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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... of New Zealand's 1% - 3% inflation target range. The latest reading marks the 6th straight quarter where the headline inflation rate had been below 1.0% and provides added scope for the New Zealand central bank to again cut interest rates. The RBNZ last ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... retail spending - down by 0.3% versus 0.1% increase expected - consumer price inflation also disappointed. US headline inflation eased to 0.9% in the year to March from 1.0% in the previous month and less than consensus expectations for an acceleration ...

RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... country's export competitiveness and at the same time, put upward pressure on inflation. New Zealand's annual headline inflation rate has fallen from a high of 1.6% in the June 2014 quarter to just 0.1% in the December quarter of last year. As RBNZ Governor ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... the month. The ECB could take a similar reasoning as the Fed and the BOJ and the BOE, viewing current weak headline inflation as "transitory" because of the volatile nature of energy prices. But Draghi doesn't view it this way. As the ECB president explained ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... norm, headlines like these are sure to catch attention as it did mine... until you discover that Britain's headline inflation rate a year ago was a whopping 0.3%. We all know what this means, the correspondence between the BOE and the Chancellor continues. ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... September's prediction) and then by 1.9% next year (up from the previous estimate of 1.8%). The ECB revised its headline inflation forecasts only slightly to 1.0% this year (from 1.1%) and 1.6% in 2017 (from 1.7%). What the ECB delivered is what the ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... mindset returns to Japanese consumers. Why buy now when prices will be the same or cheaper later? Japanese headline inflation -after the effects of the sales tax increase from 5% to 8% back in April 2014 dropped out of the stats - has become low-flation ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... year). A strong labour market will lift confidence and consumption and then inflation. Inflation says no. Annual headline inflation was only 0.2% in July; core inflation's stuck at 1.8%, producer prices have been in deflation over the past seven straight ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... and core inflation came in lower than market expectations. Annual core inflation steadied at 1.8% in July and headline inflation's up just 0.2% in July and this, despite another monthly rise 0.9% increase in gas prices in July (after gains of 3.4% and ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... Canterbury appears to have peaked, and the world price for New Zealand's dairy exports has fallen sharply." "Headline inflation is currently below the Bank's 1 to 3 percent target range... further depreciation is necessary given the weakness in export ...