Sentences with phrase «about commodity inflation»

Now, they «re mainly talking about commodity inflation around metal prices like aluminum and steel and oil prices, which translates to the higher packaging costs for many companies.

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While the inflation impact from higher oil prices and commodity prices in general, continue to pump up inflation expectation and push bond yields higher, keep in mind that much of the recent spike in Yields is about as much about supply as it is about inflation.

The firm's commodity strategists reiterated their call in early February, just before the stock market got rocked by concerns about inflation and higher interest rates.

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.

It is a familiar concept that commodities have provided inflation protection as discussed in a recent post about a discussion I had with Bluford Putnam, Managing Director and Chief Economist, of our partner, CME Group, to discuss why inflation is likely to appear this year.

When there's uncertainty in the air and investors become fearful about the economy and major investment markets, we often hear of them flocking to and investing in gold because as a commodity, it's inflation proof as a tangible asset.

Vanguard found that an investment in commodities over the 26 years to 2009 would have provided an annual return of just 2.1 %, just about the rate of inflation.

Investors and asset managers who didn't understand the operational realities of the monetary system made devastatingly erroneous predictions about the direction of interest rates, inflation, stocks, commodities and the economy in general.

In just over five years, the price of the commodity — electricity — increased 62 %, a multiple of the inflation rate during that five years, which added about $ 400 to the average consumer bill.

If you know consumers who are looking for a hedge against the rising cost of commodities and the inflation that usually accompanies it, you have a story to tell them about real estate.