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The chair of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, predicts an annual inflation rate of 4.2 percent in 2021, up from the 3.4 percent forecast in June, dropping to 2.2 percent in 2022. SOUNDBITE
Shanghai,Jul 9 (EFE/EPA).- China's Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main inflation indicator, grew 2.5 percent year-on-year in June against the 2.4 percent growth it posted in the previous month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday.The figure is in line with analysts' forecasts, which had predicted an increase in inflation of around 2.5 percent in the month of June.(Camera: ALEKSANDAR PLAVEVSKI)FOOTAGE SHOWS B-ROLL OF SHANGHAI, CHINA. (8 JULY 2020)
Though US inflation is rising, a temporary spike above two percent will not be enough to make the central bank pull back on stimulus policies, says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. SOUNDBITE
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
Jerusalem, Sep 1 (EFE / EPA) .- Some 2.5 million Israeli students began Wednesday the school year after the coronavirus cabinet approved the plan for going back to school on Monday.(Camera: ABIR SULTAN)SHOT LIST: CHILDREN IN A SCHOOL IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL.