World view
From capital flight to monetary wobbles, we highlight the figures that matter from around the world
UNITED STATES
13 of 17 FOMC members predict a Fed rate rise in 2015.
$1 trillion
Total US car loans outstanding reached a record level, rising by $119bn in the second quarter.
SOUTH AMERICA
Junk
S&P’s rating of Brazil government debt, as its deficit is expected to reach 9 per cent of GDP this year.
68.5% Official rate of inflation in Venezuela.
Trading Economics
CHILE
$4,500
Goldman Sachs’s projection for copper prices per metric ton by the end of 2016, down from over $5,300 today
EUROZONE
$15.6bn wiped off Volkswagen’s market cap in one day after it admitted it had rigged emissions tests of diesel cars in the US.
£1m Cost of the average London home by 2020
Rightmove
6%
Ireland’s forecast GDP growth rate this year.
Central Statistics Office
6.5 years
How long Spanish property prices have fallen, before rising slightly in the second quarter.
Central Statistics Office
UK
44% of £1m+ business owners would move their HQ overseas if Corbyn became PM.
Supper Club
£10bn
How much skill shortages will cost the UK this year.
Andrew Sentence
£1m
Cost of the average London home by 2020
Rightmove
SOUTH AFRICA
14%
The commoditylinked rand has fallen sharply against the dollar this year.
RUSSIA
3.4%
How much the IMF expects Russia will contract in 2015, its longest recession since 1997.
$150bn estimated capital flight in 2014, according to Kremlin adviser Volodymyr Horbulin.
CHINA
4%
Fathom Consulting’s estimate of China’s actual growth rate, well below official estimates.
$500bn
Capital flight from China in the year to the end of June.
Citigroup
INDIA
7.4%
Projected growth this year, down from an earlier estimate of 7.8 per cent.
Asian Development Bank.
AUSTRALIA
First
Australia is the hardest hit of the world’s major economies from a Chinese investment slowdown. IMF
21.5%
Surge in Sydney property prices over the past year. ABS