modest
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China’s first inflation prints of the year are in the spotlight on Wednesday, which will show if the modest improvements seen toward the end of 2025 have held up.
That followed only modest hiring in the final month of last year, which itself represented a slowdown after nearly 200,000 jobs were added to the economy in the three months to November.
The results look mixed, with earnings flattered by taxes and its corporate center, and guidance for the year ahead is modest, the analysts say.
More money has also been flowing out of spot bitcoin ETFs lately, even if the magnitude has been relatively modest relative to the total assets under management, according to FactSet data.
From MarketWatch
While emphasising that recent euro gains were "modest", Austrian central bank governor Martin Kocher warned last week that the ECB might have to consider rate cuts if there were further increases.
From Barron's
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