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Economic recap: Week to July 16

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... measures. Overall consumer prices surged by 5.4% in the year to June - the highest since an equal rate in August 2008. Core CPI inflation jumped by 4.5% over the same period - the fastest rate since November 1991. Although many put the rise and rise ...

Chief economist update: UK not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... annual rate of 1.5% in April to 2.1% in May - above the 2% target and the 1.8% rate predicted in the May Report. Likewise, core inflation quickened from 1.3% to 2.0%. But have no fear: "Financial market measures of inflation expectations suggest that ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... inflation remains in deflation (-0.4% in April from -0.2% in March) - the seventh straight month of falling prices. So does core inflation. Its annual growth rate has remained negative for the nine months running to -0.1% in the year to April. Certainly ...

Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... March 2021 quarter, but at 1.1%, it remains halfway south of the bottom rung of the RBA's 2%-3% target band (same with core inflation). The acceleration in inflation provides a good omen for wages growth, particularly for those whose pay increases ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... no denying that part of the jump in the annual inflation rate in April is due to base effects - both the headline and core CPI dropped by 0.7% in the month of April 2020. However, it's also true that the re-opening of the US economy, pent-up demand ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... Here are the annual inflation averages for 2019: Headline CPI inflation, down to 1.81% from 2018's average of 2.43%; Core CPI inflation, up from 2.14% to 2.19%; Core PCE price inflation, down to 1.7% from 2.0%; and the Fed's favoured inflation ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... inflation stats remain tame however it's measured. Data at the end of December 2020 shows headline CPI inflation at 1.3%; core CPI inflation at 1.6%; headline PCE price index at 1.3%; and, core PCE price index at 1.5%. While measured US inflation have ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... Besides, all US inflation measures remain below the 2% target; annual headline CPI inflation was at 1.3% in December, core CPI inflation at 1.6%, the headline and core PCE price deflators stood at 1.1% and 1.4%, respectively, in November. Then again ...

Hastings founder launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... popularised by Nicole Connolly's Infrastructure Partners Investment, which recently rebranded to Invest Unlisted. Its core fund - also for a minimum investment size of $50,000 -- lets wholesale investors get access to four unlisted funds: AMP Capital ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... have risen 0.1 per cent in the June quarter." Similarly, while the annual headline CPI measure has fallen into deflation, core inflation measures remain positive - trimmed mean inflation slowed to 1.2% in the year to the June quarter from 1.8% in the ...