Sentences with phrase «stable ratings of»

National Insurance Company Limited (India), a leading Kolkata - based public insurance company in India, has received stable ratings of B + + (Good) for financial strength rating and bbb + issuer credit rating from A.M. Best, a globally recognized ratings company focused on the insurance sector.

Value - added models (VAM) of teacher effectiveness do not produce stable ratings of teachers.

a) Value - added models (VAM) of teacher effectiveness do not produce stable ratings of teachers.

But none of globalization's effects on inflation, not even the potential reduction in inflationary bias, diminish the importance of the principal objective of central banks: setting policy to achieve low and stable rates of inflation over time.

The central objective of policy, most mainstream economists believed, should be to achieve a low and relatively stable rate of inflation, since there were no permanent gains to be had from higher inflation.

«Briefly put, the Governor's proposal endangers the pension funds by promising a stable rate of contributions over a 25 - year period, but the State is unlikely to be able to keep that promise.»

«Securitization made sense, banks had a stable rate of return, and it was a way to generate capital for new loans at a low cost,» says Harrison Wadsworth, a spokesperson for the Consumer Bankers Association.

The early release of statewide test scores and participation rates show improved results and a stable rate of opt - out (press release).

Investors are happy to receive highish stable rates of return that come with seeming safety.

Stable rates of sea - level rise, sustained in the next 20 years, would mean melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice - caps has not yet accelerated significantly.

Not exact matches

In the U.S., unemployment is below the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed's) estimate of the «natural» rate that is consistent with stable wage growth, while unemployment rates in many other developed economies are rapidly approaching a similar point.

The IMF, or International Monetary Fund, is an intergovernmental agency that works to keep exchange rates and the international system of payments stable.

We may eventually end up in a situation like that, not where you necessarily have sustained inverted curves, but where you see a more aggressive business cycle going through the front end of the curve, relatively stable long rates, and the reason for that would be that people are pretty comfortable that inflation is going to be reasonably grounded.

The outlook for the U.K. economy looks stable but the level of growth is low relative to both its historic performance and the rates of growth being achieved by the country's international peers, according to a spring forecast.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen said last month that the U.S. central bank was getting closer to raising interest rates, possibly as early as September, saying that the Fed sees the economy as close to meeting its goals of maximum employment and stable prices.

Earlier this week rating agency Standard and Poor's changed its U.S. long - term debt outlook to «stable» from «negative,» despite the concrete prospect of more showdowns on fiscal policy.

«Until last August, China was just able to balance the contradictory objectives of cutting interest rates, keeping a stable renminbi and liberalizing its capital account,» writes Joyce Poon of Gavekal Economics in Hong Kong today.

Coming out of the recession Canada had a triple - A credit rating with a stable outlook — which was and still is virtually unmatched among our peers.

Most of Kocherlakota's speech Thursday reprised remarks made in Frankfurt last month in which he argued that a drop in the long - run interest - rate level consistent with full employment and stable prices is making the Fed's job harder.

Add a diverse stable of industries and a sterling credit rating, and Texas dominates our Economy category.

Overall, Treasury yields, which influence the interest rates that borrowers pay on mortgages and other loans, have been «remarkably stable» given the Fed could raise rates against the backdrop of ongoing turmoil in global markets, said Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Schwab.

Trudeau's Liberal Party under a former leader swept to power in 1993 and won three subsequent elections — all of them while interest rates were stable or falling and the economy was relatively strong.

The RBA has left rates at 1.50 percent since August 2016, the longest spell of stable policy since the early 1990s.

«Increased automation means we can go higher in rates with a stable workforce,» Barry Lewis, head of wing manufacturing operations at Boeing's 737 plant, said during a recent factory tour.

Countries, Mundell observed, can not simultaneously enjoy the advantages of free capital movements, a stable exchange rate and an independent monetary policy.

While higher rates may cause investors to reconsider their bond allocations, they may provide relatively stable income and act as a diversifier in times of market stress.

