Big fall in the rate of inflation
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has come up with a very pleasant surprise. The year-to-year rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has come down…
Fed’s Williams welcomes inflation data, not ready to seek rate cuts
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams welcomed the arrival of softer consumer inflation data, he told Reuters, but said that positive news is not enough to call…
The falling rate of inflation
The last few months have witnessed a major drop in the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, it was…
Dip in the rate of inflation
There has been a visible and welcome slowdown in the rate of inflation in February 2024. The year-to-year rate of inflation has come down from 28.3% in January to 23.1%…
Traders step up ECB rate cut bets, sensing shift on inflation front
Traders on Thursday piled on bets that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates from April as they took the view that policymakers are growing more comfortable with the…
Dip in the rate of inflation
There is finally some good news on the rate of inflation. The month of June has witnessed a big dip in the rate of inflation in the CPI of 8.6…
Policy rate and inflation
In the 1970s, economists believed that inflation was primarily caused by ‘monetarism’, which is too much money chasing too few goods. They contended that the only way to control inflation…
Investors revive inflation trades as 6pc Fed rate risk grips Wall Street
Spooked by a flurry of hotter-than-expected US economic and inflation data last month, investors are reviving trading strategies that bet on a higher peak in interest rates. The recalibration in…
Understatement of the rate of inflation
The rate of inflation, as measured by Consumer Price Index (CPI) with the base year of 2015-16, has been rising and then falling in 2019-20. It was 8.0 percent in…
Europe less at risk of inflation and rate fears
Investors are watching inflation carefully, worried that a boiling over of prices will ruin the expected strong pandemic recovery although analysts believe Europe faces much less of a risk than…
