Sentences with phrase «central levels of»

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Before Yellen addressed the Economic Club of Washington, her counterparts in Ottawa released their latest policy statement, in which Canada's central bank said it was keeping its benchmark interest rate at 0.5 %, a quarter - point shy of the lowest level ever.

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, May 1 - Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said on Tuesday that the view of the Canadian economy is quite good despite record levels of household debt, and he was confident the central bank can manage the risk of that debt even as interest rates rise.

Last week, the Bank of Canada governor called elevated debt levels a «side effect» of the central bank's struggle to boost stagnant economic growth.

While the BoJ has argued that central bank asset purchases would not work in the absence of structural reforms, strategists said that high government debt levels will constrain fiscal expansion.

He predicts inflation approaching double - digits by 2020, given the unprecedented levels of monetary stimulus from central banks.

This level is above support near $ 0.93 but a rebound from $ 0.95 is consistent with the way the Dollar Index oscillates around the central midpoint of $ 0.97.

The central bank found that 39 % of respondents said they planned to increase investment over the next 12 months, while 32 % said they expected little change from current levels and 30 % predicted a decline.

The advantages are clear: A help desk can serve as a central point for tracking questions that arrive from different channels, help distribute the workload among agents, set up a portal for customers to contact for clarification of questions and maintain service - level agreements so inquiries can be escalated if unanswered.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

Non-energy exports have climbed out of the massive pit left by the Great Recession, but they are nowhere near the level the central bank's models suggest they should be.

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While Catalonia's regional government mulls an independence declaration this week, there is growing opposition to the vote, which had a 42 percent level of turnout, by the central government in Madrid.

'' (The central bank) can't hold the level of the currency where it is, given that their reserves have been declining.

One day, Reynolds says, a version of InVivo's implant, packed with stem cells or hormones, might help the six million Americans who are chronically paralyzed from SCI and other central nervous system disorders improve their level of functioning.

The Ukrainian central bank said Tuesday that an «unknown virus» was the culprit of attacks leveled against it.

Meanwhile, business owners in the South Atlantic (64 percent) and West South Central (62 percent) said they expected revenue to increase in the next year, the highest level of sales confidence among owners in all U.S. regions.

The euro fell to its lowest level against the dollar in nine years Monday, driven by fears of political turmoil in Greece and hopes for more monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank.

One of the central problems that people have when negotiating is that they get mired in the details of the issue without keeping track of the high - level goal that the negotiation is supposed to achieve.

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.

The central bank has concerns about the ability of households to keep paying down their high levels of debt when interest rates continue their rise, as is widely expected over the coming months.

Creating the right culture and reinforcing the commitment of everyone in the organization to winning the World Series were two of the higher level and very central themes of the conversation.

It felt free to issue such an advisory, the central bank said, in part because it was less worried about those record levels of consumer debt and the housing market, both of which economists have said appear to be moderating.

The continuing highlighting of household imbalances, despite noting that the risks have in fact lessened somewhat in the past six months, suggests the central bank remains worried that with interest rates likely to continue at near emergency low levels, the dangers of something going off the rails intensifies.

The central bank particularly singles out the Toronto condo market, which it notes continues to carry a high level of unsold high - rise units in the pre-construction or under construction phases.

In any other time cries for recession would be very loud and markets would be correcting to reflect the realities of world debt levels and central banks run amuck.

Spooked by a sudden 19 % plunge in the Shanghai Composite Index, regulators halted initial public offerings, suspended trading in shares accounting for 40 % of market capitalization, forced state - owned brokers to promise to buy stocks until the index reached a higher level, mobilized state - controlled funds to purchase equities, and promised unlimited support from the central bank.

High levels of the gas had built up in the structure in the central German town of Rasdorf, then «a static electric charge caused the gas to explode with flashes of flames,» the force said in a statement.

Deputy central bank governor, Zhang Xiaohui, says yuan is close to «market levels» after two days of declines

The policy response by inflation - targeting central banks has been very rapid as the crisis has unfolded, notwithstanding the fact that in some cases, the current level of inflation was above the target range.

The euro, which had already been near its lowest level in 11 years on expectations of action by the central bank, weakened further against the dollar, falling about 1 percent to around $ 1.14, a move that could help European exporters.

Here's why: central banks, due to quantitative easing (QE), have created huge levels of bank reserves.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

He has suggested, of course, that governments and their central banks cooperate to stimulate their national economies without adding to their national debt levels by using some variant of «helicopter money.»

Would this article be published if TSLAs market cap was 1billion instead of ~ 50 billion.Of course not.TSLA is much less a story of innovation and technology and much more one of a stock where rampant speculation resulting from Central bank liquidity has pushed its stock to levels completely unrelated to its prospects as a company.Its silly stock market valuation allows it raise cash to keep the charade going much longer than the economics of its business would ever suggest.

Rob Schultz has won multiple writing awards at the state and national levels and covers an array of topics for the Wisconsin State Journal in south - central and southwestern Wisconsin.

If you're already retired, the central issue is finding a level of spending that will allow you to live comfortably in retirement without exhausting your nest egg too soon.

To sum up, once interest rates reach very low levels, the central bank still has meaningful tools that it can deploy in its pursuit of its inflation target: offering forward guidance to financial markets to enhance policy effectiveness, large - scale asset purchases, funding for credit, and pushing short - term interest rates below zero.

Summers and other secular stagnation supporters argue that the level of interest rates needed to bring the economy back to full capacity is below the effective lower bound for monetary policy, so central banks are powerless to stimulate enough demand to use up excess supply.

If it is a new era of faster growth and new investment opportunities, then the equilibrium real interest rate (the rate at which monetary policy neither boosts nor restrains the economy) would rise, so the central bank would be right to move interest rates towards that level.

Not all such constraints were at the European level: the incoming Blair government of 1997 made its commitment to fiscal prudence a central part of its campaign manifesto.

A top - level committee of the Federal Reserve, the US» central bank, is meeting this week to discuss when it should begin raising interest rates.

Speaking during the City Week conference at London's Guildhall, Jon Nicolaisen, the deputy governor of Norway's central bank, argued that the level of transactions using cash in the Scandinavian country is now so low that it can be considered cashless.

Trust is not dependent on one central authority; it is federated between all users, while, on some level, that may be scary for some who will need to cede control of proprietary systems of checks and balances in favor of an open, transparent approach.

I agree that central bank solvency is superficial unless the government insists on receiving a given level of income from the central bank, and the central bank is trying to meet some fixed price level or inflation target.

According to the policy statement, the central bank indicated that interest rates will continue to remain at present levels for an extended period of time, although they did not mention what the specific timeframe would be.

Central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) use monetary policy tactics, including interest rate moves and increasing or decreasing the monetary supply, to try and influence the level of inflation, stimulate the economy and spur employment.

In the press conference that followed the monetary - policy meeting, the president of Europe's central bank, Mario Draghi, stated that interest rates will remain at current levels well past the end of the bank's asset - purchase program, carried out along with reinvesting principle payments from maturing securities.

Indeed, central banks often set their sights on a Goldilocks level of inflation, for example, 2 % for the US, that is deemed just right to support growth.

Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is in fact the inflation, is really important because the central bank tries to maintain inflation below the target level of 2 %.

Trump also used the event to make claims that women were raped at «levels nobody has ever seen before» as part of their journey north from Central America.