Quick Overview

• Wholesale prices, with food and fuel prices removed, fell 0.3 percent in July, the best showing for core inflation in nine months. Wholesale prices rose 0.1% , well below the 0.5 percent jump in June.
  
  

• The U.S. Treasury Department said that foreign purchases U.S. securities totaled $84.7 billion while U.S. purchases of foreign securities totaled $9.6 billion.
  

• The New York Federal Reserve's regional index of economic activity fell from 16.6 to 10.3 in August.
  

• YoY consumer prices in the U.K. rose 2.4% in July
  

• YoY Industrial production in China rose 16.7% in July – more than expected