Annual inflation readings in March of last year were held down by large declines in the price of cell phone service plans.
Not exact matches
British
inflation stood at 2.3 percent in
annual terms in the month of March, unchanged from the near four - year high seen in the February
reading.
Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published this month showed officials expected the
annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft
readings on
inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation.»
Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published on April 11 showed officials expected the
annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft
readings on
inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation».
Hence, it will be some time before the CPI will provide a completely unambiguous
reading of the
annual inflation rate unaffected by the tax changes.
These will have their main impact in the September quarter but it will be some time before the CPI, or underlying
inflation measures based on the CPI, will provide a clear
reading of
annual inflation unaffected by the tax changes.
Eurozone
inflation grew at an
annual pace of 1.2 % in April, Eurostat said, slightly lower from a
reading of 1.3 % in the previous month.
Assuming initial home value $ 500,000, initial tax - deferred investment portfolio value $ 1 million,
annual withdrawal 4 % of initial investment portfolio value ($ 40,000, subsequently adjusted for
inflation) and marginal tax rate 25 % for investment portfolio withdrawals, he finds that: Keep
Reading
Using global industrial production growth as specified,
annual total returns for 30 country, two regional and world stock indexes, currency spot and one - year forward exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar, spot prices on 19 commodities, total
annual returns for a global government bond index and a U.S. corporate bond index, and country
inflation rates as available during 1970 through 2013, they find that: Keep
Reading
More importantly, the +3.0 %
annual reading is below the BOE's forecast that CPI will rise by 3.2 % year - on - year in October, as laid out in the November
Inflation Report.