Inflation expectations: normalcy in sight?
The recent data points and trends suggest that inflation is likely to come down at a faster pace than expected. This is in stark contrast to last year when the…
The recent data points and trends suggest that inflation is likely to come down at a faster pace than expected. This is in stark contrast to last year when the…
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…
A recent ‘Transcript of Global Financial Stability Report April 2024 press briefing’, carried a rather very pertinent question regarding a possible need to revisit policy focus traditionally to control inflation…
Inflation for the current year, so projected the then finance minister Ishaq Dar in his 9 June 2023 budget speech, would be 21 percent for 2023-24 – revised upward to…
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%…
Bank of England policymaker Jonathan Haskel, who voted to raise interest rates last week, said he is encouraged by signs that Britain’s inflation pressures might be on the wane but…
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…
Investors hoping for imminent rate cuts by the Federal Reserve received a sobering reminder of the US central bank’s focus on fighting inflation, after Chairman Jerome Powell poured cold water…
The statement released recently by the Monetary Policy Committee of the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) indicates that the policy rate will remain unchanged at 22%. This decision apparently takes…
IN December 2023, consumer prices were 29.7 per cent higher compared to December a year earlier. Worse still, every month for more than a year our year-on-year inflation number has been above…