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ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... inflation of 1.5% this year before slowing to 1.4% in 2018 but "Headline inflation is projected to converge to core inflation as energy price effects dissipate and gradually approach the European Central Bank's objective of below but close to 2 percent ...

Canada economic growth changes gears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... quarter short of six years - for an annual growth rate of 3.7% - not seen since the March quarter of 2006. And while core inflation has remained unchanged at 0.9% in July, headline consumer prices have started to stir - up by 1.2% in the year to July ...

Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... print and more than a percentage lower than this year's high of 2.8% recorded in February. The more important, core inflation measure remained stuck at a two-year low of 1.7% in July - the fourth straight month that it had been below the Fed's 2% target ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... headline inflation - 2.6% in the year to June - had been running above the BOE's 2% since February this year while the core inflation rate - 2.4% in June - had been over the target since April. This justifies expectations that the UK central bank should ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... indexed to inflation which, in turn, sours consumer spending. The chart below shows that most major economies' core inflation rates remain below their 2% target (the People's Bank of China's target is 3.5%). Only the UK's core inflation rate is above ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... the fourth consecutive month of slowing rates of growth in prices since 2.8% in February this year. So too with core inflation (reported as steady at 1.7%), it eased to 1.71% in June from 1.74% in May - the slowest since February 2015 and the fifth month ...

Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... inflation slowed to 1.3% in the year to June, down from 1.4% in the previous month and 1.9% in April. While the core inflation rate picked up speed to 1.1% last month from 0.9% in May, it's still a long way from the ECB's 2.0% inflation target. Core ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... Headline inflation's has eased from 2.7% in February to 2.4% in March to 2.2% in April and 1.9% in May while the core inflation rate has progressively come down from a five-month high of 2.3% in January this year to 1.7% in May. On top of these, the ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... symmetric inflation goal." With wages at a standstill, inflation remains quiescent. In fact, both headline and core inflation eased to 2.2% (from 2.4%) and 1.9% (from 2.0%) in April. Not only that, the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - the core PCE price ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... fastest since January this year and double that of the 0.2% rate recorded in the previous month. Similarly, the core inflation rate (ex- fresh food) quickened to 0.3% in April from 0.2% in March and the core-core rate of inflation (ex- fresh food and ...