Sentences with phrase «expect interest rate increases»

The majority (75 percent) expect interest rate increases.

Plan sponsors have been questioning bonds, with expected interest rate increases, but the volatility in recent weeks shows why they need bonds,» Greenshields tells PLANADVISER.

Mostly because of the expected interest rate increase later this year (maybe this month!).

To sum up, although it's pretty clear we should expect lower than historical average returns for stocks, there is little evidence for a strong downward force on stock returns due to expected interest rate increases that is anything like the bond situation.

«Looking ahead to 2017, the Seattle market will continue to perform well, even with the expected interest rate increase,» stated OB Jacobi, president of Windermere Real Estate.

Not exact matches

The Federal Reserve expects to increase interest rates three times this year.

With an increase in interest rates looming in the United States and an expected economic slowdown, an increasing number of investment banks are expecting the city's home prices to come under downward pressure.

Federal Reserve officials followed through on an expected interest - rate increase and raised their forecast for economic growth in 2018, even as they stuck with a projection for three hikes in the coming year.

The country has been hit particularly hard by fund outflows as it's seen as vulnerable to an expected U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate increase.

But this amount will increase as interest rates begin to rise — which they're expected to do as the federal funds rate increases.

The Federal Reserve appears to be ready to increase interest rates sooner than many economists were expecting, said Alan Krueger, former chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

But concerns the Fed may increase interest rates sooner than expected following last week's strong jobs report are starting to creep into the market.

The Federal Reserve is also due to meet this week, and while no rate hike in benchmark U.S. interest rates is expected, investors will look for clues on the future pace of increases.

The rise in the annual inflation measures reported by the Commerce Department on Monday was anticipated by economists and Fed officials and is not expected to alter the U.S. central bank's gradual pace of interest rate increases.

The more consequential reforms — such as introducing market - based interest rates, reducing excess capacity, subjecting state - owned enterprises to increased competition and financial discipline, enforcing strict environmental laws, and raising prices of natural resources — are expected to depress growth.

«Beyond the near - term, a return to a more cautious communication strategy and pace of interest rate increases is expected in light of the headwinds facing Canada,» including slow inflation growth, Toronto - Dominion Bank Senior Economist Brian DePratto said in a research note.

Treasury yields rise on Tuesday as traders position themselves ahead of the conclusion of a two - day Federal Reserve meeting commencing Tuesday, that is expected to reveal an upbeat outlook for the economy and culminate in the sixth interest - rate increase since December 2015.

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.

The public debt charges ratio is expected to increase, attributable to the impact of higher interest rates and an increase in the stock of debt.

If the economy continues to heat up and inflation rises, that might spur the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates faster than expected.

The downside is that the interest rate on a HELOC is variable and often tracks any movement in the federal funds rate, which is expected to increase up to three more times after this week's quarter - point hike.

The initial interest rate on a floating - rate security may be lower than that of a fixed - rate security of the same maturity because investors expect to receive additional income due to future increases in the floating security's underlying reference rate.

Investors are likely skittish because the prospect of increased inflation may force the Fed to raise interest rates faster than expected.

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.

The Institute expects funding ratios to improve as interest rates increase, leading more and more plan sponsors to consider buy - outs in the next few years.»

Some increase in prices was to be expected given the current level of interest rates.

While it decided not to, the Fed did say it expected «further gradual» rate increases would be justified — and there's broad consensus that it will raise rates (which can affect the amount banks charge borrowers, as well as interest paid on bonds) at least three times this year.

The rise in the annual inflation gauges reported by the Commerce Department was anticipated by economists and Fed officials and is not expected to alter the US central bank's gradual pace of interest rate increases.

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.

The Fed left interest rates unchanged, but officials said they expect one more increase in short - term rates this year.

While CBO projects higher projections for wages and taxable corporate profits will boost revenues by about $ 195 billion over the next decade, it also expects changes in interest rates and inflation will increase spending by $ 302 billion over the same period.

The investment manager generally will increase the exposure of the Fund to interest rate risk in environments where the return expected to be derived from that risk is high, and generally will reduce exposure to interest rate risk when the return expected to be derived from that risk is unfavorable.

While the Federal Reserve decided in December to increase short - term interest rates, that hasn't yet translated into significant increases in deposit rates paid out by banks on safe, federally insured deposits — the kind of accounts consumers might want to use for an emergency fund or for parking cash they expect to use in the next month or two.

It's hard to say, but certainly in a scenario where our government attempts to make up for the sins of over borrowing by creating inflation, we should expect interest rates to increase enough to hurt.

If you borrow too much or if interest rates increase more than you expected, your monthly HELOC payment could grow beyond your ability to pay.

I continue to expect that we will gradually increase our exposure to inflation - protected securities and commodities on substantial weakness in these areas, but as inflation pressures are most likely still several years away, our primary concern here is with fresh credit weakness, and that concern still translates into a moderate exposure to interest rate fluctuations.

The Fed recently raised its key interest rate by 0.25 % and signaled that more increases should be expected in 2017.

Of the 15 officials offering forecasts on interest rate increases over the balance of 2018, seven expect three or more additional rate hikes while eight are calling for two or fewer.

While such a rate of expansion will clearly not be sustainable in the longer run, there is little sign at this stage that the appetite for borrowing has been restrained by the recent increases in interest rates, even though the higher debt burden of households might be expected to make them more responsive to interest rate changes.

We expect the Fed to continue increasing interest rates throughout 2018.

The tides have changed after the Fed began raising the interest rate (1.75 percent currently), which is expected to increase to 3.75 percent by 2020, the analyst notes.

U.S. government bond yields and the dollar rose, while U.S. stocks fell on Sept. 20 after the Federal Reserve signalled it still expects to increase interest rates one more time by the end of the year despite a recent bout of low inflation.

This means they expect to see a gradual increase in mortgage interest rates over the coming months.

But in the current situation, where nominal interest rates are constrained because they can't go below zero, a small increase in expected inflation could be helpful.

Floating - rate securities The initial interest rate on a floating - rate security may be lower than that of a fixed - rate security of the same maturity because investors expect to receive additional income due to future increases in the floating security's underlying reference rate.

We think it's realistic to expect further gains in global stocks and modest interest rate increases, along with more volatility.

An increased short - term rate is expected to send interest rates higher across the spectrum.

As the European Central Bank's discussions on how to wind down its quantitative easing program continued — ahead of a formal announcement expected at the end of October — policymakers were careful to emphasize their view that it remained too early to contemplate any increase in interest rates.

Officials also expect interest rates to tread higher with at least two increases in 2019 and 2020 correspondingly, bringing the federal funds rate to 3.375 percent effectively, higher than the 3 - percent equilibrium rate, as indicated by the dots.

There will likely be some softening in the market as interest rates continue to increase, as expected, and valuations continue to mature.