Sentences with phrase «of monetary policy tightening»

The yield climbed amid hopes of tax relief and after encouraging reports on business spending and Fed Chair Janet Yellen's remarks that indicated the Fed will maintain a gradual pace of monetary policy tightening.

Strengthening wage growth should put upward pressure on inflation and keep the Federal Reserve on a gradual path of monetary policy tightening.

As discussed below, financial markets viewed these events as bringing forward the likely timing of monetary policy tightening in the US.

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.

This widening in the gap between fixed and variable housing rates is likely to have contributed to the pick - up in the proportion of borrowers choosing to take out fixed - rate housing loans: in November 2004, the latest available data, 11 per cent of new owner - occupier housing loan approvals were at fixed rates, up from 7 per cent three months earlier and the highest share since the beginning of 2004, which followed a period of monetary policy tightening (Graph 45).

If the Fed opts to broadcast a slow and small pace of monetary policy tightening (one or two rate increases), Marks expects the market will digest this well.