Sentences with phrase «more than the inflation rate»

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

First, you need to build up a compilation of some of the great companies that have dividend rates equal to or more than the inflation rate each year.

That is why banks charge interest, because they want to be able to make more than the inflation rate.

Not exact matches

You'd have to figure out property tax rates, which will go up more than inflation does.

Hence the question: Is it reasonable to expect that marginally looser policies would now lead to more than tripling of the growth rate (to 1.5 - 2 percent) over the next two years, while raising the inflation rate from -0.3 percent to 2 percent — as the Bank of Japan is promising?

The Bank won't sit still for inflation over 2 %, so a rate rise is now more likely than ever.

That's exactly what sparked the stock market correction last month: a higher - than - expected average hourly earnings number in January's jobs report ignited fears that inflation might finally be coming to life, and in response the Federal Reserve may look to hike rates more aggressively than the three projected increases for this year.

At the Federal Reserve's target rate of 2 percent, inflation could erode more than $ 73,000 of a retiree's purchasing power over 20 years if that person were receiving the monthly average Social Security retirement payment of $ 1,341.

Stocks have plunged in the last week as traders worried about rising interest rates and inflation, bringing an end to more than a year of historically low volatility.

The best wage growth since 2009 sparked speculation that incoming Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell may have to raise interest rates more than the three times the central bank has forecast in order to tame inflation this year.

The somewhat stronger U.S. inflation signal implies a modestly more hawkish U.S. Federal Reserve tightening cycle than what we would expect to see out of the Bank of Canada (BoC) after it left its key overnight lending rate unchanged at 1 % this month.

The Teacher Retirement System in Texas, which manages about $ 132 billion for more than 1.4 million current employees and beneficiaries, reduced its inflation rate assumption last month while reviewing its current investment target rate.

British inflation fell to its lowest level in more than 12 years in November, coming in at half the Bank of England's two percent target and leaving it under no pressure to raise interest rates anytime soon.

Turkey's annual inflation rate went up more than expected in August to 7.14 percent, moving further away from the central bank's target inflation of 5 percent.

For four consecutive months, core inflation has hovered below 2 % and it has not visibly overshot 2 % for more than 20 years, even during periods of unemployment, falling well below the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

In doing so, it needs to rely less on transmission channels such as the exchange rate which can have a more immediate effect on inflation, than working through the output gap.

While the Fed certainly considers much more than the superficial headline number in its analysis of inflation, some of those who interpret the Fed's actions make this overly simplistic assertion: Inflation is too low today and therefore justifies the maintenance of low poliinflation, some of those who interpret the Fed's actions make this overly simplistic assertion: Inflation is too low today and therefore justifies the maintenance of low poliInflation is too low today and therefore justifies the maintenance of low policy rates.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

In fact, the Bank of Canada should now be more concerned about the exchange rate than the inflation rate.

Consumer prices, usually more stable than producer prices, have also accelerated on a similar basis from a recorded inflation rate of less than 1.0 percent last summer to 2.4 percent over the 12 - months ended this past March, also a smart acceleration in a brief time.

The rationale to hike interest rates would be to quell inflation, which is little more than half of the central bankâ $ ™ s 2 % target.

Many economists believe the Fed, which last raised rates in December, will hike again at its next meeting in March and some analysts think the Fed could hike more than three times this year, depending on what inflation does.

As it turned out, we raised interest rates weeks before the commitment expired because we saw signs that inflation was returning to its target more rapidly than we anticipated.

Surveyed women business owners indicated more concern than their male counterparts over stock market performance (67 percent vs. 55 percent), inflation (62 percent vs. 55 percent), low interest rate on savings (58 percent vs. 52 percent) and foreign competition (32 percent vs. 26 percent).

Following his comments, with the prospect of a rise in eurozone interest rates apparently pushed back to 2018 at the earliest, the euro — which had already dipped in the wake of the lower - than - expected inflation figures — gave up more ground.

The tumult that saw global equity markets begin to fall at the beginning of February was triggered by U.S. jobs data that showed wages grew more than anticipated, raising worries that signs of higher inflation might push the U.S. Federal Reserve to increase interest rates more quickly.

