Sentences with phrase «more central targets»

The Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said: «The prime minister is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that more central targets will be met by hospitals deep in deficit who are already cutting jobs and services.

Fernando Llorente isn't known for his movement and acts as a more central target figure which no longer suits the way Spain play their football.

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One line of thinking now is that the central bank may opt to combine the two programs and buy longer - dated bonds more aggressively, then set as its new target the total balance of bond holdings or the size of its balance sheet, the sources said.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

Analysts said the use of the word «symmetric» suggests that the Fed may allow inflation to run above its 2 percent target, a stance that would limit the need for the central bank to embark on a more aggressive path of monetary tightening in response to recent rises in inflation.

If central banks had targeted higher average inflation, on the other hand, interest rates would also have been higher, allowing central banks more space to slash rates to keep the economy functioning.

Turkey's annual inflation rate went up more than expected in August to 7.14 percent, moving further away from the central bank's target inflation of 5 percent.

Canada's annual pace of inflation in February sped up to 2.2 per cent — its fastest pace in more than three years — to creep above the central bank's ideal target of two per cent.

We believe this has been a critical factor behind the multi-decade drop in global yields, beyond the more familiar decline in potential growth as societies age, productivity softens and central bank inflation targeting keeps price volatility in check.

More generally, the adoption of inflation targeting has coincided with a large increase in the written and spoken output of central banks.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

The rationale to hike interest rates would be to quell inflation, which is little more than half of the central bankâ $ ™ s 2 % target.

Economic data has also come back on the radar of investors who are contending with the potential for inflation to hit the Fed's 2 % target range, raising the risk of the central bank leaning toward a more aggressive hiking trajectory.

Greece is already managing to beat some of its deficit - reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show that its central budget deficit for the first two months of 2012 had shrunk by more than half compared with the same period last year.

The Fed began raising rates in December 2016 amid expectations for inflation to reach its target — and the central bank expects more rate hikes to come.

The balance of risks around the central forecast appears at present to be such that it is more likely that inflation will exceed the forecast, and therefore exceed the target, than that it will fall below it.

From a global policy perspective, we think the Fed's recent hikes are the first stage in a cycle that will later this year see the European Central Bank (ECB) discuss a more normalized rate policy, and then lastly Japan's BoJ may at least expand its 10 - year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield target range.

Now that central banks are starting to get the point that more of the same is not working, they are looking to change their targets.

Fed's Williams says considering raising or replacing 2 % inflation target; reiterates need for fiscal policies; says central banks should target nominal GDP not inflation (More dovish than he has been as he discusses removing the 2 % inflation target, suggesting the Fed is content with overshooting this target to drive growth)

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Bring in Ospina for Cech; Gabriel for Koscielny (Kos is 31 and its time we start testing Gabriel and Holding beside Mustafi to see what our long term first choice defensive partnership will look like); Gibbs for Monreal (Wenger needs to start rotating these 2 more frequently as we need to ascertain if Gibbs can adequately produce the quality to hold that position from next season for a few years as I'm thinking this might be Nacho's last or penultimate season with Arsenal, it will also give a hint as to the type of Left - back to target in the summer — first teamer or backup and age as well); I'll like to see an Elneny — Xhaka partnership in this fixture as we might just never know, this might be our replica of the Kos Mustafa partnership in the centre of the park, Two disciplined (positionally, i mean) central midfielders who can play box to box; Chamberlain for Iwobi, and Perez for Alexis should do the work.

The first - team priority for Chelsea, with Alex out injured until next month at least, is, however, a central defender and Godin may prove a more realistic and cheaper target than either David Luiz — manager Carlo Ancelotti's No 1 choice — or Bolton's Gary Cahill.

This talented and promising deep lying playmaker could actually be a better use of the money for the Gunners, not because he is the better player but because central midfield is one of the areas more in need of strengthening this summer, although rumour has it that Morgan Schneiderlin is our main target for that role.

Only a few days ago I was sat here writing about how Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp should be targeting a central midfielder or two to play alongside Keita, more specifically, a no. 6 and maybe a more attacking midfielder.

Whereas Olds» work has focused on the challenges of becoming a parent (i.e. program limited to first - time parents), Webster - Stratton has targeted the late preschool period and the transition to formal schooling, when children's emotion regulation skills are becoming more stable and tested in the context of full - day school settings.6, 22 A central focus of Webster - Stratton's program is parent management training to promote child social competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.

The government had begun to shift away from central targets, Mr Blair said - «that day is now gone» - to giving frontline staff more freedom to innovate for themselves.

Mr Brown has recently tried to move back towards the Blairite agenda of public service reform, promising more personalised services and a move away from central Government targets.

«This new approach to policing builds on changes also starting today to slash red tape and reduce central targets for police - freeing them up to spend more time on local priorities and tackling serious crimes.»

The dementia tax fiasco threatens the Tories» chances, but on the demographics, and given Ukip's absence, this looks a more makeable Tory target than ultra-marginal Ealing Central.

«Modeling studies in humans have shown that targeting central individuals for vaccination is significantly more effective than randomly vaccinating,» Rushmore said.

And among all the pilot cities, the company statistics show, no more than half the target was met in the best case, and in places like central China's Xiangyang, for instance, only seven clean cars were added on the roads since late 2010.

«We hope that this research showing GM - CSF is an important target will lead us toward therapies that more effectively block the damaging immune reaction in the central nervous system of MS patients,» says Dr. Rostami.

A wide grip targets the outer upper back, while a narrower grip is more focused on the central area of the upper back.

One central issue: whether to impose an across - the - board change on all workers and employers, or to more selectively target those Canadian workers who are the least likely to save.

The latest set of forecasts from the Fed stirred a little more comment among market participants, particularly the projections for core inflation that were slightly above the central bank's 2 % target in 2019 and 2020, which hinted policymakers might be willing to tolerate such an overshoot if they believed longer - term inflationary pressures were limited.

Aiden can use the city of Chicago's Central Operating System to find targets, control traffic lights, operate security cameras, and much more.

Prognostic models of terrestrial carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem processes are central for any consideration of the effects of environmental change and analysis of mitigation strategies; moreover, these demands will become even more significant as countries begin to adopt carbon emission targets.

China Daily is more dramatic, reporting that «China will put in place carbon dioxide emissions targets for its economic and social development programs, the central government has promised.»

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The importance of early interventions that target caregiving is underscored by studies demonstrating high cost - effectiveness through greatly enhanced long - term outcomes.41 Furthermore, children who receive more nurturing caregiving may also be protected from exposure to stressful life events, suggesting this central target may have positive ramifications on brain development.42 Considering these issues, study findings are relevant to the public policy debate on the importance of early preschool programs for young children living in poverty.

Whereas Olds» work has focused on the challenges of becoming a parent (i.e. program limited to first - time parents), Webster - Stratton has targeted the late preschool period and the transition to formal schooling, when children's emotion regulation skills are becoming more stable and tested in the context of full - day school settings.6, 22 A central focus of Webster - Stratton's program is parent management training to promote child social competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.