Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

"first-rate" Definitions
  1. of the highest quality

891 Sentences With "first rate"

How to use first rate in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "first rate" and check conjugation/comparative form for "first rate". Mastering all the usages of "first rate" from sentence examples published by news publications.

" Mr. Biden, campaigning in Iowa, called Ms. Harris "a first-rate intellect, first-rate candidate, real competitor.
"My reaction is she's of first rate intellect, a first rate candidate and a real competitor," he said.
Henry Hurt is a software engineer in a "first-rate building in a not quite first-rate" Southern city.
"Trump was first rate in every way," said GOP Rep.
The announcement marked the first rate cut in two years.
It was the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
It was the bank's first rate cut since June 2014.
However, the timing for the first rate hike isn't consensual.
The move was the first rate cut since November 2015.
It was the first rate cut since the financial crisis.
The move was the first rate cut since November 2015.
" Biden said Clinton would have been a "first-rate president.
It was Kuwait's first rate increase since March last year.
Bets on bold first rate-cut from the Fed : tmsnrt.
A tapering period is significant as the ECB ties the timing of the first rate hike to the end of asset buys, so any extension, would push out the timing of the first rate hike.
"Jay Powell is a first rate Federal Reserve chairman," he said.
Paladone did a first-rate job cloning the original Game Boy.
The problem is a severe shortage of first-rate AI talent.
It certainly doesn't hurt that the production elements are first-rate.
Robert D. Richardson's first-rate biography is the place to start.
To be sure, the technical aspects and performances were first rate.
They're first-rate, marked by candor and seriousness, and they're familiar.
Clinton is an absolutely first-rate synthesizer of diverse ideas and perspectives.
Investors also digest the Bank of England's first rate cut since 22.
The surprise move was the MPC's first rate rise since mid-2011.
It was the Fed's first rate hike time in nearly a decade.
China has done well at building first-rate ports, highways and railways.
First-rate burn by one of the best series on TV. pic.twitter.
Expectations of the timing of the first rate cut differed among respondents.
Futures had been pointing to the first rate hike in March 2017.
The wine was always first-rate, and we were both accomplished cooks.
The bank's first rate cut in 22017 months came after a Dec.
Directed by Josh Costello and featuring a first-rate ensemble (1:103).
The central bank's first rate hike this year took place in March.
The career diplomats leading the diplomacy in recent months are first rate.
They expect the first rate hike this year to come in September.
Directed by Josh Costello and featuring a first-rate ensemble (1:30).
As a bonus, the show also delivered a first-rate series finale.
He assembled a group of lab chiefs that were really first rate.
Asset purchases will continue until the first rate increase is at hand.
Nathan, who has a digestive problem, receives first-rate medical care here.
Lorenzo Savoini's lighting and sets, and Erika Connor's costumes, are first-rate.
And Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, is a first-rate lawyer.
But first-rate drama hasn't always been synonymous with the dark and twisted.
It was also the first rate move since a cut in early 2015.
The U.S. central bank delivered its first rate decrease since 2008 on Wednesday.
That was followed in July by the Fed's first rate cut since 2008.
He's usually good company, even when his material is less than first rate.
He also voted against the Fed's first rate hike this year, in March.
The first rate increase in 2018 was after the central bank's March meeting.
First, second-rate presidents have often been surrounded by first-rate public servants.
Some first-rate directors have taken up the banner and burnished the brand.
Her pacing is first-rate, but her plotting isn't nearly as sure-handed.
But it is a thought-provoking discovery, presented by a first-rate troupe.
After two nonfiction books, I think we're due for a first-rate novel.
The stadium is now considered first-rate, but it hit some early bumps.
On another night, you could see Mark Calabrese's surly, first-rate card manipulation.
In July its first rate cut since 2008 marked a policy U-turn.
But Mr Jarvis has nevertheless shone and would make a first-rate future leader.
It was the first rate cut in 11 years, dating to the financial crisis.
It was the first rate hike since a 300 basis point increase in November.
If implemented, it would be the central bank's first rate cut in a decade.
With a name like Dave Byrne, Dave could've been a first-rate insult comic.
