Sentences with phrase «raise rates just»

Because of how many people are involved in a Primerica life insurance policy, the agent, the person that recruited that agent, and so on, Primerica has to raise their rates just to stay afloat.

The costs taken on by providers go up for various reasons, and many are forced to raise their rates just to keep going.

To keep their long - time customers, auto insurers use price optimization, the practice of using personal customer data to raise rates just enough that you won't feel the urge to switch.

We may raise rates just to remind you they can go up.

Meanwhile, analysts at Russell Investments Canada Ltd. expect the Bank of Canada to raise rates just once in 2018 as economic growth tapers off.

, which is based on the CME Group 30 - Day Fed Fund futures prices, showed a 73 percent chance that the Fed would raise rates just 25 - 50 basis points, if it voted to raise rates.

On Friday, the CME FedWatch Tool, which is based on the CME Group 30 - Day Fed Fund futures prices, showed a 73 percent chance that the Fed would raise rates just 25 - 50 basis points, if it voted to raise rates.

We expect the Fed to raise rates just once this year — likely in December — and to proceed cautiously given the unevenness of the domestic economic recovery, as highlighted by weak retail sales data released last week, and global growth uncertainties.

It has been over nine years since the Fed raised interest rates, but today, the Fed raised rates just as expected.

Not exact matches

And that isn't just when they decide to raise rates, and at what pace, but also what they do with the balance sheet.

Just because the Fed raises rates doesn't necessarily mean that will happen uniformity, and I think that's important for your viewers to realize.

The Federal Reserve raised rates last week for just the sixth time since the financial crisis and the markets took it in stride.

The Fed raised rates for just the sixth time since the crisis.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in a year and just the second time in more than a decade.

«Pocketing raises through automatic contributions was one of the biggest factors allowing me to increase my savings rate from 35 % to 65 % in just a few short years.»

Just keep in mind there may be other things you can do to make your employees» lives better even if you can't raise their hourly rates.

While the Fed, the world's most important central bank, ended its stimulus program last fall and is expected to finally start raising rates from their historic lows this year, the eurozone and Japan are just initiating quantitative easing (QE) programs.

It's just broken out above major resistance dating back to the May 2013 «taper tantrum,» when the Fed first raised the specter of rising rates.

I just don't see how raising rates, even a smidgen, helps them.

[And of course, I figure out this model of negative real rates just as it looks like the Bank of Canada will be raising rates soon.

On 14th June 2017, the fed raised its rate up to 1.25 % and just a few hours later the prime rate was raised to 4.25 % by the U.S. Bancorp..

HERERA: As we just discussed, the central bank remains on track to raise interest rates three or four times this year, so says the head of the New York Fed.

Just remember that bonds are also close to all time highs, and the Fed is raising rates (hasn't affected bonds much yet).

Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).

Startups that run out of resources also usually do so because the founders don't want to give up a piece of the pie, the budgets were not planned properly, the burn rate was too high, or it just took longer to raise the first round than initially expected.

I don't think they'd raise their interest rate just for public relations or psychological purposes.

What if we have an even more aggressive President who decides to raise tax rates on everyone and not just those making over a certain amount?

Is all of this jawboning just saber rattling to keep the dollar from plummeting, or is there a chance that Bernanke actually will raise rates at the Fed's August meeting?

So far the «logic» appears to amount to «we've been at 0 % for too long», «the Fed wants to raise rates so they can lower them later», «we need to fend off financial instability» or «we just need to get that first hike out of the way».

Low fertility, the one - child policy and the cost of raising children in a system without adequate maternity facilities have all caused the birth rate to fall just as more old people are living longer.

But it had signaled in December that it expected to raise rates three times in 2018, just as in 2017.

-LRB-...) Government debt sales will more than double this year, to a net $ 1.44 trillion by JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s estimate, raising the specter of buyers» fatigue just as the Federal Reserve is shrinking its $ 4.4 trillion balance sheet and raising interest rates.

However, your lender can't just raise rates whenever it feels like it to get more money out of you.

The U.S. Fed have just stopped their quantitative easing, this action is predicted to raise interest rates for the U.S. by next year — two major factors that push the precious yellow metal's prices down now.

Having just raised interest rates at their last meeting, the Fed has no plans to follow up in May but Fed fund futures show a 93 % chance of a quarter point rate hike the following month when economic projections are updated and Jerome Powell holds a press conference.

«China has paved the way for a further weakening of its currency by announcing changes in how it measures the value of the renminbi, raising investors» alarm at the prospect a new currency war just as the US prepares to raise interest rates» (FT, 12/12/15).

The Federal Reserve has just ended its latest FOMC meeting, and the first such gathering under the stewardship of Jerome Powell, and voted to raise the federal funds rate target by 25 basis points.

Freddie Mac says the typical loan is now paid off after just 6.1 years, and that raises an interesting idea: Since lenders don't like fixed - rate long - term loans — they worry that they'll be stuck with low returns — maybe they would prefer to finance with a shorter term, say seven years or 10 years.

Last month, we reported that Yellen confirmed that she won't begin to raise interest rates just so she can pop a few bubbles.

But no one seems to understand the nitty - gritty of just how interest rates are raised (or lowered), and very few non-economists have any knowledge of how it happens.

Note, I did not predict the Fed would actually raise rates this December, just that they would not do so before.

However, the market - implied probability the Fed will raise rates four times this year versus just three has been slowly rising.

(BPT)- The nation's central bank - the Federal Reserve - just raised interest rates by a quarter point.

«The slowdown in U.S. subscriber growth was particularly disappointing because one would expect that since Netflix just raised rates last week, this number would have been strong,» said Crockett.

Standard & Poor's, one of the three major ratings agencies, has said that just raising the debt ceiling would not be enough.

Just a brief update by way of keeping tabs on a concern previously raised on this blog: the new tax law signed by the President yesterday retains a 15 % tax rate on capital gains and dividends through 2012.

Without going into the extensive limitations of such models or the longer - term implications for raising interest rates, we would just highlight that the impact of a 100 basis point move in policy rates in both central bank models are surprisingly similar in the short - term.

Don't expect big mortgage rate increases just because the Fed raises its rate.

The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates for the first time in a year.

That said, the Fed is in a difficult position regarding normalizing rates, since the economic cycle may be moderating just as the central bank seeks to raise rates.