Sentences with phrase «of moderate inflation»

Money seems stable enough in the short - run, but every now and then it fails due to hyperinflation, or the slow steady failure in the store of value sense of moderate inflation over long periods.

CAMBRIDGE — It is time for the world's major central banks to acknowledge that a sudden burst of moderate inflation would be extremely helpful in unwinding today's epic debt morass.

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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 OECD noted that «short - term inflation expectations appear to be inching upwards,» and said that the Bank of Canada, which has kept interest rates to promote economic growth, «should soon resume tightening at a moderate pace.»

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.

If inflation moderates, if it doesn't spike quite as much as we're thinking it will do, I think a lot of businesses will feel they have a little bit more room to maneuver and indeed to get ahead,» he explained.

So far, the decline in major commodity prices has been fairly modest, though enough to help rates of CPI inflation to moderate a little.

In particular, to the extent that the effect on inflation of further gradual tightening in labor market conditions is likely to be moderate and gradual, the case to tighten policy preemptively is less compelling.

They will need to cope with increasing drag from the advanced economies and moderating growth in the emerging markets, shifting risk preferences on the part of investors and a surge in inflation that has brought headline rates well above targets globally.

Core inflation has been lower than expected in recent months... Core inflation is expected to increase gradually over coming quarters, reaching 2 per cent by the middle of 2013 as the economy gradually absorbs the current small degree of slack, the growth of labour compensation remains moderate and inflation expectations stay well anchored.

In fact I have always argued that I consider a moderate amount of sustained CPI inflation as a good thing, indicating that China is really rebalancing.

These risks include the downside ones of a Chinese yuan devaluation and a U.K. exit from the European Union, as well as the upside risks of an emerging market rebound or a moderate rise in inflation expectations on improving growth prospects.

The price increase was also driven by the reality that seafood inflation, although moderated from where it was at the beginning of the year, was still elevated.

Actually, the Bank of Canada moderated wages from 1980 to 1995 with inflation - fighting interest - rate hikes.

Euro zone inflation eased in June because of more moderate energy price rises, but the slowdown was less than expected by markets and the core measure of price growth the ECB keenly watches increased by more than anticipated.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did his best Friday morning to remind America of how well the economy is doing, touting «higher growth, moderate inflation, lower unemployment.»

Most of the returns should come from maintaining pricing against inflation, moderate product innovation, dividends, and buying back shares.

Overall, however, the bulk of the evidence continues to suggest tepid economic growth with moderate but persistent inflation pressures, and the Market Climate for precious metals remains favorable on our measures.

These relatively moderate outcomes have been an important restraining influence on overall inflation during the past year, and they also point to the prospect of continued employment growth and lower unemployment.

Even so, as inflation stabilises at a low rate of increase I expect real GDP growth to resume a moderate upward path.

All in all, the Fed continues to expect inflation to rise gradually toward 2 % over the medium term as the labor market improves further and the transitory effects of energy price declines and other factors dissipate, but the pace for hikes in interest rates could well be moderate, as the Fed has been indicating.

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.

As a general rule, countries attempt to keep inflation fixed at a rate of 2 percent as moderate levels of inflation are acceptable, with high levels of deflation leading to economic stagnation.

Some economists have argued, for example, that if a central bank keeps real interest rates low (but positive) over the long term and allows for moderate inflation, a country with its own currency can increase spending very substantially over the long term without increasing taxes. PEF Blogger, Arun Dubois, has blogged extensively about some of these other perspectives.

During these past 15 years, the Anglo - American economies (US, UK and Canada) have experienced episodes of weak growth in broad money (M2 or M3) with moderate inflation (in the early - 1990s) and episodes of strong monetary growth with little measured inflation of consumer prices, as now.

But a period of more moderate growth would be a better outcome than either allowing inflation to go unchecked or expecting the major economies to do all the heavy lifting.

Producer price inflation also moderated over the year, particularly at the earlier stages of production (Graph 70), even though the effect of movements in oil prices was fairly small over this period.

Indicators of upstream price pressures, such as producer price data and business surveys, continue to suggest moderate rates of inflation.

This path is predicated on the assumption that even as the labor market reaches full employment, the pace of economic growth will remain moderate, and inflation will not reach the Fed's 2 % target before end - 2017.

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.

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.

Second, by arbitrarily truncating the distribution at an inflation rate of 50 percent, it makes the scores of countries with moderate inflation look worse than they otherwise would.

The net effect of higher import prices and continued subdued domestic inflationary pressures is likely to be a moderate rise in inflation during the period in which import prices are adjusting.

This procedure exaggerates the harm done by moderate rates of inflation in three ways.

Low Inflation Risk: Bitcoin is gradually minted at decreasing fixed rates, creating a moderate and favorable amount of deflation for as long as new bitcoins are mined.

If ending Federal stimulus moderates the pace of economic growth, inflation fears will ease and long - term interest rates will edge back down, Hunt says.

Despite a small decline in May, consumer confidence for the first five months of 2015 has been at a higher average level than at any time since May 2004.2 A relatively low unemployment rate and moderate inflation have helped maintain consumers» upbeat mood.

The requirements for a moderate budget had risen $ 1,200 in one year because of inflation.

«If Congress ends up halfway between House and Senate, then we're looking at moderate increases, a bit ahead of the rate of inflation relative to fiscal 2016,» said Hourihan.

In judging when to moderate the pace of asset purchases, the Committee will, at its coming meetings, assess whether incoming information continues to support the Committee's expectation of ongoing improvement in labor market conditions and inflation moving back toward its longer - run objective.

Alternatively, if the next few years include both the effects and the reversal of the recent emergency fiscal and monetary stimulus - call it the Great Unwinding - inflation volatility could move above average, leading to more moderate valuations for the S&P.

When the motor is run steadily at a moderate power level, most of what determines the boat's net rate of progress upstream (real returns) is the velocity of the opposing water currents (inflation), not the output of the motor (nominal returns).

Today's investors demand some signs of economic growth and moderate inflation before committing wholeheartedly to a region.

«The Committee expects that... economic activity will expand at a moderate pace, labor market conditions will strengthen somewhat further, and inflation will stabilize around 2 percent over the medium term... In view of realized and expected labor market conditions and inflation, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 3/4 to 1 percent.»

However, using the Bank of Canada posted rate as a benchmark is excessive in our view, as an overnight 2 percentage point increase in mortgage rates is unlikely given the low inflation rate and moderate growth in Canada.

If the economy stays on its current track of moderate growth, with an improving job market and low inflation, the stock market rally could get back on track.

has a relatively moderate level of risk in seeking to support an annual withdrawal strategy to address anticipated, inflation - sensitive income needs.

Nonetheless, they give a rough estimate of how stock diversification can moderate negative inflation betas.

After moderating this quarter, the Bank reported the total CPI inflation, along with core inflation, to be around 2 percent over the balance of the projection horizon.

Inflation rates are expected to stay anchored as the growth of labour compensation remains moderate and the economy reaches its production potential.