Sentences with phrase «commodities led to inflation»

In January, expensive commodities led to inflation, higher interest rates in developing markets, riots in the Arab world, and lower economic growth.

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In fact, the sentiment is so heavily skewed towards deflation, low growth and low interest rates forever right now that an unexpected rise in inflation in the coming years could lead to great returns in commodities for a time.

Printing press money aimed at stimulating the economy but only serving to push up commodity and stock prices without adding to the supply side of the economy leads to inflation.

Since commodities are viewed as a hedge against inflation, this drop has led to a collapse in investor demand.

Since commodities are viewed as a hedge against inflation, this drop has led to a collapse in investor demand.

The problem is, inflation and high commodity prices — including oil and gas prices — tend to feed on each other in a vicious circle: people stock up on commodities to hedge against inflation, which leads to even higher prices, and thus inflation continues to rise.

One consequence is that inflation fears could lead to inflation through massive deployment of money into inflation - hedging assets such as commodities.