Sentences with phrase «bank economists believe»

«Here's what most big - bank economists believe but hesitate to say: Canada is on the front edge of a retirement crisis.

Even most bank economists believe Canadian housing is overpriced somewhere in the range of 10 % to 20 %, perhaps more so for the hottest condo markets.

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Some economists and market pros have cheered the Fed for hiking rates because they see the economy as strong enough, and believe it's time the central bank removes some stimulus.

But most economists believe such extraordinary intervention was necessary, particularly after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the nation's fourth largest investment bank, put the stock market in veritable free fall and took the U.S. economy along with it.

Bad loans as a share of their total portfolio remains low, at less than 2.5 percent, but economists believe the figure understates the problem because banks often extend the payment dates for problem debt.

The main challenger to Powell is Stanford University economist John Taylor, a favorite of conservative Republicans who believe monetary policy has been too loose under Yellen and want the central bank to rely more on rules when setting rates.

«We do not believe that May's jump in housing starts in Canada is the start of a trend,» said Marc Pinsonneault, an economist at National Bank of Canada, who noted that most of the increase came from condos in Ontario, with a full three - quarters of it occurring in the Greater Toronto Area.

If that keeps up, it would be good news for those economists and market watchers who believe that too many condos are going up in the country's most populous city (in the last year the central bank has highlighted the potential risks that the rising supply of condos poses to Canada's housing market and broader economy).

I believe we're pretty close to consensus, looking at growth of just over two per cent — but that's still above what the Bank of Canada would consider to be potential and what most of us would consider to be potential,» said Douglas Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.

More economists believe the Federal Reserve's policy is on the right track, but they offer differing opinions when it comes to determining the appropriate path for the central bank, according to a survey released Monday.

«There's not such the dichotomy between the real economy and stock market as we are sometimes led to believe by the debate in China,» Louis Kuijs, the chief economist for greater China at Royal Bank of Scotland, said this week.

Whereas Austrian economists believe that government interventions cause the periods of economic boom and bust known as business cycles, Keynesian economists believe that recessions and depressions are unavoidable and that an activist central bank can mitigate fluctuations in the business cycle.

While I am also very concerned of future inflation and interest hikes that would occur as a result of the free - flowing economic stimulus we're seeing around the world today, I believe that to bet on FRM is to bet against the collective wisdom of the teams of economists that work for the banks that try to predict future interest rates.

was business as usual for the BoC, the federal banker finally threw off its neutral position on the economy — a stance taken when political campaigns are in full swing — to offer Canadians and economists a glimpse into where the Bank believes the Canadian economy is heading in the near future.

Nicolai Peitersen, an economist, who used to work for the Danish central bank and the investment bank J.P. Morgan before he founded Actics in 2005, believes ethics has become a competitive differentiator today:

The chief economist for Dutch banking giant ING believes bitcoin will likely wind up as a niche financial product, according to a new report.

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Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors ®, presented his 2017 housing and economic forecast and was joined onstage by Dennis Lockhart, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who discussed the economic conditions that he believes support what will be a «net positive» for the housing sector.

Dr. Marci Rossell, whose background includes stints with the Federal Reserve Bank, Oppenheimer Funds and as chief economist for CNBC, believes that real estate is only beginning to feel the effects of globalization.