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Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... People's Congress (NPC) merely rubber-stamps the Politburo's plans or heads will roll. Other PM Li likes include: CPI inflation of 3% this year (unchanged from 2016); budget deficit of 3.0% (unchanged from 2016); lower retail sales growth (10% from 11%) ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... Yi Gang's predicted inflation rate of 2% - 3% for 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 ...

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... these expectations should be tempered by still low inflation in the single currency area. While the annual headline CPI inflation rate jumped to 1.8% in January (from 1.1% in the previous month) and appears headed for the RBA's 2.0% target, it had been ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... prices (19.4 from 17.6). This is the same indication given by the much broader measure of US inflation. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to 2.5% in the year to January, from 2.1% in the previous month. This is higher than expectations for a 2.4% rate ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... consumer prices and cause inflation to overshoot the 2% target. This effect is already becoming evident in the data. CPI inflation rose to 1.6% in December and further substantial increases are very likely over the coming months. In the central projection ...

Heading the ECB's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... growth rate up to 1.8%, the same as the September quarter but up March's 1.7% and June's 1.6%. Similarly, headline CPI inflation accelerated to 1.8% in the year to January from 1.1% in the previous month and beating expectations for a 1.6% increase. ...

China's inflation off target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... rise and is the fastest rate of year-on-year increase in producer prices since September 2011. The below-target CPI inflation update allows the PBOC to lower interest rates, especially as the dichotomy between consumer and producer price inflation suggests ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... market expectations for a 12.6% decline, driven by decreased imports from China (-9.9%) and the US (-5.1%). Malaysia CPI inflation The country's headline CPI inflation rate accelerated to 1.8% in the year to November from the previous month's 1.4% annual ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... quarter. This should help support the European Central Bank's effort to raise consumer price inflation - headline CPI inflation up 0.6% (yoy) in November from 0.5% in October; core CPI inflation unchanged at 0.8% in November from the previous month. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... expectations dropped by 5.2% in December from November while expectations over the next five years declined by 2.5%. US CPI inflation Higher energy prices are flowing through into US consumer prices. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to 1.7% in the ...