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Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... global economic growth. Worse, it's raising fears that the current low-flation environment could morph into outright deflation. The Japanese experience shows how much more difficult it is to fight deflation rather than inflation. Already, inflation expectations ...

China's green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... between the yuan and exports continue to hold. See chart. This should allay concerns of a currency war that could lead to deflation as other economies devalue their respective currencies to be able to compete with China. As China grows - stop slowing ...

China's low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... reinforces prevailing fears that China's economic slowdown is gaining momentum. More so when combined with continued deflation in producer prices. The 5.9% year-on-year decline in this measure in December marked the 46th straight month of falling prices ...

Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... weighted median at 2.2% 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 ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... 8% back in April 2014 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 ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... they have on commodity exporting countries, including Australia. There's the Eurozone where growth remains subdued and deflation still a risk. Not to mention, the on-going influx of refugees into the region that, ultimately and necessarily, would need ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... says no. Annual headline inflation was only 0.2% in July; core inflation's stuck at 1.8%, producer prices have been in deflation over the past seven straight months to minus 0.8% in August; import prices have been declining over the past 13 months and ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... by pulling together can the central banks - and governments -- haul the global economy towards growth and away from deflation.

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... markets panicked on the first surprise devaluation announcement - because of "China hard landing"; "currency war"; "deflation pressure"; "commodity price plunges; "Asian financial crisis revisitation"; etcetera (name your favourite spook here), they'll ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
It didn't happen overnight, but it happened... yesterday. That thing I mused about exactly five months ago -12 March 2015 - China devalued its currency. (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/48312386) "It is perhaps still too early for QE ...