Sentences with phrase «raising 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.

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

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.

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.

If the yield curve is expected to become flat, it raises fears of high inflation with the economy slipping into recession; with inflation worries and recession fears subduing each other, investors tend to take short positions in short - term securities and ETFs and go long on long - term securities.

Although the report was great news for U.S. workers, on Wall Street the rosy jobs picture generated fears of higher inflation that might drive the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates more quickly than anticipated.

In the midst of this the FOMC began raising the fed funds rate higher and higher as they feared economic growth would lead to inflation, with rising long rates a possible sign of higher expected inflation.

These days the Fed seems more concerned about inflation than recession and had raised the federal funds rate to just over 5 percent as of mid-2006 to head off what it fears is a potentially overheated economy.