Sentences with phrase «of high inflation rates»

The Brazilian economy has experienced in the past, and may continue to experience, periods of high inflation rates and political unrest.

Five drivers of higher inflation rates are now starting to kick in.

... the three - year rally in bonds could be officially O - V - E-R because of higher inflation rates.

Not exact matches

The change is key as Fed officials consider 2 percent to be a healthy level of inflation and a key for continuing to push rates higher.

Investors often use gold as a hedge against inflation, but higher interest rates dent the appeal of gold, which earns nothing and costs money to store and insure.

That would boost economic growth, inflation and debt: if the Joy of Cooking contained a recipe for higher interest rates, that would be it.

So that policy response is going to lead to slightly higher inflation in terms of wages and slightly higher interest rates, and the market had to respond to that.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

After the U.S. experience during the Great Depression, and after inflation and rising interest rates in the 1970s and disinflation and falling interest rates in the 1980s, I thought the fallacy of identifying tight money with high interest rates and easy money with low interest rates was dead.

As they won wage increases higher than the current rate of inflation they would, for a short time, gain real wage increases.

(Bond yields move inversely with bond prices, and rising yields tend to signal expectations of higher growth and inflation ahead and, therefore, higher interest rates.)

«The benefits of tax reform, global synchronized growth, [and] employment gains will extend the life of our economic expansion and eventually lead to inflation and higher interest rates.

In other words, would pushing the short - term interest rate down to 0 percent, from the current rate of 0.16 percent, propel the GDP growth and inflation to such permanently higher levels?

With no signs of creeping inflation, it doesn't hurt for the Fed to keep the pedal on the monetary metal, while removing stimulus too early could risk forcing interest rates and the dollar unnecessarily higher, putting a damper on the recovery.

The beginning of his tenure has been defined by ramped up market volatility, a pickup in rates and the consensus that inflation is ticking higher after a prolonged period of price suppression.

We have no corporate solution to this problem; high inflation rates will not help us earn higher rates of return on equity.»

That's bad compared with the U.S. and the European Union, where the rates of inflation are 2.7 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively, but economists not affiliated with the government say the real figure is at least twice as high.

According to a 2005 study of criminal patterns by Statistics Canada, for example, inflation rates influence the levels of financially motivated crimes such as break - ins and car thefts, while increases in unemployment correlate with higher homicide rates.

High interest rates, of course, can compensate purchasers for the inflation risk they face with currency - based investments — and indeed, rates in the early 1980s did that job nicely.

Bets the European Central Bank might consider raising interest rates by the end of 2018 due to evidence of higher inflation and business activity in the euro have lifted the euro, which was poised for its best yearly performance versus the greenback in 14 years.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

«Employment rates for Darden graduates are high [94 % for the class of 2014] and the average starting salary is up 12 % since 2010, well ahead of inflation.»

«High wage inflation data in the months ahead could cause a rapid reappraisal of the pace of Fed rate hikes.

Volatility has come back with a vengeance recently as worries of rising inflation sent interest rates higher, rattling investors.

Take a look at the top 10 highest - grossing R - rated movies of all time adjusted for inflation (to keep things on an even playing field):

For the first time since oil prices crashed, strong job growth has the Bank of Canada worried about inflation, meaning higher interest rates are coming

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

«I don't think inflation will do much harm to the economy and to my business, but the high - interest - rate policy that I anticipate the Bank of Canada will follow will do significant harm to both.»

Yet while the Fed has eased policy to lower joblessness and raise inflation in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 recession, central banks such as the BoE have also launched accommodative bond - buying programs despite higher - than - desired inflation rates.

One can see that the highest rates of money growth and inflation are clearly in the emerging markets, and not in the developed markets.

Economists doubt the jobless rate can fall that low again without touching off inflation, as employers are forced to offer higher pay to attract workers from a dwindling supply of unemployed.

The fuel price increases will filter through the economy, said McTeague, leading to less discretionary spending, higher inflation rates and fuel premium increases for truck, rail and air transport of goods.

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

But some economists are wondering if a higher rate of inflation is really so bad.

The situation can quickly spiral out of control, resulting in higher interest rates and runaway inflation.

We believe that the downside risk is that the economy enters a period of «overheating» characterized by rising inflation and higher interest rates.

Real interest rates, which subtract inflation from the nominal rate to show the true cost of borrowing, soared as high as 8 % in the aftermath, as demand for goods and services evaporated and prices tumbled.

We are in the ninth year of an unusually long economic expansion, and while we believe the cycle has room to run, we see gradually rising rates and modestly higher inflation ahead.

So, the government could actually spend gazillions of dollars and set its rates at 0 % permanently (which might cause high inflation, but you get the message).

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.

Finally, in a nominal GDP targeting regime, a decline in r - star caused by slower trend growth automatically leads to a higher rate of trend inflation, providing a larger buffer to respond to economic downturns.

In recent years the dollar has had an inflation rate of around 2 percent, and it has been higher in the past.

Not suddenly, but over time, gradually higher rates of inflation should be the result of QE policies and zero bound yields that were initiated in late 2008 and which will likely continue for years to come.

Although some are concerned about potential inflation and higher interest rates, we still enjoy an environment of synchronized global economic growth and muted macro risks.

Dividend Growth Investing is an income strategy of investing in companies that have a barrier to entry (large moat) and consistent history of increasing dividends by a rate higher than inflation.

Because nominal wage growth for a large fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).

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Many emerging markets are caught between high food and energy inflation and the threat of higher interest rates.

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.

To expect the Fed to hold rates at current levels or just a quarter - point higher, in the face of those inflation figures, would seem to be asking a lot.