Tag Archives: Inflation

Inflation in the U.K. has hit a 10-year high in the 12 months leading up to November, while last week the Labor Department reported U.S. prices rose at their fastest rate in 39 years for that month. In a wide-ranging new interview taped before the U.K. numbers were released on Wednesday, billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio raised concerns about the effects of inflation on the bond market. That market has been a volatile one in recent months, as bond prices typically fall during… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, December 15, 2021 ‘Spider-Man’ and a high-class inflation problem Donning my Captain Obvious hat, I’ll connect a few dots that by now are fairly apparent: inflation remains implacable in the face of rising COVID-19 infections. That is likely to make the Federal Reserve announce that it’s slowing the spigot of monetary policy,… Source link

How fast does the Federal Reserve want to move on drawing down its pandemic-era stimulus? That’s the question that Fed officials will have to answer in its two-day meeting kicking off Tuesday, where the major discussion will focus on the pace of the central bank’s wind down of its asset purchase program. With inflationary pressures continuing to rise, Fed watchers expect the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to lean into a speedier timeline. On Friday, the Consumer Price… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. went on a borrowing binge last year and the hangover could make it harder for the Federal Reserve to fight inflation without crashing the economy. Most Read from Bloomberg Corporate debt has surged $1.3 trillion since the start of 2020 as borrowers took advantage of emergency Fed action as the pandemic spread, slashing interest rates and backstopping financial markets to keep credit flowing. More debt held by more companies suggests potential risks as borrowing costs… Source link

Google parent company Alphabet announced its fifth quarter in a row of record profits ($18.9 billion) and second straight quarter of record revenue ($65.1 billion) in October, but a company executive told employees that Google wouldn’t automatically adjust their salaries to account for inflation. According to CNBC, Google’s VP of compensation Frank Wagner told employees at a company all-hands meeting on December 7th that Google doesn’t “have any plans to do any type of… Source link

This week saw two key pieces of economic data: the lowest number of jobless claims since September 1969 and the highest inflation since June 1982. Jared Bernstein, longtime economic aide to President Biden, was keen to drop some trivia on the more flattering number, noting “‘Honky Tonk Woman’ by the Rolling Stones was topping the charts” the last time jobless claims were this low. What was left unmentioned was that “Ebony and Ivory” was the most popular song the last time inflation… Source link

U.S. consumer prices rose at the fastest clip in nearly four decades last month, underscoring the persistently elevated inflationary pressures in the recovering economy.  The Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) climbed by 6.8% in November compared to last year, marking the fastest annual increase since June 1982. This rate matched consensus economists’ estimates, according to Bloomberg data, but accelerated compared to the 6.2% year-over-year rate from the prior month.  Even… Source link

Stock futures opened higher Thursday evening as investors awaited a key inflation report ahead of the Federal Reserve’s final policy-setting meeting of the year next week.  Contracts on the S&P 500 gained. Earlier, the blue-chip index closed out the regular session in the red after three consecutive days of gains, with concerns over Omicron beginning to ease as new developments suggested the variant may not cause as severe of infections as previously feared. The Nasdaq dropped 1.7% during… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google executives are acknowledging employee concerns about rising inflation, but say they have no plans to respond with a companywide pay increase. The topic of workforce pay was addressed at a special meeting on Tuesday that was intended to focus on Google’s 2022 strategy. Ahead of… Source link

Warren Buffett says these are the best stocks to own when inflation spikes — with high prices no longer ‘transitory,’ it might be time to follow his lead After months of rising prices, the Fed’s claim that high inflation rates would be “transitory” is looking a bit transitory itself. “It’s probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clearly what we mean,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday. “I think the risk of higher inflation has increased.” A… Source link