Sentences with phrase «year policy meets»

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The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest rates until «well past» September next year — and even then, only if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

In currency markets, the euro held at two - year highs following remarks by ECB President Mario Draghi last week, while the dollar remained weak ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the week.

«This doesn't represent a change in our policy intentions,» said Chairman Janet Yellen in a press conference following the FOMC's final two - day meeting of the year.

While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.

Federal Reserve officials go out of their way to assure financial markets that they could make a policy move at any meeting, not just the four of eight meetings per year that are accompanied by a press conference from the Fed chairman.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.

The agreement, which came into effect in January 2017, has already been extended through until the end of this year — with producers scheduled to meet in June to review policy.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

Although the Company's performance for 2007 was in the top quartile compared to its Peer Group and met one of the alternative goals under the Performance Policy, the HRC considered in making its incentive award decisions the fact that the Company did not meet its EPS goal of $ 2.49 (2006 EPS, as originally reported) under the Performance Policy and therefore did not improve upon the EPS results of the prior year.

For example, after the market turbulence at the start of the year, we kept monetary policy on hold at the March FOMC meeting and explicitly referenced «readings on financial and international developments» in the FOMC statement.

Mr. Lacker, a voting member of the policy committee this year, has indicated he is likely to dissent if the Fed does not raise rates at the September meeting.

There are eight additional Fed bank presidents who attend the policy meetings, but do not vote this year.

Among the R.G.A. documents is a 21 - page schedule of the policy committee's Carlsbad meeting last year that lists which companies attended, who represented them and what they contributed.

How they vote on these issues at the remaining five policy meetings this year will shape what happens in the stock and bond markets, mortgage rates and savings rates.

During the past year, the Audit Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the Company's risk assessment and compliance functions, information security, public policy expenditures, treasury and investment matters, accounting industry issues, the reappointment of our independent auditor, and pending litigation.

Indeed, even as the Federal Reserve (Fed) began the process of rate normalization late last year, it left interest rates unchanged at its policy meeting this month.

To keep the economy on a sustainable path, I expect that it will be appropriate to remove monetary policy accommodation at a regular but gradual pace — and perhaps a bit faster than the three, one - quarter point increases envisioned for this year in the assessment of appropriate policy from the December 2017 FOMC meeting.

The timing of Bernanke's easing raises the stakes for the Fed's four remaining policy meetings this year as investors focus on whether the central bank will provide stimulus for 2013 to help the economy overcome the impact of the fiscal tightening due to take hold in January, said Vincent Reinhart, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley.

The Fed holds policy meetings 8 times per year.

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England next meets on December 12 - 13, 2017, for the last time this year.

Investors have all but priced out the chance of a rate hike at the end of the Fed's two - day policy meeting on Wednesday, particularly given its adherence in recent years to only raising rates at meetings that are followed by press conferences.

«The crises of the last few years have pushed monetary policy into uncharted territory,» ECB executive board member Sabine Lautenschläger remarked at a meeting organized by the Commissariat of German Bishops.

But in their most recent policy meeting, Fed officials stated they could raise the federal funds benchmark sometime this year, possibly during the second quarter.

Investors there are watching a meeting of the Bank of Japan later this week that will set monetary policy for the coming year.

As expected, the Fed raised interest rates at its December meeting, but for the first time in more than a year, two members of the rate - setting committee dissented, in favor of leaving monetary policy on hold.

Nevertheless, the apparent success of the ECB's policy in overcoming the threat of deflation increased speculation about a potential tightening of monetary policy, possibly even before the cessation of the central bank's bond purchases — scheduled to continue for at least the rest of the year — and in the wake of the ECB meeting pushed market estimates of the odds of a rise in official interest rates before the end of 2017 to more than 50 %.

NEW YORK The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

At its Federal Open Market Committee meeting this month, the Fed telegraphed that it is preparing to raise interest rates to what we consider a more normal level after many years of ultra-accommodative monetary policy.

