Sentences with phrase «policy meeting ended»

The Fed policy meeting ended with no change, as expected, while the central bank expressed confidence a recent rise in inflation to near target would be sustained, leaving it on track to raise borrowing costs in June.

A two - day Federal Reserve policy meeting ended Wednesday with no change in rates, as expected, while the U.S. central bank said inflation had «moved close» to its target, leaving it on track to raise borrowing costs in June.

But unless there is some material news out of Europe, investors will probably be focused on what the Fed has to say when its policy meeting ends at around 2:15 P.M. EST..

Not exact matches

When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced an end to the company's work - from - home policy in early 2013, she was met with sharp criticism for taking away her employees» flexibility.

But it removed such statement from its communication Thursday, following a monetary policy meeting, indicating that stimulus in the region could come to an end in the near future.

In a statement following the end of a two - day policy meeting, the Fed also said that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

The Fed ended its latest policy meeting by leaving its key short - term rate unchanged at 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent, the level it set in March after its sixth rate increase...

The Fed has forecast three rate hikes in 2018, but economists expect that will be revised up when the central bank publishes its projections at the end of the March 20 - 21 policy meeting.

While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.

The agreement, which came into effect in January 2017, has already been extended through until the end of this year — with producers scheduled to meet in June to review policy.

* GOLD: Gold prices rose for a second session on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady as expected at the end of a two - day policy meeting, while investors awaited U.S. - China trade talks.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

The session ends with a mock FOMC meeting in our board room that culminates in the formulation of a policy recommendation.

Prior to February 2009, the policy provided that at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director had served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant.

In a statement after the end of the two - day policy meeting, the central bank said, «The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative, thereby supporting strong labour market conditions and a sustained return to 2 per cent inflation.»

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)-- The Federal Reserve will hold policy steady at the end of its two - day meeting today but is likely more comfortable with a plan to raise interest rates in September than investors now realize, according to a keen outside observer of the U.S. central bank.

However, the big question facing market experts is: «Will the ECB signal an end to asset purchases when they meet in December, or will they continue with the current easy - money policy?»

In the press conference that followed the monetary - policy meeting, the president of Europe's central bank, Mario Draghi, stated that interest rates will remain at current levels well past the end of the bank's asset - purchase program, carried out along with reinvesting principle payments from maturing securities.

Investors have all but priced out the chance of a rate hike at the end of the Fed's two - day policy meeting on Wednesday, particularly given its adherence in recent years to only raising rates at meetings that are followed by press conferences.

They have extended the pact until the end of 2018, and meet on June 22 to review policy.

With economic conditions in Japan improving in recent months, the Bank of Japan had begun to prime markets for an end to its zero interest rate policy at its 17 July meeting but, in the event, the collapse of a large Japanese retailer, Sogo Co, prompted the Bank to hold off its decision.

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.

In a statement ending its latest policy meeting, the Fed boosted its key short - term rate Wednesday by a modest quarter - point to a still - low range of 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent.

Urban municipalities conference The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association held their annual general meeting at the end of November where they debated and adopted a series of new policies.

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 %.

The U.S. dollar weakened during what was a choppy session a day after the Federal Reserve ended a policy meeting with no change in rates and a less hawkish statement than investors had anticipated.

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«Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term,» the Fed said in its policy statement following the end of a two - day meeting.

With her term ending Feb. 3 — three days after leading her last monetary policy meeting in which no new action is expected — Yellen won't have the chance to leave the kind of mark left by her recent predecessors.

In a statement ending its latest policy meeting, the Fed boosted its key short - term rate Wednesday by a modest quarter - point to a still - low range of 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent.

In all likelihood they will then need to sell their best players to make ends meet which will mean they will have to hope their youth policy is producing some top financially viable talent so that they can keep themselves from suffering successive relegations.

The U.K. IBFAN group, Baby Milk Action, acts as the secretariat for INBC, which has a standing agreement to meet with Nestlé collectively to discuss ending the boycott, when the company has anything meaningful to put forward to demonstrate a change in its policy and practices.

Franklin opened the meeting with an explanation of the campaign's mission to «reduce crime, disease, death and addiction by ending the most socially destructive public policy since slavery.»

«With State taxation rates impacted by federal policy, the elimination of this deduction would amount to a double tax on New Yorkers who struggle to make ends meet as it is.

As a result of this policy, we now see people struggling to make ends meet, forced into the ever - willing arms of payday loan companies who, on the face of it appear to be offering help and financial security.

«To that end, as the Attorney General and the legislature appear open to revising their policies, the Governor's office will convene a meeting with representatives from the legislature, the Attorney General and the Comptroller to come up with one uniform email retention and FOIL policy that applies to all State officials and agencies.»

Trump had been publicly discussing ending the agreement, so one could argue that Kerry may have broken the spirit of the law, (or you could argue that he was simply acting as a lobbyist and 100 % legally because the meeting was regarding existing policy), but even if you take the argument that he deliberately went against what Trump was proposing as a likely outcome, Kerry didn't violate the Logan act because it was still policy at the time.

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Cabrera's «war for our children» led him to lead a 2012 march over the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the Department of Education end its policy barring church congregations from meeting in public schools.

According to the New Statesman, the only MPs still pushing for a policy of opposing air strikes at the end of the meeting were Diane Abbott and Jon Trickett.

This was contained in the economic and financial data released by the central bank at the end of its Monetary Policy Committee meeting.

The long - discussed issue of the Buffalo School District's gender identity policy was voted on at Wednesday night's meeting of the School Board, and the meeting ended in celebration.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

The meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, which began on Monday, has ended today (Tuesday), with all key...

Today it's getting harder and harder for families in Western New York to make ends meet because of unfair labor practices and Washington's failed trade policies.

When, in the autumn of 1979, the group of policy - makers around Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson met at the party conference to discuss ending exchange controls, they were unsure whether she would back them.

At the end of the meeting, there was a commitment from the Secretary to continue a dialogue with Wastewatch, with a follow - up meeting to discuss the specifics identified in the proposed Policy initiative.

At the White House Correspondents» Dinner earlier this year, President Barack Obama owned the stage with one - line zingers referring to Prince George's «slap in the face» when he met him in his bathrobe, Trump's lack of foreign policy experience, and ended his speech with the words «Obama out», before dropping the mic.

At the end of the film we meet the real Susette Kelo, standing on an empty lot where her little pink house was razed because of appalling policy backed by outrageous jurisprudence.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.