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BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... economic fundamentals were asking for more stimulus - in whatever size, shape or form. Latest stats attest to this. Headline CPI inflation eased to 0.2% in the year to December from 0.3% in the previous month; core CPI inflation (ex-food) remained unchanged ...

Cheers to unmet expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... Kingdom, low-flation China, the latest update on Australian consumer prices shows that inflation here is under control. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to an annual rate of 1.7% in the December quarter from 1.5% in the previous three-month period. ...

Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... from 2.4% -- but remain within its 2%-3% target and certainly still ways off from the threat of deflation. Even the headline CPI inflation is up 1.5% despite the sharp drop in energy prices - you know, the one the BOJ, the ECB and the BOE blame for the ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... dropped out of the stats - has become low-flation, that turned to no-flation and is now back to deflation. Annual headline CPI inflation was recorded at minus 0.1% in September, unchanged from August. To be sure and as the BOJ claims, this is due to ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... sits. Changing some or all the inputs/assumptions, of course, changes the i. For instance, plugging in the September headline CPI inflation (1.5% in the September quarter) instead of the trimmed mean CPI measure, gives us an equilibrium i of 1.75%. And ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... five times from 6% in October 2014 to 4.6% last month. With inflation far below its 2015 inflation target of 4.0% -- headline CPI inflation rate was 1.6% in July; core inflation at 1.7% -- it could cut some more. And certainly, there's still more room ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) more. First the stats: annual headline CPI inflation was clocked at 1.5% in the June quarter, up from 1.3% in the first quarter of this year; the core measures - the ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... blame him, he looks around inside his backyard and sees that everything's getting better. Except for low inflation - headline CPI eased back to zero in June from 0.1% in May; the core rate dipped to 0.8% from 0.9% -- the UK economy is lookin' pretty ...

Go flip a coin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... "Malcolm in the Middle", for which the song above was written... the RBA's in the middle. Looking at the top line headline CPI inflation measure would give a resounding "yes" answer to a May interest rate snip. Headline inflation eased to 1.3% in the ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... month-on-month drop in energy prices in September and 2.6% decline in August. It's the same in Australia's case where the headline CPI slowed significantly to 2.3% in the September quarter from 3.0% in the three-months to June period. To be sure, much ...