Sentences with phrase «annual inflation gauges»

The rise in the annual inflation gauges reported by the Commerce Department was anticipated by economists and Fed officials and is not expected to alter the US central bank's gradual pace of interest rate increases.

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The index, which the BOJ scrutinises in gauging the broad price trend, showed annual consumer inflation slowed to 1.1 % in January from 1.3 % in December.

This appears for now to be a sizeable hurdle to the Bank tightening, not least because the effect of a weaker pound on the annual gauges of inflation should start to fade by the end of 2017.

The Fed's policy statement acknowledged inflation was heading toward the central bank's annual 2 % target, with the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the personal - consumption expenditures index for March, rising to a 12 - month rate of 2 % for the first time in a year.

And that's only if you believe inflation gauges placing the annual rate in the neighborhood of 2 %.