Sentences with phrase «on federal measures»

Poloz appears to be pursuing that same strategy, preferring to focus instead on federal measures that seek to improve the quality of household debt by tightening credit conditions for buyers.

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Democrats complained that the Republicans had loaded up the measure with «poison pills» including a ban on federal spending for Planned Parenthood.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's push for a major military buildup suffered a setback on Thursday when the House of Representatives put plans on hold to fully fund the federal government through next Sept. 30 and instead resorted to temporary measures freezing spending at current levels.

TORONTO — The federal government is taking steps to ease emerging risks in the country's housing market with new measures to slow the injection of foreign cash and to tighten eligibility rules on prospective borrowers.

But S.Y. Lee, a spokesman for the DHS, told Fortune that the government agency coordinates «national efforts to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure, working with our federal and industry partners across the country to raise awareness about evolving threats and promote measures to reduce risks to systems we all rely on.»

U.S. data on Monday showed that consumer prices accelerated in the year to March, with a measure of underlying inflation surging to near the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target as last year's weak readings dropped out of the calculation.

He spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was to vote on a measure that would re-open the federal government.

Federal officials have been meeting with their B.C. counterparts and Notley has promised further retaliatory measures this week if there is no progress on resolving the impasse.

Add on the jumps in market - based measures of inflation expectations, the chances of more Federal Reserve hikes, and other macro-economic data points and the moves for the economy have been dramatic.

The White House report on the epidemic says that 142 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, and urges measures like federal legislation that would boost widespread adoption of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.

The Kentucky Republican spoke on the Senate floor hours before the chamber was scheduled to vote on a measure that would re-open the federal government.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In an abrupt reversal, the US military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about US war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Fixed - rate loans provide a measure of certainty, although your monthly payments on a federal loan can still go up over time if you choose an income - driven repayment plan.

In addition, PBO's forecast for nominal gross domestic product (GDP)-- the broadest measure of the federal tax base - is considerably lower than the average of the private sector economists» forecasts released by the Minister of Finance on October 29, 2012.

Nominal gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the tax base for federal revenue, is projected to be about 6 per cent higher in 2010 than in 2009, which should impact positively on federal revenues.

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Submission to the Department of Finance Canada on the Second Consultation on the Review of the Federal Financial Sector Framework Potential Policy Measures

A Federal Reserve - sponsored group that has been working on an alternative is slated Aug. 1 to discuss the timing of the release of the measure.

The paid leave order is the latest move by Mr. Obama to use his power over federal contracts to institute changes on a small slice of the labor market when he can not persuade Congress to enact those measures for the whole country.

On June 6 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reintroduced his spring federal budget, which was never passed in the rush to an election, with a key twist: Flaherty added a measure to phase out the $ 2 - per - vote subsidy to political parties by 2015 - 16.

To eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16, the CCPA assumes that the net impact of these measures will result in higher economic growth and increased employment, resulting in increased revenues to the federal government of about $ 4.5 billion, on average, per year.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

For example, the need to keep the long - term fiscal trajectory on a sustainable path limits the size and duration of federal fiscal stimulus measures.

The 2012 Study — similarly developed in consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, other federal agencies and President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability — updated key measures from the 2009 Study and deepened the exploration of topics that are highly relevant today.

These include: the macroeconomic effects of the new mortgage rules; the likely path of our exports; the impacts of the federal government's fiscal measures, which are just beginning to be felt; and the effects on business confidence of the US election.

According to Bloomberg data, U.S. equities, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, barely budged; long - term U.S. Treasury rates are currently trading within 10 basis points (bps) of where they were on January 1; and, with the exception of the last two weeks of the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) sat on its hands.

But with Vancouver's housing market already slowing after the provincial government imposed a 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers there, the latest federal measures add another weight.

New York state last month passed a similar measure that makes it illegal to advertise apartments for fewer than 30 days in New York City, and lawmakers have pushed the federal government to take a closer look at Airbnb and other home - sharing sites on accusations of creating housing shortages and driving up rental costs.

The yields on these extremely short - term vehicles just about disappeared as the Federal Reserve's program of bond - buying, known as Quantitative Easing, and other aggressive monetary policy measures drove down rates.

That's why the PDAC is lobbying for the inclusion of measures to help the exploration industry in the federal government's next budget, to be tabled on Jan. 27.

But early in 2017, with new leadership and a new emphasis on domestic U.S. projects, Exxon's fortunes may be improving, in no small measure thanks to its allies in the Federal Government and its growing investment in U.S. shale.

As for what this means for the timing of a Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike, data about the U.S. economy on balance exceed the reasonable measures a «data dependent» Fed might require to move off of «emergency interest rate» levels, as BlackRock's proprietary «Yellen Index» of labor market / economic conditions shows in the chart below.

Matt Pascuzzo, spokesman for federal Employment Minister Patty Hajdu, said the government will ensure Canadians» health and safety are protected as it works with provinces and territories on measures addressing impairment at work.

Because of the surprising nature of the rollout, the administration wasn't able to notify senior officials in multiple federal agencies, State Department officials who needed to notify other countries of the drastic measures, or lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Mr. Macdonald singled out five federal tax measures as being the most inequitable to lower income people based on 2011 data — the dividend tax credit, partial inclusion of capital gains, the foreign tax credit, employee stock options and pension income splitting.

But to remedy the situation the commission recommends measures looking to centralized government control (which would only invite more federal interference and also infringe on the citizens» liberties); for example, development, on the federal level, of a plan for coping with disorder, and the creation of a special police force for suppressing riots.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has issued an order putting on hold the certification of a ballot measure that forbids state courts from considering or using international laws, as well as Sharia, or Islamic law.

We hope the federal Opposition will join with the Government and rule out a tax and rather focus on measures that research shows will have a greater impact.

Responding to a Tribune article on fraud risks in the federal free - lunch program, Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking what his department will do to «bolster eligibility verification measures» in the program.

Nearly seven weeks later, on 2nd May the Federal Agency for Food Safety in Belgium, as a precautionary measure, asked Nestlé Belgium to recall Beba 1 900 gram (codes DEXCPIKA and / or DEXCPIKB, expiry date 02 2003).

The federal reimbursement for free meals is one measure of how much is intended to be spent on producing a reimbursable meal.

Since Illinois income tax forms are based on the federal forms, loophole closing measures at the federal level will raise state revenue by up to $ 100 million a year, the commission staff found.

But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people voted online or via text on the particular measure they'd like to see deleted from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»

Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand signed on to the measure, which would boost the federal minimum wage from $ 7.25 to nearly $ 10.

Long also blasted the measure as a «political charade» that only boosts Cuomo's political standing by being the first state in the nation to pass gun control legislation, even before the federal government and Obama administration can do something on the issue.

Shortly after, Senate Democrats introduced a measure that would have restricted anyone on the federal terrorism watch list, also known as the no - fly list, from being able to purchase firearms in the U.S..

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to Western New York on Thursday to discuss new measures to fight the opioid crisis, but he spent most of the first 10 minutes of his press conference talking about the president's federal tax plan.

The state Assembly last year adopted a sanctuary state measure to prevent state and local law enforcement officers from making arrests based on immigration status and from enforcing federal immigration laws.