The monthly rate of wholesale sales in the United States in October was -0.1%, and the previous value was revised from 0.30% to 0.5%.
The monthly rate of U.S. wholesale sales for July will be announced in ten minutes.
The monthly rate of wholesale sales in the United States in July was 1.1%, and the previous value was revised from -0.60% to -0.3%.
The monthly rate of wholesale sales in Canada in June was -0.6%, expected to be -0.60%, and the previous value was -0.80%.
The European Central Bank's wholesale DLT experiment using central bank currencies for settlement has inspired a number of institutions to issue digital bonds. The latest is LBBW subsidiary Berlin Hyp, which plans to issue a €100 million mortgage-backed digital bond on the SWIAT blockchain on August 2. This will be the first mortgage bond (Pfandbrief) to issue bearer bonds or "crypto securities" using German eWPG law. This means that the law no longer requires a physical certificate or the inv...
According to the report, central banks are more likely to issue wholesale CBDC than retail CBDC in the next six years.