Sentences with phrase «food price inflation in»

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low - income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.

In the 1970s, when tight world food supplies were generating unacceptable food price inflation in the United States, the government restricted grain exports.

Food price inflation in the high teens soured moods further.

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The so - called core - core inflation index, which excludes food and energy prices and is similar to the core index used in the United States, fell an annual 0.6 percent.

A jump in food prices fueled faster consumer inflation in October.

China's consumer inflation rate grew at its fastest pace in six months in October as food prices rose, while producer prices accelerated to a near - five year high, exceeding expectations.

White maize, the food staple, doubled in price last year, helping to fuel inflation.

China «s consumer price inflation slowed to its weakest pace in almost a year in August, pulled down by abating food costs, although an encouraging moderation in producer price deflation added to growing evidence of a steadying economy.

Higher prices paid to farmers, combined with lower imports, may increase grocery and restaurant costs for baked goods and cereals as much as 4 percent next year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday in its first forecast of food - price inflation for 2018.

When the company nudged up prices above food - away - from - home inflation in the first quarter of 2014 (a rare move for McDonald's), the average check grew, but the number of customers dropped.

«It would lead to inflation, price increases and in some cases shortages of food.»

Ontario restaurants hiking menu prices after the province raised its minimum wage this year were likely responsible for pushing January food inflation to its highest annualized increase in nearly two years.

Food prices may have been the biggest distorting factor in the February inflation data, gaining 6 percent year on year and most likely a sign of increases ahead of Lunar New Year festivities.

Arnold said this is the last phase of Chipotle's planned price increase and is a response to rising inflation in food and labor costs.

Total CPI inflation is tracking slightly below expectations because of temporary weakness in prices for gasoline, food, and telecommunications.

And indeed here in the United States we look at a range of different measures of core inflation, for example, that take energy and food prices out of the overall index.

Total CPI inflation has picked up in recent months but is slightly below expectations, largely because of lower food prices.

This turmoil has confirmed what our central banker, Mark Carney, said in his statement last week: that the economy is growing, in both Canada and globally, but the recovery is still fragile, especially in the US and the Euro - periphery, and that while food and gas prices have pushed up inflation, it should moderate from here.

Meanwhile, the same dynamic in digital food delivery could depress food inflation across the board; one of the nation's largest brick - and - mortar grocers is already poised to drop prices in response.

You won't find that someone at Goldman, where economist Ed McKelvey writes in the firm's US Economics Analyst that core inflation — excluding food and energy prices — should rise at a minuscule 0.5 % annual rate through 2012.

Core inflation, which excludes the volatile movements in the prices of food and energy, however, remained unchanged at 2.7 percent from the previous month.

After stripping out prices for food and energy, which tend to be more volatile, prices rose by just 0.7 % in the 12 months to December — the lowest rate of «core» inflation since records began in January 2001.

CPI inflation in year - ended terms should stay in a narrow range around this profile over much of the forecast horizon, though volatility in oil and food prices over the past year will continue to have some effect on the year - ended figures in future quarters.

Higher food and oil prices led to a marked increase in consumer price inflation throughout the region in mid 2004, particularly in Thailand, Singapore, Korea and the Philippines.

Except for occasional jumps in food and energy prices, which are deemed outside the so - called «core» rate of inflation, prices for most goods and services are largely viewed as under control.

It is worth noting that the core Consumer Price Index (excluding food and energy) stood at a year - on - year rate of 1.8 % in July, and that the Fed may be content to see inflation at least trending upward — without necessarily hitting 2 % in the near term — before deciding to act.

The basket of goods used to calculate the level of price inflation is continuously manipulated.Very often «volatile» food and fuel is not included in the US measure.

You can see our comparison of several key inflation measures, including the two - year «breakeven inflation rate», the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the CPI excluding food and energy, in the chart below.

Meanwhile, core inflation, which excludes the more volatile energy and food prices, rose by 1.8 percent, also matching its growth rate in December.

BEIJING (AP)-- China's inflation accelerated to 2.3 percent in February, driven by a jump in food prices, but fell below the government's official target for the year.

Meanwhile, core inflation, which excludes the more volatile energy and food prices, rose by 1.8 percent, also matching its growth rate in... Read More»

The most welcome news was that the core consumer price index (CPI)-- which excludes food and energy — rose 2.3 percent year - over-year in February, representing the fourth straight month of inflation and the highest rate since October 2008.

Another important, although more temporary influence on inflation recently has been a large rise in the price of food, which was up by 1.8 per cent in the December quarter, and by 3.4 per cent over the year.

Consumer price inflation in the euro area increased to 2.1 per cent over the year to October, primarily due to higher food and energy prices; the core measure of inflation is lower at 1.7 per cent (Graph 9).

In fact, realized inflation is decelerating: Core consumer prices, excluding food and energy, are down to 1.9 % year - over-year, the slowest rate since late 2015.

An exception is China, where the inflation rate has climbed to 3.2 per cent — the fastest increase in prices since early 1997 — although this partly reflects one - off factors that saw food prices soar.

The Fed's preferred Personal Consumption Expenditures price index hit the two - percent target in March for the first time in nearly a year, while «core» inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was 1.9 percent.

The NRA reported that the general state of the economy made it difficult for many restaurants to build and maintain sales volumes, while wholesale food price inflation reached its highest rate — 8 percent — in 30 years.

The USDA Economic Research Service found that although unemployment declined in 2012 and 2013, inflation and the price of food continued to increase.

Food price inflation is estimated to have slowed to 1.3 per cent in the June quarter, compared with 2.5 per cent in the fourth quarter 2014, increasing the pressure on supermarket margins.

The British supermarket industry is set to experience a decrease in food price inflation over the next...

This month's Foodservice Price Index, produced by CGA and Prestige Foodservice, reveals that food inflation hit 7 % in the 12 months to July 2017, down from its previous level of 8.8 % in June 2017 and 9 % in May.

Inflation in wholesale food service prices fell in July 2017, welcome news to the UK's eating out operators who -LSB-...]

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... there is little evidence of any weakening of price competition in grocery retailing and wholesaling has played a significant role in explaining recent increases in food price inflation.

If food and gas prices were included in the CPI, the rate of inflation would be closer to 10 percent, and, at that rate, the net purchasing power of earnings in ten years would be less than the initial investment, meaning you would have lost money.

RIG (Real Internal Growth) accelerated to 2.6 percent and continued to be at the high end of the food and beverage industry, while pricing was 0.2 percent, largely reflecting lower levels of inflation in emerging markets.

While this has been going on, however, Tesco has put pressure on suppliers to keep prices down in an attempt to absorb some of the 3 % food inflation forecast for the UK.

In recent years, public debate about the competitiveness of the supermarket sector has been focused on concerns about food price inflation and grocery prices being too high.

Sfakianakis expects Egypt's food inflation to continue rising in 2011 to reach about 20 percent year - on - year, and said it would be difficult for Egypt to curb prices because globally they are likely to remain high this year.