Sentences with phrase «policy rate decision»

Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins discusses key issues involved in the Governing Council's deliberations about the policy rate decision and the MPR.

The Bank's latest policy rate decision announced earlier this week continued to highlight the recent strength of the economy and the steady and synchronized pickup in economic activity globally.

Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins discusses key issues involved in the Governing Council's deliberations about the policy rate decision and the MPR.

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STOCKHOLM - Riksbank interest rate decision and monetary policy report - 0730 GMT.

The Fed's decision to edge off of a crisis - level rate policy was long anticipated and experts say this first rate hike in nearly a decade might not have much of an impact overall.

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 asymmetry of prospective rate moves in different parts of the curve with short rates at the zero lower bound, explicit forward guidance about future policy decisions and massive asset purchase programs may result in a higher likelihood of one - sided markets, which may in turn impair liquidity, or at least lead one to conclude from liquidity indicators that markets have become more illiquid.

«Brexit is so uncertain... Trying to forecast exactly what it's going to do to growth, to sterling and therefore to inflation and therefore to the Bank of England's policy is very, very difficult,» Rob Wood, chief economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told CNBC before the rate decision on Thursday.

His normally boilerplate explanation for his interest rate decision contained a new line: «Some modest withdrawal of the present considerable monetary policy stimulus may become appropriate.»

«Trade policy developments are an important and growing source of uncertainty for the global and Canadian outlooks,» the bank said in a statement Wednesday that accompanied its latest rate decision.

The increase in the benchmark rate, when it comes, likely will be followed by one or more decisions to leave policy unchanged.

The RBI is set to announce its monetary policy decision later Tuesday, with the market forecasting a 25 basis points cut in policy rates.

Australia's central bank left its cash rate at 1.5 percent, a widely expected decision given policy makers have signaled a steady outlook.

OSLO - Norway Central Bank holds Announcement of the Executive Board's interest rate decision and publication of Monetary Policy followed by press conference 0900 GMT STOCKHOLM - Riksbank executive board meeting 0800 GMT.

The animal - welfare standards, along with the company's sustainable - seafood policy (it sells no fish at low levels of abundance), Responsibly Grown ratings, and decision to become the first national grocery chain to label whether products contain genetically modified organisms, all show a bit of Mackey's libertarian streak.

While the central banker is expected to hold off from raising borrowing costs for a second straight policy decision on Wednesday, and retain a degree of prudence in his rhetoric, Poloz will probably face mounting pressure to return to the rate - hike path soon, with inflation and growth beginning to pick up.

Such information is used in monetary policy decisions including whether to raise or lower interest rates.

Asked about the move to reveal the rate cut discussion only after the rate decision was released, a spokeswoman for the central bank said Poloz's open statement to reporters is designed to fill the gap between the quarterly monetary policy report and press release announcing the rate decision.

Specifically referring to said policy decisions, Gundlach said he is «amazed» when commentators say the Fed could possibly raise interest rates in 2012 or 2013.

The Fed's decision to raise its key interest rate in December 2015 marked the beginning of the end of an unprecedented era of monetary policy.

The New York City area, with its many interest rate - sensitive industries, has prospered when decision - makers in the public and private sectors could have confidence that the Federal Reserve was committed to a rigorous set of policies that promoted price stability, in a growth - oriented economic environment.

The decision by the central bank's policy setting panel was in line with the expectations of markets and economists, who had given only low odds to governor Mark Carney removing a mild bias towards raising rates sometime.

It seems to me if the Fed continues to give its first priority to price stability, manifested in decisions to raise rates under questionable decision rules that elevate inflation - fighting over full employment, it will be pursuing policy objectives at odds with the wishes of the American people.

In its statement, the central bank also highlighted unknowns around U.S. President - elect Donald Trump's policies in a rate decision that underplayed recent signs of a rebound.

The decision Tuesday was the 18th consecutive time Carney has kept the policy rate at one per cent, comprising over two years, the longest stretch of stability since the 1950s.

Nor is it uncommon for the central bank to move at rate decisions that aren't accompanied by its so - called Monetary Policy Reports (MPR).

The ongoing US recovery, the new US administration's decision to restart the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline and other energy projects, and further policy measures, including tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending, could boost both demand and business confidence, igniting animal spirits and leading to an acceleration in the rates of investment, firm creation and innovation.

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.

Seeking to achieve this rate, on average, provides discipline for monetary policy decision - making, and serves as an anchor for private sector inflation expectations.

Monetary policy decisions involve setting the interest rate on overnight loans in the money market.

Many people are familiar with the FED's monetary policy responsibilities, including the FOMC meetings, Federal Funds Rate decisions, Fed Chair's press conference, as well as various unconventional policies.

Previous analysis illustrated that the 3 - month Treasury Bill rate tracks the federal funds rate and is then sensitive to both actual and expected monetary policy decisions while the yield curve has historically signaled a recession 12 to 18 months into the future.

However, when one considers that more than half the gains in the S&P 500 from 2008 until the end of 2015 (when the FOMC began raising rates) came on days the Fed announced policy decisions then we should prepare for some harsh market reactions.

Then, on the same day that ECB is releasing its interest rate decision, BOE is setting the monetary policy 45 minutes prior to the ECB's interest rate decision release.

From the perspective of secular stagnation theory, much of what people worry about in monetary policy is endogenous rather than exogenous — such as zero rates, conditions that give rise to negative long - term rates, decisions to expand balance sheets.

The Bank of Canada will update its economic forecasts in the quarterly Monetary Policy Report on Jan. 17, which will be accompanied by the latest interest rate decision and followed by a news conference in Ottawa with Poloz and senior deputy bank governor Carolyn Wilkins.

As today was central bank day in Europe, both the ECB and the BOE had rate decision meetings and left their current policies in place.

In the U.S. more recent policy driven examples include Paul Volcker's decision in 1980 to force the U.S. into a painful recession by elevating U.S. interest rates above 20 %.

Poloz himself has no control over the actions of the markets. And his response to any macroeconomic damage that results is limited to monetary policy adjustments (the next Bank of Canada interest rate decision is September 9), over which the Prime Minister is not supposed to have sway.

Against this background, the Board took the view at its June meeting that the economy had entered a period where the monetary policy decision would be whether to hold interest rates unchanged or to reduce them.

In Australia, as well as reflecting the favourable overseas developments, financial markets have been influenced by the run of strong local economic data, with the result that markets had begun to anticipate some tightening of monetary policy ahead of the Board's November decision, though a rise in cash rates had only been fully priced for the December meeting.

The Fed is holding a two day policy meeting that will culminate at a rate decision on Wednesday.

Some call the data from the survey «dangerous» because lower response rates obscure who is faring better and who is worse off — which could lead to misguided policy decisions in the years ahead.

Whether the decision to raise US rates is made at that meeting or postponed until the new year, for the first time in many decades, we could be entering a period of divergent monetary policy between the ECB and the Fed.

Concerns on international markets, related to the Fed's decision to keep its rates unchanged while signaling a policy tightening in the future, led to Greek stocks posting significant losses on Thursday, as the euro and the Greek bond prices continued their decline.

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.

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The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

And while a small portion of this fall reflects discretionary policy decisions, such as cuts in corporation tax rates, the vast bulk — 95 % - are non-discretionary forecast revisions.

Today, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Daniel Squadron released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s decision that changes to the Section 8 Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) policy — which could have had severe unintended consequences for NYC Section 8 tenants — will not apply to cities with low vacancy rates, like NYC.