dropped 0.8%, highlighting the difficulties the country’s industrial base was having, but all major sectors of the economy - services, manufacturing and construction - declined during the month.is still widely expected to raise interest rates to 5.5% from 5.25% next week, with wage growth showing few signs of slowing, but this economic slowdown raises the possibility that this hike could mark the end of a tightening cycle which began in December 2021.
The ECB has raised rates at each of its past nine meetings and another increase of 25 basis points would lift the key deposit rate to 4%.is due for release later in the session, and is expected to have fallen 0.7% on the month, a drop of 0.3% on an annual basis.However, the day’s key economic data release will come from the U.S., in the form of the August consumer price index.
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