Sentences with phrase «monetary tightening cycle»

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The last time a Liberal government entered an election in the middle of a monetary policy tightening cycle was in 2006; that year, the Conservatives defeated them.

Since the U.S. is the most advanced in its cycle, the Fed is at the forefront of the monetary tightening debate.

During this cycle of monetary tightening, the fed funds rate — the rate controlled by the Fed to influence borrowing costs — has been raised four times.

In some ways, this U.S. policy rate hike cycle is similar to the one in the mid-2000s, where the U.S. dollar remained weak and EMs» growth cycle was not derailed by U.S. monetary tightening.

Implied volatilities gradually declined around the world in the second half of 2003, as it became clearer that the easing cycle was drawing to a close, with some central banks beginning to tighten monetary policy after a prolonged period of relatively low and stable interest rates.

«While the Fed is moving in one direction and getting ready to raise interest rates and embark on a tightening cycle, the European Central Bank is going in the other direction and easing monetary policy,» says Eric Viloria, a currency strategist at Wells Fargo in New York.

While the Fed is moving in one direction and getting ready to raise interest rates and embark on a tightening cycle, the European Central Bank is going in the other direction and easing monetary policy.

Against that background, one might justifiably ask whether it makes sense to have one economy (the United States) in a tightening monetary policy cycle, while the other (eurozone) presses on with its more accommodative easing program.

Readers may recall that we have talked about the theory espoused by our previous guest speaker Ben Hunt with respect to price inflation in a period of monetary tightening in a series of recent posts entitled «Business Cycles and Inflation» (see Part 1 and Part 2 for the details).

The inflationary impacts of our monetary policy continue to radiate out, and will continue to, until the Fed starts its next tightening cycle.

The recent move up began in earnest at the beginning of the last tightening cycle, but has persisted into the loosening cycle, as the FOMC has not let the monetary base grow, but has permitted the banks to continue to gather deposits (banking, savings, CDs, money market funds).