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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... export and import prices Prices are dropping like flies. Following on from the disappointingly weak consumer price inflation report for the March quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest estimates on Australian external ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... committee's (MPC) decision on interest rates, the MPC meeting minutes that led to the decision and the quarterly inflation report all in one go -- on Thursday, 6 August 2015, at exactly 12:45PM London time. The BOE's aim is to increase transparency in ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... expectations have been pushed further back - not before June 2016 - after the release of the BOE's Quarterly Inflation Report where the British central bank downgraded its economic growth forecasts through to 2017 and Gov Carney stating that the monetary ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... (saves me from quoting the greenback's exchange against a host of currencies) fell on the same day that the "bad" inflation report was released - down by 0.1% to 97.47 and down by nearly 1.0% from March's closing of 98.36. And China's bad? How could ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... contributor, it's also a fact that the strong US dollar is putting downward pressure on US inflation. The latest inflation report shows America is now in deflation based on the headline measure - minus 0.1% in January from plus 0.7 in December - the ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... setting and wage formation." Easing prices have also become a worry for the Bank of England (BOE). In its Quarterly Inflation Report, the BOE predicts inflation to average to just a little above zero next quarter before increasing to 1.96% in 2017 and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... in the prior quarter, according to Commerce Department data. Analysts also pointed to the drag from a eurozone inflation report, which showed consumer prices fell by a record 0.6 per cent in January, raising fears deflation is taking hold in the region. ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney delivered at his opening remarks following the release of the BOE's Quarterly Inflation Report last night. But of course, being the astute central banker that he is (yes, I'm a Carney groupie now), he said it more eloquently... ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... quarter from 2.7% before that and 1.8% before this. The outlook is even better with the freshly-released Quarterly Inflation Report (QIR) predicting growth of 3.4% for all of this year.... and as per the BOE, "The expansion now appears more broadly based ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... this lightly yesterday, but it's made the news today with the release of the Bank of England's (BOE) Quarterly Inflation Report. Imported BOE Governor Mark Carney is also doing a Yellen cum Bullard and "elaborated" on forward guidance. "The first phase ...