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Retail Asia27/08/2018

RAM Ratings expects the zero-rated goods and services tax (GST) to act as a cushion limiting inflationary pressure on Malaysia’s July inflation rate, which is projected to increase to 1% from 0.8% in June. Meanwhile, full-year inflation is expected to stand at 1.3 %. Transport fuel is seen as a trigger to higher inflation given […]

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Retail Asia10/07/2018

Several economic factors including high commodity and fuel prices will make it difficult for Vietnam to keep its inflation within targeted limits this year, economists say. The country’s consumer price index (CPI) in June increased 0.61 percent from May, the highest such increase in the last seven years, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). […]

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Retail Asia04/07/2018

Indonesia’s annual inflation rate slowed less than expected in June from a year ago and stayed within Bank Indonesia’s target range, the Central Statistics Agency said on Monday (02/07). June’s annual inflation rate came in at 3.12 percent, compared with May’s 3.23 percent. Analysts surveyed by Reuters had expected a rate of 2.88 percent. Suhariyanto, the head of the […]

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Retail Asia22/06/2018

Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) increased 1.8% in May 2018 – the fastest pace in four months – to 121.1 compared with 119.0 in the corresponding month of the preceding year due to a strong recovery in transport prices. According to the Department of Statistics, among the major groups which recorded increases were transport (+3.8%); […]

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Retail Asia08/06/2018

Indonesia’s annual inflation rate slowed in May as the increase in food prices remained modest despite rising demand during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, data from the Central Statistics Agency showed on Monday (04/06). The headline consumer price index (CPI) in May rose 3.23 percent from a year ago, slightly below the median forecast in a Reuters poll, which had […]

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Retail Asia31/05/2018

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, followed by food and beverages by 0.88 percent and housing, construction and utilities […]

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Retail Asia24/05/2018

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 MIDF Research. Amid unfavourable base effects, MIDF Research foresees headline inflation rate to average at 2.6% […]

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Retail Asia19/02/2018

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 that showed that January core CPI posted the largest gain in a year, raising pressure on the […]

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Retail Asia30/01/2018

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] to adjust the seven-day reverse repo rate is probably very narrow under the current conditions,” Agus […]

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Retail Asia25/01/2018

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 2016. According to the Department of Statistics, other major groups […]

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Retail Asia27/12/2017

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 July, when headline CPI also rose 0.6 per cent from a year earlier. Core inflation, which excludes […]

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Retail Asia03/10/2017

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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, rose 3.72% compared with the same period a year ago, slowing from August’s 3.82% […]

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Retail Asia30/08/2017

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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,” Rahmat Dwisaputra of the Central Java representative of the central […]

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Retail Asia15/06/2017

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). While average inflation during the first five months of this year hit 4.47 per cent, the […]

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Retail Asia13/06/2017

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 was based on the movement in the Customer Price Index (CPI) that was down in January to […]

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Retail Asia11/05/2017

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 rate cut this year, but competition from global retailers such as Amazon.com Inc is set to […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2017

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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 year-on-year (yoy), the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced on Tuesday. “I think inflation at 0.09 […]

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Retail Asia27/04/2017

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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 Policy Department of the central bank Dody Budi Waluyo […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2017

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 because of higher petrol prices and parking fees. In comparison, MAS […]

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Retail Asia19/01/2017

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 150 basis points, to 4.75% to aid economic growth. During 2016, the […]

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