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BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017

... below the CBO's 4.7% estimate of the natural rate of unemployment since March this year) - but inflation remains low. The PCE price inflation was at 1.6% in the year to October and the core at 1.5%. The Fed projects (in its December meeting) core PCE ...

Three is the magic number

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017

... than predicted in the Fed's summary of economic projections in December 2016, inflation hasn't. Latest figures show that the PCE price index has slowed to 1.5% in the year to October while the core PCE eased to 1.6%. These compare with the Fed's projections ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017

... inflation in the economy can't really gain traction unless it receives a tailwind from stronger wages growth. The US core PCE price index - the Fed's favoured inflation measure - for instance, has eased to 1.5% in the year to October from 1.9% when 2017 ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017

... 26-year high of 9.9% recorded in October 2009. But inflation, as she acknowledged, remains below the Fed's 2.0% target. The core PCE price deflator - the Fed's favoured measure of inflation - increased by 1.3% in the year to September 2017, down from ...

The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017

... carefull in calibratinyg interest rates particularly, with its favoured measure of inflation still below its 2% target. The PCE price index was at 1.6% in the year to September and the core measure at 1.3%. As Japan's experience have shown, lower ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017

... energy - remained at a two-year low of 1.7%. 2. The Fed's favoured inflation measure is the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price index not the CPI. In the Fed's "Summary of Economic Projections" (latest release was in September), the US central ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017

... predicting an increase in the fed funds rate by less (to 2.1%) in 2018. Latest data shows that, inflation - as measured by the core PCE price index - was only 1.4% in the year to July. If inflation remains at this low rate, the Taylor model suggests ...

Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017

... international developments". Besides inflation remains low and the recent updates show that prices are easing again. The core PCE price index - the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - slowed to an annual rate of 1.4% in May from 1.5% in the previous month ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017

... instead of lifting, US core CPI inflation eased to 1.7% in May from 2.3% in January (unemployment rate at 4.8%) and the core PCE price index - the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - decelerated to 1.5% in April from 1.8% at the start of the year. Eyeballing ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017

... inflation eased to 2.2% (from 2.4%) and 1.9% (from 2.0%) in April. Not only that, the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - the core PCE price index - slowed to an annual rate of 1.5% in April from 1.6% in March. More so, given declining inflation expectations ...

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