The FOMC is committed to achieving medium-term price stability and will act as necessary to attain that objective.
The bank rate is used to price medium- and long-term loans and is at its lowest level for three decades.
The Internet is bearish for retailing because it is at its core a price-discounting medium, particularly for toys, books and computers, which are easy-to-sell commodities.
The medium-term goal of price stability might be put at risk.
The ECB, he said, would "continue to monitor closely" all developments to ensure price stability over the medium term.
In the medium term, "external price pressures fade and a gradual revival in productivity growth curbs increases in domestic costs, " the report said.
The inflation target replaces the BoJ's current, vaguely-worded "goal" for price stability over the medium to long-term, which was taken to mean a positive range of 2 per cent or lower in year-on-year change in the consumer price index.
We look at scenarios for two factors relating to oil price and production and discover that in the short to medium term, the benefits from higher oil prices on its stock price outweigh any drop in value from production disruptions.
This strategy has been conditioned on our expectation that the prices of oil and other commodities would ultimately stabilize, in part as the result of slowing global growth, and that this outcome, together with well-anchored inflation expectations and increased slack in resource utilization, would foster a return to price stability in the medium run.
But over the medium and long term a higher gasoline price would encourage fuel efficiency, so people would actually end up paying less for transportation.
Sheth says the new Mini appliances--which can search either 200, 000 or 300, 000 documents, depending on purchase price--are targeted toward medium- to large-sized businesses.
China's small and medium enterprises, for example, paid a dear price as state-owned entities and local governments received the lion's share of the limited supply of loans from commercial banks.
"It may be the first medium where the buyers have more information about the price, the value and the amount of inventory than the seller, " said Krux President Gordon McLeod.
The February sales price of newly constructed residential buildings in 70 large and medium-sized cities decreased in only 8 cities remained stable in 6 cities comparing with the previous month.
The best way for the Federal Reserve to support the fundamental value of the dollar in the medium term is to pursue our dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability, and we will certainly do that.
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These are set to ensure a broad balance between overall supply and demand over the medium term (the next two years or so) thus keeping the economy on a path consistent with price stability.
And since price rationing allows individualism through personal valuation the social engineers have even engrossed themselves into the manipulation of the medium of exchange, or the money that we use to place value on the goods, services, resources, investments, interest, and wages that are critical to an economy.
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