Sentences with phrase «lowered inflation forecasts»

In short, the stronger euro has led to lowered inflation forecasts, but the revisions were minor enough that the ECB considered then «broadly unchanged.»

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand held its key rate at 1.75 %, as most analysts were expecting, and lowered its inflation forecast.

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Furthermore, many economists forecast inflation will remain low, so debt will be harder to pay off, creating a bleak picture for housing affordability down the road.

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.

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.

Consequently, Zentner and her team recently lowered their core personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation forecast to 1.4 % for 2017 and 1.7 % for 2018.

In 1996, as demand pressures were easing, inflation was forecast to move lower, even though inflation at the time was still 3.1 per cent.

And on Friday, the RBA is increasingly expected to lift its inflation guidance, while lowerings its economic growth forecast.

The idea that real interest rates — that is, adjusted for inflation — will be lower than they have been historically is reflected in the pronouncements of policymakers such as Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the medium - term forecasts of official agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office and the International Monetary Fund and the pricing of government bonds whose payments are tied to inflation.

Australia's central bank signaled today it may resume cutting interest rates as soon as next month if weaker - than - forecast growth slows inflation, sending the local currency and bond yields lower.

The Trump administration pushes back on such grim forecasts, saying it thinks inflation will remain low - around the Fed's 2 percent - for years to come, even with all the extra stimulus from the tax cuts and higher government spending.

Headline inflation is lower than forecast, largely because of the recent fall in oil prices.

Low inflation and uncertainties about the global economy also forced the ECB to revise its forecast for 2015 eurozone growth from 1.5 % to 1.4 %.

The ECB forecast for eurozone growth was lowered to 0.9 % for 2014, compared with a previous forecast back in June of 1 %, but its inflation forecast for 2016 is still sitting at 1.4 %.

The Committee also lowered its forecast for inflation.

At the Fed's September meeting, policymakers stuck with their forecasts for one more interest - rate rise this year and three in 2018, indicating their willingness — at least, for the time being — to look past persistent low inflation.

Compared with the Fed's September forecast, «real GDP growth is a little stronger, the unemployment rate is a bit lower, and inflation is essentially unchanged,» according to an FOMC statement.

ECB signals a lower sense of urgency European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said this week that deflation risks in the eurozone have «largely disappeared,» as ECB inflation forecasts were raised to 1.7 % from 1.3 % for 2017 and 1.6 % from 1.5 % in 2018.

Results from the Bank's latest quarterly survey of financial market economists show that the median inflation forecast is 2.1 per cent over the year to June 2004, before picking up to 2.4 per cent over the year to June 2005; forecasts for both periods are lower than they were in November 2003 by 0.1 percentage points (Table 16).

Policymakers also forecast inflation to creep only slowly toward the Fed's 2 percent target, even as unemployment dips lower than previously expected.

Inflation forecasts will be revised down, if anything automatically, as the result of lower oil prices -LRB--37 % between the mid-November and mid-February cut - off dates) and a stronger trade - weighted currency (+5.1 % for the EUR EER - 38, although the index has eased by 3.5 % from its peak).

The Reserve Bank is clinging to sunny GDP forecasts, but stubbornly low inflation and low wage growth mean even these look weak.

And these forecasts demonstrate that a credible plan to cut our budget deficit goes hand in hand with a steady and sustained economic recovery, with low inflation and falling unemployment.

Also, Fitch forecasts that, «a high inflation could have a fiscal impact if it keeps domestic funding costs elevated (yields can be as high as 20 % on short - term instruments), although we think the Bank of Ghana may have scope to ease monetary policy in 2017, as the impact of electricity tariff adjustments drops out of CPI calculations, lowering headline inflation.»

Confidence about Britain's economic recovery has been dented, with the Bank of England lowering its growth forecast and raising expectations of inflation.

Mr. Woodley also expressed his disappointment that with the forecasts for economic growth and low inflation there was nothing in the Budget to indicate a relaxation on the artificially low public sector pay limits.

The lower growth forecasts and higher inflation presented in the Budget mean an extra # 12bn spent on social security over the next five years.

Savings will be higher if inflation is higher than forecast, but lower if inflation comes in below forecast.

Rowena Mason, deputy political editor: The chancellor blames the lower growth forecasts for next year on higher predicted inflation and economic uncertainty, mostly attributable to the vote to leave the EU.

The reasons underlying incredibly low bond yields are complex and multi-faceted, but one is clear: the U.S. government bond market is forecasting very low, and perhaps negative, inflation.

The central bank is lowering its forecast for inflation, even though the economy is showing signs of improvement.

Stock investors must be able to share that belief and that forecast, because a change in longer - term inflation expectations - even from a low base - would increase stock market risks importantly.

Moreover, the RBA explained that «inflation has been revised a little lower over the forecast period to allow for the upcoming reweighting of the CPI in the December quarter.»

inflation has been revised a little lower over the forecast period to allow for the upcoming reweighting of the CPI in the December quarter

The Russian economy's in excellent shape: Inflation's at a post-Soviet era low of 3.7 %, unemployment's at 6.6 %, GDP is forecast to grow 3.5 %, and the rouble's estimated to be 20 - 30 % under - valued on a PPP basis.

As a result, our forecasted return has been somewhat inflated in nominal terms, whereas an investor's actual purchasing power was only reduced by the lower actual inflation rate.

In five of the six countries where overall wage pressures are lower, inflation is forecast to be higher in 2017 than in 2016, which will limit real terms wage growth.

Mexican firms are expected to benefit from more competitive wages (lower wage pressure) in 2017, as inflation is forecast to erode real wage growth.

«This, in part, is why the Federal Reserve monetary policy committee on March 20th lowered the upper end of its inflation forecast for 2013.

Thankfully, inflation remains tame, partly enabling the Federal Reserve to keep rates low for longer, contrary to the forecasts of most economists.