Asian PMI Slows Down Weaker Demand Will Hit Inflation

Factory activity stumbled across much of Asia in September, with slowdowns in India, Japan and Taiwan and an outright decline in South Korea delivering a setback to hopes for a pick in world growth this year.

The lackluster performance helped lift the U.S. dollar above 110.00 yen for the first time since mid-2008 while punishing commodity prices globally, a positive for consumers but also a force for disinflation.

Indeed, subsiding price pressures was a feature of many of the manufacturing surveys out on Wednesday. Even Taiwan, one of the stronger economies in the region, reported output prices were cut for the eighth month in a row, while input inflation was the lowest in over a year.

 
“This should give the authorities plenty of room to keep policy accommodative to support growth,” said HSBC economist, John Zhu, a conclusion that goes for plenty of other countries.

via Reuters

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