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Chief economist update: Fundamentally overvalued

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... Australian annual GDP growth over those two years averaged 3.6% (compared with the latest reading of 1.7%); headline inflation at 2.9% (1.7%); the unemployment rate at 4.6% (5.2%); wages growth at 4.1% (2.2%); and, retail spending at 6.8% (3.3%). The ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... has slowed from 2.0% in the March quarter of last year to 1.1% in the September quarter (latest). Similarly, headline inflation has decelerated from last year's high of 2.1% to 1.5% (November 2019) and core inflation 1.9% (2019 high) to 1.7% (November). ...

Chief economist update: RBA rate cut outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will take the official cash rate. First things first; the ABS report showed that headline inflation edged up to 1.6% in the year to the September quarter from 1.6% in the June quarter. The trimmed mean inflation measure ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... favourable and support the euro area expansion, the ongoing build-up of domestic price pressures, and, thus, headline inflation developments over the medium term." This was what European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi told his audience (and ...

Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... underlying inflation forecast to 1.75% (from 2.0% in the April meeting) this year and 2% (from 2.25%) in 2020. 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 - ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... interest rates soon and twice. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation slowed to 1.3% in the year to the March quarter from 1.8% in the December 2018 quarter. This missed market expectations ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... "headline," PCE price index. As Bullard wrote in a 2012 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 ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... due to the British pound's depreciation subsequent to the Brexit vote) had been easing in recent months - headline inflation down to 2.3% in November 2018 from 3% at the start of 2018; core inflation down to 1.8% from 2.7% Similarly, the British ...

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... other good news for moi is the one that showed US inflation remains contained. The latest update shows that headline inflation eased to an annual rate of 2.2% in November of 2018 from 2.5% in October - in line with market expectations but is the slowest ...

Chief economist update: Where are the BOJ exit speculators now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... 2018, Japanese measures of inflation has remained just about where they were at the beginning of the year. The headline inflation rate increased by 1.4% in the year to October, up from 1.2% in the previous month but just a tick higher than January 2018's ...