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Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... profitability. The flight away from riskier assets started in the middle of May following the release of higher-than-expected US CPI inflation in April. This prompted speculation that the US Federal Reserve would be force to raise interest rates again ...

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
... words by US Federal Reserve officials. Equity and bond markets tumbled yesterday following the release of higher-than-expected CPI figures raising expectations that the Fed will not be holding off on further interest rate hikes at its June meeting. However ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
... cent versus expectations of a 0.8 per cent increase. Nevertheless, the PPI figures are not as important to the Fed as the CPI data - to be released tonight - in determining if input prices are being passed onto consumers. Note that the Fed has stated ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... 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 data showing that domestic ...

Daily economic update

... right at the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of Australia's 2-3 per cent target band. Financial markets expected the headline CPI to increase by 0.8 per cent over the quarter or 2.9 per cent year-on-year. Despite market expectations of a significant ...

Weekly economic round-up

... investors will get indications on the pass through of higher oil to domestic inflation with the release of the Australian CPI report for the March quarter. Markets expect local headline inflation to rise by 0.8 per cent in the March quarter from 0.5 ...

Daily economic update

A higher-than-expected US core CPI reading cancelled out yesterday's positive mood in the financial markets brought about by good news on producer price inflation and the minutes of the March FOMC meeting, which raised hopes that US rate rises are about ...

Daily economic update

... higher prices for consumer goods in Germany. But the European Central Bank (ECB) would want to pre-empt any upward movement in CPI inflation by lifting rates anew. The ECB has already increased rates once this year to 2.5 per cent.

Daily economic update

... also deliver speeches. Expectations of aggressive Fed tightening are being scaled back following the benign reading on core CPI released last week. Fed fund futures are pricing in a 100 per cent probability of a tightening next week but expectations ...