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Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... (BOJ) efforts at lifting inflation in the domestic economy towards its 2% target. Latest data show that Japan's core inflation rate (ex- food) - the rate the BOJ tracks - accelerated to a still low 1% in the year to February from 0.9% in the previous ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... 2017. If Trump's protectionism gets in the way, the PBOC has scope to ease monetary policy given that the country's core inflation rate (2.5%) remains below its target of around 3%. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... gentle lift in US inflation to slightly above the Fed's 2.0% inflation target. The latest Fed projections show the core inflation rate unchanged at 1.9% this year but would nudge up slightly to 2.1% in 2019 and 2020 (both revised higher from December's ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... inflation that is. While headline CPI inflation quickened to a 34-month high of 1.3% in the year to January, the core inflation rate (ex-food) which the BOJ tracks remained unchanged at 0.9% over the same period. All things being equal, the positive ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... the previous quarter - indicating continued low inflation and weak consumer spending. The annual growth rate in core inflation - using the average of trimmed mean and weighted median measures - remained below the bottom of the RBA's 2% - 3% target band ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... correction earlier this month) with the BLS reporting the "increase in the all items index was broad-based." Similarly, core inflation - which excludes the volatile components, food and energy - picked up from 0.2% in December to a higher-than expected ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... inflation measure for it is distorted by the volatility in the price of food and energy. But even factoring these out, core inflation picked up from 0.2% in December to a higher-than expected 0.3% in January. Perhaps it was the fact that both the headline ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... below the lower band of the RBA's 2% to 3% target. Taking the average of the trimmed mean and weighted measures, core inflation remained unchanged at 1.9%. This, in no way, would prod the RBA to raise interest rates anytime soon. More so, because current ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... Inflation remains way below target - the headline rate slowed to 1.3% in January from 1.4% in the previous month and core inflation lifted to just 1.0% from 0.9%. As Draghi explained: "...downside risks continue to relate primarily to global factors ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... below the lower band of the RBA's 2% to 3% target. Taking the average of the trimmed mean and weighted measures, core inflation remained unchanged at 1.9%. This, in no way, would prod the RBA to raise interest rates anytime soon. More so, because the ...