Of note: This is the first rate decision in Powell's term that wasn't unanimous.
They've read first-rate reporting by the nation's leading news organizations on the case.
Before the Thursday meeting, that first rate hike had been anticipated around mid-2020.
Its decision to deliver its first rate hike since 2008 lifted the Czech crown.
The central bank's first rate reduction in a decade is expected later this month.
Keane is a first-rate guy who reached the top echelon of the Army.
He is unusual among first-rate playwrights in that his empathy seems largely abstract.
The ensemble is first-rate, and the rapport between the Saunders brothers absolutely translates.
The Fed delivered its first rate cut since the 2008 financial crisis in July.
They are all first-rate historians, terrific writers, and they seem to get me.
An honest and first-rate artist, McCarthy, like all the actors, does exceptional work.
We ate oysters and the Petrale sole, a Pacific coast fish, both first-rate.
I'll do the academic side and we will make this a first-rate university.
JPMorgan expects the first rate hike for the year to come at the June meeting.
It was the first rate cut since the bank last lowered rates in June 2015.
Access to global labour markets is needed to put together first-rate teams of researchers.
Our preference was never to reduce numbers; it was to get the first-rate facilities.
Our preference was never to reduce numbers; it was to get the first-rate facilities.
It was the first rate cut by the central bank in more than a decade.
This will be the first rate decision under new central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto.
"My buckwheat looks first-rate, and the oats and potatoes are bully," the ad continues.
These are the first rate hikes since Congress got rid of the individual mandate penalty.
" Sanders, Bhagwati says, is in great need of "first-rate people to sort things out.
No less a star was the 1847 version itself, which emerged as first-rate opera.
Tuesday's move was the first rate rise in years, catching many market participants off guard.
Like a first-rate novel, too, "The Last Whalers" has an abiding but unforced theme.
"From what I understand, they are putting together a first-rate, modern organization," she said.
The bank cut rates to 13.4 percent in March, its first rate cut since November 2015.
The "Mad Money " host spoke after the Federal Reserve announced its first rate hike of 2017.
The U.S. central bank in December approved its first rate increase in more than nine years.
Governor Oeystein Olsen told a news conference he expected a first rate hike "well into 2019".
Like the rest, these chapters blend first-rate reportage, finely chiseled portraits and in-depth research.
"I want a first-rate lawyer and someone who's judgement I feel comfortable in," he said.
The defense is also first-rate, having given up the second-fewest points in the conference.
Calvin (embodied here by Tavish Miller), it seems, was widely acknowledged as a first-rate photographer.
I thought: I could be a first-rate Emilie Pine or a third-rate Rebecca Solnit.
But these are minor quibbles in what is otherwise a first-rate, superbly paced paranormal thriller.
The title character of "Luce" is introduced as a star student and first-rate apple polisher.
The move is the first rate cut in more than two years in Africa's biggest economy.
The title character of "Luce" is introduced as a star student and first-rate apple polisher.
That budget allocates $53.4 million for the first rate increase for developmentally disabled services since 2008.
Long after she proved herself a first-rate mathematician, male faculties were still reluctant to hire her.
You've already proven yourself a first-rate aunt by trying to allay your sister's old-fashioned fears.
"The Kirkland brand is first-rate," says John Karolefski, grocery store analyst and editor of Grocery Stories.
"A month after the first rate hike in 1946, the market went down 23 percent," said Yamada.
The sequencing itself is accurate, he says, calling Helix's sequencing "first-rate," but the analysis often isn't.
He's worked for other digital firms such as eBay, First Rate and iCar Asia in the past.
The first rate reduction in every easing cycle took place in 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2007.
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates in December, the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
Following the ECB meeting, money markets pushed back expectations for a first rate hike to late 2020.
Fed fund futures contracts show the first rate hike is now fully priced in for March 2017.
Nonetheless, we will continue to develop first rate projects and provide our tenants with a great product.
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.25% on Wednesday, the first rate cut in 10 years.
The Fed reduced its interest rate benchmark by 0.25%, marking the first rate cut in a decade.
