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Chief economist update: Weaker yen strengthening Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... economy, the yen's depreciation should help in the BOJ's efforts to bring inflation up to its 2% target. With headline CPI inflation at 0.2% (October) and core inflation at 0.4%, continued yen weakness would push import prices up and, in turn ...

Chief economist update: The PBOC stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... January and September this year. The PBOC would have done a bit more were it not for accelerating consumer prices. Headline CPI inflation quickened to 3.8% in the year to October from 3% in September. This was much higher than market expectations for ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... by 0.2% in the June quarter, GDP grew by 0.4% in the month of July and 0.1% in August. While inflation has eased - headline CPI at 1.7% in the year to August; core at 1.5% - it remains closer to target compared with the ECB (0.9%), BOJ (0.3%) and the ...

Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... 22nd straight month of decline since peaking at 44.6 in November 2017. Japan's biggest challenge is inflation. Headline CPI inflation slowed to 0.3% in the year to August from 0.4% in the previous month. Core CPI inflation eased to 0.5% from 0.6% ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... year to July from 12.5% in the previous month. Worse, inflation has moved further away from the 2% target - annual headline CPI slowed to 0.3% in August (from 0.5% in July) and core CPI weaker at 0.5% from 0.6%. Run, Kuroda, run... and run faster!

Chief economist update: Hard target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... which wages start to lift and feed into inflation. Latest data show Australia's unemployment rate at 5.2% in May; headline CPI inflation at 1.3% in the March quarter and; the core inflation rate - average of trimmed mean and weighted median measures ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... an increase of 1.2% in the December 2018 survey. Low and way below target inflation remains the BOJ's bugbear. Headline CPI inflation slowed to 0.7% in the year to May (from 0.9% in April) and core inflation eased to 0.8% (from 0.9%). The decline ...

Chief economist update: Expect an RBNZ rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... September last year - the country's inflation rate had been decelerating further away from its 1%-3% target. Headline CPI inflation eased to 1.5% in the year to the March quarter from 1.9% in the previous period. Core CPI inflation steadied at 1.5%. ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... since the BOJ met in April have improved but not enough and still way below the BOJ's 2% inflation target. The headline CPI inflation nearly doubled to 0.9% in the year to April from 0.5% in March; core inflation (excluding fresh food) inched up ...

Chief economist update: RBA to take rates to fresh record low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... important for the inflation outlook." It has also become more crucial especially given the latest inflation reads - headline CPI eased to an annual rate of 1.3% in the March quarter from 1.8%; the trimmed mean measure down to 1.6% from 1.8%; the weighted ...