inflation measure

Singapore economy

Dip in Jan 2020 CPI raises questions of monetary policy easing among private-sector economists

“Part of the fall in core inflation also reflected the impact of the rebasing of the CPI to 2019 as the base year,” say MAS and MTI.

US Economy

Wall Street is wrong about negative interest rates

(Nov 18): The titans of finance have a new foe, and it’s not UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn or senator Elizabeth Warren. Wall Street’s elite are attacking Europe’s central banks over their reliance on negative interest rates, saying they are h

Singapore economy

Singapore's Oct all-items CPI rise 0.4% y-o-y, below forecast

(Nov 23): Singapore's headline consumer price index rose a slower-than-expected 0.4% in October from a year earlier due to declining accommodation costs, data showed on Thursday.
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