UK inflation’s real core is still recovering – Nomura

By FXStreet Philip Rush, Research Analyst at Nomura, suggests that the UK CPI inflation increased to 0.3% y-o-y in January, in line with the consensus, but disappointing our forecast while they see a meaningfully large move in September to above 1.0% before going above 2% in early 2017.

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“There were mixed headline surprises to the various inflation release areas for January. CPI inflation matched consensus expectations by rising to 0.3% y-o-y, while RPI inflation was a little disappointing in its rise to only 1.3% and producer prices fell by less than had been forecast. We had been slightly more bullish on the CPI (forecasting 0.4%), and at least in our case, the news was narrowly concentrated in transport.

We prefer looking at the median of the monthly inflation rates of all the constituent parts of the CPI basket. Calculated from the raw non-seasonally adjusted data, a clear upward trend since January 2015 can be seen, with a spike higher in the latest release. The absolute rates are low, but that is because the more seasonal items being stripped out from this measure normally have a higher trend rate of inflation.

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Source:: FX Street