Sentences with phrase «rates dampening»

More lenders may view it as a growth opportunity too, particularly as traditional mortgage lending is expected to decrease 37 percent in 2014 due to higher mortgage rates dampening refinance activity.

Without those high interest rates dampening my spending, I had the cash to pay down that high balance, once and for all.

Although risks remain, the fear of rising interest rates dampening homebuying activity has sent Toll Brothers stock to a bargain price.

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The second reason Carney is holding off on raising interest rates is fear they would increase foreign capital inflows, which would further drive up the Canadian dollar and correspondingly dampen manufacturing exports.

Alexander noted that tighter mortgage rules (i.e. the new 25 - year mortgage regulation implemented by Flaherty in the summer of 2012), and increasing mortgage rates have both played a role in «dampening» buying activity in the real estate market.

But IPTV doesn't have to supplant cable to dampen subscription rates and up the TV ante.

While New Zealand's official cash rate is already at a record - low 2 % after the latest cut in August, it is still the highest in the developed world — a major draw for yield - hungry investors and a complication for the central bank as a higher kiwi further dampens imported - led inflation.

But homebuying activity has also since been dampened by the Bank of Canada's move in January to hike interest rates to 1.25 per cent.

Poloz's bold and unexpected move to cut rates this year — not once, but twice — has been credited for dampening the impact of the sharp drop in global oil prices on the Canadian economy.

This prompted a tightening of monetary policy, which, in turn, dampened interest - rate sensitive spending, particularly on housing and consumer durable goods.

Historically, the Federal Open Market Committee has looked to the Phillips curve — the inverse relationship between unemployment and the rate of inflation — for insight into when to dampen growth, but this seems less relevant today.

Bank of America reported a slide in profit as concerns about an economic slowdown and uncertainty about the pace of rate increases dampened trading.

The Reserve Bank uses the cash rate to stimulate or dampen economic activity such that inflation is in the target range over the medium term.

Even with low yields and rising interest rates, bonds still tend to do their job by dampening volatility and minimizing losses for the overall portfolio.

Long bonds will end up being a very volatile investment at some point once rates or inflation rise from current levels, but intermediate - term bonds should continue to dampen stock market volatility.

By doing so slowly, they can monitor the impact of their campaign, and I suspect that, as far as they can see, it looks to be going well — they're «normalizing» the rate, yet, May's results aside, not much dampening the pace of output or job growth.

However, with expectations that foreign exchange rates and asset sales will continue dampen its revenue, P&G expects net sales to fall somewhere between a decline of 1 percent and flat with the year - ago period.

A cumulative surplus in the EI Account prior to the economic slowdown would dampen the extent of possible rate increases, but only in the short term.

Higher rates may dampen borrowing and result in higher returns on savings, CDs and other investments.

That's dampening what little inflation exists in the economy, which is troubling for the Bank of Canada because it's mandated to keep prices advancing at a rate of about 2 per cent a year.

The «slow and steady» approach to a possible interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve is not dampening investors» appetites for fixed - income ETFs — at least for now.

The well - published national debt issues hurt consumer spending in the West, while rising interest rates, energy and food prices dampened the strong growth seen in major markets in the East, such as China.

Rising interest rates this year and a tax bill that passed late last year that diminished the tax benefits of homeownership were expected to dampen demand for homes this year.

The dampening effect of falling imported goods prices at the final stage of production continued to ease over the year to December, suggesting that the disinflationary impetus from the appreciation of the exchange rate in 2002 and 2003 has moderated substantially.

We invest in bonds for the Equity and Income Fund in part to dampen volatility, so low interest rates are unhelpful to that effort.

While the sizeable output gap has significantly contributed to this outcome, other factors have also been important: non-oil import prices have been declining (in line with the exchange rate appreciation), deregulation in the service sector has dampened prices, and food prices have been lowered by favourable weather conditions.

Dampening these increases were lower GST revenues, down 18.4 %, and lower employment insurance premiums, down 12.7 %, reflecting a decline in premium rates in 2017.

However we are struggling to see what could either seriously dampen inflation expectations or cause a substantial rise in US interest rates, hence why we are very bullish on gold at present.

At such times, the authorities have usually raised interest rates to try to dampen the boom.

Otherwise devaluation or exchange rate depreciation is supposed to help a weak economy dampen unemployment by lowering real wages or by stimulating real growth through greater real exports.

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar fell on Wednesday against its U.S. counterpart after the Bank of Canada held interest rates steady and showed enough caution to dampen expectations for a hike early next year.

As a reminder, the goal for the fixed income portion of the Fund, especially in this low - rate environment, is to provide a reasonable level of income, while dampening the volatility of the equity portfolio.

Information on the impact of the cash rate increase is still quite limited, although there are some early signs that it is starting to have a dampening influence on demand.

With the dampening effect of the appreciation on domestic inflation still having further to run, our current assessment is that underlying inflation will decline to around 1 1/2 per cent during 2004 (assuming the exchange rate remains stable at around its current level).

The main reason for the recent decline in inflation is the dampening effect from the exchange rate appreciation over the past two years.

Abstracting from food and petrol prices, tradables prices were only slightly lower than a year ago, confirming that the dampening effect of the large exchange rate appreciation in 2002 and 2003 has now largely passed (Graph 56).

Indicators of upstream inflationary pressures from business surveys remain generally subdued, reflecting the dampening effect of the exchange rate appreciation.

All else equal, the stronger exchange rate would have a dampening influence on economic activity, although an important offset to this is the related improvement in the terms of trade and stronger global demand.

Growth stocks are particularly sensitive to rising interest rates, which can dampen their rapid earnings growth.

Exports are likely to continue their gradual recovery as a result of stronger trading - partner growth, even though progress in this area will be dampened to some extent by the higher exchange rate now prevailing, and also by capacity constraints in the resources sector.

This led to higher bond yields and another weak close for US equities as business and consumer activity could be dampened by higher interest rates.

A print below 235K in the monthly Non-Farm Payroll report may dampen the Greenback rally as investors are forced to reassess their IR expectations and extend assumptions on the timing of a Central Bank rate adjustment.

ETFs that take a more active approach and seek the right balance between government and corporate bonds, both domestically and globally, may help dampen interest rate risk, while seeking attractive yield.

The data gives the Reserve Bank of India, whose streak of aggressive rate hikes has begun to dampen growth, some room to hold interest rates steady as it waits for inflation, which has been above 9 percent for most of the last two years, to ease.

The Turkish rate hike, which pushed the overnight rate to 12 %, followed a surprising increase in India on Tuesday, as Delhi moved to dampen rising prices even as the South Asian giant faces its slowest growth in a decade.

It is silly for Americans to label Japanese and European trade partners as «unfair» on the basis of their trade surpluses with the U.S. Without foreigners» strong exports to the U.S., the Federal Reserve Bank would have been obliged to use restrictive monetary policy to dampen inflationary pressures, prompting higher U.S. interest rates and lower home purchases.

At the same time that the federal government was getting out of the housing business, the economy in Massachusetts and other New England states was rebounding and the high interest rates that had dampened the real estate market in the late «70s and early «80s were easing.

This could have a negative impact on inflation: it could feed through to higher prices as easily as it could dampen the rate of inflation.

However, this breadth rather than depth approach has arguably only served to slow the rate of technological development and dampen demand as consumers remain unsure which technology to invest in.

And higher interest rates caused by budget deficits may dampen any boost in private investment spending.