Sentences with phrase «over interest rate policy»

Together, they form the 12 - member FOMC, though presidents of districts other than New York only get a rotating policy vote, and thus considerably less say over interest rate policy.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

He said economic progress had made the bank more confident that higher interest rates would be required over time, although some monetary policy accommodation will still be needed.

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.

Even though our activities are likely to result in a lower national debt over the long term, I sometimes hear the complaint that the Federal Reserve is enabling bad fiscal policy by keeping interest rates very low and thereby making it cheaper for the federal government to borrow.

Germany's media isn't normally as breathless as, for example, the British press, but it's always willing to whip Germans up into a frenzy over the ECB's zero interest - rate policy, especially in an election year.

«Policy makers will continue to watch this metric, but rising interest rates and better income growth should stabilize, then nudge this ratio lower over the next few years.»

«This progress reinforces governing council's view that higher interest rates will be warranted over time, although some monetary policy accommodation will still be needed to keep inflation on target.»

The speech makes clear that the Bank's monetary policy frameworks centres around a flexible inflation target that aims to deliver an average rate of inflation of between 2 - 3 per cent over time and in a way that best serves the public interest.

Despite disappointing job growth last month, the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since early 2008, sharpening the debate within the Federal Reserve over whether to raise interest rates when policy makers meet in two weeks.

The Fed previously had signaled it plans to raise interest rates two more times this year, but some observers have expressed concerns that the tightening monetary policy would accelerate over fears of inflation.

... The zero - interest - rate and bond - buying central bank policies prevailing in the U.S., Europe, and Japan have been part of a coordinated effort that has plastered over potential financial instability in the largest countries and in private banks.

The thrust of his argument is that interest rates need to go up as the Fed's been «adding enormous policy accommodation over the past several years» and, even while they've long been missing their inflation target on the downside, there's a risk of getting «significantly behind the curve.»

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

Even for knowing absolutely nothing about what's happened to Japanese interest rates over the past 20 years, as they've followed the deflationary policy the GOP seems to prefer.

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.

It has been over two decades since the popping of Japan's economic bubble and the country is still actively battling with deflationary forces that are so powerful that near - zero interest rates (zero - interest rate policy or ZIRP), repeated bouts of quantitative easing (some call it «money printing») and constant Yen - weakening currency interventions have barely made a dent.

Bernanke publicly acknowledged this week a policy conflict with the Treasury over its move to lock in low borrowing costs, which is working at odds with the central bank's efforts to lower long - term interest rates.

In the most recent period, following the tightening of monetary policy in May, market interest rates declined for a time as participants assessed that the cumulative tightening over the previous six months might have been sufficient to reduce the risks on inflation.

With growth prospects for the world economy being revised up and inflation no longer falling, short - term market interest rates have risen on the expectation that central banks will unwind the accommodative monetary policy they had put in place over the previous year or two (Graph 4).

Over the past several years the prices of gold futures contracts have generally been very close to the spot price and there have been regular small dips in futures prices to below the spot price, but this situation is a natural and predictable effect of the Fed's unnatural zero - interest - rate policy.

I think over the past 10 years, due to the zero - interest - rate policies by the global central banks, we have had a massive amount of debt issuance that's occurred as investors had been encouraged to go out the curve or down the credit curve in order to seek income, seek yield.

Many types of permanent life insurance policies increase in value over time based on interest rates.

Poloz himself has no control over the actions of the markets. And his response to any macroeconomic damage that results is limited to monetary policy adjustments (the next Bank of Canada interest rate decision is September 9), over which the Prime Minister is not supposed to have sway.

I'm always dismayed, for example, by how confidently analyts and economists talk about the relationship between monetary policy and economic outcomes, when the fact is that the level of interest rates, changes in interest rates, and changes in the monetary base provide very little additional forecasting power for GDP, over and above forecasts based on lagged changes in GDP itself.

But the roots are global as well and at least one of the roots is financial repression which is the major central bank's policies over the last nine years of recovery to drop interest rates to zero to buy risk assets, to push investors into risk assets and generate a lot of liquidity and credit.

The economic progress we have seen makes us more confident that higher interest rates will be warranted over time, although some monetary policy accommodation will still be needed.»

That is, given the current state of the economy, and given the objectives for policy (the inflation target and a preference for avoiding undue instability in real GDP), the model can be asked: what is the path for interest rates over the relevant horizon which will minimise the variance of the objective variables around their targets?

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

Competition in the provision of housing finance has increased over the past year, with banks announcing two rounds of cuts in housing interest rates (in June 1996 and February 1997) independent of any easings in monetary policy.

Powell recognizes the limits of monetary policy when he notes that «ultimately, the only way to get sustainably higher interest rates is to improve the broader environment for growth, by adopting policies designed to increase productivity and potential output over the long term — policies that are mainly outside the scope of our work at the Federal Reserve.»

Concerns over rising interest rates also factored into the equation after the Federal Reserve gave no indication on Wednesday that it would abandon its approach of gradual policy normalization.

It was felt that Ministerial control over interest rates was not conducive to long - term economic stability, as multiple political factors had long clouded economic judgments about what monetary policy should be used for.

In 1997 the Labour party handed over responsibility for setting interests rates and managing large parts of the economy to the Bank of England's independent monetary policy committee (MPC).

Historically, the outperformance of value has been associated with a rising interest - rate environment; as the US Federal Reserve Board (sometimes referred to as «the world's central bank» for the far - reaching impact of its policies) attempts to begin raising rates, we see a potential catalyst for a value recovery over our long - term investment horizon.

While student loans have advantages over other types of debt, such as lower interest rates, longer deferment periods and more flexible repayment policies, they can be tough to pay off while you're making the transition to the work force, buying a house and building a family.

Consider these risks before investing: Bond prices may fall or fail to rise over time for several reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions (including perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about monetary policy or interest rates), changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer or industry.

This of course hasn't gone unnoticed by John Taylor, who has written a number of papers over the last year showing empirically that the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy during this period was an important catalyst of the housing bubble and therefore influential in the current problems the economy is experiencing.

Asset prices may fall or fail to rise over time for several reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions (including, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about monetary policy or interest rates), changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry or commodity.

Stock and bond prices may fall or fail to rise over time for several reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions (including, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about monetary policy or interest rates), changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer or industry.

Thanks to the Fed, a near decade of zero - interest rate policies (ZIRP) and three rounds of Quantitative Easing (which totaled over $ 3.8 trillion in printed money)-- the consumers became hooked on cheap auto loan financings...

As the Fed continues to normalize monetary policy after a protracted period of artificially low interest rates, yield - starved investors» concerns have shifted to worries over the impact rising interest rates may have on their portfolio.

An interest rate that may change over the life of the policy but offers a minimum guaranteed rate

I'm a dividend growth investor who is seeking passive dividend income that increases annually over the rate of inflation, and Intel just didn't seem to have my best interests in mind in regards to the dividend policy.

You should ask insurance agent for an illustration of how the policy would work over time as interest rates and other factors change.

Stock and bond prices may fall or fail to rise over time for several reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions (including, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates), changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer or industry.

Policymakers said the current policy stance remains appropriate although higher interest rates will likely be required over time.

The cash value typically grows over time and often earns a rate of interest, depending on the type of policy.

When you hedge foreign currency exposure, you also give up any real interest rate differential over the long - term, and given the general profile of real interest rates internationally versus the U.S., fully hedging currency exposure hasn't been a good long - term policy.

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.