Euro - Zone Producer - Price Inflation Slows Euro - zone producer - price inflation slowed to its weakest rate in more than two years in May, pointing to a slowdown in consumer prices that would give the European Central Bank more room to cut its key interInflation Slows Euro - zone producer - price inflation slowed to its weakest rate in more than two years in May, pointing to a slowdown in consumer prices that would give the European Central Bank more room to cut its key interinflation slowed to its weakest rate in more than two years in May, pointing to a slowdown in consumer prices that would give the European Central Bank more room to cut its key interest rate.

It takes more than a year for a change in the benchmark interest rate to affect borrowing decisions, so to contain inflation, Poloz and his deputies on the Governing Council must raise interest rates before the CPI actually touches two per cent.

At the same time, signs of emerging inflation pressures may elevate concern among investors that policy makers will have reason to raise interest rates more aggressively than anticipated.

The payment of GST on insurance premiums has boosted those components of CPI inflation over the past year; the method of measurement based on premiums net of claims means that the recorded price of insurance in the CPI has increased by more than the GST rate.

Euro zone inflation jumped more than expected in August, data showed on Friday, likely reducing chances that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates next Thursday.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

But policy makers appeared to hint that they had little fear that inflation was running out of control, which traders took as a sign the Fed won't feel compelled to move more aggressively than expected to lift rates in the future.

And if the fiscal problem becomes unstable — more deficit to finance than security markets will allow, the Fed will obey its political masters and finance the deficit by a hyper - inflation, or hyper - tax, as a burgeoning inflation simply taxes all fixed dollar wealth — bonds, dollars, life insurance values, etc. — by the rate of price level increase.

Eurostat also said the annual rate of inflation fell to 1.2 % in April from 1.7 % in March, to hit its lowest level in more than three years.

This was largely a function of the coincidence of high real interest rates and high asset price inflation over much of the period — more so, perhaps, than the exercise of exceptional investment skills as such.

After all, the ECB is firmly committed to asset monetisation and negative interest rates based on the belief that these counter-productive policies are working, and the Federal Reserve is seemingly afraid to take even a small step towards «policy normalisation» despite its targets for employment and «inflation» having been reached more than three years ago.

Investing in currency involves additional special risks such as credit, interest rate fluctuations, derivative investment risk, and domestic and foreign inflation rates, which can be volatile and may be less liquid than other securities and more sensitive to the effect of varied economic conditions.

But if inflation pressures build more rapidly than expected, the FOMC could raise the fed funds rate three more times this year, in June, September, and December.

During the bear market beginning in 1973, the inflation rate increased by more than 9 percentage points — from 3.4 percent to 12.4 percent.

For another example, a 1 % decline in inflation expectations would not result in a more bearish backdrop for gold if it were accompanied by a decline of more than 1 % in the nominal interest rate.

But they have more misgivings than they once might have had about attempts to meet inflation and / or unemployment mandates that ignore the financial implications of the interest rate settings thought necessary to reach those goals.

For example, a 2 % rise in inflation expectations would only result in a more bullish backdrop for gold if it were accompanied by a rise of less than 2 % in the nominal interest rate.

As we have witnessed since April 2009, the central banks around the globe have created more credit (counterfeit «money») than in any other period in history and now that inflation is starting to once again emerge, they are threatening to raise interest rates to get ahead of the curve.

BRUSSELS (AP)-- Consumer price inflation in the eurozone was stuck at 0.2 percent in August, a low rate that could encourage the European Central Bank to offer more stimulus sooner rather than later.

Notably, the year - over-year rate of core consumer inflation (excluding food and energy) ticked up to 2.1 % in March, the highest in more than a year.

In the short run, the inflation rate could decline more than forecast if the exchange rate were to appreciate further, or if the degree of pass - through is greater than expected due to strong competition in the retail sector.

This is because with a Taylor framework, inflation is more important than output in determining the appropriate rate.

The Fed will now «print» $ 85 billion a month until the unemployment rate falls below 6.5 % and inflation projections remain no more than half a percentage point above 2 % for two years out.

A stable economy and unemployment rate coupled with an inflation overshoot would more than likely see the markets begin to price back in a May hike that should see the Pound recover to $ 1.40 levels, while weak numbers will be another reason for BoE to stand pat.