Sentences with phrase «rate unchanged»

If the central bank is worried about causing a panic, it could make clear in its policy statement that it intends to leave interest rates unchanged for a period of time.

Policy makers opted to leave the benchmark rate unchanged at 0.5 percent.

Yet, the central bank is widely expected to leave rates unchanged.

Perhaps the best reason to leave interest rates unchanged is uncertainty over what would happen to the value of the Canadian dollar.

A higher top speed for growth means there's more economic slack than previously envisaged, informing the central bank's decision to keep rates unchanged at this juncture.

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will be holding its sixth policy meeting of 2017 from September 19 - 20, after the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to leave its key interest rate unchanged in July.

The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but set the stage for a hike in December amid signs the economy is picking up steam.

The Reserve Bank has left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5 per cent, with RBA governor Philip Lowe continuing to worry about weak household spending and sluggish wages growth.

The Bank of England left policy rates unchanged in April after the increase in February.

MCLEAN, VA --(Marketwired - Sep 28, 2017)- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), showing the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate unchanged from the previous week.

At 10:00 am EST, yesterday, the Bank of Canada (BoC) left its target overnight rate unchanged at 0.5 % — unchanged since July 2015, which in essence means no change to the interest rate on your Variable Rate Mortgages, Line of Credit, and / or Student Loans.

He offered some symbolic evidence of that Wednesday after he and his deputies on the Governing Council opted to leave the benchmark lending rate unchanged at 0.5 %.

In a unanimous decision, the Committee left the target range for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 percent.

All 14 economists surveyed by Reuters predicted the central bank would keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged while assessing the effects of its November rate rise and global

The ECB has kept its policy rate unchanged since June, noting that the downside risks to economic growth had declined, but not «disappeared».

(REUTERS)-- The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged today in a nod to concerns about a weak world economy, but left open the possibility of a modest policy tightening later this year.

The Federal Reserve voted to leave its short - term rates unchanged on Wednesday but it did indicate that a rise to its short - term interest rates is likely on track for later this year.

On Wednesday,, the Bank of Canada held rates unchanged at 1.25 %.

But I predict that Labour will fight the next election on a promise not just to keep income tax rates unchanged but to keep the lid on National Insurance contributions too.

The Bank of Canada (BoC) opted to leave interest rates unchanged during the first quarter, and we think it is likely to remain on hold unless economic weakness and an energy price swoon return.

MCLEAN, VA --(Marketwired - Sep 28, 2017)- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), showing the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate unchanged from the previous week.

Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged again — The Federal Reserve kept interest rates at record lows on Tuesday, once again sparing American credit card holders an abrupt increase in their annual percentage rates.

The BoE is expected to keep rates unchanged when it meets Thursday as the British economy continues to prove resilient.

Even though the U.S. unemployment rate is at its lowest level since early 2008, America's central bank opted to leave its policy rate unchanged last week.

The British pound gained after data showed that UK construction activity rebounded faster than expected last month after succumbing to snow in March, though the upturn did little to alter the view of investors that the Bank of England will leave interest rates unchanged next week.

The Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve left their respective key interest rates unchanged following their most recent monetary policy announcements.

Broader measures of inflation also remained weak, with September's core personal consumption expenditures price index — the Fed's favored measure of inflation — stuck at 0.1 % month - on - month for the fifth consecutive report, and the annual rate unchanged at 1.3 %.

As a result, the Bank of Canada's current stance to leave interest rates unchanged given its concerns about the country's lacklustre economic growth could be an important catalyst for preferred share performance going forward — especially when combined with the U.S. Federal Reserve's projections for multiple rate hikes this year.

Latest update (07 - June - 2017): RBI keeps Repo rate unchanged at 6.25 %, cuts SLR rate by 0.50 % to 20 % and also keeps Reverse repo rate and CRR unchanged at 6 % & 4 % respectively.

Norges Bank confirms it's ready to hike ratesNorway's central bank left its key policy rate unchanged Thursday, but confirmed its intention to start raising interest rates later in the year, despite surprisingly muted inflation in the Nordic country.

We expect household job growth will be sufficient to leave the unemployment rate unchanged at 4.3 %, but due to particularly unfavorable calendar effects, we estimate a 0.1 % monthly rise in average hourly earnings (+2.5 % year - over-year).

The Bank left the cash rate unchanged yet again, and as universally expected.

The sop to Bay Street in Budget 2017 could be leaving capital gains rates unchanged.

Investors also digested the Fed's decision to keepinterest rates unchanged, a move that was widely expected.

Meanwhile, there were only about 2,000 more new hires in the month of April, according to the Labor Department, leaving the hiring rate unchanged at 3.4 % for the third month in a row.

If we were trying to hold the exchange rate unchanged instead of targeting inflation, we would probably need to match U.S. interest rate increases in lockstep; but doing so would risk pushing our inflation rate back below our target.

In a conference held on Tuesday, Lee said:» «We kept the base rate unchanged today as there is a need to closely examine growing protectionist measures and uncertainties abroad, although the local economy is expected to keep firm growth on the back of improvements in the global economy.»

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate unchanged late on Wednesday, acknowledging inflation is close to target without indicating any intention to veer from a gradual tightening path.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday that the U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in June, leaving the jobless rate unchanged at 8.2 %, disappointing analysts and driving the stock market downward even though the data showed that all of the new jobs came from the private sector.

Citing the impacts of the earthquakes, and a consumer - price inflation that would soon start falling after a 16 - year high, Banxico announced that it would likely keep interest rates unchanged through the end of 2017.

Markets have been on high alert since a close 5 — 3 vote at the June BOE meeting to leave rates unchanged raised the specter of an interest rate hike sooner than the market had anticipated.

Adding the six - speed automatic transmission ($ 1050) leaves the same highway rating unchanged, but results in a 1 - mpg bump that brings the city rating up to 30 mpg.

The 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is also available with a standard five - speed manual transmission, which has fuel economy ratings unchanged at 24/30/26 mpg (city / highway / combined).

F - types have always felt rather stiff at low speed and the SVR, its spring rates unchanged, is no exception.

Today brought us the Consumer Price Index, down -.2 %, core rate unchanged.