inflation

Consumer inflation was up by 5.4% in recent US data - in line with expectations. But Scott Williams from Fiftyone Capital reckons that a deeper look reveals a sleeping...

Much has been written on the failure of the Reserve Bank to achieve its inflation target in recent years. Bill Evans and The Australian Financial Review have argued...

The US inflation print, out overnight, continues to have something for everyone. Here’s our favourite graph, produced by the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), which...

Companies face a mix of transitory and structural inflationary pressures, according to Fidelity International’s latest analyst survey. Although most Fidelity analysts...

The ‘value trade’ continues to do well as inflation concerns, whether you think it is transitory or real, point to rate rises and tapering of quantitative easing....

Commodities have faced a protracted period of uncertainty since the global financial crisis. But with multiple structural tailwinds and the risk of inflation making...

A bunch of global companies should get a handy bump from the trade-off between commodity prices and their own price increases, says Ellerston Capital's head of small...

When macro maestro Ray Dalio speaks, investors listen. (True, they don't always agree. But they listen.) Especially when the world can't seem to decide what sort of...

Record low interest rates are doing strange things to markets. They’ve driven 12 consecutive monthly gains in Australian shares as investors buy YAAP (Yield At Any...

(Sydney, September 28, 2021)—At the press conference following the release of the FOMC’s September statement, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that if...

The current question amongst market commentators is who’s winning the transitory vs secular inflation debate?The most recent (August 2021) U.S. CPI data disappointed...

In 2014, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, stated “the problem with quantitative easing (QE) is that it works in practice but it doesn’t work in...

We have a relatively sanguine outlook on inflation, as discussed in “Part 1: Inflation – Tall Tales and True Causes.” Perhaps you don’t share our view. Or perhaps like...

We are now in Spring – and appropriately enough for a traditional time of growth and harvest, let’s discuss food. Throughout history, the development of our society...

The concept of diversified portfolios was first popularised by Harry Markowitz’s 1952 “Modern Portfolio Theory”, which outlined the basic tenets of how risk-adjusted...

This week, the OECD recommended a review of the RBA. They noted the persistent undershooting of inflation, and a variety of factors that might have led to over-tight...

Central banks remain steadfast in their message that the current bump in inflation will prove short-lived. Companies are less sure. A frequent message we have heard...

Supply chain issues were cited by company management numerous times during the recent reporting season and were attributed as one of the key reasons behind operational...

The Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee announcement last week was one of the most highly anticipated for many years. The recent series of readings on the New...

In his speech at the annual Jackson Hole Symposium, Federal Reserve chairman Powell sent three key messages. Firstly, he confirmed that the test of "substantial...