It will also verify that fresh euros are not freely available to bad investors with all the long-term inflation risks that entails.
The committee said some inflation risks remain, but that developments in financial markets since its August meeting have increased the uncertainty surrounding the economic outlook.
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Even some members of the Federal Open Market Committee suggested that inflation risks may require monetary tightening sooner rather than later, according the Fed minutes released on Wednesday.
Month after month, in this period of above-target inflation, they have concluded the risks - to growth, and to the medium-term inflation target - of acting now are greater than the risks of staying put.
Inflation remains in check, but the risks of future inflation are hard to quantify.
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Cutting interest rates risks inflation (which would stymie entry into the euro).
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"The central bank has begun placing increasing weight to fears that still-high food inflation is raising risks of broader economic instability, " said Aninda Mitra, India economist at Capital Economics.
At one end are those, including the OECD and the Bank for International Settlements, who give warning that a prolonged period of ultra-low interest rates risks inflation and resurgent risk-taking (see article).
Despite a tough year for emerging market equities, due in part to high inflation and systematic risks from the core economies, investors still like the long term investment thesis in the emerging markets, by and large.
Cembalest points out three main risks: inflation, how consumption is financed, and structural impediments to growth.
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King and the two others wanted to inject another 25 billion pounds, arguing the risks to inflation were limited.
And investors may perceive that QE increases the long-term risks of inflation, which also makes some commodities more attractive.
Meantime, a Chinese finance ministry researcher said the risks for inflation in China exceed the need for more economic stimulus.
During the past month, the balance of those risks to inflation in the medium term has shifted decisively to the downside.
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Inflation has been high, but the Committee believes that the decline in energy and other commodity prices and the weaker prospects for economic activity have reduced the upside risks to inflation.
Mr Issing and most of his colleagues have never seen an inflation rate that is too low and rarely miss an opportunity to point to risks that an outbreak of inflation may be around the corner.
"However, the planned VAT rise will place additional pressure on already elevated inflation expectations and next month's Inflation Report will need to consider the risks of relying on spare capacity in the economy to bring down inflation and expectations, " said Lee Hopley, the EEF's chief economist.
At its last interest-rate-setting session the Fed reckoned the risks of lower inflation were slightly stronger.
If the risks in the inflation forecast were equal on the upside and the downside, this would not matter.
Now two no longer hold, and the risks of higher inflation have risen.
It seems there was much fretting over the risks of quickening inflation and of cheap money's role in encouraging investors to seek more risk.
In Asia whose economies are far more dependent on oil for growth than America's there are, for a start, the risks of higher inflation, or lower growth, or both.
The ECB had announced it was leaving euro zone interest rates on hold, but, in a subsequent press conference, Trichet appeared to have softened his stance on inflation to point to the risks of slowing economic growth.
Investors still looking for long-term protection against the risks of high inflation in the future might find better value in real estate, such as in investment properties, and in commodities, both of which look cheap compared with their long-term averages.
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"Firm CPI numbers raise upside risks for the WPI inflation number, especially on food costs, " said Radhika Rao, an economist at DBS Bank.
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