The biggest risk (to energy supplies) is natural gas prices because there is no meaningful emergency inventory, |
The business community has actually been quite lax in taking this seriously. |
The Canadian poultry industry is, in general, little dependent on exports or imports, but new provincial rules forcing the confinement of birds make the practice of free-range raising more difficult. |
The Christmas season this year might well bring cheer, but consumption growth next year is bound to slow, ... From an annual pace of nearly 4.0 percent in 2004, consumer spending will likely grow at a 3.5 percent rate this year, decelerating to a 2.25 percent pace in 2006. |
The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending . . . but some of this could be offset by still-decent job growth. |
The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending ... but some of this could be offset by still-decent job growth. |
The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, but some of this could be offset by still-decent job growth. |
The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending... but some of this could be offset by still-decent job growth. |
The cooling US housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, but some of this could be offset by still-decent job growth. |
The economy is in very good shape and people don't realize it. We really do have low inflation and low unemployment, and the economy has been growing at a rate of 3 percent or better since the last recession. |
The Fed and the markets will see few signs of slowing in these figures, but little reason to fear an impending inflation acceleration either , |
The Fed might have been in a dilemma if signs of slower growth were coupled with signs of a wage/price spiral. However, that is emphatically not the case. The underlying inflation outlook is not a problem for the Fed or the financial markets. |
The future path for monetary policy depends critically on at least a flattening out of interest-sensitive spending, ... It is touch-and-go whether the softness in interest-sensitive spending is sufficient to be consistent with the required degree of overall economic slowing. |
The great post-Katrina inflation scare has vanished, with gasoline prices coming back down to Earth and core inflation on track to match the Bank of Canada's latest estimate of 1.6 per cent for Q4. |
The inflation data does not take the Fed out of the picture, |