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Further Details Suggesting Some Moderation In Inflation

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  • The large revisions to CPI-common extend much further back than just May, with sizeable upward revisions back to mid-2021 (20bps) and particularly large (50bps) from March – first chart.
  • That can be interpreted in various ways but one read is that the rotation back to services has seen stronger price pressures than thought and this could be persistent. However, in the absence of M/M rates for these core measures preferred by the BoC, the plateauing in the Y/Y rates for all three measures likely overrides this, especially with headline missing by ‘only’ rising 0.4pps to 8.1% Y/Y.
  • Turning to a more traditional measure of core (simply ex food & energy), sequential inflation cooled from three months averaging +0.67% M/M to +0.35% M/M, back to rates seen at the turn of the year, albeit still clearly above a rate consistent with the 2% inflation target - second chart.
  • This softer sequential rate is further supported by a small miss for industrial product prices (-1.1% M/M vs cons. -0.5%) and raw material prices (-0.1%) also for June.

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