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The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... the year-on-year rate of change in the CPI was likely to increase for the time being reflecting developments in crude oil prices and foreign exchange rates, the possibility of the rate of change increasing toward 2% from 2018 onward was low at this point." ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... from bear market territory, but only just - down 19.7% from February 2017's high of US$56.34. Should the decline in oil prices persist, central banks will have a problem (an inflation problem) - supporting the European Central Bank's (ECB) concern over ...

Oil's not so slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... Countries (OPEC) announced the extension of crude oil production cuts by nine months to the last day of March 2018 but oil prices are sliding again. The deal reached back in November 2016 involved OPEC-member countries slashing oil output by 1.8 million ...

Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... Australia's external trade accounts. Below are the World Bank's predictions in its April "Commodity Markets Outlook": Crude oil prices remain projected to average $55/bbl in 2017, an increase of 26 percent over 2016. Metals prices are projected to rise ...

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... evidence of the wide range of factors that are affecting various funds globally at present - macroeconomic headwinds, low oil prices, and shifts in domestic and economic policy from their governments have all contributed to this tapering off," Sy said. ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
First the good news. Crude oil prices have closed the March quarter of 2017 above the psychological US$50.00 per barrel mark - the level they have risen to since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that they (and non-OPEC ...

Less than expected but good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... on the BOJ's side. While imports rose by 1.2% in the year to February, this appears to be a function of the surge in oil prices over the same period - Brent oil jumped by 55.1% over the same period. This is underscored by the sharp increase in imports ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... prices of imported goods and services make their way into the domestic economy - and this comes at a time when crude oil prices have started to reverse their upward trend. Brent oil prices have slumped by 8.8% from their 2017 highs while the price of ...

RBNZ on steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... 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 to return to the midpoint of the target band gradually ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... low of 2.63% recorded in October. The same goes for emerging markets (that could be complicated even more by rising oil prices). Brexit It remains a major risk as negotiations between Britain and the rest of the European Union continues. One that could ...