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The prescience of Super Mario

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... into higher inflation and as ECB president Mario Draghi noted in the March governing council meeting, rising headline inflation mainly reflected "strong increase in annual energy and unprocessed food price inflation, with no signs yet of convincing upward ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... March 2008). As for inflation, in the Q&A portion of the 9 March meeting, Mario Draghi stated that, rising headline inflation mainly reflected "strong increase in annual energy and unprocessed food price inflation, with no signs yet of convincing upward ...

RBNZ on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... "Macroeconomic indicators in advanced economies have been positive over the past two months" -inflation - "Global headline inflation has increased... Core inflation has been low and stable" - and expects "monetary policy to remain stimulatory". In addition ...

Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium term". However, if the recent growth trend in hourly labour costs continues, it may not need a "substantial degree" ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... this year appears at risk should the recent sharp slowdown in CPI inflation persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in the year to February, slowing from 2.5% in January (and above 2.0% in October, November and December ...

Low-flation at the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... domestic demand and facilitates the ongoing deleveraging process."...and encouraged by the acceleration in headline inflation - to 2.0% in February from 1.8% in January. However, it noted that this is due largely to rising energy and food prices and ...

Lifted by external demand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... prices at the shops equals continued low inflation/deflation which, in turn, supports further weakness in wages. Headline inflation slowed to 0.3% in December from 0.5% in the previous month; Core inflation (less food) improved to -0.2% from -0.3% -- ...

RBNZ on steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... monetary policy, strong population growth, increased household spending and rising construction activity."...and "Headline inflation has returned to the target band as past declines in oil prices dropped out of the annual calculation. Inflation is expected ...

Little pay, little spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... in hell that companies would be able to raise prices at the shops equals continued low inflation/deflation. Headline inflation weakened to 0.3% in December from 0.5% in the previous month; Core inflation (less food) improved to -0.2% from -0.3% -- but ...

Sunrise sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... market expectations for a 1.3% gain. The slowdown in retail spending partly explains the renewed easing in headline inflation (to 0.3% in the year to December from 0.5% in the previous month) and core-core - ex-food and energy - inflation (0 from 0.1%) ...