Sentences with phrase «fed rates caused»

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And so of course no one is sure how the market will react when the Fed raises rates, or what happens if there is another event that causes credit markets to seize up.

In other words, there is no certainty that the Fed «taper» will cause interest rates to move higher than they already have.

But the lack of any statement about when the next one would happen moved markets that trade in future interest rates hikes, causing the price of so - called Fed funds futures to drop.

This theory is why the Fed is thinking about raising rates even as inflation has consistently fallen below its 2 % annual target, because the central bank believes it needs to get ahead of rising inflation that a falling unemployment rate will cause.

Dissenters from the committee's doves have worried that keeping rates so low might force the Fed's hand in the future and cause economic and market disruptions.

«High wage inflation data in the months ahead could cause a rapid reappraisal of the pace of Fed rate hikes.

When Bernanke's taper talk caused long - term interest rates to rise much faster than the Fed intended, one of the ways in which the central banks sought to allay market fears was to stress that it would keep short - term rates steady until the jobless rate had reached at least 6.5 %.

One reason stocks continue to head higher may be the market's faith in a Fed «put,» or the expectation that any significant correction in the stock market will cause the Fed to delay rate hikes and balance - sheet contraction.

This constraint would be even tighter if the Fed began to raise interest rates, which would also cause the interest rate differential to narrow.

The Fed first has to raise their Funds Rate significantly above zero and not cause a recession before we get to see if this is true.

Loading the Fed up with bonds creates the danger of big losses for the central bank if interest rates rise (which causes bond prices to fall).

«Rising U.S. yields will cause volatility in capital flows into emerging markets, and with the Fed still likely to hike rates in December, the risk is for further outflows,» said Khoon Goh, head of Asian research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Singapore, referring the Federal Reserve.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

That said, if the economy really starts growing gangbusters again, the Fed could start raising interest rates, causing a commensurate jump in US treasury yields, which will lead to higher savings interest, CD interest, and dividend yield payout ratios.

The market has become increasingly confident that the Fed will raise rates at least two more times this year, and could even go for a third, causing the Dollar to rally strongly in recent weeks.

Banks and other institutions could lend more money every time the Fed reduced rates, and this led consumers to feel more confident in borrowing more, but it stressed their actual financial system beyond repair in many cases, and it caused stress for those that didn't borrow because they felt priced out of the housing market.

The Fed continues to hike, though, causing the difference between short - and long - term rates to converge and then even invert (meaning short rates go above long rates).

The cause of this downturn was the Fed's decision to raise interest rates aggressively from 3 percent at the start of the year to 5.5 percent by year's end.

Investors are hyper - sensitive to concerns about inflation, which could cause the Fed to accelerate its plans to raise interest rates.

However, given the recent deterioration in the growth outlook in Europe and several Emerging Market countries, our view is that Canada's larger share of exports will likely have a relatively larger «negative» impact on Canadian growth, and by inference cause the BoC to be more cautious raising policy rates than the Fed.

Like bonds, the prospect of the Fed tapering and causing rising interest rates has helped bring the 2013 YTD returns for the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index to -1 %.

Errors in an electronic feed of data provided to a clearing firm caused the incorrect ratings, Finra said.

The rush of FED governors and District presidents to any microphone to undermine the chairman's views caused the market to pause and reconsider its stance on possible FED normalizing rates quicker than the «extended period» language presumed.

«While yesterday's inflation numbers make a Fed rate rise in March more or less a done deal the prospect of additional rate rises later on in the year don't appear to be causing the same consternation in equity markets that they were a week ago, as US markets closed higher for the fourth day in succession, despite initially opening lower in the wake of the release of the data,» said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.

Concerns that a possible rise in inflation in the United States could lead the Fed to increase the pace of interest rate hikes has caused nerves on Wall Street, and American investment products that bet against volatility seem to have contributed to Monday's stock rout.

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«The central bank does not want to make the mistakes made in the past when the Fed raised rates too high, too fast and became the No. 1 cause of a recession,» said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University, Channel Islands.

Otherwise, how could the Fed have caused its targeted interest rate (the Fed Funds rate) to rise?

It causes a temporary period of prosperity, and then the bust period happens when the Fed puts on the brakes, raises interest rates, and people realize that with a lot of the projects they started there is not enough real savings to complete them.

That article suggests the Fed might increase the short - term interest rate too fast causing the yield curve to invert or at least to flatten much.

The taper trial balloon the Fed had allowed to ascend skyward caused a real world reaction in interest rates certainly not to their liking.

Due to their lending - focused business models, regional banks may be among the best - positioned financial firms to capitalize if or when Fed action causes interest rates to increase.

Since the financial crisis in 2008, the Fed has, overall, been very «accommodating» — i.e., they have consistently provided a great deal of liquidity to the financial marketplace, which in turn has helped to cause interest rates to fall significantly and to stay low.

Investors will pay close attention to any potential ripple effects in the Emerging Markets caused by U.S. Fed rate policy.

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«Even if we were to set very optimistic rates and raise the amount of vegetable protein in the feed, the pressure on fisheries and fish stocks would increase enormously and likely cause their collapse,» says co-author Thorsten Reusch from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Unless the global economy fails to return to something approaching normal conditions, resistance on the part of the Fed to higher interest rates will likely cause the dollar to sink to new lows, possibly even beating last year's record devaluation, Barclays predicts.

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The U.S. interest rate hike signals that the Fed is feeling optimistic about the economy and tends to cause bond yields on both sides of the border to move higher, said Rob McLister, founder of RateSpy.com.

Therefore, if the Fed's decision causes an interest rate to move up from 15 % to 16 % on December 21st, the new rate will only apply to purchases made on or after December 21st.

Malpass explains how interest rate differentials have caused foreign banks to reduce holdings at the Fed.

This has undoubtedly been caused by the low interest rate policy of the Fed, which depressed returns of such funds.

Well, if the Fed tries to do something similar to «operation twist» it would require banks to hold more capital against their positions, because the safe interest rate falls, it causes the risky portion of each loan to rise.

The US Fed indicated further moves would be dependent on global factors and oil prices — a key detail signifying that future rate hikes seem likely to develop on a slower scale, causing a European government bond market rally on Thursday, sending yields lower in the region.

Although the relationship between interest rates and the stock market is fairly indirect, the two tend to move in opposite directions: as a general rule of thumb, when the Fed cuts interest rates, it causes the stock market to go up; when the Fed raises interest rates, it causes the stock market as a whole to go down.

The energy and materials sectors have been the sore spot for the high yield market, given the anxiety over credit quality, as current low prices in oil and commodities, along with a Fed increase in rates, may be a cause for concern for future earnings and the cost of capital.

A similar pace of increases between 2003 and 2006 most certainly did cool the economy, and the rise in short - term rates (and the effects of Fed policy on funding costs in global markets) may have precipitated the early days of the subprime ARM crisis, when rates were being adjusted sharply upward, causing payment shock for borrowers.

Like bonds, the prospect of the Fed tapering and causing rising interest rates has helped bring the 2013 YTD returns for the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index to -1 %.

the Fed actually reversed course and created $ 16 billion of new money during the first half of February when concerns over rising interest rates caused a violent stock market correction.