The data have added to Fed rate cut expectations, though the fly in the ointment is the pop up in the 12-month
expected inflation rate in the consumer confidence report, as weak inflation is the main predicate behind the doves' argument for an easing.
Last month, central bank governor Marwan Abbasi said he
expected inflation to fall to 6.8 percent, or 6.9 percent in 2019, from 7.5 percent in 2018, after the central bank's decision to raise its benchmark interest rate.
The Department of Finance (DOF) earlier said that rice was the culprit for higher than
expected inflation this year as the agency noted that the contribution of the staple food to the rate of increase in consumer prices skyrocketed by tenfold.
The Egyptian government
expected inflation to decline by the end of 2017/2018 from 17 percent to 13 percent, according to former Minister of Finance Amr el-Garhy.
Since start of the y ear
expected inflation declined by 1.1%.
Statista, an online statistics, market research, and business intelligence portal, issued a report on the
expected inflation rates in the Egyptian market over the coming four years.
More recently, with many central banks such as the Federal Reserve starting to face the ZLB and to cope with weak economic demand, many policy proposals have been made based on the perception that an increase in
expected inflation is a good thing to stimulate economic activity.
The latest estimate of 10-year
expected inflation is 1.87 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
These include the simple Phillips curve and the expectations-augmented Phillips curve that shows unemployment as a function of the difference between actual and
expected inflation e.g., (Gozgor, 2013; Catik, Martin, & Onder, 2011).
The International Monetary Fund in its Regional Economic Outlook Update in June said
expected inflation figures for the UAE for the year stand at a mere 1.6 per cent, the least in the Menap region.
The level surprised analysts who had
expected inflation to be broadly in line with July's level.