It is rare for lenders to lend below the rate of consumer price inflation.
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Despite rising wages, consumer price inflation is still falling: prices rose 1.4% in the year to March.
First, the rate of consumer price inflation including energy and food has accelerated into the mid single digits.
In February, the main consumer price inflation index hit 2.8%, pushed by higher tuition fees and domestic energy bills.
China's consumer price inflation rate for December 2011 is 4.1%, while the annual rate is 5.4%, the government revealed.
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Government data Tuesday showed consumer price inflation picked up to 10.9% on year in February, from 10.8% in January.
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Bernanke, though, noted that most of the rise in consumer price inflation stems from a rise in gas prices.
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Consumer price inflation in February accelerated at 10.91% compared with 10.79% in January.
If there were any consumer price inflation at all, investors would lose money.
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Monday's consumer price inflation data show the inflation rate in urban areas slowed to 9.73% in April from 10.38% in March.
Overall consumer price inflation has come down since last year, primarily as a result of the deceleration of consumers' energy costs.
It's a quirk of the U.S. statistical apparatus that residential rents count for 29% of the measured rate of consumer price inflation.
Although wholesale inflation, the benchmark for India, has eased in the past few months, consumer price inflation is still in double digits.
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Consumer price inflation was over 30% in the year to December 2004.
In other overnight news, European Union consumer price inflation in July rose at a higher rate than expected, at a 1.8% annual rate.
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The Fed, which favors monitoring core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, tried to show that consumer price inflation is an active concern.
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"The Bank of England will be far from happy with the October consumer price inflation data, " said Howard Archer, analyst at IHS Global Insight.
But consumer price inflation continued to accelerate for the next year.
Adjusted for the less aggressive (and ever-more mandated) benchmark of consumer price inflation, average earnings fell in May for the 15th in 25 months.
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Separately, consumer price inflation fell in December across the euro zone.
At the same time, overall consumer price inflation should moderate from its recent rates, and the public's longer-term inflation expectations should remain reasonably well anchored.
Eurozone consumer price inflation was at a six-and-a-half year high of 3.1% in December, according to figures released Friday, pushed up by oil and food prices.
Or to put it another way, it turns out that this new stability in one form of prices, consumer price inflation, did not deliver broader stability.
Core consumer price inflation, which excludes the volatile categories of food and fuel, has accelerated, to 2.6% at an annual rate in the three months to February.
As recently as July 2008, the U.S. Fed (with the help of commercial banks) had produced YOY Consumer Price Inflation of 5.5% and Producer Price Inflation of 9.8%.
Further quantitative easing would not only have diminished benefits when compared to QE1 and QE2 but could likely offer up negative benefits in the form of consumer price inflation.
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Consumer price inflation may be relatively mild in a broad sense, but American food companies are facing a battle with higher input costs that is showing up in quarterly earnings.
In the U.K. itself, government figures showed that consumer price inflation had accelerated in October at an annualized rate of 1.5%, after hitting a five-year low of 1.1% in September.
"The bank has made it clear that it also needs to see a sustained drop in consumer price inflation and, perhaps most importantly, a run of better external deficit numbers, " he added.
Draghi added that the central bank had looked at consumer price inflation in the euro zone over two to five years in order to make the decision, and the rate hike had also been a response to lower purchasing power.
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