Sentences with phrase «started raising rates»

Refinancing volume this year has plummeted to a 10 - year low, down as much as 39 % in the first quarter of 2017 versus before the Fed started raising rates in December.

Certainly earnings growth was strong and bond yields fell (until the Fed started raising rates in 1999).

Credit card companies have already started rolling out changes and have started raising rates before the legislation takes full effect.

The Federal Reserve started raising rates in 1986 to combat inflation as equity markets had enjoyed a stellar run - up; tightened monetary policy at home was welcomed with a steep sell - off that became known as «Black Monday» and led to stock market crashes around the globe, starting in Hong Kong and spreading to Europe.

You'll see the loonie started its relentless climb past parity in 2004 when the Bank of Canada first started raising rates.

In a growing economy, the Bank of Canada will have to start raising rates to temper inflation, in effect shutting off the credit spigot that has allowed so many Canadians to buy homes.

The Federal Reserve has been signaling that, with the economy improving, it could start raising rates to keep inflation in check, perhaps as soon as next month.

«According to the higher interest rates and bond yields projected by consensus, the market has started to wonder when the BOE would start raising rates again.

Most still think the Fed will start raising rates to ward off inflation around mid-2015.

Zach Pandl, a strategist at the financial firm Columbia Management, expects the Fed to start raising rates next spring.

While the Fed, the world's most important central bank, ended its stimulus program last fall and is expected to finally start raising rates from their historic lows this year, the eurozone and Japan are just initiating quantitative easing (QE) programs.

So far, however, Fed officials have treated the stronger economic news as a reason to carry out their plans for gradual rate hikes, rather than as a reason to start raising rates more quickly.

All in, if Blackstone is right, regulators are relatively powerless to change the face of the British housing market unless they start raising rates.

If history is any guide, there is a high probability that the Fed will start raising rates at the end of 2015, and for the next several years as inflationary pressure builds up.

Volatility and dispersion tend to rise late in monetary policy cycles when central banks start raising rates and shrinking their balance sheets, our research suggests.

Last Friday's strong jobs report, combined with continued steady growth in gross domestic product, offers the Federal Reserve all the ammunition it needs to start raising rates at its June meeting — which we believe it should do — meaning the need for flexibility has never been greater.

We believe that when the Fed starts raising rates in the front end it will want to see long - end rates rise as well.

That means the Committee wouldn't start raising rates until July 2015 at the earliest.

Keep that savings rate constant until it no longer hurts, and start raising the rate by 1 % a month again.

And that's when you need to start raising rates because then you head off any type of excess capacity developments which of course we saw by 1997 - 1998, we had a massive overcapacity situation which started the Asian Contagion.

But once the Fed does start raising rates, it'll be a good long - term investment.

If you are brand new, don't get ahead of yourself and start turning down low paying jobs just yet, but after you build up a full client load that meets your goals, it is time to start raising your rates.

Last Friday's strong jobs report, combined with continued steady growth in gross domestic product, offers the Federal Reserve all the ammunition it needs to start raising rates at its June meeting — which we believe it should do — meaning the need for flexibility has never been greater.

It stands to reason that if and when the Fed eventually starts raising rates, income investments will begin to appear to be less attractive and these ETFs could see declines.

When you have all that debt, they start raising your rates and giving you penalty rates and really messing with you.

For now, credit agency's wait for the expected crush of people with debt problems once Carney starts raising rates.

Gaetano does think when the central bank eventually starts raising rates, the banks probably won't be increasing rates as quickly.

It looks a bit like in 2007, soon after the Fed starting raising rates, when the market felt noticeable fear by the measured backwardation.

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Most are assuming the former, where the slow growth expansion continues and the Fed starts raising rates next July.

A liquidity drought in the bond space is a real concern if the Fed starts raising rates, but as the Fed pushes off the expected date of its first hike, some managers may be losing sight of that danger.

Moshe Orenbuch, an analyst with financial research group Credit Suisse, agrees but doesn't think offers will change immediately after the Fed starts raising rates — especially because rate increases are expected to be small at first, starting with a hike of 0.25 percent (25 basis points).

At the start of the year, volatility in the global economy and anticipation that the Fed would start raising rates weighed down the stock market as a whole and REITs in particular due to perceived interest rate risk.

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That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest remaining supporting factors behind the global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S. interest rates.

After the economy started growing for a while — and considered out of recession — the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to stop inflation.

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable «burn rate» is.

If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark rate by 50 basis points from the start of the year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.

If, in contrast, the Fed were to raise rates now, before the economic recovery is fully entrenched, house prices might resume declines, the values of businesses large and small would drop, and, critically, unemployment would likely start to rise again.

As Treasury starts to unwind the program, it is raising interest rates and selling its preferred bank shares to private investors.

So the Fed is now in play, it's raising rates, and typically that's the part of the market cycle where valuations start to come down, and I think that's especially relevant today because valuations have been so high.

He'll really start to affect the lives of Canadians when he raises interest rates — a move that will finally put a damper on spending habits.

London - based Babylon Health, which has raised a total of $ 85 million, started as a telemedicine company, enabling doctors to make diagnoses via video and allowing patients to rate the quality of each interaction.

While that gathering took place before last week's stronger employment report, investors will be looking for any hints on whether central bankers were starting to consider a path toward raising interest rates.

A start - up that lets vacationers spend money abroad at market foreign exchange rates has raised $ 4.8 million in funding.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen may struggle later this week to convince financial markets she can steer a divided U.S. central bank to raise interest rates at least once in 2016 after it started the year with four hikes on its radar.

There's a growing anticipation that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will remove the restriction of raising rates only at quarterly meetings and start holding news conferences after each of the eight meetings the FOMC holds each year.

There's a growing anticipation that Powell will remove the restriction of raising rates only at quarterly meetings and start holding news conferences after each of the eight meetings the FOMC holds each year.

Most market participants expect the Federal Reserve to start raising its key interest rate in the coming months.

But more debt could prompt a ratings downgrade to junk levels, raising the cost of borrowing, not to mention making the whole enterprise riskier if programming revenue does surprisingly start to fall.

Historically, profits were revving up when the Fed started increasing rates, and the positive of accelerating earnings would overwhelm the incremental negative of the Fed raising interest rates.