Sentences with phrase «kept its policy rate»

The decision Tuesday was the 18th consecutive time Carney has kept the policy rate at one per cent, comprising over two years, the longest stretch of stability since the 1950s.

Before then, it had kept its policy rate at a record low near zero for seven years in an effort to help the country recover from the deepest recession since the 1930s.

The Bank of Canada is likely to keep its policy rates on hold tomorrow, noted TD Economics in a research report.

Last week, the central bank in Chile chose to keep its policy rates at 5 percent.

Markets also expect the monetary authorities in the euro area and Japan to keep policy rates at their current low levels for some time.

This increases the chances that the ECB will keep buying government bonds on a huge scale beyond December 2017 and it increases the likelihood that the ECB will keep its policy rate at their current well beyond 2018.»

Investment advisory firm, InvestCorp in its September 2016 economic report, also said the MPC decision to keep the policy rate at 26 percent should help guide the market along the path of macro stability as experienced so far this year.

He wrote: «At one end of the spectrum, the U.S. Federal Reserve has just started its interest rate normalization process after seven years of keeping its policy rate near zero.

«By keeping its policy rate at one per cent, the Bank of Canada has created one of the most stable and favourable and borrowing environments for potential homeowners in decades,» Aggarwal said.

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One of the best steps to take to keep the policy rate at a low cost is to avoid accidents at all costs.

For instance, the Fed kept its policy rate near zero for the past seven years, the European Central Bank cut its rate to negative 0.3 per cent and Canada cut its rate in late 2016.

Not exact matches

Before Yellen addressed the Economic Club of Washington, her counterparts in Ottawa released their latest policy statement, in which Canada's central bank said it was keeping its benchmark interest rate at 0.5 %, a quarter - point shy of the lowest level ever.

Officials from the government shared their concerns about higher interest rates with a Bloomberg reporter, violating the convention of keeping politics out of the day - to - day handling of monetary policy.

But with the economy growing so much faster than projected, policy makers may well feel compelled to advance their plans to raise interest rates in order to keep up.

The benchmark 10 - year Treasury note fell from a more than four - year high to below 3 percent after the European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged and reaffirmed its stimulative monetary policy stance.

In the category of communications policy, we also extended our estimate of how long we expect to keep the short - term interest rate at exceptionally low levels to at least mid-2015.

Shirakawa's doubts kept the BOJ firmly focused on interest rates, rather than the size of its balance sheet, even after it had driven its policy rate down close to zero after the global financial crisis.

Even though our activities are likely to result in a lower national debt over the long term, I sometimes hear the complaint that the Federal Reserve is enabling bad fiscal policy by keeping interest rates very low and thereby making it cheaper for the federal government to borrow.

The Fed under Yellen has carefully stripped its policy statement of most future - oriented promises to keep rates low, along with ending crisis - era asset purchase programs.

«Were the FOMC to delay increases in the federal funds rate for too long, it could end up having to tighten policy relatively abruptly to keep the economy from significantly overshooting both of the Committee's longer - run policy goals» on inflation and jobs, Yellen said.

He has implemented a massive stimulus policy by cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate to negative, keeping the 10 - year Japanese government bond yield near 0 percent in an effort to control the yield curve and stepping up the Bank of Japan's asset purchases.

The most important policy action for mitigating the damage of a recession is for the central bank to keep interest rates low, according to the respondents, followed by increasing spending on transportation and other infrastructure projects.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept its monetary policy on hold, leaving the short - term interest rate target at minus 0.1 percent.

The Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy on hold, leaving short - term interest rate target at minus 0.1 percent.

«The failure to deliver tax reform and the slower relative growth likely keep us on the path of gradual normalization in interest rate policy,» said the analysts, who see the S&P 500 falling to 2,550 from its Monday close of 2,572.83.

That means policy makers may have to raise interest rates sooner than they have in the past to keep prices in check.

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«This would allow policymakers to focus their efforts on absorbing the still elevated excess capacity in the economy,» she said, adding that she expects the central bank will keep its trendsetting policy interest rate at one per cent until mid-2015.

After the Fed's policy statement, traders of U.S. short - term interest - rate futures on Wednesday kept bets the Fed will raise interest rates at least two more times this year.

That is putting downward pressure on inflation and likely will keep the Bank of Canada from raising its policy rate until some time in 2018.

Under that policy, the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates low and engaged for period of years in a campaign of aggressive bond purchases that have increased monetary supply and bolstered the stock market.

The central bank says in its latest analysis that the economy continues to depend on monetary stimulus, so has decided to keep the trendsetting policy rate at one per cent.

There is no evidence that the policy, which encourages borrowing by keeping long - term interest rates low, has inflated dangerous bubbles in the stock market and residential real estate, she said.

Her goal is to make Progressive the go - to source when it comes to auto and home insurance as well as policies for motorcycles, boats and small businesses, which will allow Progressive to keep rates low and grow revenues.

«This progress reinforces governing council's view that higher interest rates will be warranted over time, although some monetary policy accommodation will still be needed to keep inflation on target.»

The last time rates were raised was nearly a decade ago; since then the Fed has pursued a policy of slashing rates and keeping them low in an effort to wrench the economy out of the Great Recession and promote greater growth and consumption.

Treasury yields on Friday book a weekly drop as geopolitical instability keeps investors pouring into the perceived safety of government paper, but for the day, rates of government paper rise as a robust raft of economic data suggested U.S. growth would maintain its steady clip, ahead of a key monetary - policy update on Wednesday.

Our judgement is that the current setting of monetary policy is consistent with this, with the Board keeping the cash rate unchanged at 4.25 per cent at its meeting yesterday.

His Federal Reserve has kept inflation down by «quantitative easing,» a policy that artificially depresses interest rates by buying up government securities.

Fed interest rate policy aims to keep inflation at reasonable levels and uses the PPI as a guide when setting interest rate policy.

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.

Present policy is based on the assumption that the U.S. economy will crash if we don't keep the debt overhead growing at past exponential rates.

Describes how the Reserve Bank implements monetary policy and keeps the cash rate as close as possible to its target.

As expected, the European Central Bank made no changes to its monetary policy on Thursday, keeping rates at record lows.

The Reserve Bank implements monetary policy by keeping the cash rate as close as possible to the target.

The Bank of England has pursued a «stop - go» policy, raising the interest rate to attract enough foreign short - term loans to keep the exchange rate from falling.

I'm referring to statements such as the conditional commitment we made in 2009 — when we pledged to keep the key policy rate unchanged for a year as long as the outlook for inflation didn't change.

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

The current Federal Reserve policy has been to keep rates low.