Sentences with phrase «hit inflation targets»

But, it is at least an open question whether central banks can always be credible in claiming they will hit their inflation targets.

For a couple of decades, most central bankers thought that all they had to do to engineer a stable economy was hit their inflation targets.

The occasion for the release was the end of the Bank of Canada's latest review of whether it is on track to hit its inflation target.

«He's very optimistic about the economy and he's optimistic they can hit the inflation target,» said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies.

Yet the value of the currency remains unchanged, which has become a barrier to the central bank conjuring the growth it needs to hit its inflation target.

Federal Reserve officials leaned toward a slightly faster pace of tightening at their March meeting as their growth outlook and confidence in hitting their inflation target strengthened, according to minutes released Wednesday.

Another factor that gives me some confidence that the Fed will continue to hit the inflation target is the strength of the labor market.

In order to maintain demand and to hit their inflation target, Central Banks are encouraging households and corporations to go ever further into debt.

While the U.S. is finally hitting inflation targets and the E.U. is missing their own by over half, little has changed.

The shock pushed us out of the zone in which the existing interest rate setting provided reasonable assurance of hitting our inflation target within a reasonable time frame.

Federal Reserve officials leaned toward a slightly faster pace of tightening at their March meeting as their growth outlook and confidence in hitting their inflation target strengthened, according to minutes released Wednesday.

(Bloomberg)-- Federal Reserve officials leaned toward a slightly faster pace of policy tightening at their March meeting as their growth outlook and confidence in hitting their inflation target strengthened, according to minutes of the gathering released Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Kuroda said the size and type of assets the BOJ now buys is not enough to achieve its 2 percent inflation target, which he said the central bank would strive to hit within two years.

Consumer price inflation hit 2.3 percent last month, shooting past the Bank of England's 2 percent target and its strongest in nearly three - and - a-half years.

Expectations are high the Bank of Japan may boost its government bond purchases at its April 3 - 4 policy review, the first under new Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who has vowed to do whatever it takes to hit the BOJ's new 2 percent inflation target.

John Canally, chief economic strategist for LPL Financial, said the language may continue to be used in coming months «as transition words» until «it becomes clear to FOMC members that the overall economy, the labor market, and inflation are well on their way toward hitting the FOMC's targets.»

His comments suggest the ECB remains confident that inflation is finally on an upward trend, supporting market expectations for the bank to finally end its bond purchase programme this year, satisfied that inflation will eventually hit its nearly 2 percent target.

Others are convinced that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to hit its 2 percent inflation target this year as low U.S. inflation is set to continue.

Of course, if the Fed were truly concerned about hitting, or better yet, exceeding its inflation target, which is supposed to be an average, not a ceiling, they wouldn't be raising in the first place.

Average annual inflation — one yardstick of economic growth — hasn't hit the Fed's 2 % target in years.

Inflation picks up and by the end of this year, hits the Fed's 2 % target, then hits 2.2 % by the end of 2018.

No, you should have * three * recessionary concerns: If / When the next recession hits, it will be painfully obvious that the Fed's forecasts were wrong and it has spent too much time peevishly focused on non-existent inflation, treating the 2 % «target» as a ceiling.

In today's Real Time Economics newsletter, inflation hits the Fed's 2 % target, President Donald Trump gives trading partners another month's reprieve from steel and aluminum...

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

Last point: as I stress in the WaPo piece, the inflation target is too low — at 2 %, it invokes possible zero - lower - bound problems the next time we hit a downturn, and especially with a... um... difficult Congress (meaning adequate countercyclical fiscal policy may well not be forthcoming), that's a really serious problem.

But all participants agree that the outlook for the economy is strengthening and that it is more likely that the Fed will hit its 2 percent inflation target.

Economic data has also come back on the radar of investors who are contending with the potential for inflation to hit the Fed's 2 % target range, raising the risk of the central bank leaning toward a more aggressive hiking trajectory.

A sustained turn in inflation above this 2 % target, or even a sustained period of inflation hitting this target, could change the Fed's policy outlook in the coming years.

We're wondering if that ECB target [inflation below, but close to 2 %] will ever come into being before they hit the next recession.

The unemployment rate is expected to fall to 3.6 % by the end of the decade according to the Fed's latest forecasts, while inflation should hit 2.1 % in 2020, above the Fed's 2 % target.

While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S. Treasury's benchmark 10 - year note immediately climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four years.

And I think we have core inflation moving closer to the Fed «s target with the unemployment hitting below 4 percent fairly soon.

Kim Jong Un crosses the DMZ into South Korea, the Bank of Japan ditches a target date for inflation to hit its 2 % objective as the markets look towards GDP numbers out of EU member states, the UK and the U.S later in the day.

-- Said the Fed needs to keep slowly raising rates, rather than waiting until inflation hits its 2 percent target, to avoid a «boom - bust» economy whereby it might eventually have to tighten so aggressively as to tip the economy into recession.

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.

For far from it being the case that the Fed's new operating system has proven its worth as a means of overall monetary control, it is largely owing to that system that the Fed has failed for the better part of six years now to hit its two - percent inflation target.

In Asia, Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said that the central bank was dropping its effort to predict when inflation would hit its 2 % target, implying that the BOJ, is uneasy and believes that it still has work to do to normalize its easy - money policies.

Growth varies from year to year annually but it is assumed to have an average rate consistent with hitting the government's inflation target.

Rail passengers face soaring ticket prices as inflation hits 3.1 per cent in July, as the Bank of England warning of the «significant probability» the rate will remain above its target for some time.

The bank underlined several areas where it said economic conditions had hit close to its assumptions: the stronger performance in non-energy exports and investment, the economic growth reading for the final three months of 2014 and core inflation near its two per cent target.

Inflation has finally hit the Fed's target rate, as «core» inflation rose 0.2 % in March and accelerated to a 2.1 % annualized rate, the first time in a year it has toInflation has finally hit the Fed's target rate, as «core» inflation rose 0.2 % in March and accelerated to a 2.1 % annualized rate, the first time in a year it has toinflation rose 0.2 % in March and accelerated to a 2.1 % annualized rate, the first time in a year it has topped 2 %.

The Eurozone recently hit its 2 % inflation target for the first time since 2008.

Policymakers also said that inflation is set to hit the central bank's midpoint target of 2 percent in the second half of 2018 and that growth is projected to remain close to potential over the next two years.

During the normal and healthy conduct of monetary policy, the measured rate of inflation often deviates from official targets within a range of a percentage point or two because of the challenges of defining, measuring, and hitting a precise inflation target over a short - term period.

That last time Canada's inflation rate hit the central bank's ideal target of two per cent was in April 2012, according to Statistics Canada figures.

There are fears the government will announce further APD rises — potentially twice the size of inflation - in its Autumn Forecast Statement on 29 November, so the Treasury can hit it 2016 target of # 3.6 billion.