Sentences with phrase «by holding rates»

That the Bank ultimately shocked markets on July 14 by holding rates steady, at least for the time being, suggests a growing reluctance to use what little monetary firepower it has left.

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And five of the eight seats that are considered «toss - ups» by one or more of the political pundits rating the races are currently held by Democrats.

FRANKFURT, Germany - ECB Governing Council meeting, followed by interest rate announcement - 1145 GMT FRANKFURT, Germany - ECB President Mario Draghi holds a press conference...

FRANKFURT, Germany - ECB Governing Council meeting, followed by interest rate announcement - 1145 GMT FRANKFURT, Germany - ECB President Mario Draghi holds a press conference after an interest rate meeting - 1230 GMT.

When the U.S. Federal Reserve chose to hold rates in June, it specifically called out weak business investment in that country by way of explanation.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

In particular, H&M fell 2.76 percent after a rating downgrade by SEB to a «sell» from a «hold».

Fox's TV studio, producer of «Modern Family» and «Homeland,» is going to Disney, while Fox's broadcast network, mired in last place in the ratings, is staying with the remaining holdings controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family.

By contrast, you'd pay the lower capital gains rate of about 15 percent to 20 percent on transactions for Bitcoin held as an investment, for example if you obtained it on an exchange.

And if interest rates go up, the government would have to pay much more to finance the more than $ 14 trillion in Treasury debt held by investors.

The household survey, favored by some small business groups because it includes self - employed individuals, was unchanged in July with the unemployment rate holding steady at 5 %.

This year's list is the product of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by data and insight supplied by a trio of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses of privately held companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which provides industry growth figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.

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«Pension plans since the financial crisis have been in pretty rough shape because interest rates were held down by all the — I won't call it manipulation — but all the activities by the central banks to keep interest rates low and to spread growth,» he says.

A 10 - times return over six years, a hypothetical holding period, means an investor rate of return of 46 percent, although returns are inherently diluted by other investments in the portfolio.

OSLO - Norway Central Bank holds Announcement of the Executive Board's interest rate decision and publication of Monetary Policy followed by press conference 0900 GMT STOCKHOLM - Riksbank executive board meeting 0800 GMT.

It has done this by offering attractive interest rates on banks» reserves held at the Fed, so the banks keep their excess funds there instead of lend them out to borrowers in the economy.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

«The expectation of a rate hike... is widely held, and has been reinforced by the most recent round of Fed communications,» said Michael Feroli, an economist with J.P. Morgan.

Neither argument holds right now for holding any tactical cash, especially with no reasonable prospects for a near - term rate increase and the yield differential offered by bonds over cash right now.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

One thing I think that is happening here is a perception that deep troubles will follow an increase in the prime rate based on the raw amount of debt held by the US Government.

Trump's victory could temporarily derail stronger growth, higher rates narrative by raising expectations of a) protectionism, b) the Italian referendum following Brexit and US election as repudiation of elites and c) the Fed keeping rates on hold in December.

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The presentation suggested that such a facility would allow the Committee to offer an overnight, risk - free instrument directly to a relatively wide range of market participants, perhaps complementing the payment of interest on excess reserves held by banks and thereby improving the Committee's ability to keep short - term market rates at levels that it deems appropriate to achieve its macroeconomic objectives.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 %, the lowest since 2000, as the labor force swelled by 806,000...

For starters, a rate - hike in March by the U.S. Fed is completely off the table, says Timmer, who expects the central bank will also signal that it intends to hold at this level for some time.

The amendment provided for (i) an immediate reduction in the interest rate margin applicable to the loans outstanding under the Senior Secured Term Loan Facility from (a) 3.50 % to 3.00 % for LIBOR borrowings and (b) 2.50 % to 2.00 % for base rate borrowings, (ii) an immediate lowering of the LIBOR floor for loans outstanding under the Senior Secured Term Loan Facility from 1.25 % to 1.00 % and (iii) the borrowing of incremental term loans, the proceeds of which were used to repay the outstanding loans of lenders that did not consent to the repricing amendment (the Non-Consenting Lenders) in an aggregate principal amount of approximately $ 99.6 million, which is the amount of loans held by such Non-Consenting Lenders on February 8, 2013.

It holds about 100 MSCI USA companies with the highest ESG ratings, determined by the degree to which they reflect socially conscious values with regard to the environment, society, and corporate governance.

However, the annual rate was still being held down by a fall in fruit prices at the beginning of last year.

The fund is referred to as «aggressive» because the composition of the fund does not necessarily reflect the composition of its benchmark index: it may invest in preferred shares issued by Split Share Corporations, for instance, and is not required to hold such classes of shares as floating rate issues, which are expected to underperform for the foreseeable future.

Payrolls rose by 148,000 last month and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent.

These ETFs typically hold bonds issued by companies with lower credit ratings.

Because nominal wage growth for a large fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).

The financial system is in precarious condition barely held together by a patchwork of negative interest rates, currency manipulation, and misguided confidence.

It was pressured down to its low by a rising dollar (DX from 89.88 — 90.20, 2 - week high), which was boosted by a softening yen (107.35 — 107.70, rising US yields) a continued decline in the pound ($ 1.4095 - $ 1.4035, fallout from BOE's Carney comments that they could hold off raising rates next month), and a pullback in the euro ($ 1.2350 - $ 1.2295, miss on German PPI).

Remember that if the S&P 500 P / E ratio could be held constant, prices would by definition grow at the same rate as earnings.

That will be important to private investors, because if the central bank held itself out as a privileged bondholder, effectively passing more risk on to other bond holders, other buyers might undermine the stimulus program by demanding higher interest rates.

Out of 12,031 current ratings on S&P stocks, only 6.9 percent are to sell, vs. 48 percent rated buy and 45 percent rated hold, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Interest rates on government debt, too, were set by the authorities, and there were «captive market» arrangements under which banks and other institutions were required to hold minimum amounts of government debt.

I had expected that longer - term rates would be held somewhat in check by continued strong overseas demand.

The components of the securities held by the Fund will be rated by Chinese credit rating agencies, which may use different criteria and methodology than U.S. entities or international credit rating agencies.

It has done so by introducing three distinct interest rates on reserves: required reserves — which banks must hold — these are paid zero, and are relatively small in quantity; existing reserves — these are now paid 10bps; and a new third tier — a «policy balance» which will be paid minus 10bps.

Again, core inflation is actually above 2 %, inflation held in check by energy, and food and low interest rates up to now.

Ratings by S&P and Fitch apply to the credit quality of a portfolio and are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities of a fund, are subject to change, and do not remove market risks associated with investments in the fund.

Policy rate normalization should not only be borne well by the economy, but it may actually hold a positive impact.

The actual earnings estimates for the underlying holdings are provided by FactSet, First Call, I / B / E / S Consensus, and Reuters and are used to calculate a mean 3 - 5 year EPS growth rate estimate.

Bond funds and bond holdings have the same interest rate, inflation and credit risks that are associated with the underlying bonds owned by the funds.

The Globe and Mail, in a front page article entitled «Consider This» argued that the political «parties should commit to holding the line on EI premium increases» [1] They argued that EI premium rates are going up by 15 cents per $ 100 of insurable earnings for every future year and that this is a significant hit on incomes and pocketbooks.