Sentences with phrase «holds rates down»

It's not jus the Fed that's been holding rates down for the past several years.

Just to throw another log on the interest rates will stay lower longer than most expect fire, Niels Jensen over at Absolute Return Partners has another set of issues that will hold rates down in his latest piece called The Burden of Low Interest Rates: The certeris paribus enigma (Registration may be required):

Under a President Hillary Clinton, I expected interest rates to stay low, due to continued central - bank activity aimed at holding rates down.

Simply put, this means insurers charge low risk policy holders more than they should, in order to hold rates down for higher risk policies.

Other states, like North Carolina, artificially hold rates down to unsustainable levels, which makes it difficult to get insurance there.

In addition, the utility serving this area is not collecting any stranded costs, which has also held rates down.»

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His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

Emphasize your strategy for holding down your cash - burn rate, and spell out exactly what you expect your costs to be for the first year or two.

The number of Buy ratings on the stock — four compared with five Holds, according to data from Bloomberg — shows analysts have confidence in finances down the road, while others would rather wait and see if Cott can move past its erratic history.

«Pension plans since the financial crisis have been in pretty rough shape because interest rates were held down by all the — I won't call it manipulation — but all the activities by the central banks to keep interest rates low and to spread growth,» he says.

Though all measures of inflation were coming down as summer turned to fall and the economy clearly was slowing following a July brush with $ 4 - a-gallon gasoline, the FOMC decided to hold the fed funds rate at 2 %, concluding that «the downside risks to growth and the upside risks to inflation are both of significant concern to the committee.»

These actions include the deliberate attempt to hold down interest rates to below inflation.

However, the annual rate was still being held down by a fall in fruit prices at the beginning of last year.

Accordingly, with the economy expected to pick up and the unemployment rate to come down gradually as the mining investment transition came to an end, the Board judged it appropriate to hold the cash rate at 1.5 per cent.

Today's biggest bubble in safe assets, however, is the one in Treasury bonds, which is a direct consequence of the Fed's policy of holding interest rates down at abnormally low levels.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

The NAV (net asset value) of a bond fund will move up or down based on a number of factors such as changes in interest rates, credit quality, and currency values (for international bonds) for the different bond holdings in the fund.

So far the old «rates up, bond prices down» axiom seems to be holding.

It was pressured down to its low by a rising dollar (DX from 89.88 — 90.20, 2 - week high), which was boosted by a softening yen (107.35 — 107.70, rising US yields) a continued decline in the pound ($ 1.4095 - $ 1.4035, fallout from BOE's Carney comments that they could hold off raising rates next month), and a pullback in the euro ($ 1.2350 - $ 1.2295, miss on German PPI).

Clockwise from top left: Sean Hannity purchases raise concerns about LLCs, SL Green founder and chairman steps down (Credit: Steve Friedman), Hillary Clinton asks RE firms to support Gateway (Credit: Gage Skidmore) and Fed holds interest rates steady.

Fiscal support started strong both here and in Europe, as did (see second figure) monetary policy (the negative numbers reflect the Fed's lowering and holding down the Fed funds rate).

Iceland and Greenland have approached the company to try to persuade it to build mining operations in their countries which offer «similar power rates, along with tax breaks and incentives... [p] lus, the usually low temperatures there hold down the costs of cooling high - powered computers.»

In the mainstream narrative, the Fed has been artificially holding interest rates down to stimulate the economy, and soon it will have to raise rates to more normal levels.

This is a major factor holding down its unemployment rate to «just» 15 per cent today.

Certianly an argument could be made that international money is comming to north america holding down long rates.

We have already seen significant flows of global assets into US Treasuries this year, and in doing so, the level of long - term interest rates is being held down.

Some type of lesser measure by the Fed, such as lengthening the duration of its balance sheet holdings to drive down long - term interest rates, seems to have better odds of being implemented.

For the past couple of years, underlying inflation has been held down by the lagged effects of the exchange rate appreciation that took place during 2002 and 2003, but the maximum impact from that source has now passed.

The increase in the CPI over the latest year, at 1.7 per cent, has been held down by the effects of the health insurance rebate introduced in early 1999, which will cease to affect the measured inflation rate early in 2000.

Strong profitability, low interest rates and a debt burden well below historical peaks have all tended to hold down the interest burden of the corporate sector: as a share of gross operating surplus, net interest paid by the corporate sector remains well below historical averages.

He explains that there are two sides to holding down the interest rate, a positive and a negative side.

Long - term rates are being held down by structural factors including plentiful global savings, providing a favorable backdrop for equities.

The improving U.S. outlook is already pushing up some lending rates, and should eventually reduce the need for central banks in the United States and Canada to hold down short - term interest rates to spur the economy.

The FOMC's March minutes said as much: «A number of participants judged that the headwinds restraining growth and holding down the neutral rate of interest were likely to subside only slowly.

In the fourth quarter as a whole, industrial production jumped 8.2 % at an annual rate «after being held down in the third quarter by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,» the Fed said.

Central banks would counter that they had little choice but to pursue these actions and that, in any event, there are likely to have been some real factors at work in holding down real interest rates.

By itself, this below - average spread might normally be taken to imply slightly tighter - than - average conditions, although a more likely interpretation is that bond yields have been held down by offshore bond - market developments reflecting expectations that short - term interest rates around the world will remain below average for some time.

It is observed that lower rates mean lower borrowing costs or lower costs of drawing down liquid asset holding making the purchase of capital goods more attractive.

The favourable near - term outlook for inflation is being underpinned by continued help from the exchange rate in holding down import prices.

The higher exchange rate will hold down inflation in the short term, though this effect will eventually wear off.

At the same time, the overall inflation rate is being held down by the gradual pass - through of the exchange rate appreciation, with prices of tradable items in the CPI declining slightly in recent quarters.

For some time, underlying CPI inflation has been held down by the lagged effects of the exchange rate appreciation that took place during 2002 and 2003, while domestically sourced inflation has been higher.

The increased demand to hold the bank's liabilities (i.e., the falling demand for its reserves), is a form of savings that drives down the natural rate of interest.

Economist Lacy Hunt of Hoisington Investment Management thinks that big debts and weak demand will hold down interest rates for years.

At any rate, we at Hopkins hold that official psychiatry has good evidence to argue against this kind of treatment and should begin to close down the practice everywhere.

Many of you will thumb me down for dropping Rambo but i rate Wilshere above Rambo, all he has to do is stop holding onto the ball for more than 3 seconds and he will be fine.

Anyone who has followed Danny Welbeck's Manchester United career will be aware of the fact that Danny is lethal playing down the left - hand side and can also provide more work - rate in that area of the pitch, while Olivier can effectively hold the ball up upfront.

So let's list down the attributes: Finishing Heading Holding the ball Linkup Play First Touch Work rate Team before Self Tracking back to defend

Washington State ran just 51 plays all game in a 19 - 6 loss to the Beavers, primarily because the offense couldn't hold onto the ball — turnovers and a poor third - down conversion rate (created by poor first and second downs, of course) doomed Mike Leach's Cougars.

When you try those triangles without someone to hold off a defender with his back to goal your success rate goes way down.