Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 21 - 30 of 40 results for "CPI data"

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... 3.5% exactly a year later. This has rebounded to a 7.7% annual rate in the December 2016 quarter. We can torture the CPI data till the cows come home to roost but those putting money where their mouths are, bet on an RBA hold this month or this year. ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... the headline and core inflation rates to jump to a high of 2.6% and 2.4%, respectively of the same year. Latest Tokyo CPI data indicates that the same is repeating in 2014. The headline Tokyo CPI jumped to 2.9% in the year to April while the core inflation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... fourth quarter earnings releases. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases CPI data for the December quarter while the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Indexes of Economic Activity for November is also due out. ...

Fed decides not to decide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... (as we've always claimed), whether the Reserve Bank or Australia cut interest rates next month -- because the latest CPI data shows core inflation remained in the middle of is 2%-3% target band in the September quarter - or not - because underlying inflation ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... key factor in determining market confidence. He said there was little coming up in the way of local data, however US CPI data due to be released next week would also impact the course of the Australian dollar. Mr Gibbs said the local unit had traded ...

Sentiment seesaw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... annual rate of change in industrial output to -4.5 per cent. The US economic glass is half-full camp concentrated on the CPI data indicating that inflationary pressures are weakening. US headline CPI steadied in September, lower than expectations for ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
... of last year and it expects inflation to be 2.75 per cent this year and as high as 3 per cent next year. When the next CPI data is released on April 24 for the first quarter of this year, the RBA will thereafter have to re-examine its interest rate stance. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The release by the ABS of national CPI data has shown that overall there was a 0.9 per cent increase during the third quarter, tallying to a 3.9 per cent annual rate. This suggests that the coming RBA meeting on 7 November will see the board under pressure ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... meetings, and Dairy Farmers will unveil its annual results. Yesterday, the drought, profit taking and concerns about the CPI data helped drive the Australian Stock Exchange lower despite record highs on Wall Street, in the previous session. The benchmark ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
Insight into the CPI data of Wednesday this week arrived today with the publication by the ABS of producer price data. Final stage of production prices increased by 1 per cent over the quarter and 4 per cent compared to this time last year largely as ...