Sentences with phrase «putting upward»

The demand for rental housing has increased substantially in some markets, putting upward pressure on rents.

The aging of the baby boomer generation, increased life expectancy, and deteriorating dependency ratios are putting upward pressure on the government's implicit liabilities and debt.

Demand for homes in the East Bay remains high with inventory shortages relative to demand persisting in 2017 putting upward pressure on sales prices.

In short, limited supply combined with steady demand is putting upward pressure on home prices.

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«Rising material prices, particularly lumber, along with chronic shortages of buildable lots and skilled labor are putting upward pressure on home prices and impeding a more robust housing recovery.»

«The expectation of future Fed rate hikes and increased borrowing by the U.S. Treasury is putting upward pressure on interest rates.

«On the contrary, new home construction needs to rise by at least 50 percent for a complete return to a balanced market because supply shortages — particularly in the West — are still putting upward pressure on prices.»

This technical evolution is occurring at the same time that overall electric demand growth has been stagnant for several years and rising infrastructure requirements are putting upward pressure on the price of delivered electricity.

To sum up, rescue buying of breeding stock at auction puts downward pressure on the profits of the puppy mill industry by putting upward pressure on the cost of production.

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The aging of the baby boomer generation, increased life expectancy, and deteriorating dependency ratios are putting upward pressure on the government's implicit liabilities and debt.

Another factor putting upward pressure on food prices is rising ethanol production.

Hints that an economic recovery is taking hold in the United States are putting upward pressure on rates.

The economy is growing faster than its long term potential growth, putting upward pressure on interest rates.

«Lower enrollment among healthy individuals would likely result, especially if they would have to pay the premium surcharge due to having prior gaps in coverage, putting upward pressure on premiums, all else equal,» the nonpartisan group wrote in a March 2017 letter to Congress.

Many of those jobs have been in service sectors which, unlike manufacturing, have been growing and even putting upward pressure on inflation in those sectors.

Across the suite of volatility indexes quoted by CBOE several rose last week, earnings season is putting some upward pressure on the individual stock volatility indexes.

Another standard measure of the economy's ability to grow without putting upward pressure on prices is the «output gap,» which is the difference between current GDP and the non-inflationary level of output.

But market - making practices are clearly evolving, putting upward pressure on bid - ask spreads and trading costs, and causing activity to concentrate in the most liquid instruments and move away from the less liquid ones.

«The tight labor market is putting some upward pressure on wages, and this should continue as we look for the unemployment rate to trend lower,» said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

The main issue continues to be the potential for the Chinese economy to run too hot, putting upward pressures on the prices of goods and services and on housing prices.

Of course, the extra investment would also require companies to hire, putting upward pressure on wages and prices.

Some New York neighborhoods are more popular than others, putting upward pressure on home values and mortgage costs.

The wage demand, pushed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during intensive talks in Washington last week on modernizing the North American Free Tree Agreement, are aimed at preserving U.S. and Canadian auto production and putting upward pressure on Mexico's low auto wages.

Williams, who will leave his current job as San Francisco Fed president in June to take over at the New York Fed, also said he expects the Fed's shrinking balance sheet will help steepen the curve by putting upward pressure on longer - term rates.

Non-energy exporters were getting a bigger boost from the exchange rate than the Bank of Canada expected in October, putting upward pressure on inflation, he said.

Higher interest rates would put upward pressure on the U.S. dollar, making Canadian goods and services more competitive.

Amy Price, senior food and drink analyst at market research firm Mintel, told CNBC via email: «The deterioration in the exchange rate will put upward pressure on prices of imported goods, including wine.

But if all goes well for the global recovery, central bank activity and speculative demand will put upward pressure on the loonie this year, especially if the Bank of Canada increases rates before the U.S. Federal Reserve does.

To stage another fiscal drama just as the Federal Reserve starts to roll back its quantitative easing policy (which will put upward pressure on interest rates, including those on residential mortgages) would like banging pots and pans in the midst of an already distressed cattle.

Policy makers now say it will take until the middle of 2018 before Canada's economy is generating output at a level that would put upward pressure on inflation, «materially later» than was previously expected.

The central bank noted in its statement that «financial vulnerabilities in the household sector continue to edge higher,» which is the Governing Council's way of saying that ultra-low borrowing costs continue to put upward pressure on asset prices and personal debt.

«Clearly, these new appropriations will put upward pressure on the expenditure line.»

But it has shown several years of strong wage growth, and demand for qualified candidates is growing, which should put upward pressure on salaries in the coming years.

These three western cities are experiencing strong population growth, which has put some upward pressure on home prices.

This action increases the amount of Treasury bills in circulation, thereby creating a greater stock of investible assets for nonbank money market investors — an outcome that tends to put upward pressure on Treasury bill rates and potentially other term money market rates.

The buying action puts upward pressure on the stock.

The economy continues to gain strength, and the minutes said a decline in the foreign exchange value of the dollar was also likely to put upward pressure on inflation.

At the current stage of the expansion there are a number of factors that might be expected to put upward pressure on inflation.

but the reality is any export sector can be a booming sector and any booming sector if large enough can put upward pressure on a country's currency.

That in turn lowers the vacancy rate and puts upward pressure on Vancouver's rental rates.

Labor shortages are expected to cause wages to rise and put upward pressure on inflation.

The PBO identified four key downside risks to the private sector forecast: global growth, especially in the U.S. could be slower than anticipated; the appreciation of the Canadian dollar could adversely affect exports; sovereign debt issues in Europe could restrain recovery there and put upward pressure on global interest rates; and the high level of household debt in Canada could restrain domestic demand.

China's demand for resources to supply its industrial expansion has put upward pressure on prices for steel and its raw materials (iron ore, coking coal), and on the costs of shipping.

The difficulty of building in the metro will still put some upward pressure on rents with the additional workforce growth.

This is due to an imbalance of supply and demand, which puts upward pressure on house values.

That would put upward pressure on the value of the U.S. dollar and off - setting downward pressure on short - term U.S. interest rates.

And when will the Fed start paring its enormous $ 4 trillion - plus investment portfolio — a step that will put upward pressure on interest rates?

Since the final year of the recession, which spanned 2007 to 2009, the 3 - month Treasury Bill rate, a proxy for monetary policy, has put upward pressure on mortgage rates in recent years while the yield curve has put downward pressure on mortgage rates.