With Donald Trump's on again, off-again tariff policies disrupted by a court ruling, we've assembled a dashboard compiling market-based indicators compiling the effect of his policies on various asset classes - from stocks to fund flows and gold.

Britons are wondering why their inflation has been so much stickier than many other nations. Recent figures showed price increases surprisingly picked up in April, reaching a 3.5% year-on-year pace and confounding expectations of a slowdown

As official trade data for April starts rolling in, it's clear that southeast Asia's exporting nations ramped up shipments in response to Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs. CEIC users had an early nod about this phenomenon thanks to daily shipping data from Marine Traffic.

Donald Trump has driven a rush at China's container ports. With exporters keen to get ahead of announced US tariffs and potential future escalation, weekly shipping figures are showing that container throughput in 2025 has been significantly above the 2024 trend. Traffic especially picked up in April, when the US president announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs. (At the time of publication, the US and China had agreed to significantly reduce tariffs imposed just weeks before on each other's goods.)

The US had a golden era of housing affordability in the wake of the global financial crisis. Today, first-time homebuyers are having the toughest time in decades - a three-year-old phenomenon that seems unlikely to change soon.

We're revisiting the Philippines economy in more depth. Last week's growth disappointment followed a rate cut and turn to dovish messaging by the nation's central bank.

CEIC's latest weekly nowcast offerings include national financial account balances. We've chosen to visualize Singapore; our proprietary model analyzes high-frequency variables to "predict the present" for financial flows in and out of Southeast Asia's financial hub.