Sentences with phrase «central bank thinks»

The Dutch central bank thinks cryptocurrencies don't pose any threat to the financial system given the fact that it's only a 500 billion - dollar industry.

Yet, if that came to pass, the central bank thinks the damage would be regional, not national.

Lane's comments this week leave little doubt that the central bank thinks it could use some help keeping Canada's economy out of recession.

Another year of ultralow interest rates is one consideration, as the central bank thinks Canada's non-energy exporters are poised to do well as the global economy strengthens.

The good news was the central bank thinks the worst is over.

Here's what Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz wants you to take away from his speech in Whitehorse on June 15: the world is unfolding roughly as the central bank thought it would a month earlier when it published its latest quarterly economic report.

Not exact matches

The central bank made clear that it thinks current readings of inflation are sending false signals.

A central bank governor «is not hired by the government to be a free - wheeling intellectual,» said Vivek Dehejia, an economic professor at Carleton University and a senior fellow in political economy at the IDFC Institute, a think - tank in Mumbai.

Poloz's press conference followed the release of the central bank's December Financial System Review, which concluded that a record household debt burden makes Canada vulnerable to a housing crash, although policy makers see little reason to think that will happen.

Normally, when we think of money — the dollar, the euro, the yuan, whatever — we think of governments, and central banks, and mints printing up paper bills behind fortified walls.

I thought I would return to the subject because there is yet more evidence that the business of central banking is changing.

«Markets are pricing in an 80 - 85 percent chance... I think that's a done deal,» Gorman said, referring to expectations for the central bank's upcoming December meeting.

Others thought my suggestion that the House Finance Committee pay closer attention to monetary policy risked the central bank's independence.

They get preoccupied with all sorts of things — elections, central bank policies, the weather — but nothing has dominated investor thinking as much lately as bond rates and income stocks.

This approach to monetary policy was under assault after the financial crisis, as experts noted the central banks had deluded themselves into thinking that their job had become as simple as keeping inflation at 2 %.

Ask him why the economy sucks despite record - low interest rates, and he'll respond with a question of his own: what do you think would happen if the central bank stopped peddling?

Inflation targeting has dominated the thinking of many western central banks for most of the last two decades.

One line of thinking now is that the central bank may opt to combine the two programs and buy longer - dated bonds more aggressively, then set as its new target the total balance of bond holdings or the size of its balance sheet, the sources said.

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.

Critics of the Fed's optimistic views of the U.S. economy are overlooking one critical element in the central bank's thinking.

Josh Nye, an economist with RBC Economics Research, said it's unlikely metals tariffs on their own would drastically change the central bank's thinking about whether it stays on a rate - hiking path.

As the rest of the market wonders whether the U.S. central bank will enact a rate hike this year, Icahn insisted, «I don't think it matters, because either way there's a problem.»

The second big inadequacy was addressed in Stephen Gordon's piece, when he stated «[w] e used to think that the effective lower bound [on interest rates] was zero, but recent experience in Europe suggests that central banks can actually push interest rates below zero before people stop using banks to hold their money.»

The results are the central bank's so - called dot plot — a visual representation of how many members think rates will hit a given level over the short, medium and longer run.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen said last week she thought the case for a rate hike had strengthened, but many investors have doubts the central bank will raise rates at all this year.

Notable in the latest statement was the Bank of Canada's assessment that financial markets were calming and that the central bank still thinks the global economy will strengthen this year and nBank of Canada's assessment that financial markets were calming and that the central bank still thinks the global economy will strengthen this year and nbank still thinks the global economy will strengthen this year and next.

JAMIE DIMON: Let me start by saying that I think what the Fed did, and some of the other central banks, it worked.

«He'll get the respect of people who don't think the central bank should be kowtowing to Wall Street after every tantrum.»

On the other hand, the same survey showed that 42 percent of the fund managers believe central bank policies will be the biggest driver of the dollar this year, while just 11 percent thought trade issues would be.

«The biggest thing to watch for, however, I think, is the global growth story is picking up, and central banks around the world... they're all trying to do this... dovish hike, one and done,» McDonald said.

STANLEY FISCHER: I think almost every — chair or governor of a central bank anywhere finds himself facing a crisis within two or three years.

All manner of policy agencies, senior political figures, think tanks and the head of the People's Bank of China (China's central bank) have sounded warning bells, and introduced all manner of measures to control lendBank of China (China's central bank) have sounded warning bells, and introduced all manner of measures to control lendbank) have sounded warning bells, and introduced all manner of measures to control lending.

Second, maybe Mr. Poloz actually doesn't think that forward guidance is an effective tool for central banks.

For better or worse, we're still in a world in which market returns are heavily influenced by what central banks are doing, saying and even thinking.

But I think we can safely assume that the Bank would almost certainly have done much the same thing: central banking is not a one - man show, and Mark Carney can't do everything for himself.

By conducting policy in a transparent way and communicating what is important in determining the central bank's reaction function, I think policymakers can strike the best balance between a monetary policy that fully incorporates the complexity of the world as it is, while, at the same time, retaining considerable clarity about how the FOMC is likely to respond to changing circumstances.

To set policy today central banks must work out how they think inflation will respond to falling unemployment, and markets must guess at their thinking.

Deutsche Bank published a report in October outlining exactly how central banks might adopt distributed ledger technology, which too echoed the sentiments of a thought piece penned by St. Louis Fed economist David Andalfatto earlier this year.

Discussing the complacency and complicity of traditional economic models, as taught in universities and adopted by central banks, Michael and Steve take us on a journey from a solar system to a galaxy of thought, taking in the history of economics to solutions for the ongoing global depression.

Oddly, some economists think that helicopter drops are either beyond the capacity of central banks or highly unlikely.

Q: We think of central banks as mostly being in the business of keeping inflation under control.

«It takes time for markets to become comfortable in the sense that they can understand — or think they can understand — what the M.O. of particular central bank leadership is all about,» said Mark Spindel, founder of Potomac River Capital.

We think that everyone in financial services — from banks and traditional payment systems to insurance carriers and exchanges, central counterparty clearinghouses, and settlement systems — should know and care about Bitcoin.

A: No, I think that when interest rates are constrained by the zero bound, it is appropriate for central banks to look, if conditions warrant, for other ways to be expansionary and swapping short term assets for long term assets or what is the equivalent of a liquidity trap, printing money and buying long term assets, can be a reasonable solution.

The members of the central bank apparently think the recent slowdown in price growth is transitory, and that at some point, price pressures will reflect the tightening of the job market.

Minutes from the Fed's June meeting were released earlier on Wednesday, and revealed that about half of the officials thought the central bank could end its stimulus program by the end of the year.

While there's always a risk that the Fed's upcoming conference in Jackson Hole will have a hawkish tone, that's not our expectation and, if anything, our economists think the risk is tilted to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi sounding mildly dovish, given recent strength in the Euro.

I think our board, although unusual amongst other boards, there are very few if any other central banks that have this kind of a board, but in our country, for this kind of filter to be applied to the decision process, I think adds to the credibility, to the legitimacy that the whole process has in the eyes of ordinary people and that's very important.

However, more formally (and democratically), the Statement on the Conduct of Monetary Policy requires that the Governor and other senior central bank officers appear before a parliamentary committee twice a year to explain their thinking and actions on monetary policy.

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