The fears about inflation have certainly dropped below our radar.
With
fears about inflation now subsiding, many market observers believe that the yield curve will steepen only after the federal funds rate is lowered.
The pull back in bond yields, at least for the moment, quelled
fears about inflation.
Fears about inflation and spiking bond yields caused an earthquake on Wall Street in early February.
The market selloff started on Friday, largely driven by investor
fears about inflation and what that might mean for Federal Reserve action on interest rates.
Not exact matches
As a result,
inflation is near the top of the list of things people
fear about retirement.
U.S. consumer prices rose considerably more than expected in January, fueling
fears that
inflation is
about to turn dangerously higher.
INFLATION: The biggest, most commonly held fear investors are talking about right now is that inflation will rise sharply enough to force the Federal Reserve to accelerate interest rate i
INFLATION: The biggest, most commonly held
fear investors are talking
about right now is that
inflation will rise sharply enough to force the Federal Reserve to accelerate interest rate i
inflation will rise sharply enough to force the Federal Reserve to accelerate interest rate increases.
Wall Street stock futures are lower this morning after a fresh set of depressing
inflation data from China that have revived
fears about it exporting deflation to the rest of the world.
In bonds, the
fear about Depression gripping the markets had a striking result last week, as investors priced
inflation - protected bonds as if the rate of
inflation would be essentially zero for the next 5 years or more.
Now the current levels of volatility have emanated from a number of different sources: political uncertainty, concerns
about rising
inflation, concerns
about rising interest rates, concerns
about a trade war, cybersecurity
fears, all of these different things.
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.
Even during the 1970s, the period when the gold price famously rocketed upward in parallel with increasing
fear of «
inflation», the gold rally was mostly
about declining real interest rates and declining confidence in both monetary and fiscal governance.
There was a mild form of
inflation fears about a year ago and then it went away.
The euro plunged from near two - year highs to a six - week low against the dollar in early November, after weak
inflation figures stoked
fears about demand in the 17 - member economy, according to Nawaz Ali, UK market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions.
What we are talking
about is the
fear of significantly higher
inflation where investors turn to bitcoin, ether, Ripple and other altcoins as a storehouse of value.
I'll grant you that it seems possible, even likely, that the market's recent frenetic ups and downs could be a prelude to a nosedive, whether the ultimate trigger turns out to be
fear of a trade war, concerns
about inflation or rising interest rates or something else.
Again, we don't want to talk too much
about investments because this is more
about ranking priorities, but
fear of
inflation is something to consider and rank accordingly.
Inflation fear mongering has been
about a non-existent threat:
When your fellow investors are piling into gold and driving up its price because they
fear a spike in
inflation or are concerned
about some economic crisis or geopolitical kerfuffle, you'll more likely to sell than buy.
Stephen Dover: I find it interesting we're discussing
inflation because what's missing is this 10 - year discussion we've had on deflation and the great
fear we had
about deflation.
Inflation fears, specifically worries
about accelerating wage growth in the January employment report and that the job market might overheat if it tightens further, contributed to rising interest rates.
These days the Fed seems more concerned
about inflation than recession and had raised the federal funds rate to just over 5 percent as of mid-2006 to head off what it
fears is a potentially overheated economy.