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Chief economist update: RBNZ will run out of patience next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... wage inflation peaks at 2.6% later in the projection..." Higher wages lift inflation. The RBNZ believes that headline inflation would peak at around 2.6% "but the factors lifting inflation are assumed to be relatively short-lived" and is therefore, expected ...

Chief economist update: A half-glass full look at inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... April from 6.0% in the previous month. But on the third day, it rose again, when the same bureau reported that headline inflation rose by 0.8% over the month of April - the biggest increase since June 2009 and four times above market expectations for ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... peddling, sparked by resurgent concerns over inflation. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that headline inflation rose by 0.8% over the month of April - the biggest increase since June 2009 and four times above market expectations for ...

Chief economist update: Inflation lifted by smokers with young children and homebuilders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... the 72 year history of the CPI. However, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's headline inflation growth decelerated from the 1.6% quarterly rate in the September quarter to 0.9% in the three-months to December 2020. It ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... down, prices are down... big time! The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the country's headline inflation dropped by 1.9% in the June quarter - the largest quarter on quarter decline in the 72-year history that the statistician ...

Chief economist update: Second wave comes to Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... in May and the manufacturing PMI improved to 42.6 in July from 40.1 in June from 38.4 in May. This has kept headline inflation stable at 0.1% in June from May and core inflation to zero from the previous two months' deflation readings of minus 0.2% ...

Chief economist update: Japan reopens for business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... have U-turned away from the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) ever-so-elusive 2.0% target. The country's annual headline inflation rate weakened to 0.2% in April (from 0.4% in March); core-core inflation decelerated to 0.2% (from 0.6%); and most notably ...

Chief economist update: Working nine to five, barely getting by

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... the growth in nominal wages is being eaten up by inflation. Growth in real wages - nominal wages growth less headline inflation (no use using the core measure here because wages are spent on all items, volatile or not) - has weakened to 0.4% in the December ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... slow to 1.25% for the full-year 2019 before slowing yet again to 0.75% this year. Similarly, Carney found UK headline inflation at 2.9% (June 2013) and is leaving with consumer price growth weaker at 1.3% (December 2019). The latest MPC forecasts show ...

Chief economist update: Turn the beat around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... inside Aladdin's lamp. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation inched to 1.8% in the year to the December 2019 quarter from 1.7% in the second quarter. While this is in line with market ...