Sentences with phrase «because federal rates»

As far as current borrowers are concerned, those who took out federal student loans during previous school years will not be affected because federal rates are fixed throughout the life of the loan.

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That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest remaining supporting factors behind the global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S. interest rates.

In a client note on Thursday titled «Yanking down the yields,» the interest - rates strategist projected that bond yields would be much lower than the markets expected because central banks including the Federal Reserve were reluctant to raise interest rates.

Canada's banks drove down mortgage rates in a fight for market share because the federal government insures most of the risk.

August 14 - The ringgit, which had been on a downward trend, plunges to a 17 - year low, losing as much as 2.6 percent to 4.1180 per dollar, in part due to concerns about the Federal Reserve's expected rate hike, and also because outside investors are concerned about the turmoil surrounding Najib.

That's because it will be one of the few remaining data points that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee will have before they decide whether or not to begin the process of raising interest rates at their upcoming meeting December 15th and 16th.

That's because the Federal Reserve has signaled its intention to raise the prime lending rate this year, and credit card interest rates will rise at the same time, according to author and TV host Suze Orman.

That's probably because the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it was less keen about raising interest rates.

Because of how the Bank of Canada has incorporated federal fiscal projections in its forecasts, there's a risk markets might over-read any tension over rates and interpret the government «as having more influence on the governor than it would past Bank of Canada governors,» he said.

Because the interest rate is a weighted average and rounded up, borrowers won't ever save money on interest by opting for a federal consolidation loan unless the loans are pre-2006 and have a variable interest rate.

The wage pop [last Friday's 2.9 % growth in hourly wages] spooked the markets because investors, already skittish as valuations were a bit steep (though not as bad as people have been saying, given strong current and expected corporate earnings), envisioned this sequence: wage growth gooses price growth (i.e., inflation), which raises both market and Federal Reserve interest rates, which slows growth and shaves corporate profit margins.

The interest rate offered on consolidated federal student loans is fixed but varies for each borrower because it is the weighted average of the interest rates on outstanding loans included in the consolidation, rounded up to the nearest one - eighth percent.

They are the maximum and minimum effective federal funds rates in any given month spanning from 6 months before the recession began to 6 months after the recession ended, with only one exception: the end period extends to only the official end of the 1980 recession in July of 1980, and not 6 months afterwards, because rates began rising afterwards and including those months would have made the drop appear larger than it actually was.

Because traded rates moved upward in this way, we have so far achieved an excellent level of control over the federal funds rate.

The fashionable view at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere when Yellen took office in 2014 was that growth was slow despite very low interest rates because of «headwinds» — transitory factors associated with the financial crisis that would soon recede.

On the other side of the debate, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, argued in a speech on Thursday night that the Fed should not raise rates this year because price inflation remains too low.

In addition, a rise in long - term interest rates seems inevitable sooner or later, either because of inflation or because the Federal Reserve backs away from its easy - money policies.

For example, federal loans can often be a better option for borrowing — even if you could get a lower interest rate on a private student loan — because federal loans have advantages private loans don't have, such as the opportunity to choose income - driven repayment plans or qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

That unit has a higher credit rating because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (that is, you and me and other taxpayers) are backing the deposits.

This is because Navy Federal has a maximum interest rate of 18 % whereas most other lenders have rates up to 36 %.

Entering 2017, few strategists» calls were as unanimous as the view that the U.S. dollar, already at a 14 - year high, would strengthen because the Federal Reserve was hiking interest rates while other central banks remained accommodative.

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Meantime, the market was also watching the Federal Reserve closely because Federal Reserve officials plan to continue hiking interest rates.

If that tax rate is reduced to 33 percent, the after - tax of the donation would increase to $ 67 because the federal subsidy for giving falls from $ 39.60 to $ 33.

Consolidating federal student loans does not provide a reduction in the interest rate applied to the new, larger loan because the weighted average interest rate of all consolidated loans is used to determine the final rate.

