Sentences with phrase «inflation report helped»

The weak inflation report helped push the dollar and Treasury yields lower.

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Investors were watching the report closely after fears of surging inflation helped send the stock market lower and bond yields higher.

The wide credit spreads of recent months will almost certainly help to suppress inflation reports as the year continues.

Assuming the ECB had become worried about weaker core inflation dynamics at the end of last year, the February HICP report certainly did not help.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Consumer prices continued to be subdued in July, a Labor Department report showed Friday, pushing against the idea that unemployment at a 16 - year low will help inflation accelerate.