Sentences with phrase «by a quarter percentage»

The 7 - 2 vote for the rate move, the Fed's third this year, raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

This raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent

Deutsche Bank economists predict the curve will invert in 2019 as the Fed keeps raising interest rates by a quarter percentage point every quarter, as markets expect.

Traders fully expect the Fed's monetary - policy committee to raise benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point at a meeting that starts Tuesday and culminates Wednesday with Powell's first press conference as chairman.

The U.S. central bank's monetary - policy committee raised benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.5 % to 1.75 %, in Jerome Powell's first meeting as Fed chairman.

The Fed raised its benchmark overnight lending rate at its March 20 - 21 meeting by a quarter percentage point to a target range of between 1.50 percent and 1.75 percent.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday hiked its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point, citing a gradual strengthening in the economy.

Amid signs of stronger economic growth and a pick - up in inflation, as well as easier financial conditions, the Federal Open Market Committee, the policy arm of the U.S. central bank, is expected to raise its key federal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Economist.

The central bank cut its rate by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday to 0.5 per cent.

You can also lower your rate, perhaps by a quarter percentage point, by opting for a 15 - year mortgage rather than the standard 30 - year variety.

For the first time in seven years, the Bank of Canada announced today that it was hiking its key overnight rate by a quarter percentage point (25 basis points) bringing it to 0.75 percent as the economy has staged a broadly based economic expansion this year.

CME Group predicts a 94 % chance the Fed hikes rates by a quarter percentage point.

The most recent hike was in December, lifting the benchmark short - term federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.25 to 1.5 percent.

, lifting the benchmark short - term federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.25 to 1.5 percent.

Despite the Federal Reserve's action in late August raising the target for the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point, homes remain affordable and homebuyer attitudes are unlikely to be affected by higher rates, though borrowers may pause temporarily, NAR analysts say.

The rate has been raised only once — by a quarter percentage point in December — since 2006, when the Fed began lowering it to try to stimulate growth as the economy slid toward the Great Recession.

At Jerome Powell's first FOMC gathering as chairman, Fed officials lifted interest rates by a quarter percentage point and mostly penciled in two or three more moves this year.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg earlier this month saw the Fed lifting rates by a quarter percentage point at their Dec. 12 - 13 meeting.

Not exact matches

The results should not have been entirely surprising: NPD Group has said that its data showed that sales at athletic and sporting goods retailers were down by a low - double digit percentage in the quarter.

By contrast, 40 percent of those who would like to export said they don't have goods or services that are exportable; a slightly smaller percentage said they didn't know much about exporting, and about a quarter said they would worry too much about getting paid.

What's more, Dick's is reducing its exposure to a business that is shrinking anyway: its overall hunting business, which encompasses firearms, has been declining with sales down by a double - digit percentage for a few quarters now.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

Economists at Macroeconomic Advisers boosted their forecast for fourth - quarter economic growth by three - tenths of a percentage point to an annualized rate of 2.4 percent, on the «unexpected strength» in consumer spending.

Goldman Sachs cut its second - quarter GDP growth estimate by three tenths of a percentage point to 1.0 percent.

The pork shortage, along with the bad weather that afflicted the eastern half of the U.S. this winter, lowered Chipotle's comparable sales growth by about 2 percentage points to 10.4 % in the first quarter, below the 11.8 % analysts were projecting.

The damage and production shutdowns caused by the wildfire that razed Fort McMurray could subtract more than a percentage point from economic growth in the second quarter, the central bank said.

Economists said the two reports combined suggested that the third - quarter 3.5 percent annual growth pace could be cut by as much as half a percentage point when the government publishes its revisions later this month.

The last time the U.S. went through a partial government paralysis in 1995 - 1996 — for roughly three weeks in two separate instances — economic growth slowed by a quarter of a percentage point during the last three months of 1995.

The service problems had dragged down sales by eight percentage points in the quarter, with three of those points coming from lost sales due to rep annoyance, Jung said.

The following first quarter sales table provides results by geography and product category, as well as the percentage change compared to the prior year quarter on a reported basis and a constant currency basis.

Yum Brands, in reporting third - quarter earnings, stated «foreign currency translation remains a strong headwind» and that it expected the exchange rate «to impact full - year earnings per share by about 5 percentage points.»

Just like it did a year ago, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday sent its key short - term interest rate up by a quarter of a percentage point.

Feb 02, 2017 In December 2015, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point.

The increase in hiring by small businesses is an encouraging sign for the economy amid estimates that the 16 - day government shutdown could have sliced off as much as 0.6 percentage point from fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

«By the end of the first quarter (of 2015) inflation will stand by around 3.5 (percentage points) higher than we expecteBy the end of the first quarter (of 2015) inflation will stand by around 3.5 (percentage points) higher than we expecteby around 3.5 (percentage points) higher than we expected.

We estimate that the Alberta fires will reduce annualized growth in the second quarter by about 1.00 to 1.25 percentage points.

Whenever the Fed decides to act, the initial rate increase will be small — a quarter of a percentage point — but it looms large psychologically because it will be the first increase in short - term rates by the Fed since June 2006.

As expected, as their meeting concluded yesterday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and company decided to raise the benchmark interest rate they control by one - quarter of a percentage point.

The most recent GDP release is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

In a recent set of data released by research firm comScore for the second quarter, RIM with its BlackBerry OS is revealed to have lost 1.6 percentage points from its 12.3 percent share in the first quarter of the year in the US.

is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

«Samsung's smartphone sales declined 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 and its share dropped by 2.9 percentage points year on year.»

The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one - quarter of one percentage point to 1/2 per cent.

The country's biggest banks raised their prime rates after the Bank of Canada hiked its overnight lending rate earlier this month by a quarter of a percentage point to 1.25 per cent.

During the second quarter of 2014, affordability measures at the national level fell by 0.9 percentage points to 48.0 per cent for two - storey homes, by 0.6 percentage points to 42.5 per cent for detached bungalows and by 0.4 percentage points to 27.4 per cent for condominium apartments.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

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The Federal Open Market Committee has raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, in its attempt to leave zero rates behind.

First - quarter orders in China declined 18 %, the company said, with Mexico and India off by the same percentage.