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蒙特婁銀行表示,3月的情況可能更糟,4月可能是加拿大今年通膨率的高峰。

-- 蒙特婁銀行(BMO)在周一公佈消費者物價指數(CPI)數據後指出,加拿大3月消費者物價季增0.9%,推動年比整體通膨率從上月的1.8%上升至2.4%。 BMO指出,這一漲幅並不令人意外,因為汽油價格在當月飆升了創紀錄的21.2%(有記錄可追溯至1949年),但核心通膨率低於預期,使得3月份整體通膨率略低於市場普遍預期的2.6%左右。 BMO表示,加拿大央行的兩項主要核心通膨指標表現“平穩”,中位數同比維持在2.3%的穩定水平,而小幅寬鬆至2.2%,創五年新低。 BMO也指出,剔除食品和能源價格後的傳統核心通膨指標仍徘徊在2%的目標附近。 BMO補充道,短期指標均維持在目前水準甚至更低,核心通膨的廣度也顯著緩和。 BMO指出,整體情況相當失衡,五大漲幅均受石油衝擊推動,分別是汽油、旅遊、機票、燃油和休閒車燃料。 同時,BMO表示,上月拖累經濟的主要因素多種多樣,顯示經濟的根本問題是疲軟。報告指出,電話服務、汽車保險、家具、糖果和抵押貸款利息成本上月均有所下降。但報告也指出,消費者面臨的兩個痛點並不樂觀:食品雜貨價格同比小幅上漲,從4.1%升至4.4%,其中新鮮蔬菜價格上漲最為顯著;而租金也從3.9%小幅上漲至4.2%。 展望下月報告,BMO表示,通膨目前已面臨兩大不利因素,預計將走高。首先,由於消費者碳稅已於2025年4月1日取消,基數效應無論如何都會大幅推高通膨。其次,即使近期有所回落,且聯邦政府的汽油稅減免政策已於本週一生效,汽油價格仍將比3月份的平均水平上漲約7%。 BMO表示,預計這些因素將使下個月的整體通膨率略高於3%。然而,BMO補充道,這取決於油價走勢以及霍爾木茲海峽關閉的時間長短,4月份有可能成為今年通膨率的峰值——這裡特別強調「有可能」。 總而言之,BMO認為3月的通膨情況可能更糟。 BMO指出,儘管其他主要經濟體的整體通膨率大幅上升,但汽油價格的創紀錄上漲也顯著推高了加拿大上個月的通膨率。不過,BMO表示,核心通膨情況略好於預期,並延續了近期核心通膨趨勢穩定放緩的趨勢。 BMO認為,如果不是因為伊朗衝突,目前的討論焦點應該是加拿大央行極有可能降息,而不是升息。該行補充說,3月的消費者物價指數也印證了這個觀點。

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