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US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... data released last night... and the latest data say, they are saving instead of consuming. This, along with tame inflation - PCE price index slowed to 0.1% year-on-year from 0.3% in March; core PCE price index eased to 1.2% in April from 1.4% -- argues ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... -2.7% in 2015 from 2.6%-3.0% projected in December (and accompanying downgrades in 2016 and 2017) -- and inflation - 2015 core PCE inflation shaved to 1.3%-1.4% from 1.5%-1.8% predicted in December (2016 also trimmed but 2017 forecast unchanged). Then ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... 6.1%-6.3%; inflation at 1.5%-1.7%, up from 1.5%-1.6%. And, last point... promise. Data released overnight show that while the PCE price index - the Fed's favoured measure of inflation - has advanced closer to the Fed's target (1.8% in May from 1.6% in ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), exports, private inventory investment, nonresidential fixed investment, and residential fixed investment that were partly ...

FOMC - Fed Outs Market Confusion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... increase in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), federal government spending, and residential fixed investment that were partly offset by negative contributions from exports ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... "inflation at the rate of 2 percent (as measured by the annual change in the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE)" and "maximum level of employment". The PCE price deflator stood at 1.3% in July - it had been dropping since recording ...

Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... It's black. But it is also true that lower demand will result in lower prices and potentially lift aggregate demand. The core PCE deflator - another measure of inflation - slowed to 0.1 per cent in May from 0.3 per cent in April. It's white. It's white ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... consumption expenditure index which is expected to grow by 0.1 per cent in July which would equate to an annual increase in core PCE prices of 2.4 per cent which is within the target range set by the Federal Reserve. On Wednesday the second quarter GDP ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... of 5.3 per cent from the initial estimate of 4.8 per cent), inflation remains benign. The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) deflator was unchanged at 2 per cent as was the Fed's favoured measure of inflation - the core PCE deflator. The report revived ...