TD Securities monthly inflation comes in soft

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The TD Securities monthly inflation gauge for October is out and is up a measly 0.1% month on month, prior was 0.2%. Year on year is up 2.4% prior was 2.4%. Here is the chart:

Nothing to worry about here for tomorrow’s meeting. Interestingly, however, if the housing is finally stimulated as planned by the politburo in Canberra and Martin place then it may not be long before they need to reign it in again. The following is the RP Data house price index charted against TD.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.