Sentences with phrase «lower food inflation»

Key risks include higher or lower food inflation or increased competition from the large supermarkets.

«The strength of the economy in both Quebec and Ontario, combined with low food inflation, currently favour the full - service supermarket, and we are pleased with the performance of the Metro banner in both provinces,» CEO Eric La Fleche said Tuesday during a conference call about its second - quarter results.

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Groups like the New Brunswick Food Security Action Network have raised concerns about the impact of food inflation on low - income and fixed - income househoFood Security Action Network have raised concerns about the impact of food inflation on low - income and fixed - income househofood inflation on low - income and fixed - income households.

That puzzle continued earlier Wednesday when Labor Department data showed consumer inflation, excluding food and energy, was lower than expected at 1.7 percent in the 12 months through November.

McDonald's also competes with grocery stores, where the rate of food inflation is typically lower, limiting how much gold the Golden Arches can charge.

Higher prices paid to farmers, combined with lower imports, may increase grocery and restaurant costs for baked goods and cereals as much as 4 percent next year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday in its first forecast of food - price inflation for 2018.

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Total CPI inflation has picked up in recent months but is slightly below expectations, largely because of lower food prices.

Again, core inflation is actually above 2 %, inflation held in check by energy, and food and low interest rates up to now.

Inflation is projected to be near 2 per cent through 2017 and 2018 as the temporary effects of higher consumer energy prices and lower food prices dissipate and economic slack is absorbed.

After stripping out prices for food and energy, which tend to be more volatile, prices rose by just 0.7 % in the 12 months to December — the lowest rate of «core» inflation since records began in January 2001.

Eurostat also confirmed that the «core» rate of inflation — which strips out volatile items such as food and energy — fell to 0.7 %, its lowest level since records began in 2001.

Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and fuel prices, remained stubbornly low at 1.0 percent.

Not including energy and other volatile items like food, alcohol and tobacco, overall consumer price inflation was 0.8 percent, a rate the ECB consider too low for a healthy economy.

Consumer price inflation in the euro area increased to 2.1 per cent over the year to October, primarily due to higher food and energy prices; the core measure of inflation is lower at 1.7 per cent (Graph 9).

I think things are starting to alleviate, partly because of factors such as food inflation now being very low.

RIG (Real Internal Growth) accelerated to 2.6 percent and continued to be at the high end of the food and beverage industry, while pricing was 0.2 percent, largely reflecting lower levels of inflation in emerging markets.

With wages in decline compared to inflation, zero - hours contracts, food banks, the benefits cap and the bedroom tax, the unemployed and lowest paid have undoubtedly suffered more than any group under the coalition government.

Core inflation, which excludes oil and food, has fallen by 1.2 per cent to the lowest level since August 2006.

A supermarket food price war and lower petrol price inflation are expected to have brought the headline consumer price index measure of inflation down for the sixth month running in March.

However, it said Canadian inflation, which the bank carefully analyzes when making rate decisions, was slightly below what it had anticipated, in large part because of lower food prices.

Core inflation — which excludes the volatile food and energy categories — has also moved lower.»

Fed officials have argued that despite recent jumps in the prices of commodities and food, inflation is in check because underlying measures have climbed only modestly from historic lows.

The low levels of these two indicators are mostly caused by technology, oil and food price deflation (at least in the US, UK, and Europe) outweighing other inflation.

The current quarter inflation experienced by Sysco is lower than the 8 % it experienced last quarter, and it is unlikely that high food inflation will stay high for a very long time.

U.S. food prices are rising at twice the rate of inflation, hitting the pocketbooks of lower - income Americans and people living on fixed incomes. . .

Low - income families trapped by food price inflation will be unable to afford enough food to eat every day.

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low - income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.

CPI - based inflation for April stood at 4.86 per cent, the lowest in four months, on the back of another month of declining food prices, data released by the Central Statistics Office revealed.

The core inflation rate, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, has risen by only 2 percent in the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2005, and is expected to stay low through the first part of 2006.

Inflation expectations, as well as median one - year ahead expected growth in the costs of several commodities (food, housing, medical, college education) are all at or near their lowest levels since the start of the survey in June 2013.

Moreover, food and capital goods inflation is quite low and we still import many cheap goods from abroad which, in the case of many goods, is a form of imported deflation (think of the cost of your laptop six years ago).

Although inflation rates are low in sectors like energy and food, they have increased dramatically in healthcare and rent outlay.