The dovish tone surprised market players, who were hoping to see the first rate hike next June.
The troupe (formerly the Royal Ballet of Flanders) failed to provide first-rate interpretations of repertory pieces.
They certainly don't look like winning, but a draw would be a first-rate result for them.
The first rate increase of the year is expected at the March meeting, according to CME Group.
It will be the first rate announcement by Canada's central bank since the election of Mr. Trump.
It's all part of Mr. Mehler's plan to produce first-rate jazz recordings in the digital age.
Portrayed by Nia Calloway, Cristina Pitter, Amber Reauchean Williams and Jehan O. Young, they're all first-rate.
Also first-rate is the décor, dark wood with brass accents and a long, long wooden bar.
He wanted to go to a college where he could play and get a first-rate education.
"We think the ECB will bring QE to an end this year and then also start to soften their forward guidance over the first rate hike, which could bring expectations of a first rate hike into focus later this year and add additional momentum to the euro," said Hardman.
Economists polled by Reuters expect rates to stay unchanged and expect a first rate hike only in 2021.
The mathematics in the new study are "first rate," Batygin said, but he pointed to several astrophysical shortcomings.
On July 3.13, BNM surprised economists with the first rate cut in seven years, by 25 basis points.
He was in fact a first-rate jazz drummer, and could almost have made a career in that.
But they deliver safe streets, first-rate health care, good public transport and a clean, responsive public administration.
That marked the first rate cut since the start of the financial crisis more than a decade ago.
This marked the first rate cut since the start of the financial crisis more than a decade ago.
The land still looks empty, served by first-rate infrastructure but home to few people and fewer businesses.
The question is how much further they are going to go into and pass the first rate cut.
Defending the BoE's first rate cut since 2009 last month, Shafik said it was better to act early.
Markets took Powell's press briefing as hawkish, following the Fed's first rate cut in more than a decade.
This marked the first rate cut since the start of the financial recession more than a decade ago.
It shows the S&P 500's performance after the first rate cut in a Fed easing cycle.
Blu-rays look first-rate, though I was a little bummed at the quality of my cable box.
The Fed raised interest rates from near zero percent in December, its first rate hike in nine years.
Many of the pilots DRL has signed up are first rate and its courses certainly look top-notch.
It set investors up nicely for Wednesday Fed decision on its first rate cut in over a decade.
The book sold well, despite its gloomy tone, and solidified Hersey's reputation as a first-rate war reporter.
But based on the president's response, the first rate cut in 10 years still wasn't enough for him.
Therefore, even if Russia's economy is struggling mightily, Putin still appears determined to field a first-rate military.
"If the Fed starts its first rate cut soon, it will change the outlook," said Market Securities' Barraud.
I will be forever indebted to the first-rate team of lawyers who represented me in this case.
Economists polled by Reuters expect rates to stay unchanged and forecast a first rate hike only in 2021.
Market-rate residents bought into it because it gave them first-rate apartments in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
"The build quality of Roger's cars is first-rate, and they are great fun to drive," he said.
By this point in the show, it becomes clear why Vallotton is not considered a first-rate painter.
"This is a first-rate intellect and a fair and decent man," Mr. Katyal said of Judge Gorsuch.
In a variety of supporting roles, Amanda Lawrence, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and especially Susan Brown are first-rate.
It wouldn't be until December 2015 that Wall Street would see the Fed's first rate hike since 2006.
The announced crowd at Jones Convocation Center, a first-rate arena, was 230, but the atmosphere was expectant.
This first-rate documentary generates similar mixed feelings at a time when freedoms seem to be threatened everywhere.
Faye is an author of first-rate historical fiction, including several excellent riffs on the Sherlock Holmes canon.
If and when it happens there will be a lot of talk about the first rate rise since 'x'.
A solid musician, this great-nephew of Kentucky local colorist Jesse Stuart is an absolutely first-rate better songwriter.
Fire TV will become fully certified for YouTube, signaling that it offers first-rate video quality and minimal buffering.
And we take a real pride in what we do and we believe we're a first-rate news organization.
Getting there will not be altogether straightforward even for serious gamers: first-rate VR can give users motion sickness.
