Sentences with phrase «weak inflation at»

Weak inflation at the producer level could add to concerns that the factors restraining inflation could become more persistent and result in the Federal Reserve being more cautious about raising interest rates this year.

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«It's the weaker dollar, it's the inflation focus and it's also to some extent the market is continuing to look for a hedge against a world that's becoming incredibly complacent with stocks at record highs,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen.

China's uneven economic recovery signals a looming dilemma for policymakers as official data released at the weekend showed inflation at a 10 - month high in February while factory output and consumer spending were weaker than forecast.

At the same time, the Fed may raise rates if inflation picks up, and there's a host of reasons that could occur: acceleration in wages, a weaker dollar, rising commodity prices, growing risks of protectionism, overseas cash repatriation.

China's consumer inflation remained weak in December, while price declines at the factory gate level continued to deepen, suggesting weakness in the world's second - largest economy but giving policy makers more room to take easing measures.

At the same time, manufacturers pointed to the weakest rate of input price inflation so far in 2016, despite rising demand for raw materials and some reports of renewed stock shortages among suppliers.

Meanwhile, average cost burdens continued to rise at manufacturing firms in April, but the rate of inflation eased markedly since March to the weakest so far in 2016.

In fact the experience of the past year, as the Deputy Governor noted recently, is that while growth seems to be turning out weaker than expected at the end of last year, underlying inflation seems to be turning out higher.

Among them are factors I've discussed at length elsewhere — a weaker U.S. dollar, a steadily flattening yield curve, heightened market volatility, overvalued U.S. stocks, expectations of higher inflation, trade war jitters, geopolitical risks and more.

The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at government bond yields — deficit spending, a weaker U.S. dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.

Wages are rising at about the same pace as inflation, which is weak by historical standards, and suggests that households have limited spending power.

In February the HICP fell by 0.1 % with core inflation up by 0.1 % even the three - month pace of inflation is below 1.5 % at 1.4 % with the core pace even weaker at 1.2 %.

With the UK economy gradually picking up pace and inflation rising on the back of a weaker currency, the UK's central bank may finally go ahead with a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate - bond purchases untouched at # 435 and # 10 billion respectively.

The release was a bit of a Goldilocks report for the market, as it continued the narrative that the economy is growing at a healthy pace, but the weakest performance in consumer spending in five years punched a hole in the inflation bubble that hurt the market early in the week.

Assuming the ECB had become worried about weaker core inflation dynamics at the end of last year, the February HICP report certainly did not help.

The euro plunged from near two - year highs to a six - week low against the dollar in early November, after weak inflation figures stoked fears about demand in the 17 - member economy, according to Nawaz Ali, UK market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions.

Emirates stadium and huge sponsor deals we finally have had two poor years by his standards at the helm we always havent been so great and are we weak supporters or strong give him a contract i mean hes won with ants for money let him spend for once cause even if we do get new manager inflation has occured and no body else will win with the small amounts we gave him to spend and in 20 years actuall more it seems the club is finally willing to spend give him a contract let him spend and if we do nt improve which i think we will i think that the club is finally willing to spend shows were on an upturn because as long as top four the owner and board weren't and after we spend big or somewhat big for once and auba and mkhitaryan arent the big im hoping for i want more if liverpoodlians can pay 75million for a cb let wenget spend a bit and if we still do bad we can always sack him or ask him to leave wouldnt be uncommon but we owe it to him and do nt say we do not because emirates london colney that will bring in high talent here for years to come and we have never spent for him just gave little and hes always done big things with little i think he can do bigger things in his final years if we give him big i do nt see us in decline but if we sack him we will be for a good three maybe four years

For example, the double - digit inflation of the 1970's was caused by banks keeping interest rates low in an attempt to stimulate a weak economy, at a time when imported inflation from the oil shock was high (leading to stagflation).

Policy makers assume inflation will be back at its two - percent target by the middle of 2018, but said they will spend extra efforts studying price movements to get a better feel for why inflation indicators are so weak.

The relationship of yield to the real return of bonds is much weaker because the market - implied inflation rate at the purchase date could be vastly different from realized inflation over the 10 - year horizon.

But if you look at the statistical evidence, the relationship between monetary growth and inflation is very weak.

It announced that billing rates for partners at elite corporate firms keep rising, despite low inflation and weak demand — and that a new hourly rate had been reached: at $ 1,500 an hour!

«Continued economic uncertainty and weak inflation data pushed rates lower this week,» says Sean Becketti, chief economist at Freddie Mac.

Inflation is «weaker than the Fed would like, weaker than anyone would like, but not so weak that it calls the whole outlook into question,» said Roberto Perli, partner at Cornerstone Macro LLC in Washington, and a former Fed official.