Sentences with phrase «policy announcement today»

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Governor Poloz and I are pleased to be here to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement and our Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

We are happy to be here to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement, and our October Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged in today's monetary policy announcement, but firmer inflation in recent months lays the foundation for hikes in the months ahead.

Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I are happy to be here with you again to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement, and our latest Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's announcement regarding electricity regulations and a just transition for workers: «The regulations announced today mark important progress in implementing the federal government's commitment to cut carbon pollution, but equally important is recognizing that clean growth...

Governor Poloz and I are pleased to be here to talk about today's interest rate announcement and our Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I are pleased to be back to answer your questions about today's interest rate announcement and our Monetary Policy Report (MPR).

Washington DC — Wine Institute, the public policy advocacy group for California wineries, applauds today's announcement by the U.S. government requesting formal World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the Government of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery store shelves.

Commenting today on the Government's announcement that it will support a new build indemnity scheme, Paul Broadhead, BSA Head of Mortgage Policy, said:

After roundly castigating fellow Democrats and Republicans alike during his announcement speech yesterday and proposing a host of policy positions that seemed tailor - made to get under the speaker's skin, Cuomo today dodged the question about Silver, (the longest - serving legislative leader in Albany), saying it's not his place to determine who leads either house.

Commenting on specific announcements made today (Wednesday) in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement and Spending Review, Simon Whalley, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the Royal Aeronautical Society, said:

There's no mention of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's formal announcement later today, but Senate hopeful Wendy Long released a statement this morning backing Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «stop and frisk» policy.

Interviewed on Friday night's Today in Parliament programme Mr Hollobone said the situation has been getting worse and that the Coalition was now «routinely leaking» policy announcements to the media.

At best Fallon's intervention today will have moved on the debate from Labour's popular non-dom tax policy announcement.

As predicted, the Senate Democrats are seizing on today's «Race to the Top» announcement, declaring both a policy and political victory in their ability to push through changes that helped again push New York into the list of finalists for federal education cash.

Mr. de Blasio's announcement today follows a flurry of similar policy initiatives that Mr. Cuomo, after his skepticism of the State Legislature, rolled out unilaterally over the last year: first, a $ 15 - an - hour wage for fast food workers through a special wage board, then the same for state public employees last November, and most recently for SUNY employees Monday — complete with a call for the city to follow.

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, made this announcement on the floor of Parliament today, Wednesday, November 15, whilst presenting the government's budget and policy statement for 2018.

As one of the few major policies of today's Budget that had not been leaked, Labour backbenchers cheered the announcement as the Conservatives were heard to gasp in surprise.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has expressed disappointment at today's announcement that Disincorporation Relief will not be extended beyond its current March 2018 expiry date.1 The relief was created to address the problems faced by some small businesses that have chosen to be a limited company in the past and want to return to a simpler legal form, be it a sole trader or a partnership or a limited liability partnership.2 While there has been a very low take up of Disincorporation Relief since it was introduced in 2013 (fewer than 50 claims had been made as of March 2016) the CIOT has suggested3 that the relief might be more popular if it was broader.4 John Cullinane, CIOT Tax Policy Director, said: «It's a shame the Government are letting this relief lapse.

Commenting on today's announcement of extra resources for tackling tax avoidance, evasion and fraud, John Whiting, Tax Policy Director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), said:

Yvonne Braun, ABI Director of Long Term Savings Policy, comments: «We note the announcement by the Chancellor today that he plans to introduce a new duty on the FCA to cap exit charges on pensions.

Moira Kelly, chair of the CIOT Scottish Technical Committee, said: «Scottish taxpayers and their advisers will be breathing a sigh of relief today thanks to the Chancellor's decision to stick to his plan to deliver a streamlined Spring Statement light on new tax policy announcements.

«This was a consequence of the Government's flawed policy of giving excessive freedom to academies and free schools, freedom which today's announcement now seeks to curtail and is clearly an admission of yet another failed policy.»

That rhetorical sign - post led to today's policy announcement.

The Government is today announcing a large - scale investment in the intercity trains network, following hot on the heels of the Conservatives» announcement yesterday of the conclusions of its own review of rail policy.

