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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... rate of inflation easing to minus 3.4% in the year to April from minus 4.3% in the previous month. The annual rate of deflation in the country had been slowing since December last year. The latest inflation data left markets still divided on the need ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... individual components declines were recorded in "willingness to buy durable goods (down 1.9 points to 39.8 in April) - deflation in action - "employment" (down 1.1 points to 42.8) and "overall livelihood" (down 0.9 points to 39.6). The "income growth" ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... quantitative easing and negative interest rates -- could only aspire to... a lower currency to boost growth and defeat deflation. Perhaps, like the BOE they can import Gov Glenn when he retires in September. A cheaper currency becomes significantly important ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... prices have been flat or negative - that followed a 5.4% decline in the December quarter. Year-on-year, export price deflation accelerated to minus 13.8% in the first quarter from mins 10.3% in December and minus 5.2% in September. Only two - 'Animal ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... accounted for much of the 0.2% decline in headline consumer prices over the March quarter - the first quarter-on-quarter deflation since the December quarter of 2008. The ABS report showed that the decline was broad-based with prices dropping in six ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... and the BOJ's call for the government to do more to help the central bank in its efforst to boost growth and battel deflation. Japan's leading index dropped to a final reading of 96.80 in February, down from the previous month's 101.80 and the flash ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... March for a year-on-year rise of 5.7%. German producer prices A 9.2% drop in crude oil prices accounted for the 3.1% deflation in German producer prices in the year to March - the fastest rate of decline since November 2010 - following a 3.0% fall in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... improvement from the previous month's negative 0.91% annual rate but still mark the 17th straight month of wholesale price deflation. Market expectations were for an improvement to negative 0.77%. A 3.7% year-on-year increase in food prices was more ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... by 3.8% in the year to March that followed a 3.4% decline in the previous month and marks the 12th straight month of deflation in producer prices. UK inflation Measures of UK inflation have all increased by more than expected in March. The headline measure ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... Japan (-15.7%), Thailand (-9.1%). Imports from Taiwan increased by 2.6% and by 1.8% from the US. Canada producer prices Deflation returned to Canada as producer prices dropped by a bigger-than-expected 1.1% in the month of February after increasing by ...