Sentences with phrase «over a rate hike»

But he notes the euro may be attracting attention away from the dollar because of speculation over rate hikes out of the European Central Bank.

ALBANY — Hudson Valley Assembly Members Frank Skartados (D, Milton) and Didi Barrett (D, Hudson) have expressed their concern over a rate hike at Metro - North train station parking lots.

Minutes from the Federal Reserve meeting in December show a lack of unity among officials over the rate hike projection for 2018, MarketWatch reports.

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However, it noted that it expects inflation to «run near» its 2 % target «over the medium term,» suggesting that interest rates might see a hike in June.

Though the U.S. economy has been performing well and the Federal Reserve has signaled further interest rate hikes, investors have been concerned over when and how this policy will be delivered.

«As QE (quantitative easing) moves towards the end, markets focus more on rate hikes,» Ricardo Garcia, chief euro zone economist at UBS, said when asked why the euro is set to appreciate over the coming months.

Meantime, minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting Wednesday showed policymakers divided over their view on inflation and their approach to interest rate hikes.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

Adams says the last time Ontario experienced such rate hikes was after Darlington Nuclear Generating Station's four reactors entered service in the early 1990s massively over budget.

As the market waits with baited breath for any news on the Federal Reserve's impending interest rate hike, investors will pore over Wednesday's release of minutes from the Fed's July meeting to look for solid signs that the central bank will raise rates in September.

The bank also reiterated that more interest rate hikes will likely be necessary over time, but that the governing council will remain cautious when considering future decisions.

I think rates will stay low longer than people think and that the economy will be able to absorb the small rate hikes I see over the next 18 months.

«Over the past few months, they've reopened the path for another rate hike,» he said.

Wall Street stock futures are higher and the dollar at a five - month low, as the Federal Reserve's partial retreat from its rate - hike intentions boosts confidence for the world economic outlook and leads to the unwinding of some of the «safe haven» flows into the U.S. currency over recent months.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

LONDON, May 3 - World stocks made little progress on Thursday as worries over global trade tensions weighed, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.

For Costco, «Renewal rates will remain the focus for investors over the next year, given concerns about AMZN, grocery delivery and a recent fee hike,» Jefferies» Binder reiterated.

In his first speech on the economy since taking over at the Federal Reserve, Chairman Jerome Powell said Friday that growth is running at a solid pace and continued gradual rate hikes will be necessary.

A debate has lingered for years over whether the Fed ought to use economic benchmarks as triggers for interest rate hikes and other actions.

The plans themselves have been adapting to the low - return environment over the past few years by hiking contribution rates from both employees and employers.

«Now, even if inflation does accelerate over the remainder of the year, there's still reason for the bank to be cautious on future rate hikes.»

The Fed for example fought a difficult battle with inflation in the 1970s, hiking interest rates to recession - provoking levels and eventually winning a war of credibility over its ability to rein in price increases.

The hikes ultimately will return the central bank's key short - term rate, called the federal funds rate, to about 4 percent over the next two years, which economists generally consider more a sustainable level.

History suggests that some 90 percent of rate hikes over the past 25 years already were highly anticipated by the market, with at least a 70 percent chance discounted in, according to research Goldman Sachs released this week.

My friend Jeff Saut at Raymond James noted that there are people who have been in this business over eight years and have never experienced a Fed rate hiking cycle.

The worst case scenario is likely wage growth higher than expected (0.3 percent or higher month over month, 2.9 percent to 3 percent annual), with upward revisions from February, and job growth much higher, all of which would increase the chances for a Fed rate hike.

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

Right now with earnings growth very strong and the bond market already reflecting a fair amount of Fed tightening (pricing in 5 rate hikes over the coming 2 years), my sense is that the stock market is in OK shape to withstand some tightening of financial conditions and not unravel in the process.

The bank reiterated that it expects further interest - rate hikes to be necessary over time and that it will follow a cautious, data - dependent approach when weighing future decisions.

Jon Smith, of DT Investment Partners, discusses the effect of an interest rate hike on bond markets... see why we prefer individual bond holdings over engineered ETFs in this environment.

BC Hydro will cut its proposed rate hike in half over the next three years, from 30 per cent to 16 per cent, following a government panel review on Thursday.

«The economy has never been as levered as it currently is, and the economy is far more interest sensitive than it has been in the past, to a degree that we don't have certainty over how each interest rate hike is going to affect Canadian consumers,» said Frances Donald, senior economist at Manulife Asset Management, by phone from Toronto.

In the past 13 rising - rate environments over the past 64 years, tech and health care sectors gained an average of 20 % and 13 %, respectively during the 12 - month period following the first rate hike of each cycle.

«As the downside risks to the inflation outlook dissolve, the Bank of Canada is likely to re-establish a tightening policy bias over the course of this year - we expect the first hike to the overnight rate in the second quarter of 2015,» said Wright.

Markets are all over the place after the much - awaited first rate hike of the new Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the following press conference, as central...

Lingering worries over the outlook for U.S. rate hikes added to the day's cautious tone.

The dollar was falling 0.2 % against the euro as concerns over China's economy, mixed U.S. data and the latest minutes form the Federal Reserve's policy meeting lowered expectations for a U.S. interest rate hike, Reuters reports.

The wait is over — in the wake of the first Fed rate hike in nearly a decade, Heidi Richardson explains what you can do now to prepare your portfolio for a rising rate environment.

As Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.»

Of the 15 officials offering forecasts on interest rate increases over the balance of 2018, seven expect three or more additional rate hikes while eight are calling for two or fewer.

To «hike rates» the Fed Open Market Committee (FOMC) must use its power to diminish the economy's quantity of spending money through its control over the Monetary Base (MB), which is the accounted sum of the monetary obligations of the 12 Fed Banks.

Even since the December rate hike total bank loans have continued to grow at over 8 % p.a. to mid-March.

All in all, the Fed continues to expect inflation to rise gradually toward 2 % over the medium term as the labor market improves further and the transitory effects of energy price declines and other factors dissipate, but the pace for hikes in interest rates could well be moderate, as the Fed has been indicating.

The uneventful April FOMC expectedly left the door open for a possible rate hike in June without committing the Federal Reserve for policy action, and policymakers also signaled easing concerns over foreign risk factors.

«Just putting it in perspective, the implied move is around 2.5 percent, that's basically twice of what we've seen around Fed meetings over the last five years,» she said, adding, «Albeit this is by far the biggest implied probability there is a rate hike.»

he thinks that even if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates next month, subsequent rate hikes over the next two years will be modest..

Over the first six weeks of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 10 %, as the prospect of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, a slump in oil prices, and concerns about economic conditions in Europe and China caused the long - running bull market to stumble.

Additionally, the U.S. economy has dramatically changed over the past several years, with structural factors (largely the result of technological innovation and shifting demographic trends) influencing it in a manner that makes comparisons to past rate hiking cycles less relevant.

Predictably, the FOMC once again fell flat on its face with regard to its continuous threats over the last month to hike rates.