"We have first rate ambassador in Washington," Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who campaigned for Brexit, told the British parliament.
The FOMC hiked interest rates by 25 basis points in December, its first rate increase in nearly a decade.
The bank raised the rate in November from 4.25 percent, its first rate move in more than a year.
It would take a lot more than arresting design, however, to turn "Whipped Cream" into a first-rate ballet.
Tim Blount, a first-rate birder and the executive director of the Friends of Malheur, would be my guide.
"We have first rate ambassador in Washington,"  said Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson while speaking at the House of Commons.
"That was roughly the average last year, and one that helped bring about the first rate hike," he said.
There is no excuse for a first-rate country like America to rank 14th in the world in education.
"Positive news on these fronts would bring forward our first rate cut expectation to July from September," he said.
The cast includes some first-rate performers, including the excellent Karen Ziemba and Daniel Jenkins as Luke's uncomprehending parents.
Its initial 25 basis point reduction in July was the central bank's first rate cut since the financial crisis.
Its CTS-V and ATS-V cars, for example, have been extolled as first-rate, track-ready sport sedans.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark overnight interest rate in December, the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
"Sheila's resting pulse is never to be satisfied even when she has done something first-rate," Mr. Plepler says.
As a performance artist, Sobelle is first-rate, and the vignettes that make up this show are stunningly choreographed.
The Federal Open Market Committee is scheduled Wednesday to make it first rate decision since the new administration took office.
KT Rolster ran first-rate StarCraft teams for years, and have taken a similarly demanding tack with League of Legends.
Instead of saying "continue to reinvest after QE ends ", the statement said" continue to reinvest after the first rate rise".
In fact, the market is not expecting the first rate hike until September, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
The Panthers' first-rate defense, featuring linebackers Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis, was problematic for nearly every team it faced.
As the first rate cut by the Federal Reserve in more than a decade, this one is also very special.
Collaborators continue to tincture the original AWVFTS sound, and even as first-rate collaborations abound, time continues to escape them.
The Federal Open Markets Committee hiked rates by 25 basis points in December, its first rate hike in a decade.
The Federal Reserve's first rate hike in December may not have caused the turmoil in markets, but it didn't help.
So it could spell out details of future policy tightening, though the first rate rise is unlikely before end-2019.
The central bank raised the rate in November from 4.25 percent, its first rate move in more than a year.
Yet Clark made wonderful records which prefigured the successes of others, and they add up to a first-rate catalogue.
Powell teed up the first rate cut by coining the "act as appropriate to sustain the expansion" language in June.
Over the past century, though, enough first-rate music has been written for the movies that the charge rings false.
And for a show so grounded in language, "The Unwritten Law" lacks the precision and freshness of first-rate wordsmithery.
The legacy of the Mighty Bunch and the first-rate music it left behind is also an enduring underdog mentality.
Ms. Woodard, a first-rate actress, sometimes seems worn out by the sheer weight of the words she must deliver.
"If Iowa wants to be a first-rate state, it needs to attract more artists and young people," he declared.
First-rate advocacy on behalf of the Rohingya has been led by Fortify Rights, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
Economists polled by Reuters expect rates to stay unchanged on Thursday and expect a first rate hike only in 2021.
At the top of the heap is Major League Soccer, with well-known players, big contracts and first-rate stadiums.
A sharp slowdown in the region's economy has killed off any chance of a first rate hike during his term.
"I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States," Gore Vidal, who worked as one constantly, said.
For the past decade, for example, I have booked first-rate apartments in Villefranche sur mer through well-run RivieraExperience.com.
The Fed's September meeting follows its first rate cut since the financial crisis, a 25 basis point reduction in July.
Health care is first-rate, public transportation is modern and efficient, and the tap water is safe enough to drink.
Happily, governance at General Motors is much improved, and in Mary Barra, the company has a first-rate chief executive.
Their confident-sounding first album, First Rate Players, came out earlier this year to widespread acclaim in Chinese underground rap.
The playing is first-rate and the repertory ranges widely, including contemporary music by Ligeti, John Zorn and Jacob Druckman. (juilliard.edu.)
