How to Use central bank in a Sentence
central bank
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In other words, the central bank would keep rates elevated.
— Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024 -
Erdogan controls the Turkish central bank with an iron fist.
— Martin Sullivan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022 -
Australia's central bank made an interest rate hike that was smaller than previous ones.
— Damian J. Troise, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022 -
The widespread expectation is for the central bank to cut its main interest rate for a second straight time.
— Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024 -
Zandi thinks the central bank will immediately pause its rate cuts if Trump wins, simply to see what’ll occur.
— Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024 -
Powell has warned that the central bank’s rate hikes will likely lead to higher unemployment and potentially a recession.
— Time, 4 Oct. 2022 -
But September’s job growth was likely too robust to satisfy the central bank’s inflation fighters.
— Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022 -
Conflict also pushes central banks to pursue gold to preserve economic stability.
— Sanford Mann, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 -
Sifling spoke to the important role that inflationary pressures are playing in the market by impacting the decision making of central bank officials.
— Charles Bovaird, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022 -
The firm would likely be forced to recapitalize—raising money at a diluted rate, or go further by borrowing through a central bank’s discount lending facility.
— Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 3 Oct. 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 -
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 -
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
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