Sentences with phrase «cent in nominal terms»

Retail spending is forecast to rise 3.6 per cent in nominal terms - in line with 2017, but well below the 20 - year average of 5.3 per cent.

Not exact matches

In contrast, medium - term inflation expectations implied by financial market prices, which are calculated as the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have been broadly stable at around 2.6 per cent over the past nine months.

According to the ABS Capital Expenditure Survey, firms expect to increase spending on machinery and equipment investment in nominal terms by only 1 1/2 per cent in 2000/01, once average realisation ratios are applied.

Medium - term inflation expectations of financial market participants, as implied by the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have risen to around 3 per cent in October, from less than 2 per cent at the beginning of the year.

For expenditure on machinery and equipment, growth of around 2 per cent is expected in nominal terms.

The June quarter ABS capital expenditure (Capex) survey points to solid growth of machinery and equipment investment in real terms in 2003/04, although in nominal terms, investment is expected to fall by 3 per cent (assuming a five - year average realisation ratio), reflecting lower prices for investment goods.

The report showed that from December 2017 to the end of February the debt stock in «nominal terms» went up by cents 2.5 billion from January to February 2018.

At a 10 - year Treasury yield of 1.7 %, interest on reserves of 0.25 %, and a monetary base now at about 18 cents per dollar of nominal GDP (see Run, Don't Walk), further purchases of long - term Treasury securities by the Fed would produce net losses for the Fed in any scenario where yields rise more than about 20 basis points a year, or the Fed ever has to unwind any portion of its already massive positions.

«In terms of liquidity preference, a completion of QE2 requires liquidity preference to increase to 16 cents per dollar of nominal GDP - easily the highest level in historIn terms of liquidity preference, a completion of QE2 requires liquidity preference to increase to 16 cents per dollar of nominal GDP - easily the highest level in historin history.

As I noted this past January in Sixteen Cents: Pushing the Unstable Limits of Monetary Policy, a collapse in short - term yields to nearly zero is a predictable outcome of QE2, based on the very robust historical relationship between short - term interest rates and the amount of cash and bank reserves (monetary base) that people are willing to hold per dollar of nominal GDP: