The phrase
"inflation numbers" refers to the measurement or statistics that show how prices of goods and services are increasing over time. It helps us understand how much more expensive things are getting.
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In the meantime, after the worse than expected
wholesale inflation numbers were released, the dollar had a small rally and oil and gold prices fell.
For
low inflation numbers this acts a lot like adding; the further from 0 % you get the more the lower - order terms make the result larger.
You have just traded what is essentially a single number (two if you include the 50/50 bond / stock allocation) and expanded it out to requiring
projected inflation numbers etc..
Last but not the least are headline and
core inflation numbers, which both grew faster than the Inflation Report suggested.
He said that even if
U.S. inflation numbers come in better than expected they would not lead to a sustained dollar recovery but a short - term gain.
The Canadian dollar averaged 78.57 cents US, down 0.59 of a US cent as
inflation numbers came in below analyst expectations.
Hand - wringing at the Fed got more intense last week
as inflation numbers for July showed that the target of 2 percent annual inflation hasn't been attained despite years of easy monetary policy.
The trouble
with inflation numbers up now and further Fed hiking is that it just means a sugar rush before the end of the cycle and an earlier recession,» he said.
LONDON, Feb 14 (Reuters)- The dollar hit a 15 - month low against the yen but steadied against the euro on Wednesday, with investors nervous ahead of key U.S.
inflation numbers due later amid a fragile recovery in equity markets.
The rise in Treasury yields leaves them at the highest since mid-2014 though the move had been paused in Europe as lower - than - forecast early
German inflation numbers had nudged its borrowing costs lower.
Economic data released through the Asian session was on the heavier side this morning, with stats including New Zealand's trade figures for March, inflation, industrial production and retail sales figures out of Japan and wholesale price
inflation numbers out of Australia.
At the time of writing, the EUR was up 0.06 % to $ 1.2110, with the EUR now in the hands of the stats following Draghi's speech at Thursday's press conference that saw EUR pullback to $ 1.21 levels, any
soft inflation numbers likely to bring $ 1.19 into play in the coming weeks.
Eggertsson argues that the key advance over the past 70 - plus years is that economists now tend to look beyond jumpy
headline inflation numbers to so - called core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices.
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tame inflation numbers coupled with a good Q413 earnings season could do the trick during the next several months which are statistically favourable to equities as Doug Short's chart below shows.
From the second video, you'll understand: - The different components of CPI data - What «seasonally adjusted» means for monthly inflation numbers
The argument made by the person (who knows far more about Asia than I do) was that
Japanese inflation numbers are off cuz their basket doesn't match other countries in the OECD.
Surprisingly, analysts continue to hail lower - than - expected CPI inflation as giving the PBoC room and encouragement to expand credit — largely I guess because this is what analysts say when US or European
CPI inflation numbers are low, and although most of us haven't thought through the differences between China and the US in the ways prices respond to monetary policy, we don't want to seem like we don't know what we are doing.
Or if, say, a high
inflation number rears its ugly head, he might use that as cover to goose rates by 1/2 % rather than the usual 1/4 % at a single meeting.
For the EUR, economic data scheduled for release this morning includes retail sales figures out of German, together with prelim
April inflation numbers out of Germany and Italy.
Today's
inflation numbers show that the Federal Reserve still can't seem to generate any inflation in the economy, with core inflation rising only 1.8 % year - over-year.
«While yesterday's
inflation numbers make a Fed rate rise in March more or less a done deal the prospect of additional rate rises later on in the year don't appear to be causing the same consternation in equity markets that they were a week ago, as US markets closed higher for the fourth day in succession, despite initially opening lower in the wake of the release of the data,» said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.
The basic catalyst for the correction is well known: better - than - expected headline
wage inflation numbers — as noisy and oft - revised as they are — spooked the bond market, which then rippled through the equity market.
The
August inflation numbers, which came out September 17, are the last ones needed to adjust most of the tax figures that change annually, including the tax rate schedules.
Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has argued that the
tepid inflation numbers are transitory, and whether or not this is in fact true will become more apparent in subsequent quarters.
The
December inflation number reported Friday by Statistics Canada came in below the Bank of Canada's ideal target of two per cent, but within the desired range of one and three per cent.
Another evident flaw in the PE10 ratio, other than
fuzzy inflation numbers, is the failure of our earnings numbers to account for differences in capital reinvestment rates.
LONDON, Feb 14 - The dollar hit a 15 - month low against the yen but steadied against the euro on Wednesday, with investors nervous ahead of key
U.S. inflation numbers due later amid a fragile recovery in equity markets.
Following last week's top - of - the - month data barrage, this week's economic calendar is fairly light, with
inflation numbers coming in on Wednesday and Thursday: