Sentences with phrase «about inflation at»

While we aren't worried about inflation at this very moment, we expect that interest rates will rise at some point later this year.

While we aren't worried about inflation at this very moment, we expect that interest rates will rise at some point later this year.

China made the move because it is worried about inflation at home.

Not exact matches

Against three - digit world oil prices, these costs may seem competitive, but a look at some historical figures reveals why investors may remain nervous about oilsands cost inflation.

At that time, the markets dropped over concerns about higher inflation.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Since the early 1990s, the Bank of Canada essentially has had one job: keeping annual inflation at about 2 %.

However, when we look at valuations and compare them to periods of low and stable inflation, it only looks like it's about 20 % overvalued.

So, if there's a lot of global slack, that will make them less concerned about inflation pressures, but by then, if a lot of places are at relatively full employment and seeing target inflation, that will make them want to make sure that we're not going into an overheating kind of mode.

So again, this idea of consolidation was more about looking at history, trying to understand how markets trade, and the sense that there's probably more wage inflation than people perceive.

Nixon said the Germans are probably suffering from a «lack of legitimacy» at the central bank and are still very concerned about the impact of quantitative easing — a massive stimulus program following the euro zone debt crisis of 2011 that's designed to boost lending but also stoke inflation.

«He's very optimistic about the economy and he's optimistic they can hit the inflation target,» said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies.

Now that inflation is back in the crosshairs of the markets, as investors try to understand what has caused such a swift correction in stocks, it's worth looking back at what Buffett has said about inflation in the past.

The sharp moves this week have raised questions about how quickly investors would be willing to buy stocks at lower prices or stay cautious amid the threat of higher inflation.

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

«They ask themselves — 1) What I absolutely need to live on and therefore need to shield from investment risk; (2) What I need to make my investments grow at the market rate and beyond inflation so I can meet my future needs; (3) What do I dream about and need to take risks around in order to come true?»

The worries about inflation's impact on savings come at a time when retirement finances are in flux.

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).

«Since early 2015, wage inflation has risen by about 0.6 % and annual job growth has slowed by about 0.4 %,» Jim Paulsen, Chief Investment Strategist & Economist at Wells Capital Management points out in an email.

During a Saturday session at the symposium, such a slump in expectations about inflation and about other aspects of the economy was cited as a central problem complicating central banks» efforts to reach inflation targets and dimming prospects in Japan and Europe.

«I will be looking closely at the evolution of inflation before making a determination about further adjustments to the federal funds rate,» she said.

The central bank's only real job is to keep inflation at about 2 %.

But that's at least in part because those of us who get paid to write about such things have been conditioned to treat inflation as a non-story.

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.

Wall Street has grown worried about a possible spike in US inflation following the passage of tax cuts at a time when the unemployment rate is already at a 17 - year low.

Just as a rough example assuming no 401K and no company match and just an individual IRA with an assumed inflation adjusted equivalent of $ 6K per year for 18 years at say 5 % yielding about $ 170K at age 40 then it sits at 5 % for twenty more years would give you about $ 450K at age 60.

December 2009 (1967 kb PDF file): The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about political influence and the financial crisis (by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel); research summaries on «Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Financial Crises» (by Prakash Kannan) and «Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies» (by Turgut Kýþýnbay); the contents of the latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during October — December 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes

«They were rightly more optimistic about growth and they were less confident about inflation because they at least stopped claiming energy prices were stable.

I don't think things will get better until the inflation target is raised, at least there is an increasing number of influential people talking about it.

That certainly was the market reaction this morning, as the 10 - year bond yield spiked on the report, suggesting concerns about future inflation and a more aggressive rate - hike schedule at the Fed.

If we take the median forecast of $ US 19 / tonne at 2000 prices, add inflation and convert to CAD at current exchange rates, that works out to about $ C 25 / tonne.

Looking for something, well, boring to invest in at a time of soaring oil prices, Middle East unrest, concern about inflation and so on?

-- > The value of investing in relationships for the long - haul — > Investing in your health and longevity as a way to increase your lifetime earnings — > Why longer life expectancies should change the way you think about investing — > The shockingly low rate of personal savings and investment in the US — > My favorite part of the interview: whether we can reasonably expect the US markets to keep going up at their long - term average 7 % per year after inflation, or whether that was a unique period of US expansion which won't be repeated again.

Since about 1984, inflation rates (green) have hovered at a manageable 1 - 6 %, with a downward trend.

That's dampening what little inflation exists in the economy, which is troubling for the Bank of Canada because it's mandated to keep prices advancing at a rate of about 2 per cent a year.

As the figure at the end shows, inflation (core PCE) looks to be about a point lower now, give or take.

HIGHLIGHT Annual inflation in the Eurozone unexpectedly slipped to just 1.2 % in April, as prices of services increased at a slower pace adding to doubts about the ECB's plan for a gradual withdrawal of monetary stimulus.

Individuals living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point of collapse, or the availability of basic

Inflation expectations remain well anchored at about 2 per cent.

If we assume the market returns to appreciation matching inflation at 3 %, our portfolio is appreciating in value by about that same amount, $ 5,555 a month.

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

«Looking at either the headline or trimmed mean measures, annual inflation appears to have fallen to about 1 per cent.

I'm okay with having money that we'll definitely use in a couple of years sitting in a bank account, but if we want to not worry about having to buy in a rush for fear of inflation, then we need to have that money at least keeping up with it.

The Fed targets inflation at about 2 percent as a guard against deflation, which could drag down wages and spark another recession.

The Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a duration of just under 2 years, mostly in Treasury inflation protected securities, and about 20 % of assets in precious metals shares, for which the Market Climate continues to be favorable at present.

Underlying inflation ran at around 3 1/4 per cent for the year, and at an annualised pace of about 2 3/4 per cent in the second half of the year.

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.

The BOE (Bank of England) mainly has one mandate of keeping the inflation level at about 2 %.

I mean, think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.

The pull back in bond yields, at least for the moment, quelled fears about inflation.