Sentences with phrase «modest wage inflation»

While modest wage inflation bodes well for the Japanese stock market on average, the sectors best positioned to benefit are those in which wages as a percentage of revenue are low, typically in the single to low - double digits.

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While wage pressures remain modest, core inflation is below target and inflation expectations are contained almost everywhere, the implication is that they should all rise over time.

Expect the Federal Reserve to raise its interest rate targets once between now and then — but only once, as U.S. economic growth stays steady but slow, while inflation and wage growth also remain modest.

Quite simply, sustained economic growth requires wage growth and modest inflation (4 - 4.5 %).

In a news release the National Employment Law Project refers to state proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 8.50 and then tie future increases to the rate of inflation a «more modest proposal» — which is probably news to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the main backer of the bill since January.

The assemblyman's office noted he had co-sponsored a measure that would peg the then - $ 8 hourly minimum wage to the urban inflation rate, which has increased by an average of 1.7 percent annually over the last five years (and only increased by a tenth of a percent in 2015)-- which would have resulted in a far more modest rise in the pay floor.