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Federal Reserve raises interest rates to a 22-year high

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023
... goal. "Over the 12 months ending in May, total PCE prices rose 3.8%, excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PCE prices rose 4.6%," he explained. He further mentioned that in June, the 12-month change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... 2019: Headline CPI inflation, down to 1.81% from 2018's average of 2.43%; Core CPI inflation, up from 2.14% to 2.19%; Core PCE price inflation, down to 1.7% from 2.0%; and the Fed's favoured inflation measure, the headline PCE price inflation ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... December 2020 shows headline CPI inflation at 1.3%; core CPI inflation at 1.6%; headline PCE price index at 1.3%; and, core PCE price index at 1.5%. While measured US inflation have certainly firmed from the lows recorded in the middle of last year ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... below the 2% target; annual headline CPI inflation was at 1.3% in December, core CPI inflation at 1.6%, the headline and core PCE price deflators stood at 1.1% and 1.4%, respectively, in November. Then again, we can't fault the financial markets ...

Chief economist update: Zero beyond 2023

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... COVID-19 pandemic, when America's unemployment rate hit a near 50-year low of 3.5%. That failed to lift the headline and core PCE price indices - the Fed's inflation target - above 2%, did it not? Even assuming that chairman Powell and his merry ...

Chief economist update: Fed pause could be a short one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... and rate cut. The headline PCE inflation eased to 1.3% in the year to September from 1.4% in the previous month; the core PCE price inflation rate decelerated to 1.7% from 1.8% over the same period. Not only that, inflation expectations - as measured ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... two-lows: low unemployment rate (3.8% in March which is a point above a 49-year low) and low inflation - headline and core PCE price index below target at 1.5% and 1.6% in the year to March, respectively. In his Q&A, chair Powell stressed the decision ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... dropped below the Fed's 2.0% target in November and continued to slow to 1.4% by February this year. The more stable core PCE price index peaked at 2.0% in July last year and has decelerated to 1.8% in February. And maximum employment? Let's ...

Chief economist update: The Fed should act now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... end of 2006 (even stronger the previous year), employment growth was strong and strengthening and so was inflation - core PCE price inflation reached a high of 2.6% in August 2006 - that seemingly gave credence to then Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's ...

Chief economist update: US economic growth is slowing and accelerating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... from 1.6%; and year on year, both are down to 1.9% from the September quarter's rate of 2.2% (headline PCE) and 2% (core PCE).
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