Unfortunately, the ECB, BOJ and Fed continue to believe a positive rate of inflation must be maintained at all costs.
He suggests buying each ETF when it shows a positive rate of change (ROC) in price over the prior 42 trading days.
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Takatoshi Ito of Tokyo University, until recently a government adviser, thinks the bank should be doing much more, including making a clear commitment to targeting a positive rate of inflation.
The U.S. dollar looks further than ever from paying a positive real rate of interest, leaving both investors and merchants to price scarce resources in an ever-depreciating, ever-more generously supplied currency.
It is a different story with their competitors in the long-haul railroad sector, where all companies have produced a positive three-month rate of return and there has been a 14.4% collective price rise in the last three months.
He said out of 3, 654 tests carried out on beef products in the UK, only 35 have tested positive for horsemeat, a rate of less than 1%.
Now, a new studypublished in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that the rate of false-positive activations is higher than expected.
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Will the effect be mostly positive, boosting our productivity and the rate of human innovation?
That could include increasing government-bond purchases, or setting itself a monetary target not just based on a positive inflation rate, but on robust growth of nominal GDP.
The headline rate of breastfeeding remaining static was a positive sign, according to Ms Campbell.
This growth rate represents the seventh consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth and third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth rates.
China's benchmark lending rate is slightly positive but this understates the extent of its recent monetary tightening: the central bank has also sharply raised banks' reserve requirements and capped credit growth.
"There are some positive things happening, " he added - with the rate of employment, export growth and business start-ups all rising.
Overall, the decline in the unemployment rate is positive news, but it only underscores the importance of us not letting up on our efforts.
The core rate of consumer-price inflation (excluding fresh foods) turned positive (0.1%) in the 12 months to November.
However, without an associated further decline in interest rate, the impact of further monetary ease will likely still be positive, but less so.
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With unemployment falling to a five year-low - below four million - and some economists predicting a growth rate of 2.8% this year, the rosy economic outlook is a positive development.
Despite the latest GDP figures and a slowdown from last year's 10% growth rate, Peru will still be one of the few Latin American countries to register positive growth for the year as a whole.
The 12 positive findings, including two in New York, may reflect a fraction of the true cheating rate because testing in amateur cycling so far applies only to top finishers overall or of age group and category.
Celldex CEO Anthony Marucci has said previously that a meaningful and positive response rate in the study would be 12% to 15% with a progression-free survival of greater than 12 weeks.
Although the interest rate is 0% to 0.1%, average deflation of -1.3% in the past 15 years means that the real interest rate (nominal interest rate 0% minus the price change of -1.3%) is a positive 1.3%.
In 2003, the region suffered the second highest rate of new infections in the world with almost 1.37 million people becoming HIV-positive.
Many developing economies also have positive real interest rates, meaning that you can earn a return on their bonds over and above the rate of inflation.
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He proposes that Japan should first set a target for the level of consumer prices, one that would rise over time to allow for a small positive inflation rate.
Today the market was lifted on positive sentiment, due mainly to the release of the hotly debated, political football we normally call the unemployment rate number.
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Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), for one, has battled for over a year to keep the rate of expense growth below that of revenue gains, and it promises it will get back to positive territory by the end of this year.
Moreover, in addition to the 25% of homeowners with negative equity, a similar proportion have insufficient positive equity to refinance their high fixed-rate mortgages.
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