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Eurozone low-flation to 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Final estimates of Eurozone HICP (harmonised index of consumer prices) inflation added credence to the European Central Bank's (ECB) most recent forward guidance indicating that euro area interest rates will remain on ice until at least the third quarter ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... current indications are on the ball, the fourth quarter will be better. Year-on-year GDP growth rates in the US, the Eurozone, Japan, the UK and India all accelerated in the September quarter from the previous one. China's GDP remained unchanged at 6.9% ...

ECB schedules taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... strengthening growth momentum, inflation remains below the bank's objective - below but close to 2%. Recent stats bear this out. Eurozone GDP growth accelerated to 2.3% in the year to the June quarter. This is the fastest growth rate since the March ...

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... (58.1 from 57.4); services (55.8 from 54.7) - and more recently, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) sharp upgrade to Eurozone GDP growth. In its October 2017 World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the IMF lifted its GDP forecasts to 2.1% this year ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... ISM reports that this sub-index had been on an "increasing, faster" trend for 19 months. It's the same story for the Eurozone, the final manufacturing PMI for September floated up to 58.1 in September - the best reading since February 2011 - from 57.4 ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... underscores the market's faith in the single currency area's domestic growth outlook. There are very few reasons not to be. Eurozone GDP growth has accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the second quarter from 1.9% in the first quarter. This is the fastest ...

Flashes: activity expansion and moderating inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... recent peak...softer cost inflation led to the slowest rise in average prices charged for three months". Markit's flash Eurozone composite PMI eased for the second straight month in July to its lowest level in six months, but with a reading of 55.8 in ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... at best right through 2006 but have become positively correlated since the years following the GFC. Inflation in the Eurozone showed the same pattern (which now also has China as its biggest source of imports (12%). Latest inflation data from China indicates ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is nigh. But while yields on 10-year bonds have risen sharply - US Treasuries ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... component eased to 55.0 in June from 60.5 in May. It's the same story across the pond. The final estimate of the IHS/Markit Eurozone manufacturing PMI rose to 57.4 in June from a preliminary reading of 57.3 and May's final tally of 57.0. This is the ...