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Inflation
a sustained increase in a country's general level of prices that devalues its currency, often caused by excess demand in the economy
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RBA Expects inflation to Rise Further
Australia's central bank says the current level of interest rates is appropriate but it still expects inflation to be high in the short term.In its quarterly statement on monetary policy the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) jacked up its consumer price index forecast for 2008 by a full percentage...
Tags: Inflation, RBA, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-05-09
BoE's Sentance Sees inflation Risks on Both Sides
LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England needs to balance upward pressures on inflation stemming from higher energy costs with downward pressures should the economic slowdown prove prolonged, according to policymaker Andrew Sentance. In a paper published in the World Economic Journal, Sentance warns...
Tags: Inflation, BoE, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Andrew Sentance, Oukbs
News items 2008-05-10
Government Cuts Income Taxes
By Sumeet Desai and David Clarke LONDON (Reuters UK) - The embattled government trimmed income taxes for 22 million people on Tuesday, as soaring food and fuel bills sent inflation rocketing and dented hopes for more interest rate cuts soon. Higher household bills are creating a...
Tags: Income, Income Tax, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Government, Taxes, Markets, Tax
News items 2008-05-13
RBA Leaves Rates Unchanged at 7.25%
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left interest rates on hold on Tuesday at a near 12-year high of 7.25 per cent but the central bank governor has hinted that rising terms of trade would add to inflationary pressures.The RBA decision was announced on the same day the Australian...
Tags: Bank, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-05-06
RBA Worried inflation Will Lift Wages
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has not ruled out raising interest rates again if high inflation sparks an acceleration in wages growth.To the relief of home buyers, the central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at a 12-year high of 7.25 per cent at Tuesday's monthly board...
Tags: Interest Rate, Salary, Inflation, RBA, March, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-05-06
Rates to Hold Despite High inflation
Mortgage borrowers are widely tipped to escape another interest rate rise this month as slower consumer spending takes the pressure off the highest core inflation rate in more than 16 years.Only one of the 19 economists surveyed by AAP has forecast an interest rate rise at the Reserve Bank...
Tags: Economist, Inflation, Mortgage Borrower, RBA, March, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-05-02
inflation Leaps to 3 Percent in April
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Soaring food and fuel bills pushed up the inflation rate by its biggest amount in nearly six years to 3 percent, figures showed on Tuesday which will likely further dent hopes of interest rate cuts. The Office for National Statistics said consumer...
Tags: Interest Rate, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Finance, Cpi, Oukbs
News items 2008-05-13
Bank Faces inflation Headache as Growth Slows
By Matt Falloon LONDON (Reuters UK) - New Bank of England economic forecasts on Wednesday will probably have a hawkish tinge despite a slowing economy, and may signal whether interest rate cuts risk drying up following some diabolical inflation data. The Bank's crystal ball has warned...
Tags: Bank, Inflation, Markets, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Finance, Oukbs
News items 2008-05-13
Fed's Hoenig Warns of inflation's Corrosive Impact
By Ros Krasny DENVER (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve must be ready to raise benchmark interest rates in a timely manner given the "troublesome" inflation outlook, Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig said on Tuesday. "If inflation gets too high, the economy will...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Federal Reserve Board, inflation, Federal Open Market Committee, Kansas City, Denver, business investment, financial market, housing market, president, interest rate, Thomson Reuters Corp., bank, pricing strategy, financial, environment
News items 2008-05-06
Blanchflower Says BoE Must Act to Prevent Recession
By Christina Fincher EDINBURGH (Reuters UK) - Britain faces a real risk of recession and house prices could crash by more than 30 percent unless the Bank of England takes "aggressive" action, policy-maker David Blanchflower said on Tuesday. In direct contrast to Bank of England Governor...