Whether the decision to raise US rates is made at that meeting or postponed until the new year, for the first time in many decades, we could be entering a period of divergent monetary policy between the ECB and the Fed.

At its July meeting, the BoE left interest rates unchanged, with its monetary - policy committee appearing to place less priority on inflationary pressures resulting from the British pound's depreciation, maintaining its view that UK inflation would peak at around 3 % later this year.

In response to the threat from inflation, which in August of this year reached a 16 - year high, Mexico's central bank sharply tightened monetary policy, increasing interest rates at seven consecutive meetings up to June.

The Fed raised policy rate levels by a quarter point at its mid-March meeting, and the U.S. economy has achieved sufficient levels of unemployment and inflation to encourage further gradual policy tightening this year and into next.

The policies applied in recent years and initiated by the «global leaders» present at the Davos meetings, policies defined by the GATT / WTO (World Trade Organisation), by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank, have led to a distribution of resources which is inefficient, unequal, and unjust.

The two - day meeting also included two mass meetings at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, featuring addresses by Robert McAfee Brown, William Sloane Coffin and Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, each of whom would, in the ensuing years, continue to be outspoken opponents of the nation's Vietnam policy.

Last year the Vatican sent a survey on issues from same - sex marriage to surrogacy to all priests before a meeting called by Pope Francis in October to discuss Church policy on family issues.

Members of ABA's board of directors serve a four - year term and participate in semi-annual meetings that help shape association programs, policies and initiatives.

• AT ITS meeting in Hartford, the PGA Tour Policy Board approved the Texas Open's move to April, filling the spot held this year by the Byron Nelson, which will shift to the May slot opened by the demise of the AT&T Classic in Atlanta.

-LSB-...] food policy writer, also traveled to the McDonald's shareholders» meeting last year.

I feel privileged to write regularly for Civil Eats, an award - winning outlet for food policy news, and earlier this year I had the chance to meet the site's dynamic and lovely co-founder, Naomi Starkman.

When I raised concerns at the shareholder meeting in April this year, the response was the practices comply with Nestlé own policies, which tells you everything you need to know about why those policies need to change.

IBCoCo meets every two years to set policy and strategic priorities, plan coordinated action, and discuss administrative and financial matters.

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

The coalition government wanted a fixed five - year run in order that it could meet its flagship policy of eradicating the fiscal deficit in one parliamentary term.

It meets two or three weekends a year to discuss in detail documents produced by the policy commissions, of which there are six, jointly set up by the NPF, the Party's National Executive Committee and the Government.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, in a meeting with the press to mark his first year in office, explained that due to sound economic management policies his government has introduced, the battle between the labour unions and government is over.

Digital consultations on policy already exist, in the form of the Your Britain website, with policy - making decisions confined to Party Conference each year, and the National Policy Forum, which has been conspicuous in its obscurity this year — failing to meet a single time since Jeremy Corbyn's election, and currently chaired by Angela policy already exist, in the form of the Your Britain website, with policy - making decisions confined to Party Conference each year, and the National Policy Forum, which has been conspicuous in its obscurity this year — failing to meet a single time since Jeremy Corbyn's election, and currently chaired by Angela policy - making decisions confined to Party Conference each year, and the National Policy Forum, which has been conspicuous in its obscurity this year — failing to meet a single time since Jeremy Corbyn's election, and currently chaired by Angela Policy Forum, which has been conspicuous in its obscurity this year — failing to meet a single time since Jeremy Corbyn's election, and currently chaired by Angela Eagle.

50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a «cancellation» letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don't meet the standards mandated by the new health care law

«For 50 years or more, policy has undervalued the countryside and failed to meet the needs of rural communities.»

Five years ago, LWV board members agreed to modify that policy; rather than automatically opposing a convention that did not meet those requirements, the board would reconvene and consider whether to support a convention while thoroughly weighing delegate election and transparency concerns.