Exchange Rate Changes and Net Positions of Speculators in the Futures Market Research by Thomas Klitgaard and Laura Weir finds a strong and stable contemporaneous relationship between weekly changes in the net positions of futures market speculators and exchange rate movements, but that such data do not appear to be useful in anticipating such changes over the following wRate Changes and Net Positions of Speculators in the Futures Market Research by Thomas Klitgaard and Laura Weir finds a strong and stable contemporaneous relationship between weekly changes in the net positions of futures market speculators and exchange rate movements, but that such data do not appear to be useful in anticipating such changes over the following wrate movements, but that such data do not appear to be useful in anticipating such changes over the following week.

Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and those other currencies could result in the dollar equivalent of such expenses being higher and / or the dollar equivalent of such foreign - denominated revenue being lower than would be the case if exchange rates were stable.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

Using new transaction - level data, authors Leonardo Bartolini, Svenja Gudell, Spence Hilton and Krista Schwarz show that trade volume in the federal funds market exhibits large swings over the course of the day while prices remain fairly stable, with rate volatility rising sharply only near the end of the trading day.

The figure includes the unemployment rate, the Fed's estimate of the «natural rate» — the lowest unemployment rate they believe to be consistent with stable inflation at the 2 % target — year - over-year wage and price growth (using the core - PCE deflator, the Fed's preferred inflation benchmark right now).

«Some investors told me I was crazy,» Trinh, the senior currency strategist at Royal Bank of Canada in Hong Kong who predicted a yuan retreat in June, when most of her peers were forecasting a stable or stronger exchange rate.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

The figure below shows some of the key indicators from the Fed's dashboard, including unemployment, the Fed's guess at the «natural rate» (the lowest unemployment rate consistent with stable inflation), actual inflation (PCE core, the Fed's preferred gauge), and the Fed's inflation target of 2 percent.

Papillion residents may endure harsh winters, but the rewards of living in this wealthy Omaha suburb include a stable economy, low cost of living and low crime rates.

«Given the still solid pace of job gains, we expect the unemployment rate to move lower to 4.0 per cent assuming a stable to lower participation rate,» TD also said.

«u *» is econo - shorthand for the so - called «natural rate» of unemployment, or the lowest unemployment rate consistent with stable inflation.

Fitch Ratings, confirming its BBB rating — the second - lowest investment grade — and a stable outlook, said today the rating «would come under pressure» if there was no clear expectation of the Paris - based company's ratio of adjusted net debt to earnings staying below 2.5 times in the «medium» term.

But it's even stronger than that: a period of relatively stable prices and relatively low and stable interest rates actually can feed financial excess.

While emerging market sovereign ratings have been largely on a stable trend, we also see divergent signs in a number of sovereigns.

Consumer prices, usually more stable than producer prices, have also accelerated on a similar basis from a recorded inflation rate of less than 1.0 percent last summer to 2.4 percent over the 12 - months ended this past March, also a smart acceleration in a brief time.

To provide investors with a relatively stable, superior long - term rate of return through a balanced portfolio of common shares and fixed income.

Headline unemployment in the U.S. has already moved below the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU)-- the rate of unemployment at which inflationary pressures are stable.

«Over the majority of the time period, we've seen a benign inflation period characterized by stable to falling interest rates,» he said.

The Canadian bond market remained stable against a number of national and international events, including the delivery of the Canadian federal budget, a U.S. interest rate hike and continuing Brexit developments.

To achieve our monetary policy goal of low, stable and predictable inflation at the 2 per cent target rate, our economy should operate at, or close to, its productive capacity.

Three popular explanations are offered to justify the high level of share prices: that profits will grow faster; that the economy and hence equities have become less risky; and that lower, more stable inflation will reduce real interest rates.

«This program is intended to support the other measures by additionally lowering long - term interest rates... and at the same time it gives a signal that monetary policy is committed to its goal of stable prices.»

The U.S. economy, which was stuttering with a «fits - and - starts» recovery following the Great Recession of 2007 — 2008, has now reached a state of steady, stable growth, with the pace of growth centering around a new normal rate that is lower than its historical norm.

This is very stable and as risk - free as you can get, but the rate of return you'll receive is smaller than with other securities.