Sentences with phrase «pace of rate hikes for»

Some investors had speculated that Powell might move to impose his mark on the Fed by signalling a faster pace of rate hikes for 2018.

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Gold slid to a four - month low on Tuesday as the dollar strengthened ahead of a US Federal Reserve policy meeting that is being watched for clues on the future pace of interest rate hikes.

The U.S. Federal Reserve is also due to meet this week, and while no rate hike is expected, investors will look for clues on the future pace of hikes.

The Federal Reserve is also due to meet this week, and while no rate hike in benchmark U.S. interest rates is expected, investors will look for clues on the future pace of increases.

«I'm convinced that the «plan» is to go «lower» in terms of pace of buying, for «longer» in the hope of pushing out expectations about rate hikes,» Kit Juckes, an analyst at Société Générale, said.

For now, these factors suggest that the Fed will remain on pause for the next few months at least, the pace of rate normalization will be slow and the central bank will probably be limited to one, or even no, hikes this yeFor now, these factors suggest that the Fed will remain on pause for the next few months at least, the pace of rate normalization will be slow and the central bank will probably be limited to one, or even no, hikes this yefor the next few months at least, the pace of rate normalization will be slow and the central bank will probably be limited to one, or even no, hikes this year.

Though it's anyone's guess how the data might influence the Fed's thinking about the pace of rate hikes, the contrasting views of policymakers suggest that now may be time for investors to model the impact of the three scenarios on their portfolios.

«It is too soon for FOMC participants to begin raising longer run dots with the view that the longer run neutral rate is rising, but it's not too soon for participants to increase the pace of projected rate hikes,»» Hornbach says.

The US Dollar index hit new highs for the year ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision later today, where it's expected they will continue to signal further rate hikes as the US economy grows at a reasonable pace.

Will he, for example, be inclined to step up the pace of Fed rate hikes?

Retail investors turned net redeemers from Emerging Markets Bond Funds going into the final week of April, and Frontier Markets Bond Funds posted their first outflow since mid-December as fears of a more rapid pace for U.S. interest rate hikes cooled appetites for this asset class.

With the UK economy gradually picking up pace and inflation rising on the back of a weaker currency, the UK's central bank may finally go ahead with a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate - bond purchases untouched at # 435 and # 10 billion respectively.

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.

Therefore he will continue hiking rates at a measured pace for as long as economic numbers are relatively strong regardless of financial market movements.

But at least for 2018, we see little chance of the Fed increasing rates beyond a quarterly pace of 25 - basis - point rate hikes.

Investors also raised their outlook for the pace of tightening by the Federal Reserve, meaning that they now view four rate hikes this year as more likely.

Combining the current pace of the QE taper, Yellen's comments about when rate hikes would be likely to follow that, and Rosenberg's article on how bull markets have typically responded to Fed rate hikes, it's not at all hard to build a case for this bull market continuing to run for quite some time — easily another year or more.

1) No change in the dot - plot: If the Fed does not change the projection for a total of three hikes in 2018, this means a slower pace of rate hikes and a better environment for alternative assets such as cryptocurrencies.