How to Use reflation in a Sentence

reflation

noun
  • The move is a clear sign the reflation trade is back on track.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2021
  • So far, the reflation trade hasn't been kind to crypto coins.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 18 June 2021
  • All the same, reflation bets in the run-up to the vote have been relatively modest.
    — Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Long story short, investors are betting on a comeback in inflation (aka reflation).
    — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • One asset has taken an early lead in this year’s reflation rally—palladium.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Still, the whipsawing market reactions to the Fed have spurred debate among investors over what to do if reflation trades falter.
    — Eric Lam, Bloomberg.com, 22 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The reflation trade also got some help as investors mulled a bipartisan infrastructure deal, and positive stress test results were also a boon for the Financials sector.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 28 June 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
  • An optimist would read the internal market action in recent weeks as foretelling an early-cycle reacceleration/reflation dynamic setting up.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • No news on official government data remains fine with the markets, which are free to key off corporate-AI enthusiasm and the global markets’ apparent message of a reflation/reacceleration dynamic taking hold.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The structural shift Goldman documents—from disinflation and globalization to reflation and regionalization, from capital-light to capital-intensive, from buybacks to capex—could, in theory, benefit workers.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 June 2026

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