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Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... was really nothing new in the latest domestic inflation update to write home to mother about - or both. Australian headline CPI inflation increased by 1.9% in the year to March quarter - unchanged from the December 2017 quarter, slower than market expectations ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is heading Fed's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... on a 12-month basis to move up in coming months." The latest US CPI report gives credence to this expectation. The headline CPI shows the annual inflation rate accelerated to 2.4% in March from 2.2% in the previous month. Similarly, the less volatile ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... show that the Japanese economy is well and truly headed in the right direction, except for inflation that is. While headline CPI inflation quickened to a 34-month high of 1.3% in the year to January, the core inflation rate (ex-food) which the BOJ tracks ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... orders without sacrificing profitability. It also keeps a lid on inflation as evidenced by the latest CPI report. US headline CPI slowed at the margin - rising by 0.2% in the month of February from 0.5% in the previous - resulting in a slight increase ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... median measures - remained below the bottom of the RBA's 2% - 3% target band (1.9% in the December quarter). The headline CPI grew by 1.9% over the same period. Not only that, as the RBA pointed out once again in its March statement: "One continuing ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... pushed higher by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) report confirming that US inflation is indeed moving on up. Headline CPI inflation rose by 0.5% in the month of January following an upwardly revised 0.2% from 0.1%) increase in the previous month. ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... music should have died when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirmed that inflation was indeed lifting. Headline CPI inflation rose by 0.5% in the month of January following an UP-wardly revised 0.2% from 0.1%) increase in the previous month. ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... - the unemployment rate was at a 42-year low of 4.3% in the three months to August - and above target inflation - headline CPI at 3% in September, core at 2.7% - dictates that it should proceed with interest rate increases more aggressively than the ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... certainly not the RBAs) by last week's report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing the country's headline CPI inflation rate decelerated to a lower than expected 1.8% in the September quarter. And this is thanks to us smokers and alcoholics ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... of 4.2% in the three months to July but inflation - both headline and core - remained above the BOE's 2% target. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to 3% in the year to September - the fastest rate since April 2012 - from 2.9% in the previous month. ...