Sentences with phrase «rate moves towards»

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«As QE (quantitative easing) moves towards the end, markets focus more on rate hikes,» Ricardo Garcia, chief euro zone economist at UBS, said when asked why the euro is set to appreciate over the coming months.

Now as economic indicators like low unemployment and increased consumer spending tick toward the positive, many economists are pointing to a limited rate hike as a way to move the economy towards normalcy after the volatility of the past decade.

At any rate, if you think of «actual» rejoining «potential» as a simple goal of a recovery, we've been running slow enough that we haven't crossed the goal line yet, even as the goal line has been moving towards us.

But as long as the PBoC can continue to withstand pressure to lower interest rates — and it seems that the traditional poor relations between the PBoC and the CBRC have gotten worse in recent months, perhaps in part because the PBoC seems more determined to reduce financial risk and more willing to accept lower growth as the cost — China will move towards a system that uses capital much more efficiently and productively, and much of the tremendous waste that now occurs will gradually disappear.

On the other hand, if rates are raised and it proves to be a mistake there are likely to be substantial costs as inflation expectations move down, financial turbulence ensues, and the economy possibly tips towards recession.

If it is a new era of faster growth and new investment opportunities, then the equilibrium real interest rate (the rate at which monetary policy neither boosts nor restrains the economy) would rise, so the central bank would be right to move interest rates towards that level.

Though the Fed is moving towards a more normal interest rate policy with a taper of stimulative bond buying, the nation has been enveloped in what is affectionately known as ZIRP (Zero interest rate policy) for many years now.

As a bond moves towards its maturity over time, its interest rate sensitivity gradually declines, eventually to zero at maturity.

As the bonds in the mutual fund's portfolio move towards maturity, the fund's interest rate sensitivity would decline.

In Latin America, Brazil moved to lower official interest rates back towards more accommodative levels following earlier increases aimed at supporting the Brazilian real.

The headline rate could drop below half of one per cent by the second half of 1997, before moving back towards the underlying figure as the interest rate reductions pass out of the calculation.

The public often relies heavily on power ratings though, so many game spreads will move towards the spread predicted by Sagarin ratings.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Domestically, however, Kenyatta's rhetoric will be firmly focused on the country's development and the need to move towards a new era of African prosperity, pushing Kenya beyond the precious 5 % GDP growth rate.

I can confirm today that the Greater London Authority will move towards full retention of its business rates from next April, three years early.

Instead, the team found that, on average, crop pests have been moving towards the poles at 2.7 kilometres per year, which is very close to the rate of climate change.

Driven by the central bank's governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, the gradual move towards market - driven interest and exchange rates and capital flows liberalization is already under way and there is a clear roadmap.

This move towards solitary living is largely attributed to a later average marriage age and a higher divorce rate.

It also starts to elevate our heart rate as we move closer towards the workout.

So it's odd that when All Good Things finally moves towards the heartrending meat - and - potatoes of its story, it begins to rapidly distance us from David, turning this doomed relationship tale into the prestige - pic version of a cut - rate monster movie.

In spite of current energy trends moving towards green and renewable options, Alberta is planning on double its production of fossil fuels by 2030, meaning that higher supply will generate lower market rates, presenting a more affordable alternative to the American market.

... And then, this year we looked at our NAPLAN data and found that 68 per cent of our Grade 5 students were medium to high level growth - so, our next target will be moving those students showing low growth and pushing everyone up towards high rates of growth.

Furthermore, in California, we have moved the needle on graduation rates and moved towards closing the achievement gaps during the past few years using increased funding and community - based approaches to education finance.

If measured in proficiency rates, even if all schools succeed in closing the achievement gap, the «real» gap (i.e. gap in test scores between groups of students) are most likely to remain because closing the achievement gap simply means that more students are moving towards proficiency, not that the gap in academic performances between two groups of students is decreasing (Dahlin & Cronin, 2010).

Many highly rated ideas as determined by DOT employees have been implemented or are moving towards implementation.

Once I pay off my debt, I intend to move the snowball payments towards investments, which is part of the reason I sometimes include my debt payments when I calculate my savings rate.

Conversely, towards the end of a boom cycle, when the Fed is moving in to raise rates — a nod to improved corporate profits — certain sectors often continue to do well, such as technology stocks, growth stocks and entertainment / recreational company stocks.

This year our lead theme All About That Pace again appears out of consensus as the market view for rates has shifted towards fears of deflation and expectations that low global rates means U.S. rates can never move higher.

All in all, AIG is on solid financial footing and appears to be moving in the right direction towards even higher ratings in the near future.

As rental rates rise, people are more likely to move towards buying.

It is not very likely that this situation will resolve very soon but such low level of fixed rate may start moving higher as the strong GDP data coming out is indicating towards positive future.

Once you pay off the highest interest rate account, now it's time to move to the account with the second highest interest rate and pay as much as you can each month towards this debt until it's paid off, and continue this pattern until you are debt free.

Taken together with increasing (private) investor aversion to (European) equity markets, prolonged low interest rates, and the eventual threat of higher inflation & lower entitlements, this seems to virtually guarantee a slow but sure convergence in ownership towards other Western countries (who will perhaps be slowly moving in the opposite direction).

In the United States the Federal Reserve took a year - long pause following its first move towards interest rate normalisation in December 2015.

Mean reversion suggests that the growth rates of all firms in the stock market tend to move towards the average.

The very cheapest economy seats (booked in classes S, N Q & O) do not earn miles or count towards the sectors needed to move up the club's tiers, but there are still seven economy class ticket rates that do.

Hilton has continued to move towards a «revenue based» redemption, with the number of points closely matching the current cash rates and with a fixed value of the points.

It focuses on how to move further, faster in the coming five years towards the delivery of SEforALL's three, 2030 objectives: ensure universal access to modern energy services; double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

This third edition of the report, a multi-agency effort led by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Bank, provides an update of how the world has been moving towards the three SE4All objectives: universal access to electricity and clean cooking, doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency, and doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030

If a man in a lift is free falling (the man is floating in the middle of the lift) and the lift sudden encounters some friction reducing the rate of fall, does the floor move towards the man?

It is intended to work with smart meters and be part of the move towards a smart grid, but I was told the group is also looking at how this can be used in homes that don't have smart meters or demand response rates with their utilities.

These geologically ancient, long - lived, slow - growing and fragile reefs will suffer reduced calcification rates and, as the aragonite saturation horizon moves towards the ocean surface, large parts of the oceans will cease to support them by 2100 (Feely et al., 2004; Orr et al., 2005; Raven et al., 2005; Guinotte et al., 2006).

Our cost structures differ from Big Law allowing us to move away from out - dated and inefficient hourly rate pricing and towards innovative and value - based fee arrangements.

For consumers, moving away from the «job shop» business model with hourly billing rates towards the «value - chain» business model with fixed fees for discrete legal services.

These will form the basis of its move towards alternative fee arrangements, where it has approached firms with a menu of different arrangements, with the ambition of moving entirely away from the hourly rate.

While there may be a trend towards moving away from the billable hour in favor of flat rates, it's still important that attorneys measure the hours that they're putting in with a particular client in order to determine cost.

Many companies, especially towards the end of calendar year when they are trying to meet goals, offer a table shaving program in which they will, for example, move you up from a Table 3 to Table 1 rating.

All in all, AIG is on solid financial footing and appears to be moving in the right direction towards even higher ratings in the near future.

Move towards your spouse through these actions by moving your rating towards a 10 in each dimension and your intimacy will grow in your marriage.

As closing and financing move higher the rate will go towards 70 % so important to get that estimate right.