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Core Consumer Prices Surge At Fastest Rate Since 1992

June 10, 2021

Core Consumer Prices Surge At Fastest Rate Since 1992 With the world’s eyes having moved on from China’s rip-roaring PPI (and post-data decision to unleash price controls), this morning’s CPI print has been heralded as the arbiter of “is it transitory or not” with some (BofA) even suggesting we are nearing a period of “transitory hyperinflation.” […]

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Core Consumer Price Inflation Prints Hotter Than Expected

July 11, 2019

Core Consumer Price Inflation Prints Hotter Than Expected Having slowed and disappointed for the last two months, all eyes are on US consumer price index growth (which was expected to slow once again in June) this morning as the next Fed rate-cut narrative confirmation. The problem for rate-cut-hopers is that the picture is mixed at […]

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Loonie Spikes After Canadian Core Inflation Soars To 10-Year Highs

June 19, 2019

Loonie Spikes After Canadian Core Inflation Soars To 10-Year Highs Canadian inflation rose faster than expected in May across all eight major components, spiking the Loonie as it supports the BoC’s view that ‘the North’ is emerging from its growth slowdown (and Poloz argument that rates will need to go higher). The headline consumer price index jumped […]

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Why Core Inflation is Rising & What it Means for Fed Rate Hikes

November 16, 2017

Why Core Inflation is Rising & What it Means for Fed Rate Hikes Yellen was right to brush off “transitory” factors of “low” inflation. Consumer prices, as measured by CPI for October, rose 2.0% year-over-year. A month ago, CPI increased 2.2%. The Fed’s inflation target is 2%, but it doesn’t use CPI, or even “Core […]

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Why US Price Inflation Remains Relatively Subdued?

September 29, 2017

WHY US PRICE INFLATION REMAINS RELATIVELY SUBDUED? The yearly growth rate of the US consumer price index stood at 1.9% in August against 1.7% in July, while the growth rate of the price index less food and energy stood at 1.7% in August against a similar figure in July and 2.3% in August last year. […]

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