Sentences with phrase «fed funds up»

If the Fed doesn't want to raise long rates, it could try moving Fed funds up more quickly.

But you get the 10 - year stuck and it keeps moving Fed funds up — You'll have a flat curve.

Not exact matches

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more yeafed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more yeaFed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

Not only has Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated that the federal funds rate will probably stay at rock bottom until 2015 in his latest public communication, but Vice Chair Janet Yellen, who is the front - runner to succeed him if he leaves in January, would be least likely to hike up short - term rates prematurely.

The Fed funds rate remained there for seven years before the central bank nudged it up a quarter of a percentage point in December.

The fed funds are used to control inflation for a better economy and are set up by the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System.

But it will be many, many years from now, and if we end up with Volcker style Fed fund rates before then — as you seem to believe — it won't be because the Treasury was trying to surreptitiously inflate away the national debt.

A Fed funds rate hike means that the interest rate banks charge each other will go up.

The Fed has a dual mandate to maximize employment and stabilize inflation, which it tries to achieve primarily by pushing up or down the federal funds rate, the benchmark short - term financing cost for banks that influences a wide range of borrowing rates for households and businesses.

If we don't hear about ETFs and hedge funds blowing up after what happened yesterday, it means the PPT (NY Fed + the Treasury's Working Group on Financial Markets — the «PPT» — which both have offices in the same building in lower Manhattan) has monetized and covered up those financial road - side bombs.

And better yet, if the Fed can keep the pensions thinly solvent by pumping up the stock market, Congress and State Governments can defer the inevitable taxpayer bailout of public pension funds — for now.

As savers, pension funds and insurance companies sought relief from the pain of low interest rates, the issue now is «whether they ended up taking up risks that were greater than they realized,» said Donald Kohn, the Fed's former vice chairman under Bernanke.

To compound the problem, credit card issuers are aggressive about jacking - up rates when the Fed funds rate is rising.

As the fed funds rate goes up, so, too, will the yields on short - term bonds funds.

At the Shadow Open Market Committee fall meeting on Sept. 15, economist Peter Ireland of Boston College argued that the effect of reducing the balance sheet is ultimately equivalent to an open - market sale of bonds by the Fed of the kind it would undertake in order to push up the fed funds interest raFed of the kind it would undertake in order to push up the fed funds interest rafed funds interest rate.

Having just raised interest rates at their last meeting, the Fed has no plans to follow up in May but Fed fund futures show a 93 % chance of a quarter point rate hike the following month when economic projections are updated and Jerome Powell holds a press conference.

That drove up the fed funds rate, which restrained lending.

Based upon the Fed's guidance, it looks like we are in line for two more rate bumps this year, which would bring the federal funds target rate up to 1.75 % -2 %.

On February 23, 1995 then - Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, in his semi-annual Humphrey - Hawkins Act testimony to Congress, announced that he was ending his period of money tightening that had taken the federal funds rate up to 6 % and would start letting rates decline.

Yesterday (Thursday), Fed Chairman Bernanke tried to put the financial flow of funds that led up to the crisis in perspective.

Or, does the Fed's easy - money policy deregulation of oversight open the way for asset - price inflation that puts home ownership even further out of reach — except at the price of running up a lifetime of debt to the banks that write the loans on their keyboard at steep markups over their cost of funding from the compliant Fed?

I will tell you now that if the Fed Funds rate follows that path, the Fed will blow something up, and then start to loosen again.

The Fed's balance sheet grew, bank reserves began to pile up, and the federal funds rate dropped well below the FOMC's target.

Set up a donation fund for community infrastructure, or feed local homeless people.

If I give up Starbucks, I then would put the money that I have saved from giving up the ridiculously expensive coffee into a fund to feed the poor.

(Disclosure: I have partnered up with Produce For Kids to help share details about their spring / summer campaign to raise funds for Feeding America through purchases made at participating brands at Publix.

educates kids and their families about food and cooking by enabling young cooks to get started in the kitchen and try out family - friendly recipes; teams up with partner organizations to feed hungry children; and funds educational opportunities for kids who are interested in pursuing careers in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

«Full Circle Feed will use the funds to set up a more environmentally friendly production process and drying method,» says founder Michael Amadori.

