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Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... swing and before the financial market ructions -- from 0.4% in the previous three-month period. Annual deadline CPI inflation has remained stuck at 0.2% in June, July and August and core inflation's unchanged at 1.0% in August from the previous month. ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... greater transmission of previous cuts." To be sure, the RBI could reduce interest rates another notch if it wanted. CPI inflation, at 5.4% in June, remains below its 6% target for the 9th consecutive month (although this represents an acceleration from ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) more. First the stats: annual headline CPI inflation was clocked at 1.5% in the June quarter, up from 1.3% in the first quarter of this year; the core measures - the trimmed mean ...

Strong USD reflects (deflects) lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... back her claim that the first quarter's weakness was due to "statistical noise" and "transitory factors". US core CPI inflation was at 1.8% in April - close to the 2.0% Fed target. US consumer confidence, house prices, new home sales and durable goods ...

Go flip a coin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... in the Middle", for which the song above was written... the RBA's in the middle. Looking at the top line headline CPI inflation measure would give a resounding "yes" answer to a May interest rate snip. Headline inflation eased to 1.3% in the March quarter ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... rates - as inflation has dropped below the central bank's goal of slowing it down to 8% by January this year (annual CPI inflation was 5.1% in the first month of 2015) - it's the timing of the RBI's announcement that's been the surprise. The RBI announced ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... one the BOC's surprise decision to cut 25 bps off its target rate to 0.75% was borne of the fact it sees "total CPI inflation... to be temporarily below the inflation-control range during 2015". Inflation was running at 1.5% in December - below its 2% ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... slack in the economy - and along with "them" - has changed the inflation outlook for the economy. The Bank predicts CPI inflation to fall to around 1.0% in the first half of 2015, with a risk that it could even decline below that. "The near-term weakness ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and low-flation - annual rate of CPI inflation currently at 0.3% (the slowest since September 2009) -- threatening to turn into outright deflation, financial markets are ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... to a mere 2.1% in May after expanding by as much as 10.5% in January. You want more? There's more. Japan's core CPI inflation picked up pace to an annual rate of 3.4% in May from 3.2% in April. But don't forget that this is boosted by the consumption ...