Sentences with phrase «of fears of inflation»

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A jobs number miss will bolster the case that the Fed should wait to raise interest rates until next year and perhaps calm fears of wage inflation.

As a result, inflation is near the top of the list of things people fear about retirement.

Still, the jump isn't stoking fears of inflation yet.

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

Forget inflation fears — Federated sees earnings as the market story of year Fed's Quarles says it's been «quite some time» since the economy looked this good Fed sees economy past full employment but with only «moderate» wage gains

The fear of inflation was, in my opinion, one of the main contributors to the prolonged slump of the 1930s.

Wednesday's moves come after three volatile sessions in which fear of rising inflation sent interest rates higher, pressuring equities.

It was a rough first quarter for bonds, which fell in value amid fears that inflation, the archnemesis of fixed - income investors, was coming back into the picture.

Wall Street stock futures are lower this morning after a fresh set of depressing inflation data from China that have revived fears about it exporting deflation to the rest of the world.

«You'd have to have a lot of inflation actually occur, not just fear of inflation, in order to get up to levels like that.

While moderate inflation generally supports equity investors, rapid inflation, or fear of it, could prompt the Federal Reserve to hike rates faster, undermining the attraction of equities.

Consider this conundrum in the gold market: The metal has traditionally been a good hedge against inflation, but it hasn't seen much demand lately even in the face of rising inflation fears.

Those concerns triggered a bout of financial market turmoil, as investors feared higher interest rates were coming to keep inflation in check.

The January year - over-year wage increase originally was reported as 2.9 %, the best since 2009, and an uptick that fueled fears of higher inflation.

rather than a realistic portrayal of legitimate inflation fears - wage or otherwise.

The stock market opened way down, continuing last Friday's selloff, though it has climbed back since the open — implying the return of volatility — as skittish investors continue to fear the sequence I describe in this AM's WaPo: tight labor market, wage pressures, higher interest rates, inflation, lower profit margins.

Quick answer: no, as the European Central Bank, which has an inate fear of inflation, felt compelled on Thursday by the economic crisis in Europe to cut its benchmark interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, bringing the refinancing rate to a record low of 0.75 % and the overnight deposit rate to zero.

Bond investors are in constant fear of a replay of the 1970s when interest rates exploded higher in concert with sky high inflation, a double whammy of bad news for fixed income securities.

That will have a double effect of cutting wages and raising unwarranted inflation fears.

In other words, interest rates are not rising because of inflation fears, but because rates are starting to normalize from the unsustainably low levels reached earlier this year.

But longer - dated bonds fell over inflation fears; prices for 30 - year debt sank and fell most of the day for the benchmark 10 - year Treasury, though the latter turned moderately positive at day's end.

The Fed previously had signaled it plans to raise interest rates two more times this year, but some observers have expressed concerns that the tightening monetary policy would accelerate over fears of inflation.

A sudden fear of surging inflation and higher interest rates helped ignite the past week's stomach - churning stock market losses and violent bouts of volatility.

If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

In bonds, the fear about Depression gripping the markets had a striking result last week, as investors priced inflation - protected bonds as if the rate of inflation would be essentially zero for the next 5 years or more.

One was in the 1990s when the Federal Reserve took action to slow economic growth in response to fears of inflation.

Ahead of that this morning we have CPI inflation data, fears of low inflation coupled with a contagion from slow growing and even contracting foreign economies is exactly why we believe the FOMC will not remove the «considerable time» phrase in its statement when referring to raising rates.

Higher wages, inflation fears and the prospect of faster than expected rate hikes are posing challenges market players haven't seen for years.

Another sell off in the markets based on fears from Drumpf damaging economy of the US by escalating the trade war, job report, inflation fear.

The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at government bond yields — deficit spending, a weaker U.S. dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.

Now the current levels of volatility have emanated from a number of different sources: political uncertainty, concerns about rising inflation, concerns about rising interest rates, concerns about a trade war, cybersecurity fears, all of these different things.

The market's plunge was ignited by fear of potentially higher - than - expected inflation and interest rates.

I'm okay with having money that we'll definitely use in a couple of years sitting in a bank account, but if we want to not worry about having to buy in a rush for fear of inflation, then we need to have that money at least keeping up with it.

France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

The price of soya beans is heading towards the record high set during the 2007 - 08 food crisis, which is set to reignite fears of runaway global food inflation.

A catalyst for the recent market sell - off was fear of higher inflation, and with inflation indicators pointing upwards, the dollar and the stock markets could be in for rough ride in the coming weeks.

The European Central Bank's ultra-low key interest rate, while appropriate for the ailing PIIGS nations, is too low for faster - growing Germany resulting in negative real interest rates and fears of inflation.

If you stay employed a bit of inflation is not to be feared.

Market commentators ascribed this change to many factors, but trade war fears, a hint of increase in the rate of inflation and rising interest rates almost certainly contributed.

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.

The bottom line here is this: none of these investment vehicles are perfect, in fact many have significant flaws; but despite their flaws they attract money away from gold, thus undermining gold's monopoly on the fear / inflation / currency debasement trade.

The unsavoriness of Bullard's comment is not that he fears a downturn in inflation, and maybe lower growth, but that Bullard seemed to find his DOVISH posture as the U.S. markets were heading toward the August lows.

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We are, of course, fully aware of the possibility that people may fear that this temporary period of high inflation could, in fact, turn out to be persistent.

Even during the 1970s, the period when the gold price famously rocketed upward in parallel with increasing fear of «inflation», the gold rally was mostly about declining real interest rates and declining confidence in both monetary and fiscal governance.

So the bond market, the sovereign bond market, is beginning to react to a fear of inflation.

The strengthening global economy and expectations of U.S. fiscal stimulus appear to be heralding a turnaround in market sentiment after fears of near - zero headline inflation two years ago.

That large rises in the gold price are NOT primarily driven by increasing fear of «inflation» is evidenced by the fact that the large multi-year gold rallies of 2001 - 2006 and 2008 - 2011 began amidst FALLING inflation expectations.

There was a mild form of inflation fears about a year ago and then it went away.

By enshrining zero percent inflation as the ideal, both of them reflect an exaggerated fear of even moderate inflation that is not supported by the preponderance of evidence.