By combining Py's technical assessment expertise with Hired's dependable pipeline of first-rate talent, we're ready to transform today's hiring standards.
"He has a fantastic reputation, very dynamic, very proactive, with a first-rate track record," Vontobel analyst Jean-Philippe Bertschy said.
The Fed lifted its benchmark overnight interest rate from near zero in December, the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
The Fed most recently raised interest rates in December last year, which was the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
He has relied on a first-rate digital team that has proven highly effective at crafting compelling email bids for money.
U.S. TREASURY YIELDS RESUME FALL IN THE WAKE OF FED'S FIRST RATE CUT SINCE 2008, 10-YEAR YIELD LAST AT 2.014%
The first rate hike since mid-2006 happened in December 2015, with the next one not coming again until December 2016.
As a businessman, he developed into a first-rate actor who will reliably inhabit a role whenever he appears in public.
He has in turn promised to surround himself with first-rate advisers and appealed to Liberians living overseas to return home.
Sanders so much for his consistent opposition to right-wing programs and his championing of first rate health care for all.
It would be the first rate increase since the Fed raised its benchmark rate by a quarter-point a year ago.
"I think he's a superb candidate, first rate," said Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a Democrat and a former lieutenant governor of Maryland.
Neither Byron nor his women have lacked for chroniclers; the combination of first-rate minds with fourth-rate temperaments is irresistible.
What Harrison missed about her subject is that Lee has never been anything other than a first-rate color-line traverser.
In December 2014 the immediate issue was whether to start describing the Fed as "patient" in approving that first rate hike.
The other three forecast a trim by 25 basis points (bps), which would be the first rate cut since September, 2017.
The study asked 71 participants to first rate their own Facebook usage with a measure known as the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale.
Her problem-solving abilities, meanwhile, are first-rate: She comes up with and eradicates two theories in the space of an episode.
The central bank increased its key policy rate to 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent in September, the first rate hike since 2011.
Expectations have grown that the Fed will embark on its first rate cut in a decade at a policy meeting this month.
Expectations have grown that the Fed will embark on its first rate cut in a decade at a policy review this month.
"We have pushed back our first rate hike to October 2020," Dirk Schumacher, ECB watcher Natixis in Frankfurt said in a note.
Strong jobs data at the end of 2015 were a vote of confidence for the first rate hike in almost a decade.
It was the first rate hike in more than nine years, and Fed officials indicated they expect four more hikes this year.
It will be the first jobs number, following the Fed's first rate hike after an extended period of near zero interest rates.
Collective Design First-rate examples of vintage 20th-century design from an international group of dealers, as well as cutting-edge creations.
The Yellen Fed enacted the first rate hike in more than nine years and began the roll-off of the balance sheet.
In the subtle gradations from robust dense tone to smoky layers, their playing often resembled that of a first-rate string quartet.
It was the bank's first rate cut since March 2018, following significant progress on domestic fiscal reforms and looser monetary policy abroad.
Not that anyone in "Girl" — which has an echoing, imagistic precision you associate with first-rate poetry — has much reason to hope.
While that picture has a well-deserved rep as a fantastic concert film, it's also a first-rate piece of contemporary reportage.
He was an athlete, too, and a first-rate one, who played three sports in high school and competed into his 30s.
And Bill Deamer's first-rate choreography unerringly finds the residual grace among dancers who could well stumble and fall at any moment.
Global central bankers are coming to the rescue by lowering interest rates, punctuated by the Federal Reserve's first rate cut since 2008.
It has a lean curatorial staff but the back-end expertise and the art-world clout needed to secure first-rate loans.
Most economists had been expecting a first rate hike by the BoE only in 2019, according to a Reuters poll last month.
Harvard's answer — you can never outlive your crime — is an affront to a first-rate candidate and brings shame on those responsible.
Quijano-Evans said the main impact could be on the Czech crown, by bringing forward the timing of the first rate rise.
Her Pipe has a wonderfully natural, uncomfortable erotic symbiosis with Ms. Jimenez's first-rate Kit, an outsider who exudes quiet, defiant confidence.
