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Norway inflation at 34-year high boosts rate-hike pressure

Bloomberg Norway’s inflation exceeded forecasts for a fourth straight month, hitting a new 34-year high and adding pressure on Norges Bank to deliver a bigger interest rate hike this month than it has flagged earlier. Consumer prices rise 6.8% in July from a year earlier, the fastest pace since July 1988, according to data from Statistics Norway on Wednesday. Underlying ...

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Brazil prices tumble most since 1980 on Bolsonaro’s tax cuts

  Bloomberg Brazil consumer prices tumbled by the most on record in July after President Jair Bolsonaro slashed utility taxes to tame the soaring cost of living and lift his re-election chances. Official data showed consumer prices fall 0.68% compared to June, more than the -0.65% median estimate from analysts in Bloomberg survey. It was biggest monthly drop since the ...

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Stockholm apartment prices drop most since pre-Covid era

  Bloomberg A drop in Swedish apartment prices picked up speed last month, adding to evidence that the property market in the largest Nordic nation is floundering. The average cost was 4% lower in July than the previous month, marking the fastest decline since before the pandemic, according to data by Svensk Maklarstatistik. House prices decline 1 percent from June. ...

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