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Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... remains the BOJ's bugbear. Headline CPI inflation slowed to 0.7% in the year to May (from 0.9% in April) and core inflation eased to 0.8% (from 0.9%). The decline in output prices among large manufacturers (to -3 in the June quarter survey from +1 ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... off-target. The euro area's annual HICP inflation rate decelerated to 1.2% in May from 1.7% in the previous month. Core inflation weakened to 0.8% from 1.3% in the year to April. As Draghi pointed out in his speech in Sintra: "The risk outlook remains ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... 2% inflation target. The headline CPI inflation nearly doubled to 0.9% in the year to April from 0.5% in March; core inflation (excluding fresh food) inched up to 0.9% from 0.8%; and, core-core inflation (excluding fresh food and energy accelerated to ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... consumer price inflation accelerated to 0.5% in the year to March from a 15-month low of 0.2% in February while core inflation inched up to 0.8% from 0.7% - both remained well below the BOJ's 2% target. The yen would remain strong for as long as ...

Chief economist update: Same challenges, differing reactions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... 2019 quarter. With regards inflation, both the RBA and the RBNZ remained faced with below-target inflation. NZ core inflation is 50 bps below target - 1.5% versus 2% - Australia's core inflation, measured as the average of the weighted median and ...

Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... Headline inflation eased to 1.3% in the year to the March quarter (from 1.8% in the previous quarter), so did the core inflation measures - trimmed mean to 1.6% from 1.8% and weighted median to 1.2% from 1.6%. It maintained its assessment of the property ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... quarter. This missed market expectations for an already sharp slowdown to 1.5%. A similar trend is evident in the core inflation measures. The trimmed mean inflation gauge softened to 1.6% in the March quarter (from 1.8% in the previous quarter) and ...

Chief economist update: Japan yearns for a weaker yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... three-month period. Japan's headline consumer price inflation remained at a 15-month low of 0.2% in February while core inflation eased to 0.7% from 0.8% in January and after peaking at 1% in October last year. The latest forward guidance from the ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... Regional Economist article: "The FOMC will target the headline inflation rate as opposed to any other measure (e.g., core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices) because it makes sense to focus on the prices that U.S. households actually have ...

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... 1.8% previously) this year and 1.5% (from 1.6%) in 2020. HICP inflation stood at 1.5% in the year to February; core inflation at 1% - both below the ECB's 2% target. Fast forward to the present and we find that the ECB is again thinking of new "instruments ...