Early in January, not long after the Fed's first rate hike in nearly a decade, Wall Street dealers expected three rate increases.
Bumgarner throws 200-plus first-rate innings every year, skimming through entire months with his spotted fastball and sidearmed, diving-turkey slider.
U.S. money market rates have stabilized in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve's first rate decrease since 2008 at the end of July.
The central bank increased its key policy rate to 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent in September, the first rate hike in seven years.
The second rate would be based on trades used in the first rate and tri-party activity in the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
Once the ECB delivers its first rate hike, there's every chance it will continue to raise more steadily and consistently than the BoE.
We've been conditioned to expect first-rate political strategy from Tyrion, but it's clear now that he's not even a passable military strategist.
But Trump hasn't invested enough resources to build a first-rate staff around him and after all, they take orders from the top.
For Roosevelt, bully was an adjective meaning "excellent" or "first-rate" — not the noun bully ("a blustering, browbeating person") that's so common today.
The timing for what would be the ECB's first rate rise since 2011 now falls on March 2019, judging by money market pricing.
The dollar rose to two-year highs against a basket of currencies after Powell's remarks following the Fed's first rate cut since 2008.
ET, capping a week that saw the Federal Reserve's first rate cut in more than a decade and wild swings in financial markets.
And when it became clear that the Fed would deliver its first rate hike in a decade last December, emerging markets again wobbled.
The Federal Reserve announced earlier in December that it would raise interest rates a quarter point, the first rate hike in a year.
The minutes also suggested that policymakers' view of when the ECB's first rate hike since 2011 will come chimes with expectations among investors.
Though, considering flights from NY to Tel Aviv usually fall within the $1,000-dollar range, this is still a pretty first-rate deal.
The first rate cut came days after the central bank reduced its growth forecast for this year to 3.1 percent from 3.5 percent.
The question was on his lips even in his last days, which were spent in a first-rate hospital reserved for party officials.
Of course, real changes are upon us, and today one can reel off the names of a number of first-rate women artists.
Wallace is a first-rate newsman and superb anchor who has asked tough questions of Trump associates and supporters since Trump became presidents.
"The committee never gives enough of a tip to admit an average candidate at the expense of a first-rate one," he said.
Bond markets have been pricing in a slowdown, and the Federal Reserve in July approved its first rate cut since the Great Recession.
There is some first-rate hardass mentoring from Hurley and some spirited defiance from Rapp against a backdrop of rogue Iranian nuclear shenanigans.
Having lost a close friend from Delta there, it was tough to watch at first, but it is a first-rate action film.
The show sounded like the stuff of soapy teen melodrama, but it rarely was, thanks to the intelligent writing and first-rate ensemble.
Though the protean actors, all first-rate, endow their roles with a zestful individuality, their characters are far more than their separate stories.
This would mobilize the party, promote new leaders, generate revived enthusiasm, and powerfully help recruit first-rate candidates for the 2018 midterm elections.
A diner-cafe with checkerboard flooring, a counter and tables serves more than a slice of first-rate pie (sour cherry, coconut custard).
On Tuesday night alone, more than $600 million was raised thanks to the sale of 44 first-rate artworks the couple gathered. Mrs.
As many as 29 of 35, or 193% of those polled, forecast the first rate cut of the year to 0.5% before June.
Greensboro boasts a first-rate youth choir, which was overseen for more than thirty years by a local music teacher named Ann Doyle.
Finally, The City is very focused on making sure we run a first-rate, efficient business and are good stewards of every dollar.
"I am ready to give my all to uniting the divided country and making South Korea a first-rate nation," Mr. Ban said.
The occasion might rankle without its payoff of a final room of first-rate paintings, pastels, and drawings: Degas hitting on all cylinders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald said the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time.
Antoine Harris (unrelated to Wood Harris) plays Ahm, a cold-eyed, scar-faced gang leader who turns out to be a first-rate rapper.
He pointed out Monday on CNBC's "Trading Nation " that stocks tend to rise, rather than fall, in the year after the first rate increase.
