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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... expectations for a 0.3% gain. This took the annual rate of inflation down to 1.0% last month from 1.1% in April. Core inflation quickened to an annual rate of 2.2% in the year to May from 2.1% in the previous month. The core inflation measure had been ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.7% this year and 4.6% in 2017 but inflation forecasts were lifted with the core inflation predicted to increase by 1.7% (from 1.6% forecast in March ) in 2016 and 1.9% (from 1.8%) in 2017. Australia consumer ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... April but down from March's 0.5% growth and below market expectations for a 0.4% gain. It was the same story for core inflation. This measure increased by 1.2% in the year to May, unchanged from April and lower than expectations for a 1.3% rise.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
... to May - in line with market expectations - that followed a 0.2% fall in the previous month. The annual rate of core inflation also came in as expected, up by 0.8% last month after a posting a 0.7% gain in April. South Korea external trade South Korea's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... consumer prices, due largely to lower prices of fuel for transport (-11.7%), heating oil (-26.0%) and gas (-6.8%). Core inflation eased to an annual rate of 0.7% in April - the slowest rate since February last year - from 1.0% in the previous month. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... was up 1.1% in the year to April from 0.9% in March. Also besides, the Fed does not target headline inflation. Core inflation (headline less food and less energy) increased by 0.2% over the month - on par with expectations - and appears heading in the ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... when they've just lowered their inflation prediction. In its latest SoMP, the Australian central bank revised its core inflation forecasts from 2%-3% to 1%-2% this year before rising to 1.5%-2.5% in 2017. Not on their watch! Lower interest rates means ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... easing to 1.3% in the first quarter from 1.7% in the December quarter of 2015. The same applies to both measures of core inflation. The trimmed mean inflation measure slowed to an annual rate of 1.7% in the March quarter from 2.1% and the weighted median ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... in February due largely to a 5.9% drop in private road transport cost and a 4.2% fall in housing and utilities. Core inflation - which excludes private road transport costs and accommodation - inched higher to 0.6% in the year to March from 0.5% in February ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... 3.0% fall in the previous month and worse than expectations for a 2.9% decrease. There was no good news from the core inflation measure - excluding energy - either. The annual rate of decline in core producer prices accelerated to 0.9% in March from ...