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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... from 2.0% while loans to governments grew by 10.6 in the year to October from 2.1% in the previous month. Japan CPI inflation After seven months of flat to negative reading, a 2.3% yoy jump in food prices pushed Japan's annual CPI inflation rate up to ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... measure coming in at 0.8% in the year to October, the same gains recorded in August and September. The headline CPI inflation rate accelerated slightly to 0.5% in October from 0.4% in the previous month and 0.2% in August. Japan retail sales Japanese ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... market expectations for a 2.1% increase and the fastest annual growth rate since the June quarter of last year. Japan CPI inflation Headline CPI inflation increased by 0.2% in the month of September following a flat reading in the previous month. However ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) "Consumer Price Index, Australia, Sep 2016" report shows the annual headline CPI inflation rate accelerating to 1.3% in the third quarter from 1.0% in the June quarter and beating expectations for a 1.1% print. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... in TAS and a 4.7% rise SA. NSW, VIC, QLD and WA recorded increases of 3.1%, 1.6%, 1.5% and 2.0%, respectively. US CPI inflation US headline CPI inflation increased by 0.3% in the month of September following a 0.2% rise in the previous month. While this ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2016
... employment level rose by 2.3 points to a reading of +9.4 while the average workweek surge by 14.5 points to +4.7. China CPI inflation A 3.2% increase in food prices largely contributed to China's fastest inflation rate in three months. Headline inflation ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... As with retail sales, slow wage growth and persistent deflation continue to discourage household spending. Japan CPI inflation The rate of decline in overall Japanese consumer prices quickened to minus 0.5% in the year to August following a minus 0.4% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... - the Fed's favoured inflation measure - remained stuck at 1.6%, where it had been since March this year. Japan CPI inflation Deflation still rules in Japan. Headline consumer prices fell by 0.4% in the year to July, the same rate in May and June, that's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... posted by the coincident index (111.1 in June from 109.2 in May) and the lagging index (112.7 from 111.5). Malaysian CPI inflation Easing food prices and falling transport costs sent Malaysia's consumer price inflation rate down to 1.1% in the year to ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... by 1.6% in July compared with the same month last year, easing from the 2.1% year-on-year growth rate in June. US CPI inflation Total consumer prices posted no increase in the month of July following gains of 0.2% each in the months of May and June ...