Sentences with phrase «while food inflation»

While food inflation may help to stabilise margins, a less favourable regulatory environment will make it tough for supermarkets to expand margins.

Not exact matches

China's consumer inflation rate grew at its fastest pace in six months in October as food prices rose, while producer prices accelerated to a near - five year high, exceeding expectations.

For example, while the Bank of Canada uses core inflation to set its monetary policy, that figure does not include the cost of fuel and food, which nonetheless represent a significant chunk of many household budgets.

Similarly, some will point to high levels of inflation, but breaking China inflation down into food, non food and housing (see chart below; white line - food, orange line - non food, yellow line - rents), a big part of non-food makes it pretty clear that food is beginning to turn for its own reasons, while house prices and rents really are falling out of bed.

This turmoil has confirmed what our central banker, Mark Carney, said in his statement last week: that the economy is growing, in both Canada and globally, but the recovery is still fragile, especially in the US and the Euro - periphery, and that while food and gas prices have pushed up inflation, it should moderate from here.

Headline inflation in the 19 - country eurozone was just 0.2 % in the year to end - August, according to Eurostat, while core inflation (excluding food and energy) was 1 %, well off the ECB's inflation target of just below 2 %.

The Fed's preferred Personal Consumption Expenditures price index hit the two - percent target in March for the first time in nearly a year, while «core» inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was 1.9 percent.

Overall inflation decelerated after an energy induced sharp increase in April, while core inflation (excluding food and energy) increased slightly.

Even if we can not know the answer to all of society's ills, even if we can not pretend to know how to solve the problems of crime and drugs and inflation and poverty, we can still proclaim that it is obviously and unquestionably a moral wrong to maintain a penal system based on vengeance instead of rehabilitation; to allow human rights violations to go unchallenged (on either side of the iron curtain); to waste vast quantities of food and resources while others are malnourished and sick and poor; or to allow so many children in our own midst to go through childhood unwanted and unloved and even abused.

The NRA reported that the general state of the economy made it difficult for many restaurants to build and maintain sales volumes, while wholesale food price inflation reached its highest rate — 8 percent — in 30 years.

While on - going droughts across North America will undoubtedly fuel food inflation, action will be taken to manage cost spikes, Maple Leaf CEO says.

RIG (Real Internal Growth) accelerated to 2.6 percent and continued to be at the high end of the food and beverage industry, while pricing was 0.2 percent, largely reflecting lower levels of inflation in emerging markets.

While this has been going on, however, Tesco has put pressure on suppliers to keep prices down in an attempt to absorb some of the 3 % food inflation forecast for the UK.

«As for March, there was an increase in yearly prices due to inflation — a 582.9 percent increase for food, while the level of scarcity of basic products remains at 41.37 percent.»

Knowing BOCs boss I would not be surprised at all if we move to negative nominal interest rates while inflation is at 8 - 10 % annually (of course the very move of cutting the rates down instead of raising it up will kill the CAD and the imports will skyrocket, including food, so 10 % inflation is pretty much guaranteed)

It's really the second year of strong fresh - food inflation,» said Weston while recapping the company's third quarter results.

Statistics Canada said higher shelter costs and food prices also increased the inflation rate, while costs for health and personal care declined.

One teething problem in the burgeoning biofuel industry is the issue of sustainability: Some biofuels actually increase greenhouse gas emissions while being claimed to prevent them; others add to food price inflation pressures; in some parts of the world, the labor conditions of biofuel crop farm workers have been called into question.