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Is Inflation About To Decelerate Sharply?

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  • In the past few months, we have seen that despite the sharp increase in inflationary pressures, China long-term bond yields have been constantly testing new lows as investors have been more concerned about the rising uncertainty over the Delta variant.
  • The chart below shows the strong divergence between China PPI inflation and the 10Y yield since the start of the year.
  • As a reminder, we use PPI for China instead of CPI inflation as it has had a stronger relationship with the 10Y yield over time.

Source: Bloomberg/MNI


  • While we have seen that the sharp contraction in Chinese 'liquidity' since the last quarter of 2020 has been weighing on both domestic and international asset prices, it has also acted as a strong leading indicator (9M Lead) of Chinese inflation in the past 15 years.
  • The chart below shows that inflationary pressures are now expected to ease significantly in the coming months.

Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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