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...Short-dated bonds have a lower price sensitivity to yield movements but their principal and coupons still benefit from full inflation-indexation....
...The move would allow for “[the] simplification of structures, improvement in liquidity and indexation as well as benefits for the EU ownership of our airlines,” said Kiep....
...From its inception in 1965, capital gains tax on inflationary gains was widely seen to be a hidden wealth tax and there were regular calls for the introduction of an indexation allowance to deal with the...
...In this group are 60,000 members who are also not receiving any indexation due to the pre-1997 rule....
...That territory has shrunk as indexation, automation and private capital have expanded. But a few universal constants will always apply. I was blithely ignorant of these as a cub reporter....
...It’s not methodologically perfect (as we don’t bother with the indexation lag), but you hopefully get the gist. And we can see what happened last year....
...Influencing other factors that drive those choices — including the macroeconomic environment, taxation, depth of capital markets, valuations, research coverage, indexation, and many other aspects besides...
...Thames’s costs are rising faster than customer bills due to a quirk of indexation. Some £14bn in debts contracted by the regulated business are linked to the retail price index....
...A period of indexation followed, then another freeze. But this is nothing compared with the turbulence we may be about to witness. What can savers expect? Who is likely to be hardest hit?...
...But non-cash charges from accrued interest and indexation rose by a third to almost £900mn. The index-linked charge doubled....
...Ireland is already using similar indexation. Longer-term tax incentives such as capital allowances are another....
...Our “relentless march in liquid markets towards indexation” has “obliterated incentives to differentiate,” write Actis Macro Forum editor-in-chief Ewen Cameron Watt and investment principal Joonas Taras....
...But as in the US, optimistic economists dismiss the idea that Europe is on the cusp of a wage-price spiral, pointing out that the automatic “indexation” of pay to prices has largely disappeared except for...
...In its place were indexation rules and the exacting 25 per cent free float requirement, now set at 10 per cent....
...Analysts say inflation is being entrenched by structural issues, such as a longstanding shortage of labour in central Europe and the use of indexation in Latin America, in which contracts such as rental...
...Emerging economies and the poorest economies had little indexation in their public tax or spending systems....
...Long-only investors have disappeared as money has moved in favour of indexation or long-short strategies....
...“With indexation, [inflation] is embedded, it’s what happens [automatically].”...
...“God forbid someone decides to raise prices or do some indexation retroactively,” he added. “Prices are exorbitant today. They hit the ceiling. Prices cannot be raised anywhere....
...Spain’s central bank has flagged concerns over the rising use of indexation clauses in wage deals, pegging pay to inflation....
...The company’s flagship suite of indices — the basic gist of which was detailed in a 2005 paper titled Fundamental Indexation — weight companies according to underlying measures like revenues and profitability...
...Wage indexation is less common than in the past. So is union membership. Those factors lessen the risk of a self-reinforcing wage-price spiral. But labour markets are tight....
...It is now clear that she hopes to ride out the crisis with promises of severe spending cuts, possibly also abandoning the indexation of benefits....
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