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Cash becomes king with inflation on the up

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
Yesterday's higher than expected Producer Price Index (PPI) has the market and some economists apprehensive about what tomorrow's Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures will signal for inflation, but it drives up the value of cash for fund managers. The ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
The wild gyration that has characterised financial market trading activity since mid-May continued to make its presence felt last week. Trading in stock and commodity markets remained highly volatile with prices swinging wildly. Anxious investors sold ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2006
Last night's bigger than expected increase in US core consumer prices virtually sealed a 25 basis point interest rate hike at the 29 June Federal Open Market Committee meeting. US core consumer price inflation rose by 0.3 per cent in May - the third ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
US producer prices increased by 0.2 per cent in May, lower than market expectations for a 0.4 per cent rise. However, the core PPI rate - which excludes food and energy - went up by a larger than expected 0.3 per cent. Year-on-year, headline PPI is ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
Investor anxiety ebbed slightly over the course of last week's financial market trading activity with both volatility and risk aversion easing from heightened levels. Inflation fears kept investors on tenterhooks over the past fortnight amid concern ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
Market volatility increased last week as markets for bonds, equities and commodities sold off after higher-than-expected US CPI inflation data doused market expectations that the US Federal Reserve will give interest rate hikes a breather. Financial ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2006
The pattern of it's on again off again - rate hikes that is - continues in the US. Financial markets settled down slightly overnight following calming words by US Federal Reserve officials. Equity and bond markets tumbled yesterday following the release ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
Today's Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour Price Index report indicates that little upward pressure on inflation from wages. The wage price index (WPI) rose by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter and 4 per cent over the year. These are less ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
This week's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board meeting takes on a particular significance in light of the higher than expected Australian headline CPI inflation report for the March quarter. Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released ...

Daily economic update

Australian headline consumer prices rose by a slightly higher-than-expected 0.9 per cent in the March quarter taking the annual inflation rate to 3 per cent - right at the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of Australia's 2-3 per cent target band. Financial ...