1. It is not a debate about declining share values or rising rates of return but a debate about the rates of decline and increase. 2. The temporary trade-off comes not from inflation per se, but from unanticipated inflation, which generally means, from a rising rate of inflation... 3. A rising rate of inflation may reduce unemployment, a high one will not. 4. Although it remains far lower than the US unemployment rate, the rising jobless rate confirms that the slowdown has arrived. 5. Analysts have so far dismissed the rising rates as a temporary phenomenon. 6. Analysts said investors are shrugging off even positive earnings results because of concern that rising rates will hurt future profits. 7. And concerns over rising rates and inflation and their negative impact on fixed-income investments will continue to put upward pressure on bond yields, traders said. 8. And he says rising rates may have an impact on some housing-related retailers, like Home Depot. 9. And Kawasaki Steel Corp. were among the biggest decliners on concern rising rates would crimp profit growth. 10. And rising rates are usually bad for most stocks. |