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Inflation Wild Cards Will Keep The Fed n Hold
BusinessWeek – May 28, 2007
First it’s rare for one sector—housing in this case—to so dominate an economic slowdown. utside of housing demand has not cooled enough to turn down the heat on prices. Steam is also rising from business costs mainly for labor energy and other commodities even as productivity growth is slowing down. Then there’s the international factor. Abroad robust global growth is tightening labor markets and absorbing production capacity forcing major central banks outside the U. to tighten policy as inflation pressures rise… The fact that profit growth and margins remained surprisingly strong in the first quarter suggests businesses are recouping at least some small part of these rising costs through higher prices. Ultimately the bet for lower inflation and interest rates is a bet for a weak economy. But given the price pressures at work at home and outside the U. the economy will have to weaken much more broadly before the Fed would feel comfortable enough about the inflation outlook to cut rates.
The Chicago Tribune Barbara Rose Your Space column: Workers inventing…
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Times nline – May 28, 2007
Hewould he said be as happy if the company remained in private hands: “A lotof the things we have done in the last five years I’m glad we’ve doneprivately and not in the public market. html”–>The acquisition of PetsMart its main rival eight years ago a business 1½times the size of Pets at Home took a long time to integrate and “was morepainful than envisaged”. The public markets would have punished thatprocess but according to Mr Davies 3i Pets at Home’s owner at that timerealised that it was a transforming deal and supported the managementthrough the process. In the past three years Mr Davies and his team have set up a new distributioncentre and closed two older facilities – another tricky process he saysthat was better performed without the glare of the publicity thataccompanies a public company. However now he argues: “We have got those things behind us and we have gotthe right infrastructure in place so the greater visability associated withbeing a public company could be acceptable. ”Mr Davies might well be nervous of the public markets having spent themajority of his career working alongside entrepreneurs in the privatesector.
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