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December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
Rate hike on, rate hike off. Financial markets raised their bets for a September fed funds rate lift soon after US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's two-day outing at Jackson Hole (25-26 August). Her words, "Indeed, in light of the continued solid ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... August. The precise size and nature of any stimulatory measures will be determined during the August forecast and Inflation Report round". The British central bank was relieved that markets functioned well post-Brexit, "and the improved resilience of ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... lower path for growth and a notably higher path for inflation than in the central projections set out in the May Inflation Report." And then there's this: "As a historian, I fear that Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... external trade also supported the RBA's positive outlook on the economy and that we're it not for the "shocking" inflation report, it wouldn't have cut the official cash rate down to a record low 1.75% two days ago. The country's trade deficit narrowed ...

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 ...