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Japan PM vows to ensure workers' wage hikes, guard them against inflation

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida vowed to ensure workers' wage hikes through tax breaks to protect the economy from the impact of rising global inflation

Product gets smaller, price stays the same: Japan tackles 'shrinkflation'

The phenomena is a notable legacy of Japan's years of deflation as companies balk at price hikes.

Buy growth and value stocks to beat inflation woes, advises Chris Wood

Led by a sharp rise in commodity prices, especially crude oil, and supply-side issues, most economies across the globe have been battling rising inflation over the past few months

Global inflation conundrum

RBI should continue the unwinding process

Risks on the rise for global stock markets, warns Chris Wood

A major rise in oil price will have the 'potential to aggravate inflation scare dramatically,' he says.

Inflation is already creeping into some corners of the world economy

Hawks say that pockets of inflation today will turn into across-the-board price increases tomorrow, with stimulus providing the fuel

Inflation targeting is a stupid policy

In trying to increase by a fairly random amount an index of prices that they largely can't control, central banks couldn't have done much more harm

Country sees world's highest inflation during 2020: State Bank of Pakistan

January witnessed a 12-year high inflation at 14.6 per cent. In response to the rising prices, the SBP rose the interest rates to 13.25 per cent

Rich-world problem of low inflation has arrived in emerging markets

Central banks have responded like their developed-country peers: by lowering interest rates. They have more room to keep going -- but they also face more obstacles on the way down

Who's afraid of low inflation?

Central banks in advanced economies fear that this lack of inflation could quickly turn into falling prices, and that any slide into such outright deflation would be catastrophic

2018 likely to see high inflation due to rising global growth, US tax cuts

The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note climbed in the past week to the highest levels since 2014