Seasonally, January and February are the months when annual services contracts are adjusted upwards, creating inflation pressure.
Inflation pressure will come from domestic demand, which is seen replacing government investment as the leading engine for economic growth in the near future.
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Rising inflation is putting pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates when it meets this week, though the majority of analysts expect it to leave interest rates unchanged at 6%.
More recently, oil prices have begun to fall, which could take the pressure off inflation.
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To make matters worse, a continuous weakening of the Brazilian real only adds further pressure to inflation.
High inflation is also putting pressure on consumer spending, making it more difficult to fend off recession.
Other things being equal, currency depreciation puts some upward pressure on inflation, as imports become more expensive.
In short, inflation puts a time pressure on them to use these reserves in a more productive way.
In turn, that could also put pressure on inflation, which has been on the rise in recent months.
As long as a big output gap remains, downward pressure on inflation will persist even if growth perks up.
Looking to 2030, he fears that the burdens of an ageing population will eventually lead to upward pressure on inflation.
The threat of wage inflation is piling extra pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates to an expected 4.25% on Thursday.
As markets factor in a more optimistic growth outlook, excess liquidity has moved from the sidelines into risk assets, putting upward pressure on inflation.
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But, as the Bank of England explained in its February Inflation Report, regulatory pressure has led banks to reduce their "risk-weighted assets" across the board.
In particular, upward pressure on inflation could materialize if final demand were to exceed the underlying productive capacity of the economy for a sustained period.
The central bank has concentrated its efforts on keeping interest rates just high enough to quash inflation, and resisting pressure from politicians to loosen up.
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Other factors I expect to help hold down inflation include the downward pressure on labor costs of the rapid expansion in productivity since the middle of 2009.
Moreover, high real estate prices provided extra pressure on inflation.
Most of the time the FPC and MPC will be leaning in the same direction: credit booms that threaten financial stability will also tend to add to the pressure on inflation.
Mounting inflation will also put pressure on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his program of quantitative easing, dubbed QE2, devised to spark inflationary expectations. (Read Distressed Debt Investors Prefer Real Estate in 2011).
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He also wants to index it to the Consumer Price Index which means automatic adjustments to the cost-of-living (but not to labor conditions), ensuring that inflation cannot take the pressure off or undermine, depending on your ideology the minimum wage level.
When growth and inflation begin to put pressure on yields and the dollar, emerging markets central banks are likely to protect themselves by hedging duration, but they can only limit their currency losses if they actually get rid of their dollars.
While emphasising repeatedly the uncertainty of the inflation outlook, Mr King said that the monetary policy committee's central view remained that spare capacity within companies and in the labour market would continue to put downward pressure on inflation in the longer term.
It really takes the pressure off of inflation, and so you would see less inflationary pressures as well.
But with disposable incomes still under pressure and with inflation sneaking back up, underlying conditions remain challenging for the sector.
If energy prices remain near current levels, greater stability in the costs of producing non-energy goods and services will reduce pressure on core inflation over time.
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