Podcast – China’s deflationary pressures are easing, further cooling expectations for US inflation could be wiped out by rising oil prices

Kelvin Wong, Senior Market Analyst at OANDA, joins Jonny Hart to discuss recent Chinese consumer inflation and factory gate prices for August, which have shown signs of easing deflationary pressures, as well as recent indirect monetary stimulus, with China’s financial regulator giving Chinese insurers more leeway has allowed companies to invest their excess cash in the Chinese stock market. The ECB’s upcoming monetary policy decision and the US CPI numbers for August, where higher oil prices in the last two months could pose a challenge to the Fed’s monetary policy stance.

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