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The inflation rate in April was 0.52 per cent, while the annual inflation (April 2007-April 2008) remained at a level – 8.62 per cent – almost similar to that from the previous month, when the annual inflation rate of the inflation had reached a maximum of the last 26 months – 8.63 per cent,...
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Inflation-proof your portfolio: The Professional's view
Mark Dampier an investment adviser from Hargreaves Lansdown gives his advice on inflation-proofing your portfolio It is around 16 years since investors had to worry about inflation. Today the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is at 3 per cent, but the damage that 3 per cent inflation can do is...
Inflation likely to stay above 3%
Bank of England governor Mervyn King admitted inflation will remain over three per cent for several months and economic growth will fall sharply. Bank projections point to inflation staying over three per cent for until 2009 – and will not return to two per cent until 2010. The Bank of England's...
High inflation will kill growth: Ahluwalia
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is not sacrificing growth to control inflation, as the economy needed to keep growing at 8 per cent or more, a top policy maker said on Wednesday. Soaring inflation, which hit a 3-½ year high of 7.61 per cent in late April, is proving to be a policy headache for...
French inflation dips from decade highs
PARIS: France's annual inflation rate eased a touch in April after scaling its highest level in more than a decade in March, but analysts said this would not be enough to assuage households' concern about dwindling buying power. Consumer prices in the euro zone's second biggest economy rose 0.4...
Inflation likely to stay above 3%
Bank of England governor Mervyn King admitted inflation will remain over three per cent for several months and economic growth will fall sharply. Bank projections point to inflation staying over three per cent for until 2009 – and will not return to two per cent until 2010. The Bank of England’s...
Economists say inflation in Bahrain to double this year
Bahrain plans to maintain its policy of pegging the dinar to the dollar, said central bank Governor Rasheed Al Maraj. Dollar pegs in all Gulf nations barring Kuwait compel their central banks to track the US Federal Reserve - which has introduced a series of rate cuts - although in the Gulf...
Bahrain to keep dollar peg: Maraj
Economists say inflation in Bahrain to double this year Bahrain plans to maintain its policy of pegging the dinar to the dollar, said central bank Governor Rasheed Al Maraj. Dollar pegs in all Gulf nations barring Kuwait compel their central banks to track the US Federal Reserve - which has...
Soaring cost of food and fuel sends inflation to 3% , the biggest jump in six years
Comments Inflation is rising at its fastest monthly rate in nearly six years, official figures showed yesterday. The Consumer Prices Index - the Government's preferred measure - was 0.5 per cent higher last month than in March. The Retail Prices Index, an alternative measure of inflation which...
Brown gambles on £120 tax giveaway to woo back voters
Published Date: 14 May 2008 EVERY basic-rate taxpayer is to receive a £120 boost in a panic Budget measure unveiled by the government yesterday, as Gordon Brown sought to salvage his battered reputation with a massive £2.7 billion economic gamble. The government will have to borrow £2.7...
European stock prices soar since 2003
Equity prices in European Union member countries have risen 118 per cent in the last five years, a new report has shown. Data from Halifax Financial Services shows EU stocks have outperformed both US and UK share prices – which rose 51 per cent and 55 per cent respectively since 2003. The EU also...
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