Sentences with phrase «gradual policy tightening»

The Fed raised policy rate levels by a quarter point at its mid-March meeting, and the U.S. economy has achieved sufficient levels of unemployment and inflation to encourage further gradual policy tightening this year and into next.

The Federal Reserve, long hesitant to raise U.S. interest rates, increasingly faces risks if it waits too much longer so a gradual policy tightening is likely appropriate, a top Fed official said on Friday.

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In particular, to the extent that the effect on inflation of further gradual tightening in labor market conditions is likely to be moderate and gradual, the case to tighten policy preemptively is less compelling.

Potenza: I think the health of the economy supports a continuation of the Fed's plan to tighten monetary policy, though I believe it will be a gradual process.

Now consider that we have a gradual and thoughtful Fed policy of tightening while we also have what was a predictable and measurable path of fiscal easing.

The IMF said in October it expected Canada to consider raising rates, or a «gradual tightening» of monetary policy, in late 2014.

While the latest jobs data may be decisive in convincing Fed policymakers to begin normalizing monetary policy, lingering softness in some parts of the US economy means that policy tightening should, as Janet Yellen put it, proceed at a «gradual and measured pace.»

Although bond yields have already started to rise in recent months in anticipation of a reduction of monetary stimulus in the US, we expect future increases to be moderate in the face of what is likely to be a gradual pace of policy tightening by both the US and Canadian central banks.