Federal student loans and mortgages might be lower priorities, because their rates are often lower and their terms are longer.

This is because federal student loans typically have fixed interest rates, which means your rate will remain the same over the life of your loan.

Bank loan funds became particularly attractive after 2009, because analysts continually predicted that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates.

Our effective tax rate includes the impact of certain undistributed foreign earnings for which we have not provided for U.S. federal taxes because we plan to reinvest such earnings indefinitely outside the U.S..

The greenback is no longer responding to Federal Reserve rate increases because they are already priced into the market, according to Saravelos, and the euro's sensitivity to policy tightening in Europe is likely to be far greater.

Interest rates have continued to be pushed lower and lower and lower and most of this is because the Fed keeps on adjusting that federal fund's rate and adjusting interest rates down in the way that they do that is by putting cash into the market and buying back bonds or short - term bonds with the federal fund's rate.

Trump could move Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac off the federal books, but huge mortgage rate changes aren't expected because of it.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

What do I mean, to start off the year major stock market were down anywhere from 5 - 10 % because the Federal Reserve was discussing raising interest rates, which in turn made everyone extremely skeptical of investing any more money in stocks, and actually selling off a large portion.

Voting against the policy action was Thomas M. Hoenig, who believed that continuing to express the expectation of exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period was no longer warranted because it could lead to a build - up of future imbalances and increase risks to longer run macroeconomic and financial stability, while limiting the Committee's flexibility to begin raising rates modestly.

The Bank of Canada and the federal government have long worried about Canada's housing market continuing to expand beyond fundamental levels because of the potential for a sudden and steep crash once interest rates start to rise, which would not only put many homeowners» finances in jeopardy, but could also sideswipe the economy.

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Central bankers need to be careful not to increase interest rates too quickly this year because that could slow the economy too much, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told CNBC on Thursday.Wall Street expects the Fed to raise rates at next month's meeting, in the first of what's seen as at least three...

As the economy reaches constraints, prices begin to rise and the Federal Reserve has to raise interest rates and, as I like to say: Every economic expansion does not die of old age; it dies because the Federal Reserve shoots it in the head,» said Minerd.

The government cut its budget significantly and at the same time the Federal Reserve was hiking rates to stave off inflation, because they were trying to contain the price inflation from the war years.

You just had Bill Gross leave the largest bond fund, the Pimco bond fund, because he said that he didn't think the Federal Reserve was going to be able to raise interest rates on a 10 year bond over 2 %.

Initially, there's nothing you can do about federal student loan rates because Congress sets the rates.

But with interest rates low because of the Federal Reserve's sustained stimulus program, Verizon was finally compelled to act before rates began creeping up.

Those meals have always been subject to nutritional guidelines because they are partially paid for by the federal government, but the new rules put broader restrictions on what could be served as childhood obesity rates have skyrocketed.

The report makes some controversial proposals to a system known as the «Cadillac» of Medicaid programs (because it covers so much), including changing the way reimbursement rates are set, a complete state takeover of the responsibilities now borne by the counties, reform of the medical malpractice system and a push for a higher federal contribution.

Absent the FDIC and Federal Reserve, banks would substitute a good credit rating and high capitalization for «insurance» or credit default swaps, because that will enable them to take cash loans from other banks to meet cash shortfalls, and ideally to prevent withdrawals in the first place.

With the «Smith Solution» in place, even Republicans would increase state income tax rates because it would keep the income tax money more local (coming to the states instead of the federal government).

While New York's unemployment rate is lower than the nation's 9.5 percent, Gillibrand noted the actual figures are likely higher because the federal statistics do not take into account individuals who have given up looking for work or those who are underemployed.

The governor reasons that health plans can afford it because Congress just cut their federal tax rates by the same amount.

The only way to change the Medicaid reimbursement rate is through Congress, and if that does not happen, an administrative waiver that brings back federal dollars to reduce the costs of care takes on even greater importance because the island will need to find a way to stretch the dollars it does receive, and reduce the overall expense of the program.