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Are we now stuck in a high inflation world? Temporarily high inflation has lasted for longer than anyone predicted and inflation is set to rise further from here. Might we have actually entered into a new, higher, regime for inflation? Find out more about our GDP inflation forecast.
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China heads into 2024 with relatively loose policy settings, but private sector sentiment constrained by property pessimism. Policy efforts will...
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The Bank of Japan left both short-term and long-term policy rates unchanged at Tuesday's meeting. Amid a decline in global...
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Weak demand, profit margin compression, easing pipeline pressures, and abating supply bottlenecks mean we see core goods inflation strongly coming down...
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The rapid surge in interest rates will continue to weigh on the Nordic economies next year with little external support,...
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Inflation will likely decelerate in 2024 as the impact of imported inflation wanes. We expect the Bank of Japan will...
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After a year of stagnating activity, the eurozone economy will continue to struggle to gain traction in the near term...
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More market participants appear to have become confident that the wage-driven inflation is real, which will encourage the Bank of...
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Services inflation in the Eurozone has remained persistent and within this the price of travel related items such as international...
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) maintained the policy rates at its September meeting, following a tweak in its yield curve...
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As food tends to be purchased often and account for a large part in the consumption basket – 22% in...
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Most measures of inflation expectations eased in recent months, with the notable exceptions not as bad as they look. This...
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Despite today's (28th July) surprise tweak to YCC policy, we continue to believe that Governor Ueda is determined to avoid...
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Our in-house financial conditions index reveals that while overall conditions are tight compared to pre-pandemic levels, Asia's financial conditions have been improving thanks to central banks' pause in rate hikes,...
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Monetary policy is at a critical juncture. After decades of low and stable inflation, the seismic supply adverse shocks and...
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We expect downward pressure from multiple factors to push inflation lower by the end of 2023. Weaker demand and reduced...
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Monetary policy is at a critical juncture. After decades of low and stable inflation, the seismic supply adverse shocks and...
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We project Japan's CPI inflation will slow in H2 as import costs trend downward. The current record price passthrough is unsustainable given sluggish demand and firms' weak pricing power.
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After a choppy first quarter of GDP data, our novel Activity Trackers (which incorporate proprietary daily sentiment data from Penta)...
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We have revised up our long-term wage and inflation projections based on a larger impact from structural labour shortages due...