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TORONTO, Feb. 28, 2013 /CNW/ - The C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) today recommended that the Bank of Canada maintain its target for the overnight rate, the very short-term interest rate the Bank targets for monetary policy purposes, at 1.00 percent at its next announcement on March 6, 2013. The Council further called for the Bank to hold the target at 1.00 through to March of 2014. The MPC is a C.D. Howe Institute project that provides an independent...
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The rate of annual wage growth for private sector workers is expected to show little, if any, change in the coming months, according to the preliminary first quarter Wage Trend Indicator(TM) (WTI) released today by Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120110/DC33627LOGO) The latest index stands at 98.63 (second quarter 1976 = 100), up from 98.52 in...
LONDON, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Inflation Hub (http://www.inflationhub.com) is an educational website that aims to help people learn about inflation and how best to protect their savings in an inflationary environment. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130131/CG52467) The Central banks of the world's biggest economies are all in a 'battle' to devalue their currencies. By 'printing' enormous quantities of money through quantitative easing, central banks...
ReportsnReports.com adds new research reports on Consumer Lifestyles for Latvia, Ukraine, Turkey and United Arab Emirates to its store. Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) January 18, 2013 Consumer Lifestyles in Latvia, Ukraine, Turkey and United Arab Emirates report analyzes factors influencing national consumer expenditure. The consumer lifestyles report includes coverage of: population, urban development, home ownership, household profiles, labour, income, consumer and family expenditure, health,...
TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2013 /CNW/ - The C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) today recommended that the Bank of Canada maintain its target for the overnight rate, the very short-term interest rate the Bank targets for monetary policy purposes, at 1.00 percent at its next announcement on January 23, 2013. The Council further called for the Bank to hold the target at 1.00 through mid-year, recommending a target of 1.25 percent by January of 2014. The MPC is a C.D. Howe...
Frontier Data Corp, a fast-growing data collection firm focused on emerging markets, completed expansion of its data service into 30 countries around the globe, uncovering dramatic new insights into their economic trends, activity and overall health. This expansion is the latest step in the company's effort to systematically open up the most opaque markets in the world for decision-makers at multinationals, investment firms and other globally-minded organizations by providing them with...
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The pace of annual wage increases in the private sector likely will remain slow in the coming months, according to the final fourth quarter Wage Trend Indicator(TM) (WTI) report released today by Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120110/DC33627LOGO) The index fell to 98.41 (second quarter 1976 = 100) from 98.52 in the third quarter. Over the...
While long-term care and other healthcare facilities are no longer worrying about milk prices doubling due to the 'Dairy Cliff', drought and other factors are predicted to cause food prices to rise significantly in 2013. Monsey, NY (PRWEB) January 07, 2013 Long-term care facility owners, administrators and purchasing directors planning their dietary budgets for the coming months have been keeping a close watch on the news this week amid fears that milk prices could double due to...
NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence(TM), which decreased in the third quarter, improved in the fourth quarter. The Measure now reads 46, up from 42 in the third quarter (a reading of more than 50 points reflects more positive than negative responses). Says Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board: "CEO Confidence improved in the final quarter of 2012, despite the cloud of fiscal uncertainty. However,...
A leasing and financing leader predicts an upturn in economic conditions in the coming year, dependent on how Washington DC handles a number of pressing crises. Cleveland OH (PRWEB) December 19, 2012 LeaseQ, one of the leading providers of equipment leasing and financing options in the United States, is predicting a marked upturn in the US economy in the coming year, provided that representatives in Washington DC do their part. With many economists seeing several sources of strength in...
Latest Inflation Reference Libraries
Quintessence (Dark Energy) -- Quintessence or dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy postulated to exist in order to explain observations of an accelerating universe. This energy would act like a vacuum pressure, pushing things apart. Other attempts to explain these recent observations involve a non-zero cosmological constant, which has the same effect. Indeed, sometimes quintessence is said to result in a non-zero cosmological constant, and conversely a non-zero cosmological...
Cosmological Constant -- The cosmological constant (usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ) is a value occurring in Einstein's theory of general relativity. The units of Λ are 1/second2; its value is unknown but believed to be positive based on recent observations. The constant is proportional to the energy density of the vacuum Ï, where Ï€ is Pi, G is the gravitational constant and c is the speed of light in vacuum. The term can be postive, negative, or...
Inflation -- Inflation is the idea - first proposed by Alan Guth (1981) - that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative vacuum energy density (positive vacuum pressure). This expansion can be modelled by a non-zero cosmological constant. As a direct consequence of this expansion, all of the observable universe is posited to have originated in a small, initially causally-connected region. Quantum fluctuations in this microscopic...
Accelerating universe -- In the late 1990s, observations of type I supernova produced the unexpected result that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating. These observations appear more firm as new data has appeared. This means that the speed with which a distant galaxy recedes from us increases over time. If this trend continues, eventually we won't be able to see any other galaxies any more. This new theory of the end of the Universe has been called the Big Rip....
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) -- The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched on June 30, 2001 at 3:46 p.m. EDT at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. The goal of WMAP was to map out minute differences in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation which would help test theories of the nature of the universe. On February 11, 2003, the public relations group from NASA made a press release regarding the age and composition of the universe....
