Mexican inflation deceleration likely over, but core inflation to stay below target
Mar 24, 2015 07:40 am UTC| Commentary
Headline inflation fell marginally to 2.97% yoy during the second half of February, while coreinflation remained unchanged.Societe Generale notes on Tuesday as follows: We expect Mexican headline inflation to have moved...
US consumer prices expected to have remained stable in February
Mar 24, 2015 07:35 am UTC| Commentary
A tug of war between higher non-energy services costs and anticipated reductions in a widevariety of commodities quotes probably left the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) unchanged in February, stemming an energy-induced 1.3%...
UK CPI inflation to hold at 0.3% in February
Mar 24, 2015 07:26 am UTC| Commentary
The global context remains one where there are serious concerns about deflation but, since those first surfaced, the oil price appears to have reached a bottom.However, in February it was still pushing down UK petrol...
Polish unemployment rate to remain unchanged
Mar 24, 2015 07:20 am UTC| Commentary
Societe Generale notes... We expect the unemployment rate to remain unchanged in February. Our forecast is in line with market expectations and labour ministry data. According to the Polish labour ministry,95,100 job...
Euro-area manufacturing PMI: Preview
Mar 24, 2015 06:23 am UTC| Commentary
Societe Generale notes its forecast on Euro-aread PMI as follows: We expect the euro-area manufacturing PMI to increase from 51 to 51.5 in March. Conversely, the PMI for the services sector should decrease from 53.7 to...
UK Feb Consumer Prices- Preview
Mar 24, 2015 06:05 am UTC| Commentary
UK Feb consumer prices (09.30 GMT) figures will probably show the economy nudging further towardsdeflation.Petrol prices fell further in February and three of the recently announced gas price cuts will show up inFebruarys...
Oil-sector woes and USD hit capex
Mar 24, 2015 05:54 am UTC| Commentary
Standard Chartered notes.... We see February durable goods (Wednesday, 08:30ET) down 2.0% m/m (consensus +0.2%), from +2.8% in January, on the back of lower aircraft orders. Ex-transport, we see durable goods down 0.4%...
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