How to Use central bank in a Sentence

central bank

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• Which is why central banks are powerless over where dollars go and in what amount.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• China's central bank cut a key interest rate Monday to boost growth.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 Aug. 2022
• Newsweek has contacted the Russian central bank for comment by email.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
• At the start of 2019, fears of recession moved the central bank to backtrack and slash rates.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• China's central bank reported its economy picked up momentum in the last quarter.
  — CBS News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Bond yields soared, the pound plummeted, the central bank had to intervene to stabilize markets and within weeks, Ms. Truss was ousted.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
• If that worry comes to pass, the central bank would need to keep borrowing costs high, which could place downward pressure on economic activity and weaken corporate profits.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
• Warren’s request to the board and reserve banks marks growing dissatisfaction with the central bank’s responses to its main oversight body in Congress.
  — Craig Torres and Catarina Saraiva, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Euro-using countries share a common central bank, just as U.S. states have the Federal Reserve.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said the central bank will keep its key interest rate elevated until inflation is back to 2%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• The central bank has slashed its key interest rate by a percentage point since September, moving ahead with a plan to bring rates closer to normal after inflation slowed through the first nine months of last year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
• The problem is that the Fed began its quest to tame inflation late, leaving the central bank little choice other than to slam the brakes on the economy by drastically raising interest rates.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• The central bank has hiked rates 11 times since last March.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
• The central bank has raised its benchmark rate to 3.75% to 4%, up from close to zero in March.
  — Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• In Nancy, the door to a local French central bank office was set on fire.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Chinese central bank has paused its purchases of gold over the past five months.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• His father, Louis, was a tax collector for the French central bank.
  — Paul Lewis, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• Seven billion dollars in funds frozen by the U.S. that’s not going to the central bank.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• The nation's central bank is in the midst of a yearslong fight to dial back inflation.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• But this year, inflation and the central bank’s efforts to tame it have caused rates to more than double.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Most experts Fortune spoke to said the answer is clearly no, and a July rate hike from the central bank is still on the way.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• The central bank is now focusing more on that last factor.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• The Russian central bank raised borrowing costs to 12% Tuesday in an attempt to stop a slide in the ruble.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
• If central banks cut rates too soon, then the knock-on cost of those wage increases could push the overall prices of goods and services back up.
  — Adam Gale, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
• To their leading lights, all a government needs is a central bank armed with a printing press.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• The central bank at its June policy meeting held rates steady and penciled in one cut for 2024.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 18 June 2024
• The central bank raised interest rates last week to boost the yen, which could be a drag on corporate profits there.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2024
• The Fed now plans to hold rates steady longer to ensure inflation moves toward the central bank's 2% target.
  — Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
• The central bank has been fighting price spikes by raising interest rates to 16%.
  — David McHugh and Vladimir Isachenkov, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
• The central bank would go on to raise interest rates three more times before Election Day.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025