Sentences with phrase «various measures of inflation»

In the coming months bond traders will closely watch the various measures of inflation - and the Fed's comments about them.

The various measures of inflation expectations have diverged a little of late, though the differences are not great, and most observers continue to regard the inflation outlook as benign (Table 18).

Real interest rates implied by the yields on indexed bonds, as well as the real lending rates derived using various measures of inflation expectations, are also slightly below their long - term averages.

Not exact matches

Various measures of underlying inflation, which typically exclude the rise in the price of petrol, also picked up, to rates of 0.6 to 0.8 per cent.

Various measures of core or underlying inflation, which are less affected by these temporary factors, are also gradually increasing, and over the year to September were around 2 per cent.

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.

The introduction of the major elements of the new tax system in July will lead to temporarily higher CPI inflation in the September quarter 2000, followed by a period of time during which reductions in various taxes flowing through to prices will reduce measured inflation.

Various core measures of inflation point also to a gradual increase.

The various measures of underlying inflation recorded slightly lower outcomes in the quarter, although on a year - ended basis they show inflation at a similar rate to the headline measure (Table 14; Graph 71).

It can capture the radiation precisely enough to measure cosmological quantities without making many theoretical assumptions, detect the rippling of gravitational waves and test various models of the inflation thought to have occurred during the big bang.

The charts show the year - over-year change in various inflation measures as well as measures of expected inflation based on the University of Michigan Survey Research Center and the yields on five - year treasuries and TIPS.