To avoid the mixed messages and create a supportive environment, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund set up the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative to encourage hospitals to have a written breast - feeding policy.

SUNNY GAULT: Right, and you did ask, you asked when this started, and I was looking up information on that, so 1991, and this is actually, it says it was launched by the world health organization and the united nations children's fund which is unique, to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimum level of care for infant feeding and mother baby bonding.

Because of the move to «product - based» solutions, funding is already drying up for most infant and young child feeding support programs and for community - based approaches that teach and promote skills to make nutritious family foods from local indigenous ingredients.

Malang Fofana, the head of the Gambia delegation, expressed the concerns of many saying, «Because of the move to «product - based» solutions, funding is already drying up for most infant and young child feeding support programs and for community - based approaches that teach and promote skills to make nutritious family foods from local indigenous ingredients.

In Zimbabwe, a pro-breastfeeding publication «Baby Feeding,» funded by UNICEF, was held up because of Nestlé's lobbying efforts.

The fed - up governor is expected to propose cuts to education and local - government funding in the near future as additional «budget extenders.»

He is, however, fed up with Labour attacking him as the figurehead of a reactionary clique, funded by shadowy financiers with offshore accounts, generally unsympathetic to the interests of ordinary Britons — the «same old Tories», in other words.

A preliminary analysis published yesterday by the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies (COSCE) here shows that out of the overall $ 7 billion announced, only $ 2.8 billion — up from last year's $ 2.6 billion — will feed the public research system with funding for research centers, competitive calls for research projects and scholarships, and support to infrastructure.

Media outlets like the Tribune are still using this sort of empty cheerleading to prop up Fed Ed Head Duncan's demand, funded by millions in Race to the Top money, that we must move fast to fire experienced teachers and replace them with, well, other people.

Fed up with gaping budget shortfalls, inadequate education funding and insufficient revenue, the Republicancontrolled Legislature capped months of turmoil by overriding the governor's veto of a bill that would undo some of his tax cuts and raise $ 1.2 billion over two years.

According to the CME Group's Fed Funds futures, there is a 95 % chance that the federal funds rate will get bumped up to a target range of 1.75 % -2.Funds futures, there is a 95 % chance that the federal funds rate will get bumped up to a target range of 1.75 % -2.funds rate will get bumped up to a target range of 1.75 % -2.00 %.

So far, those betting for tightening in the Fed funds futures market have been losing over the last few years along with those shorting the long Treasury bond, because rates have to go up.

Based upon the Fed's guidance, it looks like we are in line for two more rate bumps this year, which would bring the federal funds target rate up to 1.75 % -2 %.

13) The yield curve and Fed funds futures indicate another 25 - 50 basis points of easing in this cycle, at least, until the next institution blows up.

Given that the effects of QE2 are subsiding, the FOMC moves the Fed funds sentence up higher in the document and moves up the language that «low rates of resource utilization and a subdued outlook for inflation over the medium run — are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for an extended period.»

I'm open to new ideas here, but it seems that the liquidity situation in Fed funds is volatile enough that some banks end up snapping at low yields at some point each day.

Conversely, «when the economy heats up and there's a fear of inflation, [the Fed] will restrict funding and interest rates will go up.»

An active fund manager who gets to pick and choose the stocks to put in their portfolio can, if fed up with a company's policies, eventually decide to sell out in disgust.

As the Fed ponders an end to its $ 85 billion quantitative easing program, investors should shore up their bond funds by moving to target maturity funds ahead of a Fed exit.

If the market is struggling and in a downward trend, the FOMC may opt to reduce the fed funds rate and free up the supply of money.

Fund managers said the metal was bid up on expectations of further U.S. monetary easing and that bullion could sell off if Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke does not announce a new bond - buying stimulus program at an annual Fed conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Friday.

When the Fed's interest rate policy is stuck at its zero bound, he argued that «a decline in inflation expectations drives up real interest rates and thereby increases the real cost of credit which can not be offset by simply lowering the fed funds raFed's interest rate policy is stuck at its zero bound, he argued that «a decline in inflation expectations drives up real interest rates and thereby increases the real cost of credit which can not be offset by simply lowering the fed funds rafed funds rate.