@SR050321:The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change overtime in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. higher CPI = higher inflation. It can be bullish for consumer staples stocks and bearish for consumer discretionary stocks, as consumers will have less disposable income to spend on luxuries and entertainment. Core Consumer Prices in the United States is expected to be 303.50 points by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. On the basis of these monthly inflation forecasts, average consumer price inflation should be 4.2% in 2023 and 3.0% in 2024, compared to 9.59% in 2022 and 2.44% in 2021. My opinion CPI will go down in March 2023,core CPI will slowly g
@HLPA:Do I hold or buy more Keppel Corporation (BN4)shares on ex- entitlement (XE) today 23 Feb 2923? Keppel Corporation, BN4, share holders today will get 19.1 shares of Sembcorp Marine, S51, shares for every one BN4 share held. The shares will be credited to your trading account on 1st March, 2023. What should you do now? Lets take an example: You own 10,000 BN4 shares before 23Feb2023. The share closed at 7.34 yesterday. If you had sold at this price yesterday. you would get 73,400. Today, if you sell your BN4 say at 5.45 on XE, you will get 54,500 PLUS 191 00 shares and if you sell at 0.125 on 1st March, 2023, would realise 23,875.. In total you will get 54,500+23,875 = 78,375, giving about a 5,000 extra if you had not sold yesterday to earn the entitleme