The 10-year Treasury yield is just under the latest annual inflation rate of 1.7%.
Some economists think the annual inflation rate could rise as high as 30% this year.
But should the bank set a target for the annual inflation rate or for the price level?
Canada's annual inflation rate jumped to 2.2% in May from 1.7% in April as gasoline prices soared an unexpectedly large 15%.
The last time the annual inflation rate was higher was in 1991.
The central bank's current interpretation of its mandate is to get the annual inflation rate down to 2% within two to three years.
One target is to get inflation down to single figures by the end of the year - the annual inflation rate was 13% in July.
It omitted mention of a June 1 Pentagon report estimating an annual inflation rate at 33 percent and the Iraqi government estimate of joblessness at 17 percent.
The poorest 20% of households faced an average annual inflation rate of 4.3% between 2008 and 2010, while the richest 20% only had a rate of 2.7%.
Foreign investors report presentations by the Central Bank mentioning a real (ie, inflation-adjusted) exchange rate that implies annual inflation of around 20%.
Hold the front page: the annual rate of inflation did not go up last month.
In the summer, annual inflation reached its highest rate for three years, though it has since eased.
The annual rate of inflation was 70% at the start of 2000, only 39% as this year opened.
Between 1984 and 1988 the average annual rate of inflation was 14.5%, of devaluation 14.3% and of economic growth 3.2%.
The annual rate of inflation shows how much higher or lower prices are compared with the same month a year earlier.
The BOE said the annual rate of inflation will remain above its target for longer than expected, but it won't tighten monetary policy and risk derailing a recovery.
The annual rate of inflation eased to 7.18% in December, down from 7.24% in November, according to the Wholesale Price Index - the country's main gauge of inflation.
However, the overall rate of headline inflation continued to fall at an annual rate of 0.8%.
These monthly withdrawals are adjusted at the start of every year based upon the actual rate of annual inflation for the preceding 12 months.
Within a year, he brought down inflation from a peak annual rate of 7, 650% to 139%.
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Separately, euro-zone inflation fell to an annual rate of 1.2% in April, the lowest in more than three years.
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The annual rate for producer price inflation, however, remained steady at 0.6%.
The estimate is derived from the trend line shown in Exhibit 3.(4) Subtracting a 3.0% inflation rate would net a respectable 5.92% annual rate of real wealth increase.
Figures released on Tuesday by the British Retail Consortium showed that the annual rate of shop price inflation edged up slightly in April to 2.5%, from 2.4% in March.
"If the recent trend in house prices were to continue through November and December, the annual rate of house price inflation would drop to between 0% and -1% by the end of 2010, " said Nationwide's chief economist Martin Gahbauer.
In Britain the annual rate of consumer-price inflation rose to 2.2% in May, up from 2% in April.
Inevitably, inflation soared, reaching an annual rate this month of at least 40%.
Inflation, running at an annual rate of 2.8% in October, is not yet a worry, though labour shortages may yet make wages take off.
The annual rate of consumer-price inflation was at 2.8% in November, which is in line with what the Polish central bank calls "a conventional policy" of keeping the cost of money above the level of inflation.
In a world where annual inflation is running at a 3% rate (actually more if you think for a moment about your rising healthcare and educational costs), there is an overwhelming demand for a security whose rate of return is a negative real (inflation-adjusted) rate of 3%.
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