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...Perhaps if rate-setters had had this tool at their disposal as inflation started to climb, some of them wouldn’t have been so cautious in starting to raise rates and we wouldn’t have ended up with all of...
...A top Federal Reserve official has said strong US growth makes it “wise” for rate-setters to take their time and see the economy return closer to pre-pandemic normalcy before cutting rates from their current...
...UK inflation could hold around the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target for the next three years, according to an interest rate-setter, making the country “less of an outlier and more of a laggard” in terms...
...A stronger than forecast US inflation figure caused a stir as European Central Bank rate-setters sat down for dinner in Frankfurt on Wednesday — but several attendees said it only toughened their resolve...
...The Bank of England interest rate cuts should be “a long way off”, one of the central bank’s most hawkish rate-setters has said, as he cautioned against jumping to conclusions based on falling headline inflation...
...The UK is set to lag behind its peers in returning inflation to target, a Bank of England interest rate-setter has warned, as she argued for a further increase in the cost of borrowing....
...Rate-setters thought it was “plausible” they would be “in a position to start easing monetary policy restriction at their June 6 meeting” if data continued to show inflation falling, according to the minutes...
...Expectations of wage growth in UK businesses have fallen to a near two-year low, according to a closely watched Bank of England poll that will ease interest rate-setters’ concerns over sticky domestic price...
Michael Saunders warns counting costs of bond-buying programme in public debt could force fiscal retrenchment
...Core inflation — which excludes volatile energy and food prices — continued to fall, from 2.9 per cent to 2.7 per cent, in a reassuring sign for European Central Bank rate-setters....
...Wunsch said ECB rate-setters did not want to “over-emphasise” the “good news” from November’s bigger-than-expected drop in eurozone inflation....
...The figures suggest it could still take time before Bank of England rate-setters are confident that inflationary pressures in the economy have eased enough to start cutting interest rates from their current...
...Stronger than expected releases in January and February have sparked concern among rate-setters that inflation will continue to elude their 2 per cent goal, minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open...
...Treasury yields fell and Wall Street stocks trimmed earlier declines immediately following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision, when rate-setters signalled that monetary policy would remain tighter...
...The ECB said after its governing council met in Frankfurt that its benchmark deposit rate would stay at 4 per cent until rate-setters were sure price pressures had stabilised....
...However, while rate-setters acknowledged “significant progress” in their quest to drive inflation back towards the goal of 2 per cent, they said it reflected “idiosyncratic” factors....
...Catherine Mann, a BoE rate-setter, warned last month that services inflation, a key concern for the central bank, could remain high because of a “lack of consumer discipline” among richer people spending...
Dovish rate setter says inflation has been tamed and now is the time to cut interest rates
...While “a few” rate-setters dismissed January and February inflation readings as the result of “residual seasonality”, “some” on the FOMC noted the recent increases in price pressures “had been relatively...
Rate-setters face prolonged uncertainty over state of labour market due to problems at Office for National Statistics
...The Fed’s own “dot plot” forecasts show rate-setters, as of March, expected to make three cuts this year from the benchmark rate’s current 23-year high of 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent....
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