With “supercore” inflation, excluding fresh food and energy, still strong at 2.6 per cent, we think the Bank of Japan remains on course to deliver its next rate increase in April.
Japans annual core consumer inflation slowed to 2.0% in January, marking its weakest pace in two years and adding complexity to the Bank of Japans next interest rate decision. The latest government ...
Core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, came in at 3% as expected by economists polled by Reuters. The headline inflation rate rose to 3%, staying above the BOJ's 2% target for 43 ...
According to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rose ...
Inflation came in below economists' forecasts and slowed from December's 2.7% annual rate.
The Federal Reserve has now cut interest rates for the third straight meeting, but the decision was anything but unanimous. Three officials broke ranks, arguing that with inflation still running above ...
M/M vs. +0.3% consensus and +0.3% prior, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
Due to the new series, inflation is seen to be lower than earlier-projected, giving room for the central bank to extend the ...
The ECB held rates as eurozone inflation fell to 1.7% in January, its lowest since September 2024 and below the ECB’s 2% target. Core inflation eased to 2.2% as energy prices plunged. View on euronews ...
Perhaps the single most important macro phenomenon of the past several decades is the precipitous decline in the labor share of income. As David Hay writes, “The Roots of Populism in the U.S. can be ...
It is true that with very low inflation and policy rates at 2%, the real interest rate faced by the French economy is ...