On Tuesday, the latest inflation figures showed that the CPI rate dropped to 4.1% in November.
China will release core inflation figures on Wednesday, with consensus of 5.5%. down from September inflation of 6.1%.
Taken alone, these inflation figures are unlikely to spur America's central bankers into pushing up interest rates soon.
"The commodities and crude oil prices are pushing the inflation figures up, " said Credit Suisse chief economist Hiromichi Shirakawa.
The inflation figures come ahead of minutes due to be published on Wednesday of the Bank's April interest rate meeting.
Dulling punters' enthusiasm for regional bourses is a cocktail of widening current-account deficits, rising interest rates and high inflation figures.
Nomura economists George Lei and Tony Volpon say they expect lower monthly inflation figures starting as early as this month.
Recent inflation figures suggest that there is still little upward price pressure in America, despite the implication of the Fed's rate increase.
Since 2007 Argentina's government has published inflation figures that almost nobody believes.
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By the same token, today's benign core inflation figures may be understating price pressures, particularly given the falling dollar and record oil prices.
RPI's credibility is likely to be further enhanced by an initiative designed to counter a widespread lack of public trust in the official inflation figures.
Higher food and commodity prices were expected to drop out of the inflation figures eventually, but instead seem to have leached into other consumer prices.
The dilemma sharpened in late April when inflation figures were published.
But this caused barely a blip in the official inflation figures.
MPC's actions succeed in keeping inflation on average at its 2.5% target, you would expect significant fluctuations around that target in the measured inflation figures.
Mr Ramos from Goldman Sachs said the elevated inflation figures and lacklustre growth rates were the symptoms of a policy mix based on government intervention.
If it's a guide to the other energy companies, then this is going to hit the inflation figures, continuing the battle to get prices under control.
The manufacturing data was China's first economic release of the month, and will be followed by trade and inflation figures at the end of next week.
But the almost bull's-eye precision of the inflation figures in the past two years has been due to a lot of different factors cancelling each other out.
Argentina still suffers from a yawning credibility gap with investors, due to its shortsighted economic policies in general, and its meddling with the inflation figures in particular.
But it is a signal moment when an Anglo-Saxon economy, wedded to the ideology of inflation targeting for the past 20 years, suddenly begins to "look through" the inflation figures.
The latest inflation figures showed that rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK fell slightly to 5% during October, down from a rate of 5.2% the month before.
And Charles Goodhart, a former MPC member, told Today presenter Evan Davis that higher commodity prices and a planned rise in the VAT rate "might make the inflation figures over the early winter pretty poor".
He is effectively allowing the bank to "look through" the inflation figures, as they go above 2%, and to take unorthodox measures like buying company debt (aka lending to companies) even if it boosts inflation.
These stimulus measures can lead to higher inflation, but the IMF's report comes on the same day of the latest UK inflation figures, which show a sharp drop in the annual rate to 3% last month, the lowest rate since February 2010.
Mr Laidlaw's initial findings, revealed in October, talked of officials not following their own guidelines, not treating the bidders equally, failing to include inflation in their figures and ignoring warnings of possible problems months before the deal capsized.
Clough likes bonds because he thinks that inflation is even lower than the figures show, and thus inflation-adjusted yields on bonds are higher than most people assume.
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