REFINANCING RATE IS NOW 11%

Mexico registered annual inflation of 5.7% during 2002, much higher than the government's official target of 4.5%. This was the first time in four years that the government did not attain its targeted goal for annual inflation. The 2002 rate was also a significant increase from an annual-inflation level of ......

Deflation, the opposite of inflation, is a situation of falling general prices. It should not be confused with disinflation, which refers to a declining inflation rate that nevertheless remains positive. It was the successful U.S. disinflation of the 1990s, a disinflation that lowered the inflation rate sufficiently to create concern ......

INFLATION AND ITS variability entail large real costs to the economy. Several studies show that a 10% inflation rate can produce losses of around 3% of the real GNP through saving and investment misallocation or the loss of value of real balances (Fischer, 1981, Feldstein, 1997 and Lucas, 2000). In ......

METRO RADIO: Annual inflation rate to April 30: 13.5% The cost for a full radio advertising schedule in the main centres increased by nearly 11%, mainly due to an increased number of surveyed stations in Auckland and Dunedin. When compounded with reduced audience levels for surveyed commercial stations, the inflation ......

Metropolitan Radio Advertising Costs Annual inflation rate to April 2003: 13.5% The cost for a full radio advertising schedule in the main centres increased by nearly 11%, mainly due to an increased number of surveyed stations in Auckland and Dunedin. When compounded with reduced audience levels for surveyed commercial stations, ......

Provincial Radio Advertising Costs: Annual provincial radio inflation rate to November 2003: 15.7%. Commercial radio listening in Northland, Rotorua, Tauranga, Hawkes Bay, Taranaki, Manawatu, Nelson & Southland is surveyed annually by Research International. In the latest round of surveys, overall commercial radio listening levels fell by 6% year on year, ......

Provincial Radio: Annual provincial radio inflation rate to November 2003: 15.7% Research International's latest round of surveys shows overall commercial radio listening levels fell by 6% year on year with the greatest decreases in Tauranga, Hawkes Bay and Manawatu. Bucking the trend and boosted by the introduction of Radio Hauraki ......