Sentences with phrase «point it would raise interest»

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At the March 20 - 21 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.50 % to 1.75 %, as had been widely expected.

«There are signs on the horizon we are finally coming out of that environment,» he said, pointing to the fact that the Federal Reserve had begun to raise interest rates and employment was growing.

That's because it will be one of the few remaining data points that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee will have before they decide whether or not to begin the process of raising interest rates at their upcoming meeting December 15th and 16th.

The Federal Reserve had been expected to raise its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

The record high levels of consumer debt among Canadians has also raised a red flag from Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and others who have warned that interest rates will rise at some point — raising the cost of borrowing.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

As widely expected by the markets, the Fed raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday and upgraded its economic outlook, saying that economic activity and jobs gains had been strong in recent months.

It could be because of various socioeconomic factors, but most say it would be at the point where the Fed raises interest rates too high and the yield curve inverts.

In the past year the PBoC has raised interest rates by roughly 125 basis points.

The Bank of Canada has already raised interest rates three times since July, but the benchmark rate is still three - quarters of a percentage point below the 2 - per - cent inflation target.

The Federal Open Market Committee has raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, in its attempt to leave zero rates behind.

Having just raised interest rates at their last meeting, the Fed has no plans to follow up in May but Fed fund futures show a 93 % chance of a quarter point rate hike the following month when economic projections are updated and Jerome Powell holds a press conference.

US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Janet Yellen gave the clearest indication yet that the central bank is likely to start raising interest rates later this year when she said in a speech on July 10 that she expected it would be «appropriate at some point later this year to take the first step to raise the federal funds rate and thus begin normalizing monetary policy.»

Without going into the extensive limitations of such models or the longer - term implications for raising interest rates, we would just highlight that the impact of a 100 basis point move in policy rates in both central bank models are surprisingly similar in the short - term.

The Federal Reserve (Fed) raised interest rates last week as we had long expected, lifting rates by a quarter point.

At TSI over the past year and at the TSI Blog two months ago I've made the point that the Fed gave itself the ability to pay interest on bank reserves so that the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) could be raised without the need to shrink bank reserves and the economy - wide money supply.

Certainly the Japanese, so its all being done so — with the — Donald Trump wanting to turn around the trade deficit, you can't help but say hey maybe they are actually onto something because they have an independent central bank well --(unintelligible) the independent central bank that goes upon its course based on what its seeing here you know based on domestic economic activity, while everybody else is setting it to international standards then tariffs become the — I guess the alternative especially when the feds is raising the interest rates and they're the only central bank really raising interest rates... I know... the bank of England went half a basis point, quarter basis point and they are project to go a quarter basis point tomorrow which we will see.

The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee said on Dec. 13 it would raise its target range for the federal funds interest rate by a quarter point, to between 1.25 percent and 1.5 percent.

The main point of all my writing on this subject has been to raise our sights above what Pope John Paul II called «economism» — a view of economies driven solely by a materialist, economic understanding of self - interest, the profit motive, cupidity, and greed, and a denial of all the nobler human aspirations.

And these conclusions are (or should be) still relevant to contemporary debates regarding the family, since they make the case that the public, and therefore government, has a legitimate interest in stable families (up to a point, that is, the point at which children have been raised) and therefore in the sexual morality that protects the marital bond.

Those whose interest in the religions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith.

I think some very interesting points have been raised, specifically 1) the public relations issue Mixon might create for the Vikings.

Some interesting points have been raised by Everton boss David Moyes, perhaps still reflecting on his Five Years in charge of the club, as he ponders the seemingly one - way traffic of managers between the Premiership and the continent,

If Monaco point towards the Naymer transfer and raise their price again it might be worth passing on Lemar and go for Dybala, Juve have put a 140mil euro price tag on his head as Barca are rumored to be interested in him.

I wouldn't expect anything else from you and you raise some very interesting points.

An interesting point was raised in a recent meeting I had for the need for both protest groups and concerned citizens such as ourselves be prepared at future demonstrations of this magnitude for both the police spin and that parts of the media who will just pick up police press releases as undisputed fact.

Chairman of Public Safety, Councilman Peter Vallone (D - Astoria) raised an interesting point in opposition to Intro 656.

But Mr. Dean hasn't shown any interest to this point in running, and you might recall that his 2004 campaign, for all its passion and fund - raising prowess, yielded just two primary victories, in the District of Columbia and in his home state of Vermont.

Duane said he would not accept funding from «corporate special interests,» while Forcina pointed out that the money his campaign has raised has primarily been from northeast Queens.

«They raised vast amounts of money from hedge funds that were interested in very specific policy points and had them spend massive amounts of money in independent expenditures to deliver the policy that keeps them in power.»

Steve: It raises an interesting point about something that most people probably won't think about, but [that is that] veterinarians have a really important role in human health.

«Our results raise the interesting possibility that there's a genetic toolkit for this kind of behavior,» he says — a set of genes that have been used at several points in evolution to come up with similar behaviors.

Thankfully, in the examples I've heard, these were police officers making a point and not child predators, but it raises some interesting questions.

I will be reading all of them (up to the point, at least, that they degenerate into arguments between two or three particularly vociferous and contentious individuals), but I will be responding only to those that raise particularly interesting questions or issues, or point out any bone - head mistakes I may have made that need to be fixed.

Perhaps in the hands of a Robert Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson, Bobby might have gelled into something of a masterwork, but while Estevez falls short of hitting the bull's - eye, he at least hits the target with enough consistency to deliver a solid ensemble piece that raises interesting points about the late 1960s, with an eye toward today's similar situations.

I'm sure I'll see it eventually, but if they haven't managed to raise an iota of interest from me in twelve months, I can't believe anything will make me want to run out and watch it at this point.

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

The UK's Education Act 2011 points to an interesting approach: it raises academic accountability by means of reforming qualifications, a concept almost unheard of in American education politics, which practices giving out money to students primarily in proportion to their poverty instead of to their having earned that public support.

While Schumer seems to be defending those involved in the price fixing scheme, he does raise an interesting point: in order for a market to succeed, there has to be choice.

However, the two raised some interesting points in the interview about how they have taken that format and adapted it to today's market with things like low order requirements (as little as fifty, compared to hundreds of copies through older vanity presses), the ability to return unsold titles for a refund, and more.

I believe it would raise some interesting points for conversation on motherhood, luck and the «payback fairy» (Carol F).

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Another interesting point that Griese raises is that the world of subsidary publishing has just consolidated even more.

She also points to audiovisual rights as a growth area, citing the Guadalajara Film Festival's interest in bringing publishers into contact with film producers, given that so many movies are adaptations of novels and that the Mexican film industry has raised its profile in recent years.

At 4.38 % as of March 2017, according to Bankrate, the rate on a 30 - year fixed mortgage has increased by 81 basis point since before the election, in which time the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates once.

The U.S. Federal Reserve has already started to raise its key interest rate with the latest quarter point increase on Wednesday to a range of one per cent to 1.25 per cent.

This doesn't seem to make sense, unless we assume the whole point of these offers is to lure people in and then jack up the interest rate by hook or crook (if the customer defaults on her own, well and good, and if the customer insists on paying on time, Chase will force a default by raising the minimum payment to a point that the customer can't make the payment and has to default).

If rates were at 2.50 %, and the Fed raised them by 0.25 %, or 25 basis points, the new interest rate would be 2.75 %.

If the Federal Reserve Board raises the target interest rate by 25 basis points, it means that rates have risen by 0.25 % percentage points.

The Bank of England raised interest rates from their historic 0.25 % low in November 2017, though only by 0.25 percentage points and it indicated further rate rises would be slow and gradual.