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Recent fuel price hikes have kicked up Vietnam’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) this month by 3.86 percent year on year, the General Statistics Office has reported. The hike was led by traffic and transportation services, which rose 1.72 percent over last month,…
Headline inflation rate rose by 1.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) in April 2018, slightly higher than 1.3% year-on-year registered in the preceding month as transport inflation rebounded from a negative territory logged for two months to positive at 0.4% y-o-y, said…
Asian currencies firmed on Thursday, boosted by heftier global risk appetites as the dollar slipped despite stronger-than-anticipated U.S. inflation and a rise in Treasury yields. Tracking a rally in Wall Street, Asian stocks brushed aside U.S. inflation data…
Bank Indonesia Governor Agus Martowardojo emphasized on Wednesday (24/01) that there is limited room for lowering interest rates due to the United States Federal Reserve’s plan to increase its benchmark rate, and the need to keep inflation in check. “[Room]…
Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) expanded 3.5% to 120.9 in December 2017 from 116.8 in the corresponding month of 2016, mainly driven by the transport segment, which was up 11.5%. For the full year of 2017, CPI rose 3.7% compared with the same period in…
Singapore’s headline consumer price index (CPI) rose a slightly-faster-than-expected 0.6 per cent in November from a year earlier, data showed on Tuesday (Dec 26), as private road transport costs edged higher. That is the fastest year-on-year increase since…
Inflation in Indonesia continued to ease in September as some basic food commodity prices dropped, suggesting full-year inflation will be limited despite a pick up in the first few months of the year. September’s consumer price index, a gauge of inflation,…
The Central Java representative of Bank Indonesia (BI) predicted that the countrys inflation in August would be lower at 0.02 percent from 0.14 percent in July. “The decline in inflation was a result of a cut in the prices of a number of essential goods,”…
Inflation this year is forecast at 2.6 per cent amid fluctuations in prices on world markets and adjustments in the cost of public services, according to the latest report from the government watchdog, the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC).…
The Governor of Bank Indonesia Agus Martowardojo projects year-on-year inflation rate in 2017 of 4.36 percent, an increase compared to late 2016 of 3.02 percent, mostly attributable to pressure from administered prices. Agus said yesterday that the projection…
A fierce price war among retailers is threatening to keep a lid on improving inflation in Australia, compounding the problems of policymakers struggling to support still-weak domestic demand. An uptick in consumer inflation has lowered the chance of another…
After seeing deflation a month earlier owing to the harvest season, the country recorded monthly inflation of 0.09 percent in April on account of increases in the prices of most commodities. Inflation in April brought annual inflation to 4.17 percent…
Bank Indonesia predicted that the countrys inflation would not be too high this month with falling prices of foodstuffs amid harvest time . “The inflation in April is expected to be not too high as a result of the harvest time,” head of the Monetary Economic…
In a sign of a tepid increase in inflation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore reports that consumer price inflation rose to 0.2% in December from 0.0% in November, due to a larger increase in private road transport cost, which rose 1.7% over the month…
Indonesia’s central bank is widely expected to keep its benchmark policy rate unchanged on Thursday as it monitors the rupiah’s movement at a time of global uncertainty and price pressures at home. Bank Indonesia (BI) cut its benchmark six times last year, by…
Indonesia’s inflation slowed to the weakest in almost seven years and fell below the central bank’s target, bolstering the case for further interest rate cuts by Bank Indonesia (BI). Consumer price gains eased to 2.79 per cent last month from a year earlier,…
