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Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... and services (0.8%) and food and non-alcoholic beverages (0.7%). We can debate the whys and wherefores of the headline inflation rate but the core inflation measures - trimmed mean, unchanged at 1.8%, and weighted median, no pick up at 1.9% -- remains ...

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... concrete evidence of a steady pickup in inflation before reducing the extent of accommodation". The IMF predicts headline inflation of 1.5% this year before slowing to 1.4% in 2018 but "Headline inflation is projected to converge to core inflation as ...

Canada economic growth changes gears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... data showing that GDP growth accelerated to 0.9% (2.3% year-on-year) from 0.7% (2%) in the December quarter. Headline inflation was decelerating from 2.1% in January to 1% in June, the same with the core rate (down from 1.7% to 0.9% over the same period). ...

Boring is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... tracked at 5.6% in July. While inflation continue to remain below the Australian central bank's 2%-3% target - headline inflation at 1.9% in the June quarter; trimmed mean and weighted median at 1.8% -- and supports the case for an interest rate reduction ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... predicted underlying inflation to "reach around 2% over the second half of 2017 and increase a little thereafter. Headline inflation is forecast to rise gradually and be between two and 3% over much of the forecast period based on the assumption that ...

Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... Well, the economy, i.e., economic activity is evolving broadly as the Fed expected, but inflation is not. US headline inflation has ticked up slightly to 1.7% in the year to July from 1.6% in the previous month but was lower than market expectations ...

Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... expected to reach around 2% over the second half of 2017 and increase a little thereafter. The forecast for headline inflation has been revised a little higher, and lies between two and 3% over much of the forecast period." This was the Reserve Bank ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... slowed sharply to 6.1% in the year to the first quarter of this year from 7% in the December 2016 quarter while headline inflation decelerated from 2.2% (year-on-year) in May to a historic low of 1.5% in June - now below the bottom scale of the RBI's ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... Annual growth in US average hourly earnings may have slowed to 2.5% in June from this year's high of 2.8% but headline inflation has slowed faster from 2.8% to 1.7% over the same period. This lifted growth in real wages from 0.04% to 0.81%. Not only ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Australian inflation has decelerated - headline inflation slowed to 1.9% in the year to the June quarter from 2.1% in the March quarter. Yet it's also picked up - the weighted median up to 1.8% from 1.7%; but it's also flat - a trimmed mean steady at ...