Sentences with phrase «of accelerating inflation»

Stock markets are seeing bigger fluctuations this year amid speculation over signs of accelerating inflation, the pace of Federal Reserve rate increases and U.S. trade tensions with China.

But just as these financial elephants began trampling on one another in their rush to equities, we entered an era of accelerating inflation and higher interest rates.

Sky - high interest rates and two recessions occurred before the Fed could finally break the back of accelerating inflation.

I hope the Fed will not now invest its credibility in signaling further increases until and unless there is much clearer evidence of accelerating inflation.

Not exact matches

The Fed is likely to accelerate the pace of interest rate hikes if inflation starts to become «a problem,» says King Lip of Baker Avenue Asset Management.

The Fed's announcement assuaged investors» concerns about the possibility of accelerated interest - rate increases as rising materials costs for companies have signaled a pickup in inflation.

Experts, however, had been anticipating inflation to accelerate at an even faster pace in March and, earlier this week, the Bank of Canada raised its inflation projections for 2018.

You lose confidence in the dollar and you want to get out of the dollar, at which point you're like «okay you can pay me in dollars, but I'm going to buy land, fine art, gold, silver, that's when velocity accelerates almost of nowhere, and inflation takes off.

«Now, even if inflation does accelerate over the remainder of the year, there's still reason for the bank to be cautious on future rate hikes.»

U.S. data on Monday showed that consumer prices accelerated in the year to March, with a measure of underlying inflation surging to near the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target as last year's weak readings dropped out of the calculation.

U.S. consumer prices increased in January, with a gauge of underlying inflation posting its largest gain in 12 months, bolstering views that price pressures will accelerate this year.

Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published this month showed officials expected the annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft readings on inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation.»

The U.S. economy probably added 185,000 jobs in March while wage gains accelerated, a survey of economists showed, reinforcing the Federal Reserve's case for continuing to increase interest rates gradually to keep inflation from overheating while keeping unemployment low.

For one thing, further stimulus will continue to increase the amount of money in the economy, which is not causing inflation at the moment but could become inflationary when the economy does accelerate.

He touted robust employment, low inflation and accelerating economic growth, and he said the Fed would continue its strategy of gradually increasing its benchmark interest rate to keep inflation in check.

According to my team's analysis of data via Bloomberg, «good» inflation can be viewed as price increases resulting from accelerating economic activity and a strong labor market, and thus, most likely to further support rising wages and employment.

In other signs of stabilization, China's exports rose for the first time in four months in June, while consumer inflation accelerated.

He suggested this might add to inflation risks; accelerate the need for interest - rate hikes; strain mortgages; and ultimately widen the import - export trade deficit, which is the source of trade tensions.

«With the Italian 10 - year bond yielding less than its US counterpart, with clear signs of accelerating growth and inflation in Europe, and a depressed Euro adding fuel to the fire, assets correlated to European rates will be vulnerable in 2017,» says Mitchell.

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.

But firms» attempts to raise their prices above other firms» prices results in ever - accelerating inflation and eventual collapse of money.

Minutes of the Fed's March 20 - 21 policy meeting published on April 11 showed officials expected the annual PCE price indexes to accelerate in March partly because of «the arithmetic effect of the soft readings on inflation in early 2017 dropping out of the calculation».

At the onset of the Asian crisis, the Australian economy was growing at around trend rates, with domestic demand beginning to accelerate, and underlying inflation at 1.6 per cent.

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.

However, core inflation has accelerated only slightly, suggesting little pass - through of wage growth to price growth.

Our experts discuss the market perception vs. reality that inflation is accelerating, the supply of US treasuries and the impact of repatriation, and the demand for short term debt.

But analysts will watch the official statement after the meeting for signs of rising concern about inflation, and hints that the Fed might accelerate its pace of rate increases later this year.

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.

Investors have begun to worry that the Fed might accelerate the pace of its credit tightening if inflation, which has been dormant for years, starts to show signs of accelerating.

And for all the muddle, the one thing that seems clear is that the risks to the economy and particularly the labor market — which is generating solid job growth and even some wage gains (for which we should all give Chair Yellen and the Fed serious credit)-- remain «asymmetric:» there's a greater risk of needlessly slowing non-inflationary growth than there is of inflation accelerating.

European stocks take cues from opening drop in U.S. and end near session lows Adidas backs yearly outlook European stocks on Thursday close lower, with selling accelerating in the afternoon as U.S. stocks slumped at the start of their regular trading session, extending a downturn begun following the Federal Reserve's Wednesday policy update on inflation and economic health.

In his article «The Age of Secular Stagnation,» Larry Summers argued that excess of saving over investment is acting as a drag on demand to weigh on growth and inflation, and current monetary stimulus should be expanded to accelerate investments and pull demand forward, such as raising the inflation target or to conduct nominal GDP targeting.

The emergence of such «stagflation» in the late 1970s [13] led to general acceptance of the natural - rate hypothesis, the idea that abnormally low unemployment causes inflation to accelerate.

The British Pound strengthened this morningafter the Bank of England said inflation may continue to accelerate above its 2percent target, reducing the chances that the central bank will reignite asset purchases.

Another report earlier this week showed that the Fed's preferred measure of inflation accelerated to its highest in more than a year in March, while data last week showed that wages grew at their fastest pace in in eleven years in the first quarter.

Of note on inflation, «Strikingly, output price inflation accelerated to the fastest rate since October 2008 amid sharper rises to input costs.

The idea is that there is some moderate, positive rate of inflation that produces the lowest minimum unemployment rate that can be sustained without accelerating inflation.

The Fed doesn't see any signs of inflation accelerating, which would be good news for investors given the projections for a strong economic backdrop.

In addition, they dropped the statement indicating that they are «monitoring inflation developments closely», hinting to an easing of concerns about inflation being too low and perhaps also suggesting that they do not expect inflation to accelerate significantly.

Investors also may face new uncertainties if inflation unexpectedly accelerates and raises questions about the pace of Fed interest - rate hikes.

The Bank of Japan expanded monetary stimulus on July 29 through a modest increase in purchases of exchange - traded funds (ETF), yielding to pressure from the government and financial markets for bolder action to spur growth and accelerate inflation towards its 2 percent target.

Several factors, including policy changes and peak - globalization trends, could potentially cause inflation to accelerate faster than many investors» subdued expectations based on recent decades of disinflation.

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.

Inflation theory posits that the entire mass of the universe accelerated to many times the speed of light in a fraction of a second and should have set the entire cosmos ringing with gravity waves.

Her group is pinning its hopes on a bill introduced by House of Representatives Democrats called the Accelerating Biomedical Research Act that would allow NIH's budget to gradually grow to the level it would have reached if it had risen with inflation since 2003.

So far the Fed has minimized price inflation, but how will you manage the removal of accomodation from QE2, particularly if inflation begins to accelerate?

After exploring actual retiree spending patterns, Blanchett found spending grows at a rate lower than inflation through most of retirement, then accelerates in later years because of higher health - care costs.

Simultaneously, with inflation likely to accelerate modestly in the first quarter of 2018, short - to medium - term inflation breakevens offer compelling upside.

The Fed also made suggestions that inflation is near target but that there is no need to accelerate the pace of rate hikes.

Two of the key components of core inflation, medical costs and housing, are accelerating.