And today's announcement by David Cameron, promising that a future Conservative government would make it easier to set up independent schools within the state sector, prompted schools minister Jim Knight to remark: «Cameron has had to accept that the Government's policy of encouraging headteachers to operate setting in individual subjects is the best policy.»

«You claimed at Prime Minister's Questions today that «yesterday Labour announced — in an important announcement — that it is now their policy to put up taxes on middle income people».

Despite some grumbling, today's NSF announcement marks a milestone: It means that essentially all of the major U.S. federal science agencies now have a public - access policy.

The prize announcement, made by the Asahi Glass Foundation here today, also cites both men for their efforts to influence policy.

The idea is now policy with President Obama's announcement today of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

Commenting on today's government announcement, Julie McCulloch, interim director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We need a system which better reflects the entirety of their schooling and the vital work in the infant years, and we therefore support a light - touch assessment near the beginning of reception which will provide an earlier starting point for measuring progress and give parents a more complete picture.

Ofqual's chief regulator Glenys Stacey said: Today's announcement clarifies how curriculum and qualification policies will be introduced in England in future.

But more importantly, today brings us the Federal Open Market Committee meeting announcement with its policy decisions and brief comments on the FOMC's view of the economy and how FOMC members voted.

The topic today is about a recent announcement from Citibank about its credit card usage and interest rate policy.

One of the key pieces to highlight from today's announcement is that «uncertainty about the global outlook is undiminished, particularly with respect to policies in the United States.»

In their policy rate announcement today they said financial conditions in Canada have

Microsoft made a big announcement today when Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb (a.k.a. Major Nelson) revealed that the policies surrounding the Xbox One have been overhauled yet again.

The United States made a splash today with Energy Secretary Steven Chu «s (pictured right) announcement of an international plan to deploy clean technology globally (with a strong emphasis on developing countries)- the Climate Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI) will include three clean technology programs focusing on solar and LED lighting, efficient appliances and equipment, and policy and technical support for countries planning for renewable energy.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) released an updated version of its Energy Poverty video, elaborating on the terrible human cost of «climate» policies (with no actual projected impact on climate), noting political and legal developments since President Trump's dramatic announcement on June 1, 2017, that the United States would withdraw from the -LSB-...]

With Rep. Waxman's (D - California) announcement that he will retire at the end of his current term, I'm reminded that, seven years ago today, I testified before this champion of climate science and policy when he held his first hearing as... Continue reading →

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to today's announcement by European Finance Ministers that advances the proposed European regional Financial Transaction Tax, Friends of the Earth's Senior International Policy Analyst Karen Orenstein said the following: Ten major European countries made progress today in advancing a regional financial transaction tax, popularly known as a Robin Hood Tax.

«Today's announcement is another powerful signal of just how bleak the outlook for nuclear in the United States is, a result of a hollowed - out nuclear industry, cheap gas, falling renewable costs and inadequate policies to account for the climate change costs of carbon emissions,» said Jason Bordoff, director of the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to today's announcement by European Finance Ministers that advances the proposed European regional Financial Transaction Tax, Friends of the Earth's Senior International Policy Analyst Karen Orenstein said the following: Ten major European countries made progress today in advancing a regional financial transaction tax, popularly known as...

Twitter's big news this week is its announcement that it's now enforcing its new policies around hateful content and abuse, but today the company is rolling out something new for developers, as well: an enterprise - level API providing access to real - time activities like tweets, retweets, likes and follows.

In a statement, Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of global policy, said, «Today's news confirms our announcement last year that foreign actors conducted a coordinated and sustained effort to attack our democracy.

Although today's policy changes don't directly affect the non-disclosure agreements already in place, the tone of the announcement, along with a clarification from May, gives us hope that more transparency is on the way.

In response to the news of the governor's announcement calling for today's special session, M'Evie Mead, director of policy and organizing for Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri, told Missourinet News: «What I think Governor Greitens appears to be doing is making up solutions in search of a problem that doesn't exist.»

Chief Executive of Triple P UK, Matt Buttery, today praised the announcement by the Prime Minister which brings Government policy into line with clinical best practice recommendations.