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Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... retail spending peaked in January 2017 - headline at 5.6% (yoy) and core at 5.4%. So has US inflation. Headline CPI inflation peaked at 2.5% in the year to January 2017; core inflation at 2.3% in the same month. The subsequent rate hikes in December ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... in the first half of 2018. Reason perhaps why the BOC is not taking chances despite slowing inflation - headline CPI inflation eased to 1.3% in May from 1.6% in April; core CPI inflation eased to 0.9% from 1.1%. Besides, "the factors behind soft inflation ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... solve the strengthening growth - easing inflation conundrum... or call China a deflation exporter once more. China's CPI inflation increased by 1.5% in the year to June, unchanged from the 1.5% rate recorded in the previous month and well-below the People's ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... rate of unemployment) as measured by both Oxford Economics (4.5%) the OECD (4.9%). But instead of lifting, US core CPI inflation eased to 1.7% in May from 2.3% in January (unemployment rate at 4.8%) and the core PCE price index - the Fed's favoured inflation ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... wages growth and the increase in consumer prices - they have gone backwards. Wages growth of 1.9% less headline CPI inflation of 2.1% gives you a negative 0.2% real wage growth. This negative real wage, along with high household debt (tied mainly to ...

Three steps and yields stumble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... expansion in January this year to 4.5% last month. Closer and dearer to the US bond market's heart is the latest CPI inflation stats - both the headline rate the core measure came in lower than market expectations. Headline CPI inflation eased to 2.2% ...

Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... the Eurozone, growth is gaining momentum in Japan. But similar to the Eurozone inflation remains low - headline CPI inflation was at 0.3% in the year to February; core CPI at 0.2%.

Growth maintains momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
While there's little progress over inflation, it actually reversed in March - headline CPI inflation down to 1.5% from 2.0% in February; core inflation down to 0.7% from 0.9% -- latest data indicate that growth in the Eurozone continues to gain momentum. ...

The prescience of Super Mario

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... prescience. After climbing to a positive annual rate since June last year to a high of 2.0% in February, headline CPI inflation eased sharply to 1.5% in March on the back of, yes, slowing energy prices. Moreover, the still low core inflation reading ...

Desperately seeking workers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... causing a broadening in wage increases, this isn't still flowing through into consumer price inflation. Headline CPI inflation slowed to 2.4% in the year to March from 2.7% in the previous month and core inflation eased to 2.0% from 2.2% over the same ...

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