{"id":28430,"date":"2018-02-15T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/15\/stock-markets-rise-as-investors-shrug-off-inflation-worries-business-live\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T14:00:20","slug":"stock-markets-rise-as-investors-shrug-off-inflation-worries-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=28430","title":{"rendered":"Stock markets rise as investors shrug off inflation worries &#8211; business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, as shares recover from last week\u2019s routLatest: US producer prices riseLunchtime: European markets in the greenPound at two-week high, but would Rees-Mogg weaken it?Markets in cheerier mood againZuma\u2019s resignation boosts South African stocks 1.55pm GMT Here\u2019s Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Portfolio, on the jump in US producer prices:Producer prices up 0.4% in January, overall and core. The Fed is behind the curve and as long as excess reserves exist, inflation is a threat. It\u2019s a double edge sword, though. Increased velocity drives inflation and real growth higher. Faster growth is good for stocks.No relief from inflation pressures in the latest gauge of the nation&#8217;s wholesale prices. Both headline and core (minus food\/energy) UP 0.4%. 1.44pm GMT Boom! US factories hiked their prices again last month, putting fresh pressure on America\u2019s central bankers to raise borrowing costs.The producer prices index rose by 0.4% during January, new figures from the Labor Department show. On an annual basis, the PPI jumped by 2.7% &#8211; up from 2.6% in December.Producer Prices Rise More Than Expected In January, Markets Shrug- https:\/\/t.co\/o76VIAnMJg pic.twitter.com\/qPFXw7TKzeUS Opening Calls:#DOW 25061 +0.65%#SPX 2709 +0.36%#NASDAQ 6720 +0.65%#IGOpeningCall Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2018\/feb\/15\/stock-markets-investors-inflation-ftse-pound-us-jobs-factories-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">Stock markets rise as investors shrug off inflation worries &#8211; business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, as shares recover from last week\u2019s routLatest: US producer prices riseLunchtime: European markets in the greenPound at two-week high, but would Rees-Mogg weaken it?Markets in cheerier mood againZuma\u2019s resignation boosts South African stocks 1.55pm GMT Here\u2019s Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}