Sentences with phrase «low policy prices»

Esurance has received more newcomers due to low policy prices than any other provider in the past few years.

Becoming informed about the numerous ways to lower policy prices and avoid becoming a riskier driver can help vehicle owners save on their automobile coverage.

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Not exact matches

We estimate that low natural gas prices and state policies that move utilities away from coal are savings tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars each year.

Nonetheless, the judge declared «consumer harm is not relevant» to competition policy; Sears broke the rules by selling tires at a lower price than its competitor most of the time.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

U.S. government debt prices were lower on Thursday morning on monetary policy comments and plans to overhaul the tax system.

«We expect the stagnation trend to continue and potentially accelerate next year, exacerbated by lower oil prices, tighter monetary policy and continued uncertainty on the geopolitical front,» noted Barclays economist Eldar Vakhitov in a recent report.

Weighed against unemployment, which has dropped to a 16 - year low at 4.1 percent, that weakness has puzzled economists and made some policy makers declare the Fed should hold off on additional rate increases until prices respond more briskly.

Will it be better service, a longer warranty, better selection, longer business hours, more flexible payment options, lowest price, personalized service, better customer service, better return and exchange policies or a combination of several of these?

I noted a week ago that Bernanke had essentially eased monetary policy by spurring a loosening of financial conditions via higher stock prices, lower bond yields, tighter credit spreads, and a weakening of the U.S. dollar.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

If your condition for GHG policy is that you must impose the same price on all sectors of the economy because you want to be cost - effective, that rules out higher prices on some sectors where deep emissions reductions are possible, or lower prices in more politically sensitive areas to ensure you get a policy in place at all.

But the one thing the policy changes can not do is lower overall average retail prices for Canadians, thanks to the Bank of Canada's mandate.

That's lower than the prevailing price in 2015, when the Bank of Canada dropped its policy rate to 0.5 % to counter the blow from the collapse of crude prices.

«Amazon's proposed acquisition of Whole Foods raises important questions concerning competition policy, such as how the transaction will affect the future of retail grocery stores, whether platform dominance impedes innovation, and if the antitrust laws are working effectively to ensure economic opportunity, choice and low prices for American families,» Cicilline wrote.

Best Buy implemented a price - matching policy, both in - store and online, while also lowering its prices to be more competitive against both online retailers and discount retailers such as Wal - Mart.

Although we knew that lowering the policy rate could worsen vulnerabilities related to household debt, we also knew that it would counter the risk that growth would crater and lessen the probability that the oil price shock would trigger financial stability risks.

While many are skeptical about whether or not this tax was the right policy tool, an influx of foreign investment capital, as seen in the Lower Mainland and other urban centres, does contribute to skyrocketing housing prices.

A shock to the price level which temporarily lowers the inflation rate below 2 per cent does not imply that monetary policy will be set to ensure an offsetting period of high inflation.

The $ 330 - billion spending plan says while several economic indicators such as employment numbers and tax revenues are up, and this year's deficit will likely be lower than expected — there are risks ahead: oil prices are expected to remain low; Canadian exports may remain flat; and «possible U.S. policy actions affecting trade could restrain exports to the U.S. even further,» the budget says.

Surprisingly, analysts continue to hail lower - than - expected CPI inflation as giving the PBoC room and encouragement to expand credit — largely I guess because this is what analysts say when US or European CPI inflation numbers are low, and although most of us haven't thought through the differences between China and the US in the ways prices respond to monetary policy, we don't want to seem like we don't know what we are doing.

There are some whole life insurance policies that are marketed as final expense insurance or burial insurance, which come at a low price.

What monetary policy can do is raise or lower the rate of money supply and credit growth, and help to move interest rates to levels consistent with the goal of economic growth with price stability.

In the end, inflation is a complex topic, but too many discussions of policy appear to miss this complexity and miss the fact that it's primarily lower income households that are hurt by rising prices.

