Consumer prices

Consumer prices (percentage)

Inflation has declined to its lowest level in 20 years, with consumer prices rising by 9.7 per cent in 1993.

Chinese consumer prices rose about 6.5 over the past year, while US consumer prices rose only about 3.5 .

Prices in general, ...so inflation, you had 5x inflation.

18. Consumer prices everywhere rose much more rapidly than wholesale prices.

Given widespread apathy about changes in consumer prices, the modest success of a new market to hedge inflation risk, the European inflation futures market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), is noteworthy.

Inflation is another concern. With official figures widely discredited, private analysts estimate that consumer prices are rising at an annual rate of 25 or more.

Prices of goods go up, inflation is affected.

On 17 April 2007, CPI inflation was reported at 3.1 (inflation of the Retail Prices Index was 4.8 ).

Soaring energy prices, for example, have become a leading inflation risk.

While China s consumer price index rose 5.3 in the year ending in July 2004, this was due primarily to a spike in food prices both before and since, inflation has been negligible.

The problem is that asset prices and consumer price inflation may move in different directions, as they did in the 2000 s, and that weighing both factors would produce inconsistent policy recommendations.

Consumer demand has been the main factor responsible for lower prices in retailing.

Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices.

This is because high oil prices raised inflation in the United States, worsened the US trade deficit, and increased the likelihood of a US recession by acting as a tax on consumer spending.

The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.

As concerns about deflation replaced fear of inflation, gold prices started to fall with the correction in commodity prices.

If inflation rises, nominal house prices don t need to fall as much.

And, due to rising consumer prices, the nominal interest rate will continue to rise.

Lower share prices will now have negative effects on consumer spending and business investment.

For example, while general inflation (e.g., consumer price index) in the US was less than 5 in the 2003 2007 time period, steel prices increased (escalated) by over 50 because of supply demand imbalance.

As a result, China s inflation, as well as asset prices, remain under control.

It's more expensive to transport goods. Prices of goods go up, inflation is affected.

The embargo drove up prices and unleashed a period of inflation and stagnation worldwide.

The resulting rise in equity prices would increase household wealth, providing a boost to consumer spending.

Inflation had been curbed and, owing largely to private initiative, the situation in the consumer market remained favourable.

Naturally, the major central banks are concerned with the inflation that they can control homemade inflation. But this neglects global inflation driven by rising commodity prices, which has been increasingly evident.

But this neglects global inflation driven by rising commodity prices, which has been increasingly evident.

A bit like inflation you over issue currency, you get what you see, declining prices.

The consequences of this are now manifested in property and stock market inflation, but not yet in rampant and uncontrolled consumer price inflation at least for now. But if China does not accelerate the renminbi s revaluation, the world might see a large burst of consumer inflation in China in the next two or three years.

Rising food and energy prices pushed inflation up to 9.7 in May, from 8.2 in April.

But then oil and gas prices (adjusted for inflation) entered a multi decade period of decline.

On January 2, 1992, Moldova introduced a market economy, liberalizing prices, which resulted in rapid inflation.

Combine this with the continued fall in housing prices, and it is understandable that consumer spending remains depressed.

At 1,300, today s price is probably more than double very long term, inflation adjusted, average gold prices.

The timing of the inevitable policy shift back to tightening depends on overall inflation, particularly house prices.

Germany, with its notoriously low inflation rate, may be among the first countries to experience declining prices.

Inflation was on the rise before the recession of 2008 struck, mainly because of spiking commodity prices.

High international oil prices, delays in aid disbursements, and incomplete fiscal adjustment continued to affect inflation rates.

Moreover, Parties have made different assumptions about important factors like oil prices, economic growth rates and inflation.

Because consumer prices fell faster than wages, the welfare of those who remained employed rose in the Great Depression.

138. The 1994 1995 inflation adjustment figure of 49.1 million represents the full impact of applying the Administrator apos s inflation projections to bring the 1994 1995 base, which is expressed in revised 1992 1993 prices, up to 1994 1995 prices.

This helps explain why the inflation rate, as measured by growth in the annual consumer price index, has remained stubbornly high.

For security and environmental reasons, their energy efficiency increased via a combination of taxes, higher consumer prices, and public education.