Sentences with phrase «in keeping inflation in check»

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The trick is keeping that pickup in inflation in check.

While prosperous by African standards, the government has worked to ensure inflation is kept in check and that basic services and job opportunities are available to S.A.'s poor, putting strain on the deficit.

The Federal Reserve has been signaling that, with the economy improving, it could start raising rates to keep inflation in check, perhaps as soon as next month.

And while it's not entirely surprising that the market would reward companies keeping costs in check, the divergence in performance highlights a broader theme: Investors see inflation rising in the near future, and want to be positioned accordingly.

But inflation has remained in check, long enough to prompt central banks to keep interest rates lower for longer.

Those concerns triggered a bout of financial market turmoil, as investors feared higher interest rates were coming to keep inflation in check.

The U.S. economy likely created 2 million new jobs last year, but tepid wage growth is keeping inflation in check and raising questions over the Fed's 2018 rate path.

After Spain introduced its labor market reforms in 2012, many companies were able to negotiate pay with workers and keep wage inflation in check.

Central banks have tried to learn from such episodes, using monetary policy tools to keep inflation in check.

We believe this has been a critical factor behind the multi-decade drop in global yields, beyond the more familiar decline in potential growth as societies age, productivity softens and central bank inflation targeting keeps price volatility in check.

Earlier in Monday's session, U.S. stocks were helped by data on income and spending that kept broader inflation worries in check.

He touted robust employment, low inflation and accelerating economic growth, and he said the Fed would continue its strategy of gradually increasing its benchmark interest rate to keep inflation in check.

Associates of Summers say he would bring a similar perspective to the Fed, following the path set by Bernanke in emphasizing the need to keep unemployment low, as long as inflation remains in check.

The U.S. Treasuries yield curve flattened as the GDP data renewed bets that the Federal Reserve would continue hiking rates to keep inflation in check.

Investors fear that the Federal Reserve is going to fumble its attempts to keep inflation in check.

We don't have to tax to keep inflation in check.

This means we can keep inflation in check regardless the size of our balance sheet.

I live in a low almost deflationary enviroment (Europe) and was checking out some retirement software and something keep throwing me off, took me a bit to figure it out but it was inflation, like WTF is that and then I remembered I lived in Spain during the housing bust and now in Germany with negative real interest rates and I'm simply not used the idea that prices increase each year simply because time goes by.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Falling gasoline costs lowered the prices that U.S. companies received for their goods and services last month, keeping overall inflation in check.

Management cited inflating labor costs and an expected 1 % inflation in the cost of food as headwinds, but costs were kept in check despite those challenges.

The New Zealand dollar was little changed against its trans - Tasman counterpart after the Reserve Bank of Australia kept the key rate unchanged and said it expected inflation to remain in check.

When the difference between short - term rates and long - term rates narrows (or outright inverts), it's an indication that the Fed could be on the verge of slamming the brakes on economic growth to keep inflation in check.

This hike resulted in a recession, but did keep spiraling inflation in check.

As a result, inflation needed to be kept «in check» and the only way to accomplish this would be to increase interest rates.

If keeping long - term inflation expectations in check is how the Fed suggests people should track the risks involved in quantitative easing, the early results are not inspiring.

There is no guarantee that inflation will remain low into the future, but if investors recognize the benefits of keeping price increases in control, the odds are that the Fed and others will hold inflation in check.

The stock market muddled during this period, and the real economy kept growing, inflation in check, and unemployment unaffected.

The gap — the widest since 1986, according to data compiled by Bloomberg — is encouraging investors because earnings forecasts indicate the U.S. will keep growing, while bond yields show confidence that inflation will stay in check.»

Essentially, it's a method of keeping premiums in check, and keeping up with medical inflation.

Keeping the natural «inflation» caused by 8 MB block sizes in check.

Rising interest rates — led by the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping inflation in check with quarter - point increases in its overnight rate for banks — will also help slow sales and appreciation.

For much of the economic expansion, wage increases have been moderate, about 3 percent annually, helping keep inflation in check, says Sheehan.

«So as long as inflation can be kept in check — and business and consumer confidence restored — look for a slow return to normalcy in the months ahead.»