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Chief economist update: At the core-core of it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... Haruhiko Kuroda pointed to this "core-core inflation" measure to declare that the economy is no longer in a state of deflation. According to the Financial Times, Kuroda made this statement in September 2016, after earlier stats showed that while both ...

Chief economist update: Building approvals on a slowing trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... slowed from 7.8% in January to 5.7% in April. The bottom line is that the trend estimates suggest a slow and orderly deflation in Australia's housing market. This is backed up by the CoreLogic RP Data home value index showing that the "5 capital ...

Don't fear the inflation reaper: Capital Group

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... there may be "some managers who have only performed over a 10-year period. That is to say, only through a period of deflation. Anyone can study history and see repeated patterns, but it helps to have a team of experienced long-term investors." Explaining ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... market. "You look at what the bond market has been appearing to price in over the last few years - there's been pricing in deflation as far as I can see and negative real rates has effectively been indicating that things are so bad that you have to hoard ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... indications of rising inflation (to central bank targets) are getting you down, try to imagine the un-wonderful worse world of deflation. We've recently been there in 2008 and 2009. Didn't feel good, did it?

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... said. In the last decade or so people around the world were scared of relapse; the central banks were worried about deflation and Baur thinks those worries are going away. He said it's important to keep the distinction between the economy and financial ...

Same old same old from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... positive over the past eight months of 2017 (for which data are available) which is better than the negative rates (deflation) experienced from July 2015 to December 2016. This leaves the BOJ confused. While in one paragraph of its monetary policy statement ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... tax was raised from 5% to 8% on 1 April 2014 - household spending dropped, the economy sank into recession ensued and deflation returned -- a repeat of the 1997 episode when the tax on consumption was lifted from 3% to 5% on the 1st of April 1997. But ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia believes the superannuation fund's investment portfolio displays similar characteristics to humans, being resilient no matter what circumstances it may encounter. Sicilia said both humans and an investment ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Recall those days when China was accused of exporting deflation to the rest of the world? The days when dirt cheap "Made in China" products were flooding the rest of the world (they still are). It was so prevalent that in January 2004, the US Federal ...