Loose monetary policy has artificially inflated stock prices despite weak economic growth, he said, adding: «Instead of buying low and selling high, you're buying high and crossing your fingers.»

If wage negotiations, for example, were to build in current low expected price increases — of the order of 2 to 3 per cent — that kind of behaviour would clearly produce better national outcomes than if larger increases (not backed by genuine productivity gains) were pursued and granted, only to be followed by a tightening of policy.

In its deliberations, Governing Council focused mainly on the implications of lower prices for oil and other commodities for Canada and for monetary policy.

Biofuels don't help, but biofuels are the result of high oil prices, which are the result of poor incentives to bring oil up (both because of low yielding U.S. assets and political resentment over U.S. foreign policy).

Premiums were steadily rising for all insurance policies for years and experts said the hikes for Obamacare were partly due to them initially being priced artificially low.

The negative impact of lower oil prices will gradually be mitigated by a stronger U.S. economy, a weaker Canadian dollar, and the Bank's monetary policy response.

stocks on Wednesday close lower, after initially edging slightly higher, as the Federal Reserve acknowledged rising prices and said it now expects inflation to «run near» its 2 % target «over the medium term,» in its most recent policy statement.

The Fed's accommodative monetary policy after the recession helped goose stock prices, in part by lowering yields on safer assets like Treasury bonds.

In his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policies.

«This program is intended to support the other measures by additionally lowering long - term interest rates... and at the same time it gives a signal that monetary policy is committed to its goal of stable prices.»

The White House released a white paper proposing policies to lower high prescription drug prices, an idea President Donald Trump campaigned on.

A weak euro, low oil prices and expansionary monetary policy all have had a role to play in this improvement.

It is certainly reasonable to believe that this source of UST selling will continue to keep USTS rallies «limp,» and still in front of a very pro-growth / reflationary Trump policy mix to come: lower corporate and individual taxes, industry deregulation, trade policy (tariffs will drive up domestic prices as cheaper international goods competition is removed) and a fiscal policy shift away from monetary policy will all conspire to take rates higher in the year + window ahead.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

It trades some of the value growth benefits of a whole life insurance policy in exchange for more flexible payment plans and a lower price.

The lower the interest rate the smaller the difference will tend to be between the spot price and the prices for future delivery, so in a world dominated by ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) the differences between spot and futures prices will generally be smaller than usual.

Third, in response to slower growth and lower inflation (owing partly to lower commodity prices), the world's major central banks pursued another round of unconventional monetary easing: lower policy rates, forward guidance, quantitative easing (QE), and credit easing.

Gold prices rebounded from two - month lows on Wednesday as the dollar pulled away from multi-month highs amid profit taking ahead of the conclusion of the Federal Reserve policy meeting later in the day.

The post ties in with SRSV's lecture on non-conventional monetary policies, particularly the side - effect of market addiction to low volatility, and the lecture on price distortions, particularly the section on feedback loops.

But since the 1980s they also have favored debt - leveraged inflation of real estate, stock and bond prices to create «capital» gains via low - interest «soft money» policies.

Gold prices rebounded from two - month lows as the dollar pulled away from multi-month highs amid profit taking ahead of the conclusion of the Federal Reserve policy meeting.

Speaking at the EU parliament last month, Draghi described more specifically which contingencies the ECB would be looking at in order to calibrate its next policy response: «First, we will examine the strength of the pass - through of low imported inflation to domestic wage and price formation and to inflation expectations.

The purpose of the Bernanke - Yellen monetary policy has been to lower longer - term rates and pump up asset prices creating a wealth effect to spur spending and real economic growth.

Central bankers worry about inflation falling too low because it raises the risk of deflation, or generally falling prices, a phenomenon that is difficult to combat through monetary policy.

«It seems reasonable to assume that another year of extreme moves in US dollar (higher) and oil / commodity prices (lower) would likely continue to drive this negative feedback loop and make it very difficult for policy makers in emerging markets and developing markets to fight disinflationary forces and intercept downside risks,» the analysts add.