How to Use central bank in a Sentence

central bank

noun

• Given that yearly inflation is still well above 2%, the central bank will likely keep a tight fist.
  — Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
• The central bank would go on to raise interest rates three more times before Election Day.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2022
• But Powell also said that in order to tame inflation, the central bank would likely have to raise rates high enough to weaken the job market.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
• Some are now speculating that the central bank could even forgo a cut altogether if there are signs that inflation has begun to creep upward.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
• The central bank is trying to slow economic growth to cool inflation, but the strategy risks going too far and bringing on a recession.
  — Damian J. Troise, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2022
• Not to mention, the central bank entered into a cutting cycle that same month, slashing its key interest rate by 50 basis points.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
• Investors may be in for another letdown as sustained price pressures in housing, wages and energy mean the central bank still has a long way to go in its battle against inflation.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
• Higher stock prices and lower borrowing costs risk undermining the central bank’s effort to rein in inflation with tighter financial conditions.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• The central bank has been aggressively raising interest rates throughout the year to slow the economy and tame inflation, but the strategy risks going too far and bringing on a recession.
  — CBS News, 9 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• But for the past three months, that gauge has run at a pace faster than is consistent with the central bank’s inflation target.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 22 May 2024
• And those differences surely overwhelm a central bank’s attempt to set the cost and amount of credit.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• In July, Powell said the central bank's staff had abandoned its forecast of a downturn.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Look out for any pushback against the notion, gripping the bond market, that the central bank will soon cut interest rates.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
• Traders now aren’t fully pricing in the first move by the central bank until November.
  — Tom Rees, Fortune Europe, 22 May 2024
• The Korean won has lost about 7% against the dollar since the beginning of the year, when the central bank in Seoul halted rate increases.
  — Frances Yoon, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024