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UBS: CHINA CPI GROWING TEMPORARILY
AsiaInfo Services 03-14-2008 UBS: China CPI Growing Temporarily BEIJING, Mar 14, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- China is merely facing a temporary growth of CPI consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, said yesterday Mr. Jonathan Anderson, AsiaInfo Services 03-14-2008 ...
Tags: CPI, inflation, UBS AG
Research articles 2008-03-14
3. Economic indicators.(APPENDICES)(Statistical table)
ECONOMIC INDICATORS 3. Inflation rate 45 cities December 2006, Calendar 2006 and December 2006 against December 2005 by Group of Expenditures (2002 = 100) Group ...
Tags: CPI, Digital Equipment Corp., food, inflation
Research articles 2006-12-01
Why You Shouldn?t Bash Cash
Today?s seemingly microscopic yields on money market funds aren?t so bad when you take into account the fact that inflation has actually been negative for much of the year. As a result, real returns are actually fairly decent. Here?s how to think about the role of cash in your portfolio,...
Tags: _cbsn, Money, Inflation, MoneyWatch, Financial Industry, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Money Market Funds, Cash, CPI, Real Returns, Nominal Returns, Retirement, Social Security, TIPS, Treasury Inflation Protection Securities, TIPS Ladder Funds, Steven Pomeranz, Sheryl Garrett, Rick Miller, Paula Hogan, Max Alexander
Articles 2009-11-19

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Fed's Lacker and Inflation: Reality Check
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: In an interview today with Bloomberg TV, Richmond Fed President and inflation hawk Jeffrey Lacker made several comments regarding inflation.  In the interview, he said that he regards core inflation of 2.5% as a 'little high', and would prefer a rate of 1.5%. ...
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-08-19
Monetary Policy and Inflation
This article is about the monetary policies and inflations. It defines the problem with monetary policy, throughout the world, is revealed when one asks the question, "At what level should the Central Bank set interest rates?" The role of central banks was once widely seen as covering a range...
Tags: Consumer Price Index, Inflation, M0, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance
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Canadian Dollar and Business Outlook.
Winnipeg, MB, Nov 19, 2003 Resource News International via COMTEX The Canadian dollar gained on the US currency in Wednesday's early trading, as traders ignored modest CPI and inflation figures released this morning. The Canadian unit was trading at 76.98 US cents...
Tags: Bank of Canada, FINANCE, inflation
Research articles 2003-11-20
Inflation-Linked Bonds
An inflation-linked bond is a bond that provides protection against inflation. Most inflation-linked bonds, the Canadian "Real Return Bond "RRB and the new U.S. Treasury inflation-protected security IPS are principal indexed. This means their principal is increased by the change in inflation over a period. In most countries, the Consumer...
Tags: Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance
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Inflation's Social and Political Costs: Lessons from the 1970s, vol. 2
In addition to the primary and secondary economic costs that come with high inflation, which we considered yesterday, there's a third level of effects -- social and political -- that comes with chronic rising prices. To generalize, I believe that high inflation hurts poor people more than rich people, political...
Tags: Income, Inflation, Samuelson, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, John Keefe
Blog posts 2009-05-21
Inflation Declines, but Interest Rates Will Hold Steady.
Byline: Jerome Idaszak The inflation rate is easing, but interest rates won't follow anytime soon. Officials at the Federal Reserve are surely pleased with the October inflation report showing another big, energy-fueled decline in the Consumer Price Index CPI and a modest 0.1%...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation
Research articles 2006-11-16
What Do Alternate Measures Say About Consumer Inflation, and Why?
Menzie Chinn submits: What to make of the different measures of inflation being faced by consumers? In Figure 1, I plot four measures: the standard CPI-U, the CPI research series, the chained CPI, and the personal consumption expenditure deflator. by Menzie Chinn
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-08-22
Chart of the Day: Median CPI vs. BLS CPI
Mark J. Perry submits: According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the median Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% (1.8% annualized rate) in August. The median CPI and 16% trimmed-mean CPI are measures of core inflation calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland based on data released in...
Tags: US Market, Mark J. Perry
External links 2009-09-16
A Field Guide to Inflation: Lessons from the 1970s, Vol. 1
Economists are divided on the threat from a revival of inflation -- rising prices caused by the enormous stimulus being force-fed to the U.S. economy. Some are more worried about deflation and call for more stimulus in a hurry; others want to stop the stimulus before it creates its own...
Tags: Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, John Keefe
Blog posts 2009-05-20
The CPI and Oil
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 3.6%* The Consumer Price Index CPI notched a 0.9% increase in June, but the 12-month inflation rate is still negative, at -1.4%. by Hard Assets Investor
Tags: Energy, Hard Assets Investor
External links 2009-07-16
Inflation Down but Not Out.
Byline: Jerome Idaszak November's tame inflation numbers are a bit misleading, though they confirm that the underlying trend for price growth points lower. The unchanged readings for both the Consumer Price Index CPI and the closely watched core CPI"which excludes food and energy ...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation
Research articles 2006-12-15
Why the Divergence on Chinese Housing CPI and Housing Sales Prices?
Susan Weerts submits: National Bureau of Statistics of China released the key August economics data today. CPI fell by 1.2% YOY. The category breakdown revealed the continuing absence of core inflation, discounting food. Health Care and Tobacco/liquor showed a mild inflation both in monthly and accumulatively levels. ...
Tags: China, Susan Weerts
External links 2009-09-13
TIPS Tipoffs on Inflation
Bill Luby submits: First there was the inflation scare, then there was the deflation scare, and now it seems any network or blog can find enough economists to support either scenario as a grave concern for the economy.In times of confusion, I like to take my cues from the...
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-09-10
CPI overstates cost of living
WASHINGTON Bloomberg -- The nation's most widely followed inflation gauge, the consumer price index, overstates the cost of living by 1.1 percentage points a year, a congressionally appointed panel said Wednesday. The commission, chaired by Stanford University economist Michael Boskin, called for significant adjustments to the CPI and...
Tags: adjustment, Benefits, commission, FINANCE, inflation, SALES, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1996-12-05
In Today's Calmer Markets, Interest Rates Both Rise and Fall
Interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds are rising this week, as the government conducts king-sized auctions across a range of maturities, totaling a record $115 billion. Investors are still eager to buy Treasuries, but with a recovery and inflation in the works T-bonds are no longer the only game...
Tags: Bank, Bond, Interest Rate, Yield, Inflation, Treasury Rate, Treasury, Short-term Treasuries, Libor, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, John Keefe
Blog posts 2009-07-27
Inflation Expectations at Fed's Own 'Worse Case Scenario' Levels
John Kosar submits:Headline PCE Inflation Friday morning's release of Personal Consumption Expenditures [PCE] data for July was just a continuation of the equally- hot July inflation data at the consumer [CPI] and producer [PPI] levels which were released earlier this month. We note that PCE data is the Fed's favorite...
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-09-02
China: Analyzing Trade, CPI Numbers
Michael Pettis submits: Deflation and debt On Monday CPI and PPI numbers for February came out. CPI was down 1.6% year and year and PPI was down 4.5%, in line with or slightly below expectations and, according to Bloomberg, the highest rate of deflation among the 78 countries they follow....
Tags: China, Michael Pettis
External links 2009-03-11
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