Sentences with phrase «driven by interest rates»

At the same time, financials are primarily driven by interest rates and policy decisions.

Also, if it were me, I'd wait for interest rates to increase a bit before I deposited the money, as the future income stream is driven by the interest rates in affect at the time of the contract.

The volatility in NAV is driven by the interest rates going up and down and a resultant change in the NAV.

Investors» appetite for REITs is heavily driven by interest rates, and the recent rise in rates has dented the performance of REITs.

In fact, economists theorize that the long - term movement of free float currencies are driven by interest rate differentials.

Not exact matches

Barely - there interest rates, made possible by unconventional monetary policy since the last recession, have driven investors into dividend - paying products, and that has pushed P / Es higher.

Perth continues to take out the title of Australia's most affordable capital city when it comes to buying houses and apartments, driven by lower property prices and low interest rates, a report released today has found.

Global stocks have pushed to new highs, outdoing previous records set in 2015, driven by strong economic data in the U.S. and comments by the Federal Reserve on the future path of interest rates.

U.S. stock indexes surged Thursday, with the Dow rallying over 400 points, driven higher by reassurances from the Federal Reserve that it won't imminently raise interest rates.

Julia Coronado, a former Fed economist and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, says Powell's greater familiarity with banking and finance than monetary policy makes him more likely to follow the consensus, often driven by staff forecasts, on interest rate policy.

Yields in the $ 14 trillion market for U.S. government debt touched record lows in 2016, driven by years of aggressive central bank intervention in the wake of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis to keep interest rates low to stimulate the economy.

Buoyed by strong corporate balance sheets positioned to drive further M&A, the prospect of solid GDP anchoring steady earnings growth, and a Fed set to raise interest rates while mindful of incoming data, we expect the advancing tide to continue rolling.

The USA Treasury Market is now more driven by rehypothecation than interest rates.

Yet most consumer interest rates are driven by the federal funds rate, which is also considered the central interest rate in U.S. financial markets.

The market selloff started on Friday, largely driven by investor fears about inflation and what that might mean for Federal Reserve action on interest rates.

In general, changes in valuation are driven by shifts in k: changes in interest rates (Rf) drive longer - term trends in valuation multiples, while shocks to valuation multiples are almost always driven by shifts in the risk premium z.]

Over the long - term, market interest rates are driven by economic growth, inflation expectations and other extraneous factors.

In the short - term, market interest rates can be driven by a number of factors including economic data, central bank announcements, financial conditions (including stock and currency markets) and overall sentiment.

An interest - rate hike would aggravate this problem by driving up the exchange rate.

Over the past 30 years, during which earnings growth hasn't been stellar, market values have instead been driven by Federal Reserve - induced low interest rates leading to corporate share repurchase strategies and merger and acquisition activity.

For Canadian bonds, we expect a similar wavelike pattern as for U.S. Treasuries, but with a higher frequency, driven by factors that will alternate between local macro considerations and the pull from how U.S. interest rates evolve.

The franc was driven lower by the -0.75 % Swiss deposit rate along with the widespread expectation for the SNB to remain strongly committed to negative interest rates until after the ECB starts tightening.

This was largely driven by an increase in workers» compensation expense of $ 1.4 billion, resulting from changes in interest rates.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at government bond yields — deficit spending, a weaker U.S. dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.

Driven by falling inflation, real interest rates in Asia are at relatively high levels compared with the US.

Comprehensive loss to shareholders and book value per share were impacted by declines in both our fixed income and equity portfolios, driven by an increase in interest rates and unfavorable movements in the equity markets during the period.

Net investment income increased 7.6 % to $ 108 million, driven by higher short - term interest rates and higher dividend income from equity investments.

They learned their lessons in 2008 with regards to excessive leverage and by and large have very good balance sheets, and so I think yes, they're expensive because part of their sales has been driven by very low interest rates.

The interest rates assigned to home loans are primarily driven by market forces.

Some type of lesser measure by the Fed, such as lengthening the duration of its balance sheet holdings to drive down long - term interest rates, seems to have better odds of being implemented.

Instead, as coupons and maturity payments are linked to inflation, index - linked gilt prices are instead driven much more by changes to inflation expectations, and also the complex interaction between nominal interest rates and those inflation expectations (real interest rates).

Market volatility increased dramatically during the third quarter, driven by global economic softness, interest rate uncertainty and commodity weakness.

According to the Fed's Board of Governors website: «Movements in short - term interest rates [which are partly driven by the aforementioned funds rate] also influence long - term interest rates — such as corporate bonds and residential mortgages...»

His views are partially driven by the fact that in the beginning of the last secular bull market, multiples were low and interest rates were high.

If the whole thing — the rises in stock prices, in corporate earnings, in the housing market, even in job growth — is driven solely by the flood of money, or whether five years of zero - interest rates and trillions of dollars in bond purchases have succeeded at getting a more resilient economic engine for the United States up and running.

Our interest rate outlook is also partly driven by the view that the BoC intentionally wants to lag the Fed in terms of its tightening cycle.

Our view on the interest rate outlook in Canada versus the United States is not driven by a belief that the respective business cycles in both countries will diverge significantly, nor from a marked difference in the level of «neutral» rates between the two economies.

Nominal interest rates are driven by real growth (labor and labor productivity), inflation and the term premium.

In the U.S. more recent policy driven examples include Paul Volcker's decision in 1980 to force the U.S. into a painful recession by elevating U.S. interest rates above 20 %.

While equity market movements are driven largely by the strength of economic growth, fixed income markets hinge on changes in interest rates and inflation.

The Federal Reserve responded by driving up interest rates, which in turn led to mortgage rates in the sustained double digits, up to 16.6 percent in 1981.»

Finally, looser monetary policy implies that the economic situation is not as rosy as many would like to believe, so if the Federal Reserve acts by loosening monetary policy and driving down real interest rates then that sends a message that the economy is in a bad place therefore investors buy gold as a safe haven asset.

Under the current monetary regime, major upward trends in interest rates are not driven by the desire to consume more in the present (the desire to save less) or by rapidly - increasing demand for borrowed money to invest in productive enterprises.

Instead, major upward trends in interest rates are driven primarily by rising inflation expectations, or, to put it more aptly, by declining confidence in money.

A second source of risk would be a further sharp appreciation of the Australian dollar, which might be driven by additional interest rate reductions around the world to combat a weakening global economy.

Interest rates are driven by economic factors that are often unpredictable, and mortgage rates are subject to change every day.

However, bond yields have been mostly driven by US developments, where bond yields appear unusually low against a background of strong growth, rising inflation and increasing short - term interest rates.

This period of stability in housing interest rates suggests that the period of intense competition in the housing market, driven by mortgage managers» quest to raise market share, has run its course, at least for the time being.

However, unlike in the late 1980s, the current increase in the ratio has been mainly driven by the decisions of households to increase their levels of debt, rather than by a significant and unexpected increase in interest rates.