Quick Overview

• Petroleum costs pushed the cost of goods imported into the United States up by 1.3% in August, the Labor Department reported Friday. But other import prices remained subdued.
  
  

• Canada's unemployment rate in August was unchanged at 6.8%.
  

• France's industrial production was down 0.9% in July.
  

• The U.S. Minerals Management Service announced that 60% of oil production and 38% of natural gas production in the gulf remains closed.
  

• YoY South Africa's gold mining production was down 12% in July.