Tags: U.K., Bank Of England, Inflation, Blanchflower, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Oukbs
News items 2008-04-29
BoE Leaves UK Rates at 5 Percent, Cut Seen Next Month
By Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England kept British interest rates at 5.0 percent on Thursday but analysts say a slowing economy will force it to cut borrowing costs next month, even though inflation is heading higher. House prices are...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, inflation, Bank of England, policymaker, slowing economy, consumer confidence, interest rate, housing market, economist, Britain, London, advisor, Thomson Reuters Corp., finance, leadership, analyst, food, bank, financial
News items 2008-05-08
ECB Keeps Interest Rates at 4 Percent
ATHENS (Reuters UK) - The European Central Bank kept benchmark interest rates unchanged at 4.0 percent on Thursday, as expected, as policymakers weigh the risk of high inflation against concerns about euro zone economic growth. ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet will present the Governing Council's latest...
Tags: Interest Rate, Inflation, ECB, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Finance, Oukbs, Policymaker
News items 2008-05-08
Service Sector Stagnates in April
By Matt Falloon LONDON (Reuters UK) - Growth in the services sector all but dried up in April, sliding to a five year low as companies struggled against the sharpest rate of cost inflation on record, a survey showed on Tuesday. The pound fell and interest...
Tags: Interest Rate, Inflation, Service Sector, Services Sector, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Oukbs
News items 2008-05-06
ECB May Be Prepared to Raise Rates If Needed
By David Milliken and James Mackenzie FRANKFURT/PARIS (Reuters UK) - The European Central Bank is prepared to raise interest rates if needed to bring inflation under control, policymakers said on Tuesday. French central bank Governor Christian Noyer said the ECB could adjust rates to make sure...
Tags: Inflation, ECB, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Oukbs
News items 2008-04-22
Economists Salute Swan's Budget
The federal government has delivered a record surplus for 2008/09 but its growth outlook may be too low because spending cuts are unlikely to take much heat out of the economy, economists said.The government is forecasting a larger than expected $21.7 billion underlying cash surplus for 2008/09, after it...
Tags: Interest Rate, Economist, Surplus, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-05-13
Bank Leaves Rates at 5 Percent
By Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England kept interest rates at 5.0 percent on Thursday but analysts say a slowing economy will force it to cut borrowing costs next month, even though inflation is heading higher. House prices are falling, consumer confidence...
Tags: Bank, Economy, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Finance, Oukbs
News items 2008-05-08
Bank's Sentance Says Weak Pound Boosting inflation Risk
By Matt Falloon LONDON (Reuters UK) - The pound is likely to remain weak for some time, driving up inflationary pressures and helping to cushion the economy against the credit crunch, Bank of England policymaker Andrew Sentance said on Wednesday. But the economy needs to slow...
Tags: Bank, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Oukbs
News items 2008-04-23
Consumer Confidence Falls to 5-year Low
By Burton Frierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Confidence among U.S. consumers fell to a five-year low in April as they confronted the grimmest jobs outlook since late 2004 and they expect inflation to rival the levels last seen in the early 1980s, the...
Tags: Corporate governance, Sales strategy, Federal Reserve Board, board, consumer confidence, survey, job, conference, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., sales
News items 2008-04-29
Stock Futures Lower on Banks, Wal-Mart
By Kristina Cooke NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell on Tuesday after Oppenheimer & Co slashed its price targets on a number of brokerages and on concern about Wal-Mart Stores Inc's (WMT) outlook. A number of Federal Reserve speakers will be...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Financial accounting, Alcoa Inc., MBIA Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Caterpillar Inc., price target, Research In Motion Ltd., lift, Computer Sciences Corp., inflation, The Dow Chemical Co., RIM BlackBerry, Citigroup Inc.
News items 2008-05-13
Bond Investors Bet on Rate Hikes as inflation Looms
By Eric Burroughs and Tomasz Janowski TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors rushed to bet on higher interest rates on Friday, dumping bonds on a conviction the world's top central banks were turning from nursing economies hobbled by a credit crisis to battling inflation. The...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial services, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial accounting, inflation, interest rate, bond, Federal Reserve Board, bank, conviction, financial, investor, Nikkei, financial system, Japan, financial market, Thomson Reuters Corp., as
News items 2008-04-25
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