Australian Economy Australian interest rates

Another Australian CPI preview

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Westpac:

•Westpac’s forecast for the headline CPI is 0.8%qtr lifting the annual pace a little from 1.8%yr to 2.1%yr.

•While seasonality may be a factor for individual components, overall on ABS seasonal factors seasonality is not an issue for the December quarter CPI.

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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.