Inflation News
The Inflation Specter Looms for Property/Casualty Insurers
Inflation, defined as the rate at which prices for goods and services are increasing, tends to occur when prices rise due to increases in production costs or when the demand for a product exceeds its ...
Stubbornly Low Inflation Holds Key to 2014 Fed Policy
Stubbornly weak inflation is shaping up as the wild card for U.S. monetary policy makers this year, with top Federal Reserve officials stumped by why it has lingered so low for so long and at odds as ...
Bernanke Says Fed Likely To Reduce Stimulus This Year
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the U.S. economy is expanding strongly enough for the central bank to begin slowing the pace of its bond-buying stimulus later this year. ...
Fed Officials Dampen Talk of Imminent Cut in Bond Buying
Two senior Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday played down the chances that the U.S. central bank would signal a readiness to reduce its bond buying at its meeting next month, dampening speculation ...
European Central Bank Cuts Main Interest Rate
The European Central Bank cut interest rates for the first time in 10 months on Thursday, driven to act by an economy wallowing in recession and freed to do so by sharply falling inflation. The ECB ...
Japan’s Big Leak: Where Will the Money Go?
The Bank of Japan's massive new bid for inflation will create growth but to its chagrin much of it may well be concentrated in financial markets and outside of Japan. So long as Japanese consumers ...