The second implication is that there likely will be
upward pressure on interest rates as widening budget deficits for 2018 and 2019 will cause a larger supply of U.S. Treasury securities to be issued to fund rising U.S. budget deficits.
Any
external upward pressure on interest rates beyond a fraction of a percent will have to be rapidly offset by a large reduction in the outstanding monetary base in order to avoid a deterioration in the value of money relative to goods and services (i.e. inflation).
«Barring
external upward pressures on interest rates, a further non-inflationary expansion of the Fed's balance sheet of $ 400 billion, to $ 2.4 trillion (as contemplated under QE2), would imply the need for 3 - month Treasury yields to fall to just 0.05 %.
To stage another fiscal drama just as the Federal Reserve starts to roll back its quantitative easing policy (which will
put upward pressure on interest rates, including those on residential mortgages) would like banging pots and pans in the midst of an already distressed cattle.
And when will the Fed start paring its enormous $ 4 trillion - plus investment portfolio — a step that will put
upward pressure on interest rates?
This could put
upward pressure on interest rates.
Their departure from the Treasury market would tend to put
upward pressure on interest rates.
What makes all of this important to mortgage shoppers is that inflation puts direct,
upward pressure on interest rates.
At the same time, barring external
upward pressures on interest rates, a further non-inflationary expansion of the Fed's balance sheet of $ 400 billion, to $ 2.4 trillion (as contemplated under QE2), would imply the need for 3 - month Treasury yields to fall to just 0.05 %.
This could put
upward pressure on interest rates.
Then there's the unwinding of the Fed's balance sheet — the unprecedented debt load the central bank took on during the financial crisis of the previous decade — and that's supposed to put
upward pressure on interest rates, too.
Rising deficits tend to put
upward pressure on interest rates.
«The expectation of future Fed rate hikes and increased borrowing by the U.S. Treasury is putting
upward pressure on interest rates.
As the pessimists point out, the U.S. economy is running large trade, current account (the U.S. trade deficit plus net income received from abroad), and federal budget deficits, putting downward pressure on the dollar and
upward pressure on interest rates.
Investors are facing a market where there is less upside on yields and income growth and there is also
some upward pressure on interest rates.
Investors are facing a different market, where there is less upside on yields and income growth and there is also
some upward pressure on interest rates.
Inflation is not adding
any upward pressure on interest rates as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index was unchanged in July.»