Sentences with phrase «central targets for»

Schools will benefit by using the framework by reducing property costs, releasing unwanted property assets, identifying savings and opportunities to generate income from land and buildings, as well as meet central targets for reduced property occupancy.

«This new approach to policing builds on changes also starting today to slash red tape and reduce central targets for police - freeing them up to spend more time on local priorities and tackling serious crimes.»

That set a central target for emissions cuts by industrialized countries and then shared them out among about 40 nations.

Not exact matches

The Federal Reserve's inflation target is expected to remain out of reach in 2018, leaving the central bank disappointed for yet another year, Swiss bank UBS said Tuesday.

Any central server containing such a large repository of information naturally becomes a target for hackers.

That would create time and space for people like me, Gordon, Stanford, Moffatt and others to harass the House Finance Committee into doing its job and conducting hearings on the central bank's target.

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

As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

The central bank kept its inflation forecast for this year at 2.7 percent but said that some of its monetary policy committee members «moved a little closer» to their limits for tolerating an overshoot in the bank's inflation target.

For a couple of decades, most central bankers thought that all they had to do to engineer a stable economy was hit their inflation targets.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

The bulk of research scientists working on Alzheimer's have long believed that a buildup of amyloid «plaques» is central to the disease's development — and that therefore targeting this protein is the best chance for a cure.

Nevertheless, when making interest rate policy in early March, BoC governor Mark Carney overlooked rising pressures on inflation and left the central bank's target for Canada's overnight rate at 1 %.

The central bank uses that rate as a way to keep the rates for overnight interbank borrowing from going beyond its target range, relying on reverse repo operations to set the floor.

Lacker said he was concerned the economy could heat up enough for inflation to get above the Fed's 2 percent target, hurting the central bank's credibility.

The question is whether this will translate to a push for euro zone inflation towards the European Central Bank target of just below two percent.

Analysts said the use of the word «symmetric» suggests that the Fed may allow inflation to run above its 2 percent target, a stance that would limit the need for the central bank to embark on a more aggressive path of monetary tightening in response to recent rises in inflation.

Everything was fine after the central bank announced that it had decided to leave its benchmark interest rate at 0.5 %, while stating that it had cut its outlook for economic growth and indicating that it would take longer to achieve its inflation target.

He breaks down his $ 10,000 / oz price target for gold, saying that some central banks may have to resort to the gold standard to restore confidence in the markets.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen has said the central bank could boost its fed funds target rate for the first time in nine years sometime this year.

The inflation wars of the 1970s and 1980s led to a broad consensus on two fronts among academics and policymakers: First, central banks are responsible and accountable for price stability, which was often acknowledged through the formal adoption of an inflation targeting framework.

First, the most direct attack on low r - star would be for central banks to pursue a somewhat higher inflation target.

Mr. Leissner, who is married to the American fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons, left Goldman in January after the firm found a letter that Mr. Leissner wrote, on Goldman letterhead, vouching for Jho Low, a close associate of the Malaysian prime minister and a central target of various government investigations.

In saying the Fed expected «moderate» economic growth, «additional strengthening in the labor market» and inflation rising toward the central bank's annual 2 % target, Yellen appeared to be preparing financial markets for a potential rate hike after the central bank's Sept. 20 - 21 meeting.

A target for NGDP growth (ie, growth in cash income) copes better with cheap imports, which boost growth, but depress prices, pulling today's central banks in two directions at once.

Ball, Mankiw and Reis (2003) argue that a price - level target rather than an inflation - rate target should be the optimal goal for a central bank.

The recognition that growth / employment outcomes were an important consideration for the central bank was initially seen as setting the RBA apart from other inflation - targeting central banks where the rhetoric (at least) reinforced the primacy of price stability.

The central scenario for the Australian economy is a positive one, with growth over the next couple of years at, or above, average, a relatively strong labour market, and inflation consistent with the medium - term target.

In October, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested there might be some benefit in allowing inflation to exceed the central bank's target rate of 2 percent before another hike is considered, which is good news for gold.

BoJ policy remains one of the fundamental pillars underpinning USD - JPY, with the central bank last Friday saying that while momentum for achieving its 2 % inflation target has been maintained, it «lacks steam.»

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.

We expect modest upside in eurozone prices but share the European Central Bank's (ECB's) outlook for inflation stuck below target at least through 2019.

Economic data has also come back on the radar of investors who are contending with the potential for inflation to hit the Fed's 2 % target range, raising the risk of the central bank leaning toward a more aggressive hiking trajectory.

So, it seems to me the fed was reacting to desired demand for currency, desired demand for central bank reserves, and required demand for central bank reserves while keeping the fed funds rate on target.

«The expected fiscal consolidation and the subdued nature of the recovery are putting in place the conditions for the central bank to resume, in due course, monetary policy easing in a manner consistent with the 4 percent inflation target.

As its defenders point out, it will be difficult for the U.S. government to completely stamp out Bitcoin use, since there is no central repository for the currency and no central authority that can be targeted (there is a FAQ with some responses to popular misconceptions about Bitcoin, including the central authority question).

Greece is already managing to beat some of its deficit - reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show that its central budget deficit for the first two months of 2012 had shrunk by more than half compared with the same period last year.

This means that there is no central database for hackers to target.

The Fed's policy statement acknowledged inflation was heading toward the central bank's annual 2 % target, with the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the personal - consumption expenditures index for March, rising to a 12 - month rate of 2 % for the first time in a year.

However resilient the US economy, the slowdown being experienced in Asia and Latin America may force the Fed to lower its growth outlook (in June, the central bank announced a reduction in its so - called «central tendency for growth» through 2017) and could dent confidence that inflation will accelerate toward the Fed's target within a reasonable time frame.

The Fed began raising rates in December 2016 amid expectations for inflation to reach its target — and the central bank expects more rate hikes to come.

Clarendon, which had a portfolio comprising 12 centres in London and the South East prior to this deal, has been targeting the central London market for some time.

Consumer prices in the euro zone held steady for a third straight month in July, just above the European Central Bank's annual target rate, official data showed.

Since 1991, the Government and the Bank of Canada have jointly agreed that the central objective of monetary policy should be for the Bank of Canada to target an inflation rate of 2 percent.

Because it directly reflects the Fed's two central concerns — price stability and real economic performance — nominal G.D.P. is a simple and sensible target for long after the economy recovers.

Conversely, an unanticipated overshoot on inflation in Europe and Japan, where expectations are still very low relative to central bank targets and deflation, could turn out to be a positive for stock markets.

The U.S. Federal Reserve, like many other central banks, has specific targets for these objectives.

By the mid 1990s, then, the consensus seemed to be that the right regime was some sort of inflation target agreed between a government and the central bank (if not set out in legislation), operational independence for the central bank in pursuing the target, and a system of communication and accountability.

The Bank of Japan raised the target for bank reserves held at the central bank in May to ¥ 27 — 30 trillion from ¥ 22 — 27 trillion.

Fed's Williams says considering raising or replacing 2 % inflation target; reiterates need for fiscal policies; says central banks should target nominal GDP not inflation (More dovish than he has been as he discusses removing the 2 % inflation target, suggesting the Fed is content with overshooting this target to drive growth)