Sentences with phrase «for accelerating inflation»

Bond indexes have declined this year, as the growing economy has led the Fed to raise interest rates and investors have grown increasingly concerned about the potential for accelerating inflation.

Experts are in consensus the U.S. economy is headed for accelerated inflation, which will drive up housing prices, along with all other living expenses, making it harder for prospective homebuyers to save for their down payment.

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The Fed's announcement assuaged investors» concerns about the possibility of accelerated interest - rate increases as rising materials costs for companies have signaled a pickup in inflation.

Experts, however, had been anticipating inflation to accelerate at an even faster pace in March and, earlier this week, the Bank of Canada raised its inflation projections for 2018.

«Now, even if inflation does accelerate over the remainder of the year, there's still reason for the bank to be cautious on future rate hikes.»

The U.S. economy probably added 185,000 jobs in March while wage gains accelerated, a survey of economists showed, reinforcing the Federal Reserve's case for continuing to increase interest rates gradually to keep inflation from overheating while keeping unemployment low.

For one thing, further stimulus will continue to increase the amount of money in the economy, which is not causing inflation at the moment but could become inflationary when the economy does accelerate.

In other signs of stabilization, China's exports rose for the first time in four months in June, while consumer inflation accelerated.

He suggested this might add to inflation risks; accelerate the need for interest - rate hikes; strain mortgages; and ultimately widen the import - export trade deficit, which is the source of trade tensions.

If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

Our experts discuss the market perception vs. reality that inflation is accelerating, the supply of US treasuries and the impact of repatriation, and the demand for short term debt.

But analysts will watch the official statement after the meeting for signs of rising concern about inflation, and hints that the Fed might accelerate its pace of rate increases later this year.

Investors have begun to worry that the Fed might accelerate the pace of its credit tightening if inflation, which has been dormant for years, starts to show signs of accelerating.

And for all the muddle, the one thing that seems clear is that the risks to the economy and particularly the labor market — which is generating solid job growth and even some wage gains (for which we should all give Chair Yellen and the Fed serious credit)-- remain «asymmetric:» there's a greater risk of needlessly slowing non-inflationary growth than there is of inflation accelerating.

However resilient the US economy, the slowdown being experienced in Asia and Latin America may force the Fed to lower its growth outlook (in June, the central bank announced a reduction in its so - called «central tendency for growth» through 2017) and could dent confidence that inflation will accelerate toward the Fed's target within a reasonable time frame.

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.

Unless these new policies are implemented, inflation sharply accelerates, or euphoria in markets breaks out, there is no case for the Fed to adjust policy interest rates.

The Fed doesn't see any signs of inflation accelerating, which would be good news for investors given the projections for a strong economic backdrop.

The Bank of Japan expanded monetary stimulus on July 29 through a modest increase in purchases of exchange - traded funds (ETF), yielding to pressure from the government and financial markets for bolder action to spur growth and accelerate inflation towards its 2 percent target.

The thesis is that the global economy has shifted into high - growth mode and therefore the demand for commodities will rebound as inflation finally begins to take hold and central banks accelerate interest rate hikes.

The main way to get inflation is for velocity to accelerate in an environment of rapid money growth.

Given equities are better than futures for inflation protection, after the roll yield is included, and that small - caps and mid-caps have done best with accelerating growth, the falling dollar and rising inflation, perhaps the strategy might be to underweight large caps.

This should inevitably benefit oil and gas demand & prices — whether it reflects a liquidity phenomenon, a dollar depreciation, accelerating inflation, and / or simply a scramble for real assets.

As the inflation rate is likely accelerating due to rising energy costs working their way through the economy, this feature is an important consideration for fixed income investing.

Inflation, which has been mysteriously low for years, has accelerated in recent months, with expectations hovering near the highest level since 2014.

The FNB House Price Index revealed a 7.4 % year - on - year national growth for the month of June, which was slightly higher than the 7.2 % rate recorded for May, «extending the recent mild accelerating trend in average house price inflation to 5 months».

If that acreage isn't cared for, we'll see production decrease and we'll have a lingering impact next year or the year after that and we could be dealing with several years of accelerated food price inflation — especially if the drought persists.

However, the stage is set for inflation to accelerate due to tightening labor market conditions, higher oil and energy prices, and rising home prices and apartment rents.