Sentences with phrase «monetary policy board»

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In terms of data, the European Central Bank released its latest monetary policy meeting accounts which showed some divergent opinions withing the bank's board.

Expressing concern over the impact of loose credit on inflationary pressures, the BIS is now calling for tighter monetary policy across the board.

Friday, April 20 CHICAGO - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans speaks on current economic conditions and monetary policy before the Graaskamp Center Spring Board Conference - 1340 GMT.

Members of the Fed's Board of Governors are permanent voting participants of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which decides monetary policy for the US.

Powell, appointed to the Fed board in 2012 by then - President Barack Obama, emerged as Trump's choice from a five - person slate of possible nominees that included Yellen as well as others who would have represented a sharp change in monetary policy.

On Wednesday a board member of the Bank of Japan said that the central bank should stick with its ultra-easy monetary policy, despite recent signs of economic recovery, because uncertainty remains over how fast inflation will rise.

Our judgement is that the current setting of monetary policy is consistent with this, with the Board keeping the cash rate unchanged at 4.25 per cent at its meeting yesterday.

Yet the Board had already aggressively eased monetary policy, delivering the largest reduction in debt - servicing costs to households in modern times.

The post-Board statements I issued each month at successive meetings said that the Board viewed the stance of monetary policy as remaining appropriate for the outlook.

Faced with that outlook, the Board judged that it was appropriate for monetary policy to exert a degree of restraint.

A recent report by the Conference Board of Canada estimates that, based on the pace of the Canadian economy (and ignoring factors that are constraining our maneuvering space on monetary policy, such as the situation in Europe and the Fed's interest rate target), our key interest rate right now should be 2.5 per cent.

An important role of the Reserve Bank is conducting monetary policy to achieve the objectives of the Reserve Bank Board.

[8] While the details of the RBA Board's decision had been made public in a press release at the time of changes in monetary policy, they had not been made public when the stance of monetary policy was left unchanged.

The legislation clearly states that monetary policy has both nominal and real objectives, similar to the goals specified for the Federal Reserve Board.

That is the main reason behind the tightening of monetary policy we undertook after our November Board Meeting.

These objectives allow the Reserve Bank Board to focus on price (currency) stability while taking account of the implications of monetary policy for activity and, therefore, employment in the short term.

The Governor issues a statement immediately after each meeting of the Board, announcing and explaining the Board's monetary policy decision, and minutes of each meeting are issued two weeks later providing background to the Board's deliberations.

In addressing the Reserve Bank's responsibility for monetary policy, the Act provides that the Reserve Bank Board shall, from time to time, inform the Government of the Reserve Bank's policy.

«The crises of the last few years have pushed monetary policy into uncharted territory,» ECB executive board member Sabine Lautenschläger remarked at a meeting organized by the Commissariat of German Bishops.

At its December meeting, as in earlier months, the Board judged that a further tightening of monetary policy would probably be required in due course, but that there was no need for action in the short term.

In its deliberations on monetary policy, the Board will continue to monitor all these developments and make adjustments as required, with a view to achieving sustainable growth in the medium term with low inflation.

On the monetary policy front the big event of the quarter was the adoption of negative rates by the BOJ Policy Board on 29 January on a narrow majority of five topolicy front the big event of the quarter was the adoption of negative rates by the BOJ Policy Board on 29 January on a narrow majority of five toPolicy Board on 29 January on a narrow majority of five to four.

Specifically, the FOMC is opting to retain its easy monetary policies, but undertake no new initiatives at this time, Perhaps the Fed went this more conservative route in view of the somewhat better news out on the economic front over the past few weeks, notably the generally improving housing metrics, the pickup in June's personal income, and the surprising uptick in the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for July issued yesterday.

Minutes of the monetary policy meetings of the Reserve Bank Board are published two weeks after each meeting.

It is incorporated into the Federal Reserve's FRB / US model, one of several macro-economic models used by staff economists at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in monetary policy analysis.

At its most recent monetary policy meeting, the Board judged that the recent financial volatility could weaken the outlook for demand, and hence may, in due course, act to dampen pressure on inflation.

However, «what could represent a discontinuity for monetary policy is if Yellen steps down and President Trump then needs to fill the Board with four people,» Jacobsen explained.

On this basis, the Board judged that it was prudent to maintain the current stance of monetary policy.

The Reserve Bank Board's explanations of its monetary policy decisions are announced in a media release, which is distributed through electronic news services and published on the Reserve Bank's website at 2.30 pm on the day of each Board meeting.

Monetary policy is the process through which the monetary authority (central bank, currency board, or other regulatory committee) of a country controls the size and rate of growth of the money supply, which in turn affects interest rates.

Jerome Powell was first appointed to the Fed's seven - person Board of Governors in 2012, and over that time he has never dissented from the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC's) decisions on monetary policy.

Against this background, the Board took the view at its June meeting that the economy had entered a period where the monetary policy decision would be whether to hold interest rates unchanged or to reduce them.

She and the rest of the board do some important work, like setting the country's monetary policy to guide us toward full employment (often defined as a national unemployment rate of

In Australia, as well as reflecting the favourable overseas developments, financial markets have been influenced by the run of strong local economic data, with the result that markets had begun to anticipate some tightening of monetary policy ahead of the Board's November decision, though a rise in cash rates had only been fully priced for the December meeting.

Most of what a Federal Reserve Board member does is dealing with microeconomic issues having to do with bank regulation, bank mergers, bank supervision, consumer protection laws, CRA [Community Reinvestment Act], fair lending statutes — all kinds of things that have nothing to do with monetary policy.

At 1 p.m., Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer discusses recent developments in the U.S. economy and the Fed's monetary policy in New York as part of the Council on Foreign Relations C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics, 58 E 68th St., Manhattan.

President Trump will have substantial influence over additional changes to the Board's composition, which will ultimately determine the future direction of monetary policy.

According to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the purpose of the Fed is to set monetary policy that stabilizes the U.S. economy and overall financial system.

The governing board of the Federal Reserve System that is responsible for setting bank reserve requirements, the discount rate, credit availability, and monetary policies.

The target federal funds rate is set by the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Open Market Committee and is a principal tool of monetary policy.

You would do infinitely better on these boards if you spent your time actually looking at the science and policy material instead of trying to prove AGW is a hoax or whatever it is you're trying to prove (usually it has something to do with unsubstantiated charges of monetary gain, your constant fall - back).

Thus whenever monetary policy matters are being discussed at the international level, for example in the IMF executive board (which conducts the Fund's day - to - day business), Eurozone Member States speak about — and decide on — issues without any longer possessing the corresponding powers domestically.

In other words, the best and the brightest can try to figure out the administration's future monetary policies, or who Trump will pick to fill the other current open seats on the Fed board or whether he'll keep Yellen next year.