Sentences with phrase «keeping a lid on rates»

We expect interest rates to rise, as U.S. and eurozone monetary policies gradually normalize, though structural factors and further central bank divergence are likely to keep a lid on rates.

However, limited wage growth is keeping a lid on the rate.

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The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

And, as the BlackRock Investment Institute's Jean Boivin noted recently, a range of secular factors is likely to keep a lid on a sharp increase in rates for some time to come.

This policy divergence from the United States may help keep a lid on U.S. rates, at least in the near term.

It also keeps a lid on credit card debt rates, and adjustable - rate loans.

Anyone who looks at nominal rates is not really looking under the hood, and it's the steep decline in real rates that's what's kept a lid on the Dollar, which is at a level that's no different than where it was a couple of years ago.

Since April, the Bank of Canada had been talking about a potential rate increase in the context of an «economic expansion» that failed to achieve the velocity that policy makers expected, keeping a lid on inflation, which the central bank is mandated to contain at an annual rate of about 2 per cent.

Labour will fight the election on a promise to keep income tax rates unchanged and a lid on NI contributions

In an effort to keep a lid on soaring insurance premiums, Kagen's proposal calls for insurance companies to disclose all of their rates.

The average 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage stood at 4.5 % last week, up from 3.6 % last May, when interest rates shot up in reaction to the Federal Reserve's initial indication that it might reduce a bond - buying campaign that was, in part, designed to keep a lid on long - term rates like mortgages.

It's accomplished chiefly by keeping a lid on interest rates, sovereign or otherwise.

Low unemployment, low interest rates and a booming real estate market have kept a lid on insolvency growth in Ontario.

It's difficult for publishers to keep a lid on upcoming titles these days, what with the likes of Superannuation and seemingly innocuous ratings boards outing tiles left, right and center.

The FED is looking to keep a lid on inflation and increase the Federal Fund Rate in about six months.

Balancing this, we will see moderately higher interest rates to thwart inflation, which will help keep a lid on house price increases in most of the country.»

«A significant amount of worldwide excess production capacity will keep a lid on inflationary pressures for some time to come, allowing monetary authorities to keep short - term interest rates at historically low levels and very supportive of housing market activity.

While higher rates might keep a lid on prices it is unlikely to cause them to fall.

The decline in rates is largely due to comments made by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke July 10 that sought to ease market worries that the Fed was about to ease its bond purchasing program, which has long kept a lid on interest rates.