EU plans significant energy market overhaul
China set for turnover in economic officials
Poland to freeze household electricity prices
Equinor completes rapid sale of Russia assets
U.S. households’ real incomes are flat ($WSJ)
U.S. power generators’ carbon intensity falls
Expert interpretation of the Soviet Union
U.S. INTEREST RATE traders expect the central bank to boost its target federal funds rate to 4.25-4.50% by April 2023 up from 2.25-2.50% at present as officials try to bring inflation back towards their long term target. Inflation has proved faster and more persistent than anticipated implying higher interest rates and a greater probability of a hard-landing for the economy:
U.S. SERVICES prices increased at an annualised rate of +7.7% in the three months to August. Services inflation is a proxy for underlying price pressures in the economy because services account for more than 60% of consumer spending and are labour-intensive rather than energy or commodity-intensive. Service sector inflation has decelerated from a peak of +9.9% in the three months to June but remains more than three times faster than the central bank’s long-term target of a little over 2% per year:
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