In Japan department-store sales in August were 0.9% lower than a year earlier.
For example, exports to the U.S. rose to 5.5 percent on year from 3 percent in August and 0.6 percent in July.
FORBES: Take That Hard Landing; China Exports Beat Consensus
The ONS also released pay data showing that average earnings increased by 1.8% in the year to August, 0.1% up on the previous month.
Coming after a 1.4% decline in August and 0.2% decline in July, the index suggests trucks are carrying fewer goods to market even as retailers should be increasing their inventories in anticipation of the holidays.
FORBES: Recovering Economy? Not If You're Counting Truckloads
Retail industry sales (which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants) in August increased 0.1 percent seasonally adjusted over July and 6 percent unadjusted year-over-year, according to the monthly survey by the National Retail Federation, a retail trade association.
It was also reported Friday that industrial production in the European Union grew 0.6% in August, which beat expectations of a 0.4% decline in August, from July.
In the U.S., retail sales came in flat for August after a 0.3% gain in July.
FORBES: Stocks Mixed After Moody's Downgrades SocGen And Geithner Rejects Lehman-Moment
Premiums are also way, way up--in excess of two and three dollars--at the August 95.0 and 100 strikes, where volume in excess of 1, 350 circulated in early trading.
Call volume swelled to about four and a half times the number of puts traded on Friday afternoon, concentrated at the August 40.0 strike, where more than 60, 000 lots, and the 42.5 strike, where more than 15, 000 lots had moved as of Friday afternoon.
The August core CPI rose 0.24% from July, a 2.9% annualized rate.
Brazil retail sales were slightly above expectations in August, rising by 0.2 percent month over month and beating market estimates of zero growth.
The surprise slow-down in the euro zone private service sector was met with similar results in manufacturing, which dropped below expectations to 48.4 in the factory index from 49.0 in August.
Payroll employment is up 1.8 million and private employment is up nearly 2.0 million between August 2011 and August 2012.
Most economists now expect the Bank of England to delay any rate increases from the current level of 4.0% until August.
In August, the CPI increased 0.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis.
FORBES: Bernanke Administers Another Cruel Dose Of Financial Morphine With QE3
The Bank thinks that the economy is over the worst, which is why it raised interest rates in August, albeit only to 0.25%.
This one's for all of you Meizu fanboys out there: To tide you over while you wait for the M8 3G launch in March 2010 (with a possible M8 3G S planned for Smarch 2043 or thereabouts) the company's announced that the handset will be getting a UI refresh with its firmware 1.0 release come August.
Its three-month moving average, considered a recession indicator, fell from -0.26 in July to -0.47 in August.
FORBES: Falling Oil Prices May Indicate Nasty October For Stocks
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which measures future plans by UK manufacturing firms, stood at 51.7 in August, compared to 52.0 in July.
Signs of an end to turmoil are suggested by some selling of the August puts at the 25.0 strike, where 4, 000 lots traded Friday.
The seasonally adjusted (SA) month-over-month change from August to September will be -0.2% and 0.0% for the 20 and 10-City Composite Home Price Index (SA), respectively.
But he defended the Bank's decision last August to raise interest rates to 0.25%, the first increase in 10 years, a move critics say is implicated in the country's economic slowdown.
That spending level is not very different from what the Congressional Budget office figured in its most likely fiscal scenario back in August, but taxes are about 0.3 percent of GDP higher.
FORBES: The Bottom Line: What the Fiscal Cliff Deal Really Means for Taxes and Spending
He scored his first goal for the club in the 1-0 win at Leyton Orient in the Carling Cup on 26 August, and followed that up with the only goal in a 1-0 success over Sunderland in the Premier League.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the CPI rose by 0.6 percent in August.
FORBES: Bernanke Meets an Unwelcome Visitor After QE3 Announcement
August retail sales were revised upward to 0.4 from July, which was originally reported as 0.1%.
The money supply grew by 0.8% in August after expanding by 1% in July.
But by comparison, incomes were unchanged because they rose 0.1% in September after falling 0.1% in August.
应用推荐