Sentences with phrase «other measures of inflation»

Not exact matches

Add on the jumps in market - based measures of inflation expectations, the chances of more Federal Reserve hikes, and other macro-economic data points and the moves for the economy have been dramatic.

On the other side of the mandate, the Fed's preferred measure of inflation is below target at around 1.3 percent.

Measures of core inflation remain close to 2 per cent as the effects of past exchange rate depreciation and excess capacity continue to offset each other.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

A few other things about inflation that are a bit odd are the importance of the goods and services that are included in the calculation basket (the UK's CPI measure of inflation conspicuously omits housing costs for example).

This measure has typically been more volatile than other underlying measures, for example showing a higher peak in inflation (adjusted for the effects of tax changes) in 2001.

The exclusion of health services, as well as a number of other services provided by the public sector, largely explains the relatively modest increase in the market goods and services excluding volatile items measure of underlying inflation over the past year.

For example, gravitational way is being a real solid test of inflation, but over the last couple of years, there have been a number of other ideas studying these primordial seeds that John and his collaborators measured.

For Term 2, 2018, it covers resource allocation, production possibility curves, market and mixed economic systems • demand and supply analysis • price elasticity • market failure • social and private costs and benefits, business organization, costs and revenue •, costs and revenue, competition, inflation and deflation • employment and unemployment • GDP, economic growth and recession • GDP and other measures of living standards etc..

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

«Taking these together with pressures on other costs, we forecast that school spending per pupil is likely to fall by around 8 % in real terms [based on a school - specific measure of inflation] between 2014 - 15 and 2019 - 20,» the report says.

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The GPS models the relationship between rates of core inflation and a broad set of economic indicators including measures of slack, inflation expectations, and other inflation - related data such as business surveys and wages.

Interest rates, both nominal and real (i.e. after inflation), are incredibly low, but other measures of financial conditions are less benign.

Among other measures, they examined the «success rate» (cases where the portfolio did not run out of money) for different expected future return scenarios assuming 4 % of the portfolio value (inflation adjusted) is withdrawn annually for 30 years.

The other preferred measure for core inflation, HICP less energy and unprocessed food, came in 1.1 % year - on - year, which is also still in - line with the ECB's 2017 forecast of 1.1 %.

In determining how long to maintain a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy, the Committee will also consider other information, including additional measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial developments.

To be consistent with the practice of other Federal agencies and the Department itself, we have determined that the CPI - U is the most appropriate inflation measure to use to adjust the threshold debt amount.

As I said, this would be a simple fast measure (not considering risk rating of the bonds, inflation and other considerations).