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CPI Without Owner’s Equivalent Rent Has Been At Fed Target For A Year – OpEd

Eurasia Review 

That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the Consumer Price Index (CPI), excluding owners’ equivalent rent (OER) fell to 1.4 percent in June 2023 and has remained pretty close, but mostly above 2.0 percent ever since. We all know the Fed targets the Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator, where the OER has a smaller weight, but it is still worth seeing how much this one category affects the CPI.

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2 tropical storms take aim at Texas, Southeast

United Press International (UPI.com) 

Two tropical storm systems, forming in the southern Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean, could impact much of the southern United States this week to kick off what is forecast to be a "very active" hurricane season.

Brewing New Markets For Nepal’s Tea Trade – Analysis

Eurasia Review 

By Paras Kharel

Visits by prospective Chinese buyers to Ilam, the tea capital of Nepal, against the backdrop of Nepali tea facing uncertain access to India caught the attention of the;international media. Nepal has long sought to diversify its trade partners and secure alternative transit routes, an aspiration that long predates the freefall in;China–India ties;in the wake of COVID-19.

Nepal’s southern border with India has been;blockaded four times;since 1960. Nearly two thirds... Читать дальше...