{"id":5899,"date":"2024-02-06T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T08:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2024-02-06T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T08:57:25","slug":"oecd-uk-set-for-highest-level-of-inflation-in-g7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/it\/oecd-uk-set-for-highest-level-of-inflation-in-g7\/","title":{"rendered":"OECD: UK Set for Highest Level of Inflation in G7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Travel Tuesday: China<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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The second largest economy and population in the world:<\/h4>\n

Population <\/strong>(2023) 1.41 billion<\/h4>\n

GDP<\/strong> (2023) $17.52 trillion<\/h4>\n

GDP Per Capita <\/strong>$12,425<\/h4>\n

Bicycles in Beijing <\/strong>> 9 million<\/h4>\n

Year of The<\/strong> Dragon<\/h4>\n

Land Mass<\/strong> 9.6 million square Km<\/h4>\n

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have released fresh forecasts which indicate that the UK will suffer the highest level of inflation within the G7 this year. Despite the OECD downwardly revising inflation expectations from the 2.9% forecast in November to the 2.8% forecast yesterday, projections still come above Canada (at 2.6%), France (at 2.7%), Germany (at 2.6%), Italy (at 1.8%), Japan (at 2.6%) and the US (at 2.2%).<\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s inflation print indicated that UK CPI remains double the Bank of England\u2019s target, having risen 10bps from the previous month\u2019s 3.9% figure. Core inflation continues to remain well above target too at 5.1% – well above the long-term average of 1.98% from 1997-2023. Given the \u2018sticky\u2019 nature inflation in the services sector, the BoE continue to face headwinds as interest rates remain at 16-year highs.<\/p>\n

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Looking more broadly at inflation, the OECD stated that \u201cinflation is projected to be back to target in most G20 countries by the end of 2025. Headline inflation in the G20 economies is projected to drop from 6.6% in 2024 to 3.8% in 2025, with core inflation in the G20 advanced economies easing to 2.5% in 2024 and 2.1% in 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n

While the OCED downwardly revised inflation expectations, it also downgraded growth forecasts for 2024. The group now estimate that the UK will see just 0.7% growth in GDP this year ahead of 1.2% growth next year. This marks the third slowest growth in the G7, behind the European powerhouses of Germany and France. Looking more globally, the OECD cited tighter financial conditions and the impact of geopolitical factors in the Red Sea pointing to \u201csome moderation of growth\u201d moving forward.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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BRC Retail Sales Sink to Lowest Level in Fifteen Months<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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This morning the BRC Like-For-Like Retail Sales beat expectations though eased for the second consecutive month as the cost of living continues to impact consumer spending. Against the forecasted 1.2% level, retail sales rose 1.4% on an annualised basis, dropping from last month\u2019s print of 1.9%. Today\u2019s print also marks the lowest level in fifteen months as weak consumer demand fed into lower levels of spending, along with the BRC citing poor weather putting off shoppers.<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s stock market has traded positively today, as authorities there are trying to talk a very good game when it comes to stabilisation. The government\u2019s plan is to \u201cguide institutional investors…to enter the market with greater effort\u201d \u2013 this can be loosely translated to \u201cstate owned and backed funds and companies will buy what they\u2019re told, when they\u2019re told, in however much they\u2019re told\u201d!<\/p>\n

The news was enough to send the market higher by 3.5% and it\u2019s hoped that this will now be enough to stabilise the market as we get into the holidays at the end of this week \u2013 though lighter trading volumes as we get closer to the weekend will mean less capacity to absorb any shocks if we do get any last-minute jitters.<\/p>\n

Other good news for China is that they\u2019re apparently set to build \u2018next generation\u2019 smartphone semiconductors, despite US efforts to slow down their access to the manufacturing technology. SMIC is the country\u2019s largest chip manufacturer and they\u2019re set to make a Huawei designed microprocessor that has a distance between transistors of just five nanometres, meaning that in just one square millimetre a chip can have 125-300 million transistors on it!<\/p>\n

This is important because it takes this kind of computing power to process the amount of data that Artificial Intelligence\u2019s Large Language Models consume and with these developments it seems that China has narrowed the gap between themselves and market leader Nvidia and this kind of success is likely to lead to China doubling down on the development, despite the eye-watering cost of chip manufacturing infrastructure, and the still limited access to the kit that it needs from the West. The FT has the story, click here to read.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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