Sentences with phrase «rate cuts»

Rate cuts and other actions tend to produce diminishing results, which might lead central bankers to want to hold some firepower in reserve.

Also Ford Motor Credit, the automaker's financing arm, has started offering interest - rate cuts on certain lease deals.

The Conservatives do, of course, have an economic policy - based around creating the room for sustainable interest rate cuts - and yesterday we called for it to be articulated.

Of course, this will be made somewhat easier by the governor's agreement with the legislature last month to extend $ 2.6 billion in higher income - tax rates on million - dollar earners, offset in part by small rate cuts for middle - class filers.

«Our core view is for rate cuts to continue throughout 2017 and even stretch below 20 percent,» the research firm said.

Mr Osborne's comments on banks echo those of Gordon Brown last month, who said: «I think where interest rate cuts happen, buildings societies and banks have a duty to take that into account.»

Justice, delivered by the lowest bidder, coupled with arbitrary rate cuts will create an unviable system of legal aid that fails to grasp the importance of client choice, competition and quality.

Compounding the problem, President Trump and congressional Republicans aim to eliminate or curtail state and local tax deductions to help pay for federal income - tax rate cuts in top brackets.

He also helped pass income tax rate cuts that reduced taxes for New Yorkers.

The income tax rate cuts and other changes enacted in 1995 now cost over $ 5 billion per year but provide very little help to these families.

There is still the same concern for tax - rate cuts in order to boost growth, but the direct beneficiaries are ever fewer and ever richer.

The BOC generally imposes rate cuts to boost the economy.

The Federal Reserve may also have to tighten at a faster pace than expected, which may neutralize some of the effects of the rate cuts.

Russia's central bank's rate cuts are probably on hold for now.

Investors on Wednesday ramped up bets on a rate increase in Canada after BOC Governor Stephen Poloz said «rates are of course extraordinarily low,» and after rate cuts in 2015, the central bank needs to consider pulling back on stimulus efforts.

The Canadian dollar is the second - best performing major currency this month after the central bank unexpectedly adopted a tightening bias two weeks ago with suggestions that stimulus associated with two rate cuts in 2015 may need to be withdrawn.

«The bank wants to make absolutely clear that it is not contemplating rate cuts at this time,» said Jimmy Jean, an economic strategist at Desjardins Securities Inc. in Montreal.

According to CBRE's second - edition of Four Quadrants Asia Pacific, as several interest rate cuts were recorded across the region, debt financing turned more active while the equity funding market slowed down.

Natalia Orlova, head economist at Alfa Bank, said the central bank might now take more time over interest rate cuts that could boost growth: «Based on economic logic... it seems to me that it is dangerous to hurry with a rate cut in such uncertain conditions.»

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

«We think it will be slow to act on rate cuts, but stands ready to intervene in case of disruptive market developments, especially in the currency and bond markets,» says Nell.

And rather than allowing all individual provisions to expire, it would be more responsible (or less irresponsible) to only let the individual rate cuts expire.

Though there are fewer occurrences of rate cuts at higher valuations, they're also more varied.

We think the Bank will take out more insurance later this year in the form of two more rate cuts.

The bill would, as advertised, make the new personal income tax rate cuts permanent.

This ensured that the beneficial effects of rate cuts were not offset by the risks of larger deficits.

Money: A May 11 Moneyline item incorrectly described the Chinese central bank's recent rate cuts.

The fundamental problem is that the ECB and the BoJ are trying to implement QE through the normal credit creation channels of the banking system (which aren't working) and relying on interest rate cuts, instead of creating new money in the hands of firms and households outside of the banking system by asset purchases directly from these non-bank entities.

In recognizing the catalysts behind the public's persistence to save and reluctance to spend, additional analysis by policymakers should focus on the efficacy of further rate cuts on spending and investment, as well as potential «roundabout» benefits of a more normal rates regime to affirm support toward the public's saving objectives, with the end goal of boosting public's risk sentiment and perceptions of future economic stability.

Investors are behaving like an ex-con, whose first impulse after getting out of the joint is to knock over the nearest liquor store... the immediate response of investors to interest rate cuts was to create a two - tiered market.

Other major central banks have followed suit, either with rate cuts (Denmark, Canada, Sweden) or by putting plans to raise interest rates on hold (Bank of England).

While the new Polish government continues to push for further rate cuts to boost falling consumer prices, its real worry may be Poland's strong zloty.

That change would have raised revenue to help Republicans offset the losses from the massive rate cuts, and some proponents of it argued that the state and local tax deduction (known as «SALT») amounted to a federal subsidy of high - tax states.

For example, central banks in China and India have recently implemented rate cuts.

Additionally, policymakers had previously acknowledged rate cuts» ineffectiveness at pushing down term premium at the start of Great Recession, but «tantrum fears» had subsequently fueled «policy cognitive dissonance» to argue otherwise during policy normalization.

The two BoC rate cuts this year must be helping.

Ultimately, if some of the controversial measures that are possible offsets for corporate rate cuts are dropped, the scope of the reform package may need to be revisited.

The G7 central banks implemented coordinated interest rate cuts in 2008 — a sign of just how serious the situation was.

Households in the top 1 percent are the most affected by Trump's proposed rate cuts and overall caps on itemized deductions; their average after tax - price of giving would rise from $ 67.70 to $ 94.30.

First, currency movements have been following some unusual patterns — for example, rising after central bank rate cuts (Japan, Australia; typically, we expect currency values to fall after rate cuts) and jumping around here in the US with more volatility than usual, highly sensitive to winks and nods from our Fed about their next rate move.

What will be the mix between interest rate cuts, reductions in the face value of debt, and rescheduling of payments?

Why is the government pushing ahead with corporate tax rate cuts this country can not afford?»

All of which is why I am entirely unconvinced that Fed rate cuts can be counted on as a bullish factor for either stocks or the economy.

Central banks have been the only game in town for years now, driving asset prices higher with the help of interest rate cuts and quantitative easing (QE) programs.

At this point, across - the - board rate cuts will be in effect, as well as a doubled child tax credit and a nearly doubled standard deduction (the latter two provisions offsetting the elimination of personal exemptions from the individual income tax).

Interest rate cuts lose their effectiveness if households and businesses see rates staying low for too long.

It has also meant a lower value for the Canadian dollar and two interest rate cuts during 2015.

I find myself sympathetic to the view of the U.K.'s 2010 Mirrlees Review, which argued that small business has some legitimate tax disadvantages, but blanket rate cuts aren't the best way to address those concerns.

ANALYST TAKE: «We expect (Chinese) policymakers to respond to the continued weakness with further rate cuts and liquidity injections,» said Julian Evans - Pritchard, China economist at Capital Economics.

While my own view is that the economy is likely to weaken much more sharply than the FOMC believes, I also believe that further interest rate cuts will be largely ineffective in stimulating loan growth or economic activity.