Sentences with phrase «keep interest rates low until»

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Even among her Fed peers, she stands out as a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenrath.

They also vowed to keep short - term interest rates low, at least until the jobless rate hits 6.5 percent or inflation rises above 2.5 percent.

As long as he doesn't see any consumer price inflation that you're not going to have in a world where people are still coming out of the rice patties to take a job at $ 0.70 an hour, then he's going to keep the interest rates artificially low, totally medicated and rigged, and that will encourage speculators to just keep going, and going, and going until the next bubble.

Whereas in most markets an increase in short - selling puts pressure on the lending market and pushes up the interest rate at which short - sellers can borrow the underlying stock, the ready supply of gold loans from central banks seeking to earn some return on their gold holdings has, until recently, helped to keep lease rates low, generally in the range of 1 — 2 per cent (Graph B3).

The Fed kept its key interest rate at a record low near zero for seven years until December 2015.

«Up until recently, there was pretty overwhelming support by central bankers to keep U.S. interest rates low by buying up bonds in a second round of quantitative easing with the goal of boosting our slow - growing economy.

Our only hope is to wait the multiple years until maturity or keep buying to lessen the increasing yield impact to original bond price paid when interest rates were lower.

Make a list of your debts, order them from highest to lowest, pay off the callable debts with the highest interest rates first, and keep working until you're done.

Until now, low interest rates and unemployment have kept Canadian borrowers» debt - servicing requirements manageable.

For the past nearly 10 years, the Federal Reserve and central banks in all the industrialized nations have been managing interest rates to keep them outrageously low until the financial system had a chance to right itself.

Again, I suggest you go with an interest rate lower than what you currently have or else it's not worth the refinancing so if you can not get a rate lower than what you currently have, keep your current loans until there's a better rate.

To further lower interest rates and to encourage confidence needed for economic recovery, the Federal Reserve committed itself to purchasing long - term securities until the job market substantially improved and to keeping short - term interest rates low until unemployment levels declined, so long as inflation remained low (Bernanke 2013; Yellen 2013).