Sentences with phrase «earlier rate hikes»

A large portion of the spread compression happened in reaction to two events: the Fed's decision to begin winding down its large - scale asset - purchase program known as quantitative easing on Dec. 18, and Janet Yellen's first meeting as Fed chair on March 19, which coincided with the release of forecasts by Fed officials who anticipated earlier rate hikes than before.

I forecast the earliest rate hike would be in December 2016.

President Plosser's comments were echoed by Kansas City Fed President George (another policymaker who favors earlier rate hike).

Not exact matches

Adams says the last time Ontario experienced such rate hikes was after Darlington Nuclear Generating Station's four reactors entered service in the early 1990s massively over budget.

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.

There were, among others, the debt ceiling standoff - cum - rating downgrade of 2011 and the fiscal cliff scare of late 2012, followed by awfully - timed tax hikes and spending cuts earlier this year.

Although the 25 basis point lift was in line with expectations, markets took some time to digest the news that three rate hikes — not two, as was earlier expected — were likely to happen in 2017.

The Fed is contemplating an interest rate hike as early as mid-year.

Earlier in the session, markets were confident about rate hikes in the coming months and digested euro zone inflation data showing the slowdown was lesser - than - expected.

Christina Kramer, CIBC's group head of personal and small business banking for Canada, said it is too early to gauge the extent of the impact of the mortgage underwriting rules, as well as the January interest rate hike.

«Given the ECB's track record of reacting only very gradually, we continue to see an end to QE in December and a first rate hike in June 2019, but the likelihood of an earlier normalization has logically increased,» Annenkov added.

Odds of a Fed rate hike were about 30 percent for June on Friday, from just 4 percent the week earlier, according to futures markets.

Comments from several U.S. Federal Reserve officials, as well as the April meeting minutes, sent clear signals to the market earlier this month that a June interest rate hike could be on the cards.

But now, just when Westergren thought he'd finally moved Pandora into safe territory, he's facing his biggest battle yet: steep hikes in music royalty rates that were announced earlier this year.

The Fed's monetary policy statement in July contained upbeat language that appeared to open the door to a rate hike as early as its next meeting in September.

Stronger U.S. jobs data fueled speculation earlier this month of more Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hikes.

The Federal Reserve's first interest rate hike in a decade is expected as early as this fall, an action with far - reaching implications for every corner of the world economy — from your mortgage rate to emerging - market trade.

The other advantage of corporate bond ETFs is that they will not rise as much as Canada treasuries, at least in the early phase of rate hikes.

The European Central Bank hiked rates earlier this month after euro zone inflation rose to 2.7 percent.

Too early, too aggressive — Rate hikes occur too early and too fast, a prospect that may stall recovery and lead to incremental losses of 2 percent for stocks and gains of 7 percent for government bonds

The big worry is that the central bank will speed up its timetable to hike rates earlier than expected.

The prospect for an earlier - than - expected Fed hike pushed interest rates higher last Friday.

But despite two rate hikes and impending balance sheet reduction, the 10 - year yield has moved 15 % lower since early March while the dollar has been weakening — both contrary to many forecasts at the start of 2017.

The country's biggest banks raised their prime rates after the Bank of Canada hiked its overnight lending rate earlier this month by a quarter of a percentage point to 1.25 per cent.

The statistics sent people into a tizzy, ratcheting up expectations for a Fed rate hike as early as December.

I also expected the Fed to initiate liftoff earlier in the year, and not sneak in one, apologetic rate hike in mid-December.

On the release front, the Bank of England maintained interest rates at 0.50 %, but hinted at earlier and larger rate hikes.

As Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.»

I believe both these factors will probably allow the Fed to hike interest rates as early as this summer or fall, a move to merely accommodative conditions that is long overdue.

After the remarks, the pound lost ground versus the dollar and euro, and short - term interest rate futures are now pricing in the less - than - 50 % probability of a rate hike on 10 May, down from 80 % earlier in the week.

Economists quickly updated their forecasts, with some predicting a rate hike by early 2015, or even sooner.

As inflation expectations continue to fall, a 2015 rate hike by the Federal Reserve (Fed) looks increasingly unlikely; even the odds of an early 2016 hike appear to be fading.

Most foresee either two or three additional increases in the Fed's benchmark rate by year's end, coming after an earlier hike in January.

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar fell on Wednesday against its U.S. counterpart after the Bank of Canada held interest rates steady and showed enough caution to dampen expectations for a hike early next year.

It should first be understood that earlier rate - hiking campaigns were always accompanied by quantitative tightening (QT).

Wall Street was rocked earlier this month by fears that higher inflation will force faster interest - rate hikes.

But early last year, worried by soaring household debt levels, it began warning its next move would be a rate hike and that Canadians should plan accordingly.

The dollar, however, failed to decline as weakness in the euro ($ 1.20 to $ 1.1949 further fallout from earlier miss on Eurozone CPI) and the pound ($ 1.3605 - $ 1.3538, further fallout from earlier miss in UK Services PMI, growing doubts UK will hike rates next week) pushed the DX up to 92.67.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen continues to hint that interest rates might be hiked sometime this year, perhaps even as early as September.

Volatility returned to the markets in a big way in early February after inflation data triggered fears of a faster rate - hike cycle by the Federal Reserve.

They said the rate hike and an earlier recent one, «create an unfair burden for Hudson Valley families who rely on the MTA,» said Barrett.

Cuomo was endorsed earlier today by the business lobbying group, which cited his efforts to install a cap on local property tax increases, limits on spending hikes in state budgets and an uptick in the state's credit rating.

As with the wastewater rates, this increase follows an 8 cent per 1,000 gallon rate hike earlier this year over 2016.

«Another rate hike could happen as early as the next Federal Reserve meeting on March 14,» notes Joe Melendez, CEO of ValueInsured in Dallas.

Yesterday, TD announced increases to their fixed - rate mortgages (they'd already hiked up variable rates), while RBC had announced increases earlier in the week.

This is quite a different result than earlier this year, when European bond market bonds sold off in fear that a Fed rate hike would lead to a shift away from European government bond markets to the higher yields and high quality of the US government bond market.

While the Federal Reserve is on track to raise interest rates in early December, Trump's fiscal spending could lift inflation and bolster the case for continued hikes.

An event could be large and continous interest rate hikes of the sort in the early 1990s, massive layoffs by a nearby employer, an oil crisis, national economic slowdown, etc..

In raising interest rates for just the second time in a decade, the Federal Reserve (Fed) earlier this month threw a bit of a wrench into expectations about further rate hikes.

There could be an interest rate hike coming as early as next month.