Sentences with phrase «over inflation as»

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Stocks have been struggling all year to gain footing amid myriad fears over trade tensions, the inflation specter and concern that while earnings have been strong, this might be as good as it gets.

Gold was near one - week high as Italian elections and fears over inflation hikes and a looming trade war tamped the dollar.

«If they do target aggressively the 2 percent inflation target, and undertake a significant amount of QE, that may have an impact on underlying JGB (Japanese government bond) yields as investors become concerned over Japan's debt,» he said.

Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

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?

In fact, the minutes note that «some participants viewed the actual and expected progress toward the [Fed's] goals as sufficient to call for a relatively prompt move toward reducing policy accommodation to avoid overshooting the [Fed's] unemployment and inflation objectives over the medium term.»

But inflation remains distant from the BOJ's 2 percent target as companies hold off on raising prices and wages, citing uncertainty over the economic outlook.

Because rental rates tend to correspond to inflation over the long term, some investors regard REITs as a hedge against inflation.

A 25 - year - old earning a starting salary of $ 40,456 (adjusted annually for inflation) and saving 15 % each year has over a 99 % chance of maintaining at least their initial investment — the same as a traditional savings account — over 40 years.

Details of the meeting showed that policymakers were worried over the fate of currently low inflation and saw the recent tax changes as providing a boost to the economy.

But if average inflation were to more than double to 4 % over the next 30 years, a renter who put in the equivalent of a downpayment as well as annual principal payments into the stock market instead of toward a house would end up a little more than $ 415,000 richer 30 years later than someone who bought, even after factoring in the cost of renting.

She added that the credit is regressive over time, as it will stay capped at $ 1,600, while the personal exemptions that they replace were adjusted for inflation.

And as Canadian home values ballooned over the past decade well ahead of inflation, being a realtor became all the more lucrative.

Because PE is a measure of earnings over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).

«We have been falling short of our inflation objective not just in the past year, but over a longer period as well.

He argued that the Fed's inflation record over the past 15 to 20 years has been as good as or better than central banks in Europe that have only a single price - stability mandate.

«Further progress on these goals was expected over the period ahead but the increase in inflation was likely to occur only gradually as the economy strengthened,» the RBA said.

It makes me somewhat more confident that overall inflation will return to our 2 percent inflation objective over the medium term as long as the economic growth that I expect actually materializes.

Overall, inflation expectations are marginally higher than in the winter survey: higher commodity prices and expected inflationary pressures in the United States are viewed as contributing to domestic inflation over the next two years.

As credibility builds over time, monetary policy does not have to respond to every hint of inflation, knowing that the small fluctuations in inflation over the course of the cycle will not have any permanent effects.

Not only have you missed your 2 % inflation target every quarter since 2012q2, but as the figure shows (using revised data on yr / yr PCE core inflation) you're missing it on the downside by a greater margin over time.

When inflation rears its ugly head, acting as a stealth tax by draining your purchasing power over time, there are some asset allocation portfolio models you can use to guard against its wealth destruction.

[2] Each quarter in the Statement on Monetary Policy, we publish forecasts for Australia's major trading partners» GDP growth, as well as Australia's terms of trade, GDP growth, unemployment rate and inflation over the next two - and - a-half years.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

You can see this sense of priorities — with medium - term price stability being the sine qua non, and our acceptance that inflation may vary a little over the course of the cycle — in the specification of the inflation target as being an average «over the course of the cycle».

Naturally, as a central banker, I'll begin by observing that over the past two decades, most of the world has experienced a substantial fall in inflation.

HCI believes farmland is a real return asset class as it has historically been effective in protecting capital from inflation while generating an attractive income stream that grows over time.

Phaseouts that are not adjusted for inflation affect more taxpayers over time, as inflation raises nominal incomes and thus lifts more taxpayers above the phaseout thresholds.

As a result, we should have grown much faster than the 2 1/2 percent pace evident over the past couple of years and seen an inflation rate much higher than what we experienced.

[1] The «on average» specification allows the Bank to take account of the fact that it can not finetune inflation over short periods, and of the obligation to promote, insofar as monetary policy can, full employment, which is another of the Bank's charter obligations.

Cash alternatives, such as money market funds, typically offer lower rates of return than longer - term equity or fixed - income securities and may not keep pace with inflation over extended periods of time.

At a time when markets are pointing to the problem over the next generation as being inadequate rather than excessive inflation, central bankers need to spur demand and co-operate with governments.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

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.

If past is prologue, as inflation rises over the coming months, gold will do very well.

The main reason for this is that the monetary policy framework in Australia is seen as credible in ensuring that the inflation rate averages between 2 and 3 per cent over time.

The debate prior to this crisis can be (perhaps simplistically) characterised as between those who argued that an inflation - targeting central bank should care about asset prices to the extent that they affected the forecasts of output and inflation over the policy horizon, and those who argued that additional attention needed to be paid to asset prices and the possibility of credit imbalances.

The inflation target in Australia is defined on average over the [business] cycle, which, if taken literally, suggests that it may be interpreted as a price - level, rather than an inflation - rate, target.

So speaking of the 70's, there are strong parallels as to what we can expect as the inflation machine takes over.

As we've discussed, any inflation erodes a portfolio's purchasing power over time.

Meanwhile liberal economists argue over a tuning of the Phillips curve, Taylor Rule, and NAIRU, as if picking the right inflation target, unemployment level, and interest rates are all that's required.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

As a result, inflation went down over time, to the point where it became a negligible factor in economic decision - making, which was the whole point of the exercise.

In other words, the median asking rent is $ 184 higher today than it would be if rental rates had risen only as fast as inflation over the past two decades.

Credit concerns typically create a spike in demand for default - free assets such as U.S. government liabilities, so even though there is a much larger float than is likely to be sustained over time without inflation as the ultimate outcome, credit concerns tend to support the value of these liabilities and hence mutes immediate inflation pressures (essentially, monetary velocity declines as these liabilities are sought as a default - free store of value).

The thrust of his argument is that interest rates need to go up as the Fed's been «adding enormous policy accommodation over the past several years» and, even while they've long been missing their inflation target on the downside, there's a risk of getting «significantly behind the curve.»

This specification provides a clear benchmark as an anchor for long - term expectations — and the average rate of inflation over the past decade was 2.7 per cent.

«As the downside risks to the inflation outlook dissolve, the Bank of Canada is likely to re-establish a tightening policy bias over the course of this year - we expect the first hike to the overnight rate in the second quarter of 2015,» said Wright.

As Google continues to turn the screw towards a fully fledged pay - to - play model my bet is that we'll see even more keyword inflation over the next few years, though ultimately there may be a point at which things start to plateau.

Over the three years to June 1993, inflation as measured by the CPI averaged around 2 per cent a year; the last three - year period to show such a low inflation rate was in the early 1960s.