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🆕 Consumer confidence in the #G20 and the #EU fell further below their long-term averages in April and May 2026, respectively.
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🆕The OECD #unemployment rate held steady at 5.0% in April 2026, a level it has hovered around since February 2022.
The number of unemployed individuals in the @OECD was broadly stable at 35.1 million.
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🆕Young and older people report higher loneliness than the #OECD average, highlighting an opportunity to build on Finland’s well-being baseline and advance its #wellbeing agenda by strengthening social connections.
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🆕 Year-on-year @OECD#food inflation increased, by 0.4 p.p. to 4.0%, while core #inflation (inflation excluding food and energy) remained broadly stable at 3.6%.
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🆕Year-on-year OECD #energy#inflation continued to surge in April, reaching 13.2%, up 5.1 p.p. from March.
Most @OECD countries – 31 out of 37 with available data – recorded an increase in energy inflation.
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🆕Year-on-year inflation in the @OECD, as measured by the #CPI, rose to 4.4% in April 2026, up from 4.0% in March.
Headline inflation increased in 23 OECD countries, remained broadly stable in six countries and declined in nine.
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Steel excess capacity could reach 745 million tonnes by 2028.
Launched today at the #OECDministerial, the new #OECD Steel Outlook shows that the imbalance in global steel markets is deepening, not easing.
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Due to the uncertainty caused by the conflict in the Middle East the #OECD’s latest #EconomicOutlook has two scenarios:
➡️In a time-limited disruption scenario Gulf energy production & trade return to pre-conflict levels starting in mid-2026 gradually unwinding the disruptions
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Subsidies across 15 key industrial sectors have reached USD 108 billion in 2024, the second highest level on record since the global financial crisis.
The new #OECD MAGIC database provides an unprecedented firm-level view of industrial subsidies➡️ brnw.ch/21x2ZH8
🆕Since early 2026, the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks cargo rates, has surged past 3000; its highest level since October 2021.
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🆕Preliminary estimates indicate that G20 #trade in services expanded modestly in Q1 2026, with exports rising by 1.7% and imports by 1.5%.
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🆕G20 merchandise #trade rose sharply in Q1 2026. Measured in current US dollars, both exports and imports increased by 5.3% quarter-on-quarter compared with Q4 2025.
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🆕The #OECD unemployment rate held steady at 5.0% in March 2026. Compared with Feb 2026, it remained broadly stable in 22 of the 32 OECD countries with available data in March and fell in 8 countries, while it rose in Greece and Sweden.
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🆕OECD GDP growth picks up moderately in the first quarter of 2026 to 0.4%, up from 0.2% in the previous quarter.
Year-on-year, OECD GDP growth increased slightly in Q1 to 1.8%, up from 1.7% in Q4 2025.
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Global oil stocks are depleting at record pace as supply losses linked to the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to mount
Observed global inventories, including oil on water, declined by 250 million barrels (mb) over March & April, or 4 mb/day: iea.li/4nuGRWm
🆕 #G7 and euro area consumer confidence fell sharply in April, partly reflecting concerns regarding the current crisis in the Middle East.
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