Quick Overview

• U.S. Consumer prices fell 0.1% in December as energy prices declined, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
  
  

• The economy chugged ahead as the New Year opened with manufacturing picking up, employment improving and retail sales rising, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.
  
  

• Foreign investors raised their holdings of U.S. assets by $89.1 billion in November.
  
  

• The national average retail price of diesel fuel fell 3.6 cents to $2.449 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Tuesday following its weekly survey.
  
  

• The U.K. unemployment rate increased from 4.6% to 5.0%.
  

• YoY Consumer prices in Canada were up 2.2% in December.
  

• YoY New Zealand, consumer prices were up 3.2%.
  

• London inventories of copper are at 104,375 tons.