Sentences with phrase «economy rating when»

The Tucson has a 23 mpg city / 31 mpg highway fuel economy rating when mated to the six - speed automatic.

That one purportedly revealed the Mustang's EPA fuel economy rating when equipped with a 460 hp V8 and 10 - speed automatic transmission drivetrain at 16 mpg city and 25 mpg highway, which Ford has not yet confirmed.

Not exact matches

«At a time when the global economy is fragile and market sentiment is sensitive, unbalanced and unjustified rating decisions such as Moody's today can initiate damaging self - fulfilling prophecies and certainly strengthen the arguments for tighter regulation of the rating agencies themselves.»

When central banks around the world cut rates after the recession, it was meant to be a temporary measure to help stimulate the global economy.

And then Friedman explicitly says that when the Fed gets to zero rates, «They can buy long - term government securities, and they can keep buying them and providing high - powered money until the high powered money starts getting the economy in an expansion.»

The BoE is expected to keep rates unchanged when it meets Thursday as the British economy continues to prove resilient.

Though the U.S. economy has been performing well and the Federal Reserve has signaled further interest rate hikes, investors have been concerned over when and how this policy will be delivered.

It only keeled over when the Fed was deliberately trying to slow down the economy and had jacked up its rates until they surpassed long - term rates (inversion in the yield curve).

And despite currency movements, not tomention a weak global economy, Canadian employers added 79,100 jobs across all sectors in November (when the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 %).

About the only time interest rates pose a substantial risk of precipitating a crash is when central banks become concerned about overheating in the economy and are willing to provoke a recession to cool things off.

Uncertainty over when and if the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates heightened last week when August's jobs report showed the economy added 50,000 fewer jobs than expected even while the unemployment rate fell to 5.1 %.

The central bank offered a gloomier than expected statement about the global economy when it decided to hold off on raising interest rates.

When our unemployment rate doesn't change, less money is being pumped into the economy — and into our small businesses.

Last year, the central bank sounded an alarm, ranking the expansion of personal credit as the biggest threat to the economy, which is why everyone was shocked when Poloz suddenly cut interest rates in January.

The real funds rate is around zero, and the natural rate is around zero, and historically the Fed has gotten the economy into trouble when the Fed was about two to three percentage points above r *.

The world's largest economy made an important leap toward sustainable recovery in January, when the jobless rate dropped below 9 %.

Since then, a sputtering economy and lackluster inflation have changed Wall Street's perception of when the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee will enact its first hike since taking its funds rate to zero in late 2008.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

Carney - who has never been shy about inflicting «unconventional monetary policies» on the economy and its denizens - went on to slam negative interest rates just when the chief negative - interest - rate perpetrators, let's call them NIRPs, were hoping for a little love and solidarity.

History shows when the benchmark rate for everything in the economy from corporate bond yields to mortgage rates moves by this much, this fast, the stock market struggles in the following months.

When the economy is close to full capacity, the bank hikes its rate to keep inflation from rising above its two per cent ideal target.

And mortgage rates were tied to long - term interest rates, which tend to rise when the economy improves, not necessarily when the Fed increases interest rates.

When the rate of production fell, layoffs followed and the local economy crashed.

This renewed crisis in the Eurozone comes at a time when the European economies appear to be slowing down after a strong first quarter, and despite this, policy interest rate increases by the ECB are expected in the coming months.

When at full capacity, the theory goes, Canada's economy can't grow much beyond its potential — estimated by the central bank at 1.6 per cent — without fuelling price pressures and prompting rate increases.

With the economy picking up steam, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to begin raising a key short - term interest rate when the Federal Open Market Committee concludes a two - day meeting on Dec. 14.

This scenario was part of our thinking at the beginning of last year, when Canada's economy was hit by the collapse in oil prices and we cut our policy interest rate.

Importantly, this future low level of interest rates is not due to easy monetary policy; instead, it is the rate expected to prevail when the economy is at full strength and the stance of monetary policy is neutral.

However following the latest meeting, when the Fed decided to hold rates on rising concerns about the global economy, analysts increasingly expect the central bank to delay a hike until next year.

After all, when a central bank influences the cost of financing through changes in the policy interest rate, its actions affect the economy by changing asset prices, encouraging or discouraging risk taking, and influencing credit flows.

At the same time, Fed officials don't want to raise the rate when the economy is still sluggish and potentially help trigger another downturn.

One additional element I could mention is the prospect of interest - rate liftoff in the U.S.. Although we have no special insight into when this might occur, we have said many times that it would be welcome, for it would be consistent with a more positive outlook for the U.S. economy.

In March 2017, PBoC governor Zhou Xiaochuan spoke at the Boao Forum for Asia in Bangkok, where he discussed the potential for instituting negative interest rates when an economy experiences deflation.

For example, since 1963, when the ECRI Weekly Leading Index growth rate has been below -5 and the ISM Purchasing Managers Index has been below 54, the economy has already been in recession 81 % of the time, and the probability of recession within the next 13 weeks was 86 %.

But the multiplier varies over the economic cycle — higher during recessions or when short - term rates are near zero, and lower when an economy runs near fully capacity.

The U.S. economy and others are «too highly leveraged» to tolerate a federal funds rate above 2 % when inflation is near 2 %, he says.

It is only when credit growth begins to decelerate much more rapidly than nominal GDP growth that we can begin to talk hopefully about China's moving in the right direction, and it is only when credit growth falls permanently below the growth rate of the economy's debt - servicing capacity that China will have adjusted.

The second phase occurred from around mid year, when it became widely expected by the market that the US economy was going to have a soft landing, and that no further increases in US interest rates were likely.

When inflation is thought to be on the rise, the Fed begins to raise rates to slow the economy.

The Chair: Governor, when you talk about the long - term economy, interest rates have been extremely low because of the 2008 recession.

This provides possibly the strongest argument for why policy - makers should be cautious when it comes to raising rates: it's not exactly clear how the Canadian economy will react, since it's all unprecedented.

When the Fed has raised rates to stop inflation as in 1982, it has wanted to slow the economy way down.

He did so again in 2001 after the World Trade Center was attacked, when he led the FOMC to immediately reduce the Fed funds rate from 3.5 percent to 3 percent — and in the months that followed reducing that rate to as low as 1 percent as the economy and stock markets remained sluggish.

The first was from 1980 to» 82, when Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker raised interest rates to crush double - digit inflation and the U.S. economy experienced two closely spaced recessions.

Moreover, if we look at periods when the economy was in an expansion, trend uniformity was negative, and the S&P price / peak - earnings ratio was above its historical average of 14 (it's currently 21), the average total return drops to a -8 % annualized rate.

Ahead of that this morning we have CPI inflation data, fears of low inflation coupled with a contagion from slow growing and even contracting foreign economies is exactly why we believe the FOMC will not remove the «considerable time» phrase in its statement when referring to raising rates.

Typically, the Fed will raise rates when it thinks the economy is firing on all cylinders.

When the Fed raises interest rates next year, before the economy shows any real signs of overheating, let alone recovery, it could trigger another recession.

But what can / should monetary policy do right now, especially when the rate - sensitive segments of the economy, as Holt points out, have been pretty resilient?

And sometimes this seems counterintuitive, because a central bank usually raises rates when an economy is strengthening and lowers them when it's weaker.