Sentences with phrase «inflation at current levels»

As long as we see continued economic growth and inflation at current levels or higher, the current path of interest rate increases should continue.

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At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

To expect the Fed to hold rates at current levels or just a quarter - point higher, in the face of those inflation figures, would seem to be asking a lot.

If one assumes Mr. Rosengren allows the economy to hum along at the current levels (a big if since he wants to raise rates), a average 2.5 % wage gain less 2 % inflation makes you wait three more years to get back to 2007 (a lost decade plus two) and five years to party likes it's 1999 (two lost decades, plus one).

Long bonds will end up being a very volatile investment at some point once rates or inflation rise from current levels, but intermediate - term bonds should continue to dampen stock market volatility.

It will keep the fed funds rate at its current near - zero level «for a considerable time» after it finally ends QE, especially if the core inflation rate remained below 2 percent.

The weight of this evidence suggests that it would take a set of heroic assumptions to believe that inflation will remain at the current extremely low levels.

With the dampening effect of the appreciation on domestic inflation still having further to run, our current assessment is that underlying inflation will decline to around 1 1/2 per cent during 2004 (assuming the exchange rate remains stable at around its current level).

The Board's assessment of this information at its May meeting was that inflation remained likely to increase gradually from its current level of around 2 1/2 per cent, but that upside risks to this forecast had receded, partly as a result of the March tightening.

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility has said that NHS spending needs to rise at four per cent a year above inflation - nearly twice the rate proposed by Labour - in order to maintain current service levels.

When the motor is run steadily at a moderate power level, most of what determines the boat's net rate of progress upstream (real returns) is the velocity of the opposing water currents (inflation), not the output of the motor (nominal returns).

The goal is to achieve the following: more moderate growth, which would result in interest rates cresting at near current levels; a relatively strong stock market; low inflation; and economic growth at a modest rate of 3 % to 4 %, notes Sohn.

The Federal Reserve voted 7 - 3 to keep interest rates at their current level at its September meeting, citing a steady unemployment rate and inflation that is still running below the 2.0 percent mark it has predicted...

If they remain at current levels, the BoC will have to think seriously about lowering its overnight rate, not raising it, to achieve a two - per - cent inflation target over the medium term.