Sentences with phrase «last rate decision»

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DUBAI, May 2 - Iran's decision last month to unify official and free - market exchange rates to support the rial «is a step that goes in the right direction,» an International Monetary Fund official said.

The Federal Reserve made the psychologically important decision to hike interest rates last December, and recent remarks from Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen telegraphed the possibility of another hike in the summer.

«It was a close call,» John Williams, president of the San Francisco Fed, said on the weekend, referring to the Fed's contentious decision to leave the benchmark rate at zero last week.

Even before Wednesday's decision, five of the country's largest banks hiked five - year fixed rates 15 basis points to 5.14 per cent last week.

The data underscores the challenges the Bank of Japan (BOJ) faces, even after its shock decision last month to adopt negative interest rates, in generating a positive cycle in which rising corporate profits drive up wages and consumption.

China's surprise decision to revalue the yuan as it tried to contain the stock market turmoil caused the currency to drop the most in 21 years last month, triggering exchange - rate declines elsewhere in the emerging world on concern that a weaker yuan will hurt countries exporting to China.

On his way to Calgary last week, Harper was telling anyone who would listen that he was shocked at Wright's decision, taken alone and shared with — well, he used to say Wright shared his decision with nobody, but that story won't stand up any more, so these days he says Wright shared it with «a very few» PMO staffers, and at any rate certainly not with Harper himself.

The U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield briefly topped 2.93 % after Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision to hike interest rates, but then retreated aggressively to last trade at 2.83 % as stock markets plunged.

«Mining stocks have been chopping sideways over the last two months as investors await the Fed's decision on whether to raise rates in September,» he said.

Yet I believe its decision to raise rates last week reflected four consequential misjudgments.

That was an important consideration behind the decision last Friday to reduce interest rates by a further half per cent.

China's decision to change the method of setting its currency exchange rate caused global shock waves last week.

A three - day sell - off has taken the Australian sharemarket back to levels last seen in early May, as falling commodity prices and upcoming events such as a US interest rate decision and the «Brexit» vote take their toll on investor confidence.

As has been discussed in previous Statements, the medium - term risk associated with overheating in this part of the economy had been taken into account in the decisions to raise the cash rate late last year.

Coleridge said: «The rate of divorce in the early years has been falling steadily for the last nine years and although men are taking longer to commit when they do it is much more likely to be a carefully considered permanent decision.

Campbell has excellent work rate, when Sanchez comes back Walcott is the one who should be benched he was awful last night with his poor decision making coming to the fore again!

Frias won his first 20 fights as a pro but, curiously, didn't appear in the ratings until he lost a controversial 10 - round decision last May in Caracas to Venezuela's Ernesto Espa √ ± a, the ex-WBA champ.

In an interview last week, Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said «bad decisions» by New York lawmakers were responsible for the state's high tax rates.

The disappointing poll rating comes after it emerged last week that Mr Brown had ignored Treasury warnings that his 1997 decision to scrap tax relief on share dividends could create a # 75 billion pensions black hole.

So there have to be tough decisions including some spending cuts and fair tax rises like the 50p top rate of tax for the richest and the national insurance rise we proposed last year.

He's not due to address the party conference until tomorrow but his decision to scrap child benefit for higher - rate taxpayers has prompted an angry backlash and he's been defending it stoutly (unlike the children's minister Tim Loughton, who told Channel 4 News last night that the decision may be reconsidered and that «if the thresholds need to be adjusted there's plenty of time to look at that».)

Suozzi backers say he received a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood when he last ran for county executive in 2013, and that the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League also endorsed Suozzi, saying, «Tom Suozzi supports women and treats our decisions with dignity.»

Exelon Corp., the plant's operator, punted last October on a decision to close the plant, but previously said if it didn't get to raise electric rates for customers by May 31, it would shut down the money - losing facility by 2017.

Even though AMPAS's decision last year to widen the Best Picture field to 10 nominees was an obvious publicity stunt, a means of boosting the Oscar telecast's ratings share by ensuring that more than one box office cash cow would compete for Oscar's top prize, we were optimistic that a few legitimately off - the - beaten - path treasures would somehow manage to enter the race.

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

The vote followed the school board's decision last month to change the award for top - rated teachers from a...

With one of Indiana's worst passing rates on last year's statewide tests, Glenwood is all but assured its sixth straight F — leaving state officials with a decision to make before this school year is over.

The Fed's decision to hike benchmark interest rates last December, and again this March, arrested the steady decline in net interest margin figures for the largest U.S. banks in Q1.

Although many supporting events happened simultaneously last week like a continued drop in US rig counts, concern about falling production in Canada and Bakken, the decision by the Fed to hold off on the interest rate hike and the Russian attacks on Syria, it's difficult to make the case the rally is sustainable.

The BoC's decision has been the subject of much debate — recent low interest rates were intended as an economic stimulus coming out of last year's recession, and some economists have been arguing that rates should stay low for the time being as a measure of protection against global market turmoil.

So, Sean, you are faced with a decision, do I pay off my mortgage really quickly or, because interests rates have been low for the last few years, should I instead pay my mortgage more slowly and use that money to invest?

For them to make the decision during their working years to contribute to rrsps implies to me that they are adding rrsps to their future income streams which in my mind makes it the «last» income which gets taxed at the marginal rate.

These are notes that were taken during the Fed's last interest rate meeting, and the notes offer further insight into the Fed's decision - making process, and they can give the market clues about future monetary policy decisions.

Last week, the Bank of Canada blamed the oil slump for its unexpected decision to cut its interest rate for the first time since 2009.

Last Wednesday's report was the first time that policymakers combined their regularly scheduled rate decision release with the Bank's Monetary Policy Report, one of the nation's most important quarterly statements concerning the state of domestic and global economic factors.

Even before Wednesday's decision, five of the country's largest banks hiked five - year fixed rates 15 basis points to 5.14 per cent last week.

In that post, I also mentioned that these days, accounts with 1 % APY or higher are hard to come by in this low - rate environment that we have been living in since 2008 and it could become even more difficult to find high yield savings products after the QE3 decision from the Fed last week.

Even Morningstar, a company whose bread and butter is rating mutual funds, acknowledged this in a study published last year: «If there's anything in the whole world of mutual funds that you can take to the bank, it's that expense ratios help you make a better decision.

The UK Court of Appeal last week overturned a decision staying a complex financial fraud prosecution on the ground that no suitably qualified lawyer was willing to be retained to defend the case at the reduced compensation rates being offered by the State.

Following series of complains from the FBI and other Security agencies from Asia, Europe, Oceania, and United States of America respectively against the Federal Government of Nigeria for the rate of corruption and scam activities going on in these country, The united nation deems it necessary to look in to this trend and this was discussed upon during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja Nigeria in which a decision was reached to compensate noted victims of this operation, and we have been working with the (FBI & MPS) over this ugly act since then with U.N delegate there in Nigeria.

Average fixed mortgage rates climbed again for the eighth week in a row following the Federal Reserve's decision to raise the key rate, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), with the 30 - year fixed - rate averaging 4.30 percent with an average 0.5 point — up from last week's 4.16 percent.

Last July, amid concerns that the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union would cause a recession, mortgage rates fell to 3.45 percent.

The 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage averaged 3.86 percent this week, dropping lower after the Federal Reserve's decision last week to hold off on raising the Federal funds rate.