Sentences with phrase «say inflation pressures»

The major averages get a big lift even as a number of companies say inflation pressures are mounting.

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For now, relatively tame commodities prices are «keeping longer term inflation at bay,» and pressuring gold, said Rob Lutts, chief investment officer of Cabot Wealth Management.

Non-energy exporters were getting a bigger boost from the exchange rate than the Bank of Canada expected in October, putting upward pressure on inflation, he said.

«Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term,» the policy committee said in its post-meeting statement.

While gold is often considered an inflation hedge, Julius Baer said in a note, the fact that price pressures were being driven by confidence about growth rather than dollar weakness and rising oil prices meant it was failing to react positively.

«Underlying inflation pressures continue to remain subdued and have yet to show a convincing upward trend,» ECB President Mario Draghi said Thursday.

«In the grand scheme of things, this report merely shows that euro zone inflation pressures returned to «trend» in May following an unsustainable jump in April,» Claus Vistesen, chief euro zone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in an email.

Inflation figures have eased over recent months, but the bank said this was a temporary move and it is already registering some pressure from food, electricity and automobiles.

«The markets at the moment really want to see a rate hike by the central bank, as a sign that it is still a credible institution; that it's taking its inflation targeting somewhat seriously and that it is prepared to stand up to government pressure,» Capital Economics senior emerging markets economist William Jackson said.

Policy makers now say it will take until the middle of 2018 before Canada's economy is generating output at a level that would put upward pressure on inflation, «materially later» than was previously expected.

April 13 - Inflation data earlier this week that showed price pressures increasing were unsurprising, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Friday as he downplayed the significance for monetary policy.

«The U.S. economy is doing well, the manufacturing sector is gaining ground, the economy is at full employment, but inflation pressures are rising,» said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics.

The central bank governor said he expects consumer inflation pressures to be mild this year, and that producer price increases will slow.

The euro could come under pressure if the data shows a slowdown in core inflation in the euro zone, Kotecha said, adding that the dollar could see further gains, at least in the near term.

The report said the primary upward pressure on inflation was driven by higher costs for air transportation, gasoline and restaurants.

«We don't completely know (why),... But one of the ingredients is that maybe somehow technology and globalization is putting downward pressure on wages and prices and that's holding back inflation from competitive pressures but we're seeing global growth,» he said.

«Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term,» the Fed's Board of Governors said in a statement.

That is, would expectations of outsized demand growth — of, say, 4 percent per year over the next four years in inflation - adjusted terms — generate undue inflationary pressures that would require the Federal Reserve to respond by raising interest rates, essentially killing off any actual growth that those expectations could generate?

As expected, the bank held its overnight rate at 0.5 percent, where it has been since July 2015, even as it trimmed GDP forecasts, saying downward pressure on inflation will continue while economic slack persists.

The economy continues to gain strength, and the minutes said a decline in the foreign exchange value of the dollar was also likely to put upward pressure on inflation.

A statement issued with the decision earlier this month said there was no need for a policy change because market pressures would help inflation fall back toward the bank's 2 per cent target — the Bank is tasked with setting policy to achieve the target.

«On the other hand, an overheated economy could result in significant inflation pressures or lead to financial instability,» the minutes said.

The ECB head said that «overall, while we can be more confident about the path of inflation, patience and persistence with regard to monetary policy is still warranted for underlying inflation pressures to build up and inflation to converge durably towards our objective.»

That said, the long - term implications of bailouts, tax shortfalls and lack of budget discipline is likely to be significant inflation pressure beginning about 4 years or so out, and continuing for the remainder of the decade.

«Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term,» the Fed said in its policy statement following the end of a two - day meeting.

He also said lower wages outside of the U.S. would keep pressure on inflation in the U.S.

At a news conference in Accra on Monday, the Governor of the BoG, Dr Abdul Nashiru Issahaku, said the underlying inflation pressures had eased considerably and inflation was projected to trend down towards the medium - term target.

says a lot of people are dipping into savings now... Let's hope that by April next year, the economy starts improving, that the economy is growing, that wages start rising, that inflation starts coming down, because if those things are happening then some of these pressures are more bearable.

The Chancellor, George Osborne, says he understands the pressure on families as the latest figures put inflation at its highest rate in eight months.

«Taking these together with pressures on other costs, we forecast that school spending per pupil is likely to fall by around 8 % in real terms [based on a school - specific measure of inflation] between 2014 - 15 and 2019 - 20,» the report says.

«That's why we encourage a balanced portfolio that would incorporate high - quality, dividend - paying stocks, because dividends are taxed at a lower tax rate, and also blue - chip equity stocks provide a natural hedge to inflation pressures,» she said.

The bank said the biggest risk to maintaining manageable affordability levels would be a sharp rise in interest rates, but many analysts believe that is unlikely to occur as long as global economic growth remains moderate and inflation pressures soft.

After rising for a good string of months, and with the price - pressure deflators of last year falling out of the calculation, no longer could the Fed say that inflation «continued to run below» its hoped for goal.

Lower prices in January for items such as natural gas, fuel oil and telephone services kept downward pressure on the inflation reading, the agency said.

The point of this explanation is to say that if the fallout from Irma and Harvey creates any degree of strain on the economy then the Fed is not likely to add any pressure by raising the rate this year, especially since inflation is still well under control.

«Further gains in personal income and employment may increase the demand for housing and add to price pressures when home prices are already rising about twice as fast as inflation,» he said.