Remember fretting about accelerating consumer prices and higher interest rates?
They must steer between the shoals of short-term deflation and the longer-term risk of accelerating consumer prices.
Although the value of TIPS is adjusted to reflect accelerating consumer inflation, many bond market strategists are wary of putting more money into them at the moment.
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company is dispatching Pinocchio, Snow White and a team of other characters in its effort to accelerate consumer adoption of next-generation DVD technology.
THE question haunting Madison Avenue these days is, to paraphrase Sigmund Freud, "What do consumers want?" As changes in demographics and lifestyles accelerate, consumer behavior is becoming increasingly difficult to predict.
Accelerating consumer growth in the Netherlands is another priority.
"Following rapid adoption by the broadcast community and an increasing range of products for the mass market, Best Buy's efforts will dramatically accelerate consumer adoption of this great technology".
Stronger and accelerating consumer spending helped, but it was mainly a substantial investment in private inventories that did the trick, pushing the inflation figure up and giving the Federal Reserve a little breathing room after recently launching its second round of quantitative easing.
A long-awaited consolidation, kicked off with this week's $41 billion merger deal between Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless, will accelerate consumer access to new services at faster speeds as the industry's largest players combine their networks and financial clout, some analysts predict.
