Moving the goal posts on how pension funds calculate their deficits and
which inflation measure they are required to target must be a concern to any IL holder too I imagine.
The biggest issue
with inflation measures is that they never match one's own, personally experienced level of inflation.
They use a different
inflation measure based on personal consumption expenditures, which runs lower than the consumer price index.
The wholesale price index — the
preferred inflation measure in India — was 6.5 per cent higher over the year to December, having risen by 8.7 per cent over the year to August.
The forecast I presented at the time was that when it had passed through, the rate of
inflation measured by the CPI would settle at 2 1/2 per cent.
The Montreal - based company's internal food
inflation measure fell to 1.5 per cent — down from 2.8 and three per cent in its first and second quarters, respectively.
These will have their main impact in the September quarter but it will be some time before the CPI, or
underlying inflation measures based on the CPI, will provide a clear reading of annual inflation unaffected by the tax changes.
Economists and Fed officials had anticipated the rise in the
annual inflation measures reported by the Commerce Department on Monday, so it was not expected to alter the U.S. central bank's gradual pace of interest rate increases.
The rise in the annual
inflation measures reported by the Commerce Department on Monday was anticipated by economists and Fed officials and is not expected to alter the U.S. central bank's gradual pace of interest rate increases.
The bill also adjusts tax bracket thresholds using a slower -
growing inflation measure (known as chained CPI) than the one used currently.
The Singapore central bank's core
inflation measure rose 1.5 per cent, slightly lower than the 1.6 per cent increase in May.
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.
And if the Fed is successful in goal of increasing inflation, then we could
see inflation measures like CPI rise as well.
And if the Fed is successful in goal of increasing inflation, then we could see
inflation measures like CPI rise as well.
After a run of weak inflation reports stretching back several months, there was a slight uptick in the October reading of the Fed's
favored inflation measure, the core personal consumption expenditures price index.
To be consistent with the practice of other Federal agencies and the Department itself, we have determined that the CPI - U is the most
appropriate inflation measure to use to adjust the threshold debt amount.
US inflation measures rise: A measure of underlying inflation surging to near the Federal Reserve's 2 per cent target as weak readings from last year dropped out of the calculation.
The Consumer Price Index, a Commerce
Department inflation measure, came in higher than expected in January, and the stock market has been volatile; how the Fed will react is unclear.
Around much of Asia, interest rates are below inflation rates, and in several cases even
below inflation measured excluding food and energy.
The charts show the year - over-year change in
various inflation measures as well as measures of expected inflation based on the University of Michigan Survey Research Center and the yields on five - year treasuries and TIPS.
Other inflation measures have been even lower, with the Fed's preferred gauge, the personal consumption expenditures index, at 1.4 percent.
Data released by Statistics Canada on June 23 put the average of the central bank's three core
inflation measures at 1.3 %; on their own, they form an argument for lower interest rates, not higher.
On their face, the added levies would
boost inflation measures by one - tenth of a percentage point while reducing annual GDP growth by one or two tenths, Barclays said in a note that assumes the moves would not have massive repercussions from U.S. trading partners.
Inflation measures how much more expensive a set of goods and services has become over a certain period, usually a year
Nevertheless, I am not unduly worried because the magnitude of these declines has been modest, and because the New York Fed's three - year -
ahead inflation measure has been gradually increasing since January and has reversed much of the decline observed in the second half of 2015.
It won't automatically get used for Social Security purposes, but if it is, it could gradually reduce Social Security's true purchasing power compared to the
former inflation measure.
Firming healthcare inflation should support the aggregate core
inflation measure despite the more muted trends in core goods.
Before this week, many economists had begun to speculate that the Fed might raise rates four times this year
if inflation measures edged closer to the 2 percent target level.
The Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge on Monday showed prices falling by 0.2 per cent in May, the
second inflation measure to register deflation.
Journalists were very well prepared and even threw back Draghi's previous responses about how a 10 percent currency appreciation would
lower inflation measures by 0.5 percent.
The most widely
followed inflation measure, the consumer price index, has decelerated from 2.5 percent inflation in January to 1.9 percent.
Unless there are indications of any significant upward pressure on US wages or
broader inflation measures, we think it is hard to see any shift in policy by the Fed to accelerate the pace of tightening.
The FOMC's two - day meeting followed the release of data Monday that
showed inflation measured by the central bank's preferred gauge had hit its 2 per cent target after being below that goal for almost every month since April 2012.
But the FOMC statement said the headline and core
PCE inflation measures «have moved close» to the two percent goal since the last meeting.
In our latest white paper, Senior Portfolio Manager Duane McAllister explains how the recent boost in short - term yields not only allows investors to once again earn a reasonable nominal return on their money without needing to take significant duration risk, it also provides an opportunity to earn a positive real return, since core
inflation measures remain below the Fed's 2.0 % target.
Over the 10 years through year - end 2017, consumer prices — as measured by CPI - U, the most
popular inflation measure — climbed just 1.6 % a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From four years and shorter, the yields on TIPS reflect a belief that
nominal inflation measured by the unadjusted CPI will exceed the yields on nominal treasury bonds.
The average of the Bank of Canada's three
preferred inflation measures was 1.4 per cent, slightly faster than the 1.3 per cent average of the previous month.