How to Use reflation in a Sentence

reflation

noun

• Does this mean the reflation trade is a thing of the past?
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2021
• The moves look in many ways like a classic reflation trade.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
• All the same, reflation bets in the run-up to the vote have been relatively modest.
  — Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
• Traders are paring back their reflation trades amid fading odds of a fiscal splurge now that a Blue Wave takeover of the Senate is all but out of reach.
  — Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
• In recent weeks, despite record highs in the markets and hopes for a rebound in economic growth in 2020, the bond market has not confirmed the reflation trade.
  — Sven Henrich For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 6 Feb. 2020
• Many of the macro funds that bet on a reflation have closed their positions, and Wall Street analysts have cast doubt on the potential for a serious overshoot.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
• With the reflation trade having pushed oil prices up to $67 per barrel in recent days, all of a sudden life is looking good for Big Oil again, and especially for Chevron.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Another point on the long game: Abe hopes that Japan's shrinking labor market will raise wages for workers, triggering the reflation of prices that Japan needs for stronger growth.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 26 Oct. 2017
• The prospect of an abrupt economic reflation lifted yields on U.S. debt to the highest in months this week, skewing the yield curve to near its steepest in four years and bringing forward bets on rate increases.
  — Matthew Boesler, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2020
• Any combination of these forces would imply a worldwide reflation of sorts, with prices once again rising and central banks forced to worry about inflation that is too high rather than too low.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
• Long story short, investors are betting on a comeback in inflation (aka reflation).
  — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• On the menu today: the reflation, mortgage rates rise, Deliveroo’s IPO, and a look at equity duration during a pandemic.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
• The bond market, which went all-in on the reflation trade after Donald Trump’s election, is growing more skeptical about the sustainability of higher inflation.
  — Brian Chappatta, Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
• Investors shuffling trades amid a sputtering reflation narrative may have overlooked a little fact: Bond managers who’ve been bullish on inflation prospects this year have been winning . . .
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
• One asset has taken an early lead in this year’s reflation rally—palladium.
  — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2017
• An extended slump could weigh on European equities, at a time when strategists are predicting a continuation of the reflation rally that picked up momentum after the first round of the French vote last month.
  — Justina Lee, Bloomberg.com, 9 May 2017
• While prices never rose more than 1 percent during his tenure, asset purchases did spur limited reflation — no small feat for an economy that had seen net deflation over the previous 15 years.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• The postelection reflation rally was predicated on the new president’s promise to reflate the U.S. economy with big fiscal spending, putting a booster under expectations for inflation that were already moving skyward.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2017

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