-- 罗森伯格研究公司在周一公布的加拿大消费者价格指数(CPI)数据后表示,此前人们普遍担忧的3月份CPI飙升并未出现,环比上涨0.9%(主要受汽油价格上涨影响),低于市场普遍预期的1.1%。 这是未经季节性调整的数据——经季节性调整后的数据环比上涨0.5%——但罗森伯格研究公司指出,剔除能源价格(汽油价格环比飙升21%,创历史新高)后,CPI持平,并且在过去三个月中一直没有出现任何波动。 3月份CPI同比涨幅从2月份的1.8%回升至2.4%,但仍低于市场预期的2.6%。 关键在于剔除食品和能源价格后的传统核心通胀指数,该指数同比增速从2.0%放缓至1.9%,略低于加拿大央行的目标——罗森伯格指出,这一增速再次低于市场普遍预期的2.2%。 近期加拿大通胀数据的一个显著特征是,曾经火热的住房价格指数出现逆转。过去五个月以及过去八个月中的七个月,该指数经季节性平滑处理后均趋于平稳,同比增速从2025年同期的3.8%降至12年来的最低点0.7%。 一旦美伊战争最终结束,加拿大央行即可重启宽松周期。而任何政策收紧的迹象都已被排除,债券市场此前几周就开始消化这一预期,罗森伯格认为这是错误的。 罗森伯格补充道,关键在于核心经济,其环比完全持平,而此前1月和2月也仅增长了0.1%。过去五年中,这种情况仅出现过三次,凸显了加拿大经济中面向消费者的环节缺乏定价权。 毕竟,六个月的年化增长率已降至1.6%,这是自2020年10月以来加拿大从未见过的水平,当时加拿大央行将政策利率维持在接近零的水平。不仅如此,罗森伯格指出,三个月的年化增长率目前为0.8%,这是自2020年9月以来最疲软的增速。
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