Markets May Be Overly Optimistic on Rate Cuts
by David McNamara, Chief Economist
 
 

 

Further significant declines in headline and core inflation rates look to be in store this spring virtually everywhere, as large price increases a year earlier drop out of the annual comparison. Monthly increases in core inflation last spring, averaged 0.8% in the Eurozone and 1% in the UK, with the core US PCE deflator rising by an average of almost 0.4%. These monthly rises have moderated greatly since then.


 
 
 
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