Sentences with phrase «hiking rates at»

Therefore he will continue hiking rates at a measured pace for as long as economic numbers are relatively strong regardless of financial market movements.

«The Fed is signaling it is keeping to the gradual path and not hiking rates at faster pace (at least for now),» Alvin Liew, senior economist for UOB in Singapore, said in a note.

With inflationary pressures already building, the price increases could cause the economy to overheat and the Federal Reserve to hike rates at a fast pace.

A lower target would almost certainly give the Fed the confidence to quickly hike rates at the economy's current level of production.

The Fed did, as expected, hike rates at their last meeting.

The Federal Reserve is likely to hike rates at their upcoming meeting and we look into what that may mean for stocks and markets overall.

Even if the Fed were to hike rates at its June or July Federal Open Market Committee meeting, its opportunities to tighten appear limited.

Not exact matches

The recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

So - called «dollar - sphere» markets have monetary policy that is at least partly outsourced to the Fed, and by extension are vulnerable to rate hikes.

Investors awaited the U.S. Federal Reserve's remarks from its two - day meeting at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) for clues about the outlook for interest rate hikes.

«Strong economic momentum and accelerating price and wage gains should lead to three more Fed rate hikes this year,» Kathy Bostjancic, head of U.S. macro investor services at Oxford Economics USA, wrote in response to the survey.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

Markets do not expect a change in interest rates from the Federal Reserve at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday, though analysts will be watching for any change in language and indications that a June hike is likely.

Should MBS want to have an economic recovery and at the same time hike rates, «then he is going to have to spend more from the public purse,» Chevenix said.

The National Park Service is enacting rate hikes at parks that charge an entrance fee, effective June 1.

If you invest at all in stocks and bonds, even if you just have a 401 (k), this Fed rate hike will be important to you and your portfolio.

If the Bank of Canada hikes two more times this year, some households could be renewing at a rate 75 basis points higher than what they previously paid, according to Rob McLister, CEO of intelliMortgage Inc. in Toronto.

Rate hikes in the U.S. cause the greenback to appreciate against the loonie, which currently stands at around US77 cents.

Beata Caranci, chief economist at TD Bank, doubts another rate hike in the U.S. would have much of an impact on bond yields in Canada.

Gorman is hoping the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates at least three times next year: «We need to get back to normal»

Traders are still pricing in two rate hikes this year, based on the price of Fed funds futures contracts traded at CME Group (cme) Chicago Board of Trade.

European bourses closed higher on Wednesday after Fed Chair Janet Yellen hinted at a possible rate hike next month.

«As QE (quantitative easing) moves towards the end, markets focus more on rate hikes,» Ricardo Garcia, chief euro zone economist at UBS, said when asked why the euro is set to appreciate over the coming months.

The Anthem Blue Cross headquarters is seen after the health insurer began informing its individual policyholders of rate hikes up to 39 % to take effect at the beginning of March, on Feb. 9, 2010 in Woodland Hills, California.

«The fact that they stuck with the three rate - hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of people have been talking about for next year,» said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed income at RBC Wealth Management.

And it also means that bond market traders believe we're likely to see at least a quarter point hike in interest rates by the middle of next year.

The dollar / yen is likely to fall unless there are clearer signs of a rate hike by the Fed,» said Shinichiro Kadota, senior FX and rates strategist at Barclays Securities Japan.

«The Fed is seriously considering a December rate hike,» Harm Bandholz, an economist at UniCredit in New York, told Reuters.

Elsewhere, the market is also expecting a possible interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve at its December meeting.

The Fed lifted rates from near zero last December — the first rate hike in nearly a decade — but has since stood pat given an economic slump at home and volatile markets overseas.

The Fed raised interest rates last December for the first time in nearly a decade, and at that time projected four more hikes in 2016.

«The market started reacting to the suggestion that the path [of rate hikes] could be shifting higher, based on all the positives mentioned by Powell,» said George Goncalves, head of fixed income strategy at Nomura.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

«The markets at the moment really want to see a rate hike by the central bank, as a sign that it is still a credible institution; that it's taking its inflation targeting somewhat seriously and that it is prepared to stand up to government pressure,» Capital Economics senior emerging markets economist William Jackson said.

The 2.9 % rise in December average hourly earnings «might put a little bit more pressure on the Fed to accelerate the path [of interest rate hikes], but I really don't think it's going to be that significant a push,» said Dan North, chief economist at Euler Hermes North America.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Britain's housing market continued to lose momentum data showed too, with mortgage approvals at their weakest in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first interest rate hike in a decade.

Markets anticipate at least two more interest rate hikes this year after an increase in March, according to CME Group fed funds futures.

But since then the Fed has done little beyond generate a strong sense of déjà vu: At press time, Fed policymakers were strongly hinting they would implement another December rate hike.

Wall Street stock futures are higher and the dollar at a five - month low, as the Federal Reserve's partial retreat from its rate - hike intentions boosts confidence for the world economic outlook and leads to the unwinding of some of the «safe haven» flows into the U.S. currency over recent months.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

This partly reflects the fall back in the U.S. dollar on the back of rate hike delays, which has allowed commodity prices, notably oil, to rebound,» said Shane Oliver, head of Investment Strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital.

NEW YORK / SAN FRANCISCO, April 5 - Janet Yellen cashed in with her first paid visit to Wall Street since stepping down as Federal Reserve chair, discussing rate hikes and U.S. President Donald Trump at events on Monday that included a dinner for 40 at a CEO's Manhattan penthouse.

Analysts at the investment bank raised their rating on eBay to overweight all the way from underweight — skipping equal weight — and hiked their price target to $ 58 a share from $ 36.

But it should be paying a brand - name product rate of at least 23.1 percent, as well as an extra rebate because it has hiked the price of the device faster than the rate of inflation, according to the letter from acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt to the Senate Finance Committee ranking member Wyden.

The committee approved a quarter - point hike at the meeting, putting the benchmark funds rate at a range of 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent.

The price of gold has bounced after each of the five previous U.S. rate hikes and is expected to again, said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo...

In his first speech on the economy since taking over at the Federal Reserve, Chairman Jerome Powell said Friday that growth is running at a solid pace and continued gradual rate hikes will be necessary.

Markets expect at least two more rate hikes before the year ends.

Though the Fed has been in a slow rate - hiking pace since December 2015 — the December 2017 increase was the fifth in the current cycle — its benchmark funds rate remains targeted at just 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.