Sentences with phrase «of interest rate moves»

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Gold, meanwhile, hit a six - week low of $ 1,307.40 an ounce, as the dollar strength and bets on higher interest rates kept it on the slide having already gone dropped through its 100 - day moving average.

As they fade, the need for continued monetary stimulus will also diminish and interest rates will naturally move higher,» Poloz said in notes for a speech to the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce.

NEW YORK, May 2 - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as investors digested a statement from the Federal Reserve, which left interest rates steady and said inflation had «moved close» to its target, while the dollar climbed late against a basket of currencies.

Poloz indicated in his statement that the prospect of a big spending push by the federal government caused the committee to move away from its intention to cut interest rates.

«The credit quality, this move up in interest rates, this loss of a four - decade uptrend in bonds, downtrend in yields, that's the source of the volatility which I think far surpasses these amazing developments technology has come across in the last couple of decades,» said Gordon.

If the economy slows because of anticipated or real higher interest rates, we won't see unemployment moving under 7 %, and then the Fed is likely to reconsider and not «taper» at all!

This suggests a return to the normalized rate of 5.5 %, which would result in Ontario's annual interest costs moving from $ 12 billion to $ 13 billion and climbing to $ 17 billion once all debt is refinanced.

(Bond yields move inversely with bond prices, and rising yields tend to signal expectations of higher growth and inflation ahead and, therefore, higher interest rates.)

The move spurred speculation that Denmark's central bank may also depeg its currency; it's already cut its interest rates deeper into negative territory to counter pressure from a falling euro in the wake of the European Central Bank (ECB) launching a quantitative easing program.

But the lack of any statement about when the next one would happen moved markets that trade in future interest rates hikes, causing the price of so - called Fed funds futures to drop.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan may have helped fuel the sharp move before Yellen's speech by saying the central bank can afford to be patient on raising interest rates even while noting it should shrink the balance sheet soon.

The Fed is moving to align interest rates with solid economic growth, says Brian Jacobsen of Wells Fargo.

Investors could be on the edges of their seats this week as they wait to see if the Fed will move ahead with plans to further raise interest rates.

«Emerging market powers eager to move away from being tied to the monetary policy of the U.S. and the banking system as well as to adopt the block chain as a payment system prove willing adherents as they adjust to zero interest rates and the decrease in systematic risk.»

He'll really start to affect the lives of Canadians when he raises interest rates — a move that will finally put a damper on spending habits.

Your choices are going to vary, and you may find out that you already have a good interest rate, but talk to several loan officers at a number of banks to find out if you can save by finally making the big loan consolidation move.

But she still thinks «old money tech» — like Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)-- «that historically have been able to weather any rise in interest rates will be direct beneficiaries of this capital expenditure spending cycle that we anticipate as we move into 2015 and 2016.»

Bond prices move inversely of interest rates.

It started with fears of rising interest rates, then moved to jitters over a trade war.

«We will have moved away from the old style boxes, like growth, value, large cap and so forth, and see these replaced by a series of risk factor - related products, like interest - rate sensitive products,» said Celia Dallas, chief investment strategist at investment consultant Cambridge Associates.

«If interest rates were to move quickly, volatility was to move quickly it could be an interesting financial market in the next couple of years,» he warned.

Wednesday's moves come after three volatile sessions in which fear of rising inflation sent interest rates higher, pressuring equities.

«Additionally,» it says, «these markets are continuing to draw interest from a younger crowd, as the older millennial age group is viewing property listings at a rate 1.2 times greater than the share of older millennials already living in the area, indicating strong interest from others wanting to move into these neighborhoods.»

With the elimination of Reg Q decades ago, bank deposit rates now tend to move up and down with open - market interest rates.

But homebuying activity has also since been dampened by the Bank of Canada's move in January to hike interest rates to 1.25 per cent.

Bay Street went from assuming the next interest - rate increase would come sometime in 2018 to betting the Bank of Canada could opt to move as early as July.

While Carney's move to drastically cut interest rates in Canada at the beginning of the financial crisis was prophetic, Philip Aldrick of the Telegraph likens the situation to Canada being an innocent bystander to a horrendous car crash with the U.K. economy at the wheel: the enormity and complexity of the economic problems Carney will face are on a whole different level.

The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Robert Kaplan said Monday that it would be «wise to move gradually and patiently» with increases in short - term interest rates.

he general trend was for average household debt to move in the opposite direction of the interest rate,» Statscan noted.

That move also beefed up the supply of money in the system, and further depressed interest rates.

«The general trend was for average household debt to move in the opposite direction of the interest rate,» Statscan noted.

Indeed, in a classic paper written in the early 1960s, Mundell (Mundell, 1963) showed how, in a world of complete asset substitutability and perfect capital mobility, real interest rates would be largely determined by international market forces with the exchange rate moving in response to changes in domestic monetary policy to provide most of the desired accommodation or tightening.

The Fed is helping the process of moving toward more normal interest rate levels by winding down its balance sheet, slowly releasing the air from the balloon, he said.

It is important to note, in this regard, that international arbitrage does not require complete interest rate equalization, just the equalization of (risk - adjusted) rates of return, including anticipated moves in the exchange rate.

So if the current interest rate is very predictive of future performance, what happens when rates move or investor expectations trump this long - term reality?

Low interest rates and the uncertainty around the partial implementation of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule were to blame, but market analysts said the annuity market is gradually moving on from the DOL rule.

The NAV (net asset value) of a bond fund will move up or down based on a number of factors such as changes in interest rates, credit quality, and currency values (for international bonds) for the different bond holdings in the fund.

The deterioration in operational performance, profit margins and financial strength of weaker listed companies could weigh down their stock prices when interest rates are moving higher.

Bond prices, and thus a bond fund's share price, generally move in the opposite direction of interest rates.

Not to spoil the fun for anyone, but a relatively tiny number of people pay any attention to moves by the Fed, the inflation rate, and interest rates.

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Would - be sellers of existing homes — many of whom refinanced at low interest rates — are reluctant to list their homes because they aren't finding the selection of properties they want to move into.»

Australia moved to restore normal interest rates well ahead of other developed economies.

But as long as the PBoC can continue to withstand pressure to lower interest rates — and it seems that the traditional poor relations between the PBoC and the CBRC have gotten worse in recent months, perhaps in part because the PBoC seems more determined to reduce financial risk and more willing to accept lower growth as the cost — China will move towards a system that uses capital much more efficiently and productively, and much of the tremendous waste that now occurs will gradually disappear.

I'm crunching on other stuff so this will be brief, but I've been reading a fair bit of commentary about how Trump's fiscal plans — infrastructure investment and tax cuts — won't help the economy; «they'll be recessionary, they'll deliver higher inflation and interest rates, they'll force the Fed to move from brake - tapping to brake - slamming.»

First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

It allowed the implementation of monetary policy to move away from the use of reserve and liquidity ratios on banks to the use of market operations to influence short - term market interest rates and, through that channel, the interest rates that all lenders charged on loans.

By the time I published my latest (July 17) blog entry Beijing had managed to stop the panic with the use of what I called «brute force», by which I meant that there was never likely to be much impact from interest rate moves, regulatory changes, margin relaxation, and so on.

Consequently, interest rates are artificially low and will now create a problem if people want to move out of stocks.

And of course, any other unexpected event will be interpreted for how it might impact the Fed's move to raise interest rates for the first time since taking the fed funds rate to zero in 2008.