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CIBC Below Consensus For CPI, Eyeing Cuts As Early As 2Q24

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  • CIBC see headline CPI declining -0.1% M/M (-0.2% in SA terms) with the annual rate slowing to 3.0% Y/Y, below consensus of 0.2% M/M and 3.2% Y/Y.
  • Lower gasoline prices in both M/M and Y/Y terms are a main diver, whilst “food price inflation should also continue to ease, even though prices are still expected to be up modestly on the month”.
  • “In contrast, ex food/energy prices could look a little firmer than in the prior month, with a 0.3% seasonally adjusted increase expected.”
  • Breadth is still important though and “this increase is still anticipated to be more narrowly based than the inflation we were seeing in the first half of the year, with mortgage interest costs and rental prices the main contributors.”
  • They expect the BoC’s preferred trim and median measures to decelerate further on both a Y/Y and 3-month annualized basis, which along with the narrow breadth of inflationary drivers “would enable rate cuts to start as early as Q2 next year”.

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