Sentences with phrase «raising interest»

Higher income consumers are also expected to rein in spending after seeing their stock portfolios oscillate, due to the turmoil in the global stock markets following the devaluation of the Chinese yuan and the Federal Reserve's decision to hold off raising interest rates.

The Federal Reserve is talking about the need to keep raising interest rates to make sure the economy doesn't overheat.»

That is, would expectations of outsized demand growth — of, say, 4 percent per year over the next four years in inflation - adjusted terms — generate undue inflationary pressures that would require the Federal Reserve to respond by raising interest rates, essentially killing off any actual growth that those expectations could generate?

The central bank is likely due for a pause after raising interest rates twice this summer, but the strength of the labour market will keep Bay Street talking about a third increase before the year is out.

So much that most emerging markets have been raising their interest rates since last year trying to keep things from overheating.

In recent months, Yellen and her colleagues have begun the process of raising interest rates — concluding, in effect, that with the unemployment rate down to 5 percent, the «full employment» part of their mandate is largely complete.

In short, credit availability and cost are not issues and haven't been for many years, even with the Federal Reserve raising interest rates.

Many signs point to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this week during its two - day Open Market Committee meeting.

But opponents of raising interest rates take a different look at the economic metrics.

The factory data added to reports on auto sales, housing and employment in suggesting the economy was regaining some speed, but probably not fast enough to encourage the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates next month, as most economists had anticipated at the beginning of the year.

Jayson Meyers, the head of Canada's main exporters» lobby and an economist by training, told Bloomberg News that the Bank of Canada should consider raising interest rates, not lowering them.

SARA EISEN: Stan, do you think this is gonna be a tricky task in normalizing raising interest rates, now that we are starting to really see inflation take hold?

The Federal Reserve and Bank of England have started slowly raising interest rates, the European Central Bank has yet to do so.

Weak inflation at the producer level could add to concerns that the factors restraining inflation could become more persistent and result in the Federal Reserve being more cautious about raising interest rates this year.

Canada isn't among the «advanced economies» that are getting close to raising interest rates.

Yellen said «no meeting is completely off the table» for raising interest rates.

«It would be a sign that the Fed thinks the U.S. economy is doing well, and raising interest rates could increase consumer demand and confidence,» adds Nikolsko - Rzhevskyy.

Historically, profits were revving up when the Fed started increasing rates, and the positive of accelerating earnings would overwhelm the incremental negative of the Fed raising interest rates.

Thus «we have been gradually raising interest rates,» he said, repeating that he expects inflation to rebound along with wage gains.

Weak U.S. inflation is not troubling even in the face of full employment, one of the Federal Reserve's more influential policymakers said on Monday, reinforcing the central bank's mantra that it is gradually raising interest rates.

At the same time, most economists don't think the pace of job growth is enough to cause the Federal Reserve to speed up its timetable for raising interest rates.

«Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates.

Once again, with the economy improving and the Fed looking closer to raising interest rates, high yields and lower bond prices seem to be the obvious bet.

That's probably because the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it was less keen about raising interest rates.

The silver lining of this month's weak payroll number is a greater likelihood that the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising interest rates, which could lead to a softer dollar.

That insight, as obvious as it may seem, conflicts with the Fed's policy of raising interest rates preemptively, even as inflation continues to undershoot its target, essentially on concerns that a 17 - year - low 4.1 % jobless rate may already be beyond what officials consider «full employment.»

Raising interest rates to fight inflation is also on top of mind for next leader of the European Central Bank.

Also Tepper shares his thoughts on raising interest rates.

Crudely put, the theory states that when inflation rises above a prescribed level (typically around 2 %), central banks must respond by raising interest rates, which quells consumer demand and causes inflation to fall back to «acceptable» levels.

The Fed expects to keep raising interest rates to keep inflation under control, and investors appeared to get more concerned about the possibility that rising rates will slow the economy down.

Fischer, who has argued in the past that the Fed needed to be wary of being too slow in raising interest rates, made no such argument on Sunday.

And what if the economy heats up too fast and the Fed slams on the brakes by raising interest rates?

Yellen said the Fed should have been raising interest rates faster in those years, and with less predictability.

U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up, a sign of economic strength that could draw the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.

Deutsche Bank economists predict the curve will invert in 2019 as the Fed keeps raising interest rates by a quarter percentage point every quarter, as markets expect.

A softening in euro zone economic data and signs that inflationary pressures remain subdued, encouraging the European Central to hold off from raising interest rates until well into 2019, have supported bond markets in recent weeks.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker — a known proponent for raising rates and a non-voting member of the FOMC this year — said Tuesday there was a strong case for raising interest rates, arguing that borrowing costs may need to rise significantly to keep inflation under control.

Bets the European Central Bank might consider raising interest rates by the end of 2018 due to evidence of higher inflation and business activity in the euro have lifted the euro, which was poised for its best yearly performance versus the greenback in 14 years.

Kocherlakota's views put him at the dovish extreme at the U.S. central bank, where most policymakers, including Fed Chair Janet Yellen, expect to begin raising interest rates this year.

While that gathering took place before last week's stronger employment report, investors will be looking for any hints on whether central bankers were starting to consider a path toward raising interest rates.

On July 12, the central bank finally did so, raising interest rates for the first time in seven years.

That means the day the Fed begins raising interest rates is drawing closer.

That suggests the recent gain is based not only on stronger economic data, but a perception that the central bank is keen to keep raising interest rates.

He says the stocks will face challenges from compressed multiples as the Federal Reserve continues gradually raising interest rates.

Some policymakers feel the central bank has already undercut its credibility by raising interest rates while inflation remains so weak.

There is little economic growth, thus raising interest rates is definitely not the way to boost the economy and pull us out of this downward spiral.

The cheeky reporter observed that central banks had a track record of killing economic expansions by raising interest rates.

Rather than eliminating the microloan program, for instance, Preston's 2008 budget request proposes raising interest rates to the intermediaries and offloading the technical assistance to partners that already provide training.

The central bank offered a gloomier than expected statement about the global economy when it decided to hold off on raising interest rates.