Central banks have issued new policies are suited to fighting the “new” war, which is against inflation, not deflation.
The UK interest rate markets have moved dramatically in recent weeks with futures markets now pricing in the very real possibility of a small (15-bps) rate hike by the...
Until not too long ago, all kinds of inflation seemed to be considered as bad. But then came the period of lowflation and, for some, almost permanent deflation. The...
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is coordinating with relevant ministries, sectors and localities to study and build a programme on economic recovery and...
At the moment, there are many views of inflation, in which FED said that it is a little less transitory. How will central banks tighten monetary policy?
Biden administration’s tax hike plan, coupled with the Fed’s own relaxed inflation target, could weigh on the greenback as well.
It does matter whether it is a demand or supply shock that is creating the inflationary pressure.
Some central banks around the world started to raise rates after a long time of the accommodative monetary policy. What is the reason for this rates hike?
Up until recently you could have argued that inflation was everywhere, except in the prices of goods and services. However, goods and services inflation has started to...
There has been a lot of discussion about whether the world could return to the 1970s, at least in terms of very high inflation.
Policymakers, and most analysts believe that the surge we have seen in inflation will be temporary. That’s likely to be correct although much depends on what we mean by...
Many experts said that the global economy would face a repeat of the 2008 crisis if the Federal Reserve (FED) is compelled to significantly tighten monetary policy when...
The risk of policy mistakes from government and central banks is high because of Covid-19. This is not just because nobody has lived through a global pandemic before; it...
Risk assets such as stocks and EM currencies were pulled through the wringer last week. There could be more to come but the Standard Bank does not anticipate a...
This week sees another inflation test in the US in the shape of the July CPI data. The monthly CPI is forecasted to increase by an average of 0.2% per month since the...
Central banks are forecasting that the overshoot in inflation will prove temporary. Private sector economists are saying the same thing and so too are the financial...
July’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) picked up 0.62 percent month on month and 2.64 percent against the same month last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced...
The CPI inflation in the second quarter of 2021 remained low despite a slight acceleration in the last 4 months.
The ECB announced the changes to its monetary policy strategy that result from the strategic review that it began last year.
As advanced-country central banks slowly start to pare back the significant monetary accommodation granted through the height of the pandemic, so the market grows...
The Standard Bank said, investors try to determine whether global economies are on a glide path to sustained growth with modest inflation; or are at risk of falling off...
According to the Standard Bank, the inflation part of the real rate equation is the main driver of currencies now, not nominal rates. If that’s the case, it will weigh...
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