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Both stories noted that index rose for the sixth straight month in July, inching up by 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent from the previous month and year respectively according to the Labor Department on Wednesday.

Inflation has remained below the Fed’s 2 percent target for annual price increases for more than three years. The prospect of the Fed raising rates has boosted the dollar, further undercutting inflation through lower import prices. A line from the report stating:...

Relatively few Chinese are invested in the stock market, and the vast majority of Chinese companies still have access to financing.

US crude inventories continued to rise last week, as imports rose and shale production fell slower than expected, despite falling prices.

Statistics Canada’s consumer price index shows Canada’s inflation rate rose to 1.3 per cent in July, led by increases in food prices.

Officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve are watching inflation and the U.S. job market closely as they decide when and how quickly to raise interest rates.

The BoE chose to keep interest rates at 0.5%, with minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting revealing a vote of 8-1 in favour of this decision.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for September delivery dropped 17 cents to Dollars 42.06 in late-morning trade after falling below USD 42 a barrel earlier in the session, the lowest price since March 2009.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that its consumer price index rose 0.1 percent in July following increases of 0.3 percent in June and 0.4 percent in May.

UK interest rates have been held at 0.5 per cent again by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

The statistics for the Consumer Price Inflation indices (CPI) released today reveal that the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) has turned positive, growing by 0.1% in the year to July 2015, up from 0.0% in the year to June 2015.

A private factory gauge unexpectedly fell to the lowest level in more than six years, data Friday showed. At the same time, policy makers also expressed concerns that given recent drops in commodity prices inflation is still too low to justify an interest rate increase.

A lot of the FTSE is oil and gas and mining stocks and those are at the mercy of commodity prices, and there’s no knowing where they are going to end up’.

China’s stocks wiped out gains spurred by an unprecedented government campaign to prop up prices amid weakening economic data and signs of capital outflows.

The U.S. benchmark hit 6-1/2 year lows near $40 a barrel on Wednesday and Brent crude for October delivery LCOc1 was down 29 cents at $46.33, after settling 54 cents lower in the previous session. Oil is down 34 percent from its high of $61.43 this year, and 62 percent from its...