Sentences with phrase «about inflation indexed»

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May 1 (Reuters)- U.S. stock index futures treaded water on Tuesday, as strong earnings failed to excite investors who instead fretted about inflation, rising costs and protectionist policies.

In Vermont, where the minimum wage is currently $ 8.60 and has been above the federal level and indexed to inflation since 2007, small business owners don't think much about the annual wage increases anymore, says Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

May 1 (Reuters)- U.S. stock index futures were down slightly on Tuesday after disappointing results from Pfizer, while investor concerns about inflation, rising costs and protectionist policies continued.

Their inflation - indexed pension income is set at about 70 % of the retiring wage, including the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).

While the annual contribution limits are set at 18 % of the previous year's earned income, they are capped at about $ 25,000 a year (although indexed to inflation).

This week, Germany's business pages have been full of little warnings about the Return of Inflation, the biggest bogeyman in the Teutonic economic lexicon, all because the annual consumer price index rose to its highest level in over three years in December, a shocking 1.7 %.

An abrupt rise in interest rates, concerns about rising inflation, and a potentially more hawkish Federal Reserve have created an equity market tantrum that now has the Dow and S&P 500 Index in full correction territory (a correction is a price decline of between 10 % and 20 %).

Bond indexes have declined this year, as the growing economy has led the Fed to raise interest rates and investors have grown increasingly concerned about the potential for accelerating inflation.

This means that the Fed only has to worry about inflation the broad indices like the Dow, SPX and Nasdaq.

The Liberal platform also stated that if a senior's inflation index turned about to be lower than the national CPI, the general CPI would compensate seniors, not the seniors CPI.

I agree with the Accumulator's points about Global Index linkers but would point out that a Global Equity fund would also give a measure of protection against home - grown inflation via currency depreciation as well as capital / income growth.

I got in touch with L&G in 2014 to ask them about the average duration of holdings in the Global Inflation Linked Bond Index Fund, they responded that it was 8.20.

Any non-federal employee earning the equivalent of an MP's salary, who wants an equivalent inflation - indexed benefit backed by the federal government, would need to buy federal real - return bonds — to the tune of about 70 per cent of income!

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.

 (You can't say that about far too many defined benefit pension plans, and there is no inflation indexing of other pensions.)

(I'm not talking about official numbers which are not believable except by the brainwashed; I'm talking about the real rate of inflation reported by the Chapwood index or shadowstats.com.)

That boost is slightly above the Consumer Price Index, a marker for inflation, that has been running about 1.5 percent annually.

Couple this with various features of the plans themselves — for instance, early retirement provisions allowing teachers to retire in their early - to - mid 50s, unrealistic assumptions about investment returns, and cost - of - living adjustments not tied to any inflation index such as the Consumer Price Index — and you have a system that carries a hefty priceindex such as the Consumer Price Index — and you have a system that carries a hefty priceIndex — and you have a system that carries a hefty price tag.

That seems to be the general feeling among educational technology advocates about the recent reforms to the federal E-rate program, whether they are applauding a new funding index for inflation, the allowance for «dark fiber» connections, or the funding of pilot wireless - learning programs.

The average wage indexing values for calculating the AIME are available from the Social Security Administration's site, but future indexing values will also need to be projected based on an assumption about their inflation.

The inflation sensitivity is high for commodities with an inflation beta near 15 for world production weighted indices (near 70 % in energy) and closer to 10 for equally weighted indices with about 1/3 weighted in energy.

If you are going to be holding an index ETF for a long time, then you shouldn't be concerned about its share price at all, since the returns would be pretty abysmal either way, but it should suffice for hedging inflation.

«Even though CoreLogic's national home price index got to the same level it was at the prior peak in April of 2006, once you account for inflation over the ensuing 11.5 years, values are still about 18 % below where they were.»

Plus it's already set up to be indexed to inflation so we won't have to worry about future whining that the HBP isn't big enough.

That's about 6.75 % of your initial account value, indexed to inflation.

Currently inflation runs at a rate of about 1.7 % per year, based on the latest year - over-year increase in the consumer price index.

While the annual contribution limits are set at 18 % of the previous year's earned income, they are capped at about $ 25,000 a year (although indexed to inflation).

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[1] More information about these indices can be found here: S&P / BMV Government CETES Bond Index, S&P / BMV Government MBONOS 1 - 5 Year Bond Index, S&P / BMV Government MBONOS 5 - 10 Year Bond Index, S&P / BMV Government Inflation - Linked UDIBONOS 1 + Year Bond Index, S&P / BMV Government International UMS 1 + Year Bond Index.

For more information about the indices following these instruments, please see: S&P / BMV Government CETES Bond Index, S&P / BMV Government MBONOS 1 - 5 Year Bond Index, S&P / BMV Government MBONOS 5 - 10 Year Bond Index, S&P / BMV Government Inflation - Linked UDIBONOS 1 + Year Bond Index.

Vanguard.co.uk has good general information about inflation - indexed instruments and funds too.

@Chad I voted to close this one, but if it's closed, should I copy my answer to the other one, since none of the current answers talk about indexes that track inflation - indexed bonds, only the bonds themselves.

The update to the question about «nearing retirement age» makes a well structured ladder of inflation - indexed bonds sound like a good fit for someone with a low tolerance for volatility who is willing to sacrifice the possibility of growth in exchange for stability and predictability.

And as this column has pointed out before, retiring in this second decade of the 21st century poses challenges for just about any healthy person who lacks an inflation - indexed employer - sponsored Defined Benefit (DB) pension plan.

«If the Fed can maintain a low but positive rate of inflation, within a narrow band of about 1.5 percent of the Consumer Price Index, as it's been doing, inflation will be a non-issue in economic decisions in 2005,» says Doug Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association.