The low inflation rate will be no flash in the pan.
In August, loans, industrial output and retail sales topped analysts' median estimates, while the inflation rate was 1.25 percentage points above the benchmark one-year deposit rate.
Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose by 0.2%, keeping the core inflation rate at 2.5%.
A core inflation rate temporarily above 2% need not automatically raise red flags. It has exceeded that threshold several times in recent years.
But the rising price of some services-health care, for example-may partly reflect quality improvements which, if correctly adjusted for, would bring down the inflation rate of the rich.
They have smaller budget deficits, on average, than rich countries, and inflation rates remain historically low.
This measure is still below 2%, the Fed's preferred inflation rate, and thus too low.
The US authorities are mostly ignoring both the steady fall in the unemployment rate and the 4.1 per cent wholesale price inflation rate.
So the Phillips curve fell out of favour and was replaced by its corollary, the NAIRU, or non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (in effect, the natural rate).
If the expected inflation rate rose by a notch or two, wages and interest rates would shift up to match it.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, which made public China's August inflation rate last week, year-on-year food price rises that month slowed to 13.4 percent from 14.8 percent in July.
The core inflation rate remains relatively subdued, but headline inflation could still spill into wages and hence other prices.
Economists at Goldman Sachs reckon that America's inflation rate will briefly turn negative at that point.
This will mean that you will not have to worry about additional charges due to the inflation rate fluctuations.
As the inflation rate climbed above 3% a month late last year, he silently applied the brakes: the government raised interest rates and slowed the rate of increase in public spending.
There are already signs that high inflation rates combined with low interest rates are creating asset bubbles in Hong Kong.
A few weeks after that it indicated it would not tolerate an inflation rate at or below zero.
Technical factors can change price trends temporarily. For example, cutting import duties and highway tolls can decrease the inflation rate for a time.
The lure of core inflation as a barometer is that headline inflation rates tend to be volatile.
Nothing like that has shown up in America: the BPP's daily inflation rate only marginally overshoots the official measure.
BY the SUMMER of 2008, the AFRICAN NATION of Zimbabwe had achieved an unenviable distinction: in June 2008 it had the world's highest inflation rate, 11 million percent a year.
If energy and food costs are excluded, the annual inflation rate stands at 1.8%.
The inflation rates began to accelerate last month.
HSBC forecasts that the average inflation rate in emerging economies will rise to 6.6% this year, its highest in ten years.
High inflation rate or hyperinflation turns economic growth into contraction with the increase price of goods and services.
But even Japan’s “core core” inflation rate, which strips out both energy and fresh food, is ticking up, as higher prices for wholesale goods pass on to consumers.
John's money quickly melted away as the double - digit inflation rate continued to soar.
China's economic growth rate of rise and fall, often first on the inflation rate of rise and fall.
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