Sentences with phrase «policy interest rate increases»

This renewed crisis in the Eurozone comes at a time when the European economies appear to be slowing down after a strong first quarter, and despite this, policy interest rate increases by the ECB are expected in the coming months.

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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.

Lane added some texture to the central bank's decision to increase interest rates, saying policy makers were encouraged by «widespread strength» in exports and business investment.

The 30 - day Fed Fund futures can be used as a guide to predict when the Fed might increase interest rates since the prices are an expression of trader's views on the likelihood of changes in U.S. monetary policy.

The most important policy action for mitigating the damage of a recession is for the central bank to keep interest rates low, according to the respondents, followed by increasing spending on transportation and other infrastructure projects.

Under that policy, the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates low and engaged for period of years in a campaign of aggressive bond purchases that have increased monetary supply and bolstered the stock market.

In response to economic weakness, central banks often enact policy that increases the money supply, promotes inflation and reduces interest rates.

This implies any given increase in policy interest rates is likely to have a bigger economic impact than was the case pre-crisis.

According to commodity guru Jim Rogers, this is illustrated by a string of Quantitative Easings by the U.S. Fed, an ultra-low interest rate policy and ever - increasing U.S. debt.

After a number of years of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP), the increase in rates stopped for around 11 months until December 2016 when the Federal Reserve promised to increase interest rates by 25 basisInterest Rate Policy (ZIRP), the increase in rates stopped for around 11 months until December 2016 when the Federal Reserve promised to increase interest rates by 25 basisinterest rates by 25 basis points.

The central bank's negative interest - rate policy - which effectively charges commercial lenders for deposits - has also increased pressure on lenders to put money to work, prompting Japan's roughly 100 regional banks to raise efficiency or merge.

Rapidly increasing interest rates causing contract holders to surrender life insurance and annuity policies, thereby causing realized investment losses, and reduced hedge performance related to variable annuities;

It's true that demographic forces are leading to slower growth in the labour force, which reduces the neutral interest rate in the economy and increases the chances that monetary policy will be constrained by the lower bound on interest rates.

Central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) use monetary policy tactics, including interest rate moves and increasing or decreasing the monetary supply, to try and influence the level of inflation, stimulate the economy and spur employment.

Early in the summer interest rates increased fairly dramatically when the Fed suggested that monetary policy would soon become less accommodating (what became known as «the taper»), and we became hopeful that attractive opportunities would develop.

Policy makers also are worried that a decade of ultra-low borrowing costs has made Canadians extra-sensitive to interest - rate increases, which could force the central bank to take a slower path back to normal.

Measured across all loan products, and taking into account changes in customer risk margins, however, it seems that interest rates paid on average by small businesses have increased by a little less than the rise in interest rates directly due to the tightening of monetary policy.

Current market pricing suggests that an interest rate increase at the March 14 - 15 policy meeting is all but a done deal, a move that would bring the Fed's benchmark interest rate target range to 1.5 % -1.75 %.

Notwithstanding the recent increases in interest rates, the stance of monetary policy is not unduly restricting growth at present.

The Bank of England confused markets as they voted 7 - 2 to sustain the current interest rate policy, even though consensus assumed a 25 basis point increase.

Additionally, the price for a standard UL policy can increase as you age if the illustrated interest rates drop or the internal cost of insurance increases.

Federal Reserve policy makers are set to meet next week, and while there is little expectation that an interest - rate increase will be announced when the meeting ends on Wednesday, the latest economic reading could sway the Fed's outlook.

Hints of a tighter monetary policy from the ECB and anunlikely interest rate increase from the SNB confirm that both central banksare moving in opposite directions.

The Bank of Canada has also increased its interest rate, reversing some of the policy insurance it took out earlier when the outlook was less positive.

Since we last met, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates twice and the policy rate in the United States now stands at 1 1/4 per cent.

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

Nevertheless, the apparent success of the ECB's policy in overcoming the threat of deflation increased speculation about a potential tightening of monetary policy, possibly even before the cessation of the central bank's bond purchases — scheduled to continue for at least the rest of the year — and in the wake of the ECB meeting pushed market estimates of the odds of a rise in official interest rates before the end of 2017 to more than 50 %.

Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.

In the boom, optimism and the search for yield pushed down the risk premia that were built into the interest rates offered to borrowers, and this may have diluted the effect of any increases in policy rates on the ultimate cost of funds.

Those who run the Fed are despondent that despite implementing for eight YEARS an interest rate policy specifically designed to enable Obama to create a totally false illusion of economic «recovery» by massively increasing government spending with trillions of phony, deficit, zero - interest - rate «dollars,» the people saw through the economic lie and defeated the Fed's next intended puppet, Clinton.

The Fed leaves its benchmark interest rate steady, but it signaled that an increase was likely at its next policy meeting in March.

This policy not only led to a decline in shorter - maturity interest rates below zero, but also increased financial institutions» preferences for holding JGBs, even with super-long-term maturities.

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.

Although U.S. interest rates could stay lower than in previous rate cycles as Fed policy very slowly normalizes, investors remain concerned about the impact of rate increases on their fixed income returns.

At the same time, ruling out any increase in interest rates while bond purchases are scaled back, in our view, signals ECB President Mario Draghi's determination to resist any political pressure to speed up the process of normalizing monetary policy.

After the unexpectedly rapid turnaround in monetary policy by the Bank of Canada — with July's increase in Canadian interest rates coming almost a year earlier than had been widely predicted only a few weeks earlier — the attention of market participants turned to Australia, where interest rates remained at record lows.

In response to the threat from inflation, which in August of this year reached a 16 - year high, Mexico's central bank sharply tightened monetary policy, increasing interest rates at seven consecutive meetings up to June.

Nevertheless, in light of the latest sluggish inflation figures and dovish comments by a number of Fed officials, there was increased skepticism among many market participants about whether policymakers would go ahead and implement another rise in interest rates before the end of the year, as indicated by the Fed's projections for 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.»

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«Our main concern here about these fiscal projections relates to their implications for monetary policy and, in particular, whether the fiscal stance - which is even looser than was first forecast by the Treasury - contributed to increases in interest rates,» the committee's report The Current State of Monetary Policy spolicy and, in particular, whether the fiscal stance - which is even looser than was first forecast by the Treasury - contributed to increases in interest rates,» the committee's report The Current State of Monetary Policy sPolicy states.

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In the short run, increasing federal spending and / or reducing taxes can promote more employment and output, but these policies also put upward pressure on the price level and interest rates.

The burden is even more problematic if you consider the country's high interest rates — the policy rate was just raised to 12.75 %, one of the highest among major economies — which dramatically increase the costs of servicing debt.

In recent years, the monetary easing policy has suppressed interest rates and increased the money supply in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity.

Excess premium payments result in increase policy cash value and contribute to policy stability as interest rates fluctuate.

The jobs report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on the first Friday of every month and the Federal Reserve's policy meetings — which take place every six to eight weeks — can be good indicators as to whether interest rates will increase or decrease.

The policy has a guaranteed 4 % interest rate, plus life insurance dividends, increasing your total dividend rate to 6 or 7 % presently.

As we had seen following the BoJ announcement on September 24, the movement away from signaling ever increasing amounts of QE and negative interest rate policy (NIRP) means a better environment for bank stocks, as steeper yield curves imply better margins and higher profits for banks.