 1.7 trillion rupees, only a 0.7% increase [4] Group 3: Currency and Lending Environment - The Indian rupee has recently weakened against the dollar, crossing the 90-rupee-per-dollar mark [5] - Despite the policy rate cut earlier in the year, there has not been a significant increase in bank lending, indicating potential challenges in the lending environment [5]

India’s central bank lowered its benchmark rate for the first time in six months after inflation slid to an all-time low, helping to bolster the economy in the face of high US tariffs https://t.co/0umE29LBcl ...

Philippine inflation slowed in November, supporting another cut in benchmark interest rates as a graft scandal shattered consumer and investor confidence https://t.co/U66niVRpTX ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Interestingly enough though, if e.g. long inflation is a correct cosmological theory, even pessimistic creationist estimates imply that life would have arisen spontaneously a vast number of times in the universe -- albeit the odds of it arising in a given (from an arbitrary point in the universe) *observable* universe would be extremely low: such could be the vast difference in size between the total universe and the miniscule fraction of it that we can observe, under long inflati ...