For this shift as a bandleader, he features first-rate talent: the trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, the pianist Harold Mabern and the bassist Bob Cranshaw.
It's a science fiction variation on Russia / US tensions, with parallel worlds standing in for Cold War adversaries, with first rate acting and writing.
WEAK DOLLAR Expectations have grown that the Fed will embark on its first rate cut in a decade at a policy meeting this month.
She trained as an ethnographer before embarking on a literary career, and was a first-rate listener who revelled in her subjects' natural cadences.
The key to Ike's victory was first-rate legal and tactical organization, as well as a candidate that was perceived to be a unifier.
"The first rate cut by CBR could arrive in September, sooner than our current base-case of November," wrote Commerzbank analysts in a note.
It's one of the consolations of first-rate art that there is somehow always hope in being able to see with newly unobstructed eyes.
We can do better, and we need to if we are going to compete against countries that are pouring funding into first-rate training.
A first-rate barbecue platter — there's a Cookshack smoker out back — is two enjoyable-meals-worth of meaty wings, pulled pork, ribs and andouille.
Additionally, German staff officers tend to be first-rate planners with extensive experience in establishing and running deployed, multinational forward-operating bases and garrisons.
It would be the RBI's first rate cut since October and the first in Asia since the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in December.
The gloomier outlook for the next two years further reduced speculation that the BoE was close to its first rate hike in a decade.
Poor sleepy-eyed George Lockwood, alias Cully, was once considered a first-rate burglar, so skilled that he manufactured his own break-in tools.
And no one is arguing that Mr. Iger, for instance, isn't a first-rate C.E.O. But executive pay is exceeding revenue and profit growth.
There's a kind of elation in seeing both famous and obscure phrases from the plays plucked and resituated, the effect first-rate — distancing, salutary.
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates in December, its first rate hike in nearly a decade, a move that helped buoy the dollar.
In New York City, The Times's art critics came up with 10 first-rate museum exhibitions they recommend, many of which are closing soon.
Many prospective students aren't able to access a first-rate education because of finances, or because top schools just don't exist in their countries.
Even so, the Fed cut again in September and October, reducing interest rates to the range following Powell's first rate hike in March 28500.
Engineering may be the aspect of novel writing that deserves the most praise and gets the least, and Castellani is a first-rate engineer.
In 2012 it said that interest rates would start to rise in 2014 but policymakers waited until December 2015 for their first rate hike.
While Powell stayed mum about whether the Fed's July meeting would bring the first rate cut, the market is now certain that it will happen.
The January hike was BNM's first since July 2014, and the first rate change since July 2016, when there was a 25 basis point cut.
Technology sector surged 19.8% in the three months following the first rate cut in 1995, while financials rose 11.6% in the meantime, according to Strategas.
We just accepted them as first rate artists, and you were very glad to see their work, and we were brought one, and all that.
That was the first hike since July 2014, and the first rate change since July 2016, when there was a cut by 25 basis points.
This bold and utterly first-rate historical exhibition, rich in plot, is just the kind of small-scale jewel that Paris Musées does so well.
The Bank of England raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.5%, its first rate increase in a decade.
First-rate cyberpowers, such as America, have developed sophisticated techniques for identifying perpetrators by analysing what are known in the business as "sources and methods".
Soft growth and inflation, dovish global central bank policies and progress on domestic reforms have fed expectations of Brazil's first rate cut since March 24.25.
The bank lowered its deposit rate to 15.75% from 16.75 and its lending rate to 16.75% from 17.75%, its first rate cuts since March 2018.
Medians suggest the first rate increase of 25 basis points will come early next year, one calendar quarter later than was forecast a month ago.
The first rate hike was in December 2015, followed by one in December 2016 and finally one in March 2017, each by 25 basis points.
The Bank of England is yet to make its first rate hike and the Bank of Japan is continuing with its own quantitative-easing program.
"We will remain patient in determining the timing of the first rate rise and will take a gradual approach to adjusting policy thereafter," Draghi said.
The removal of the collar's interior lining, however, constitutes a major moment in the history of minutiae, as it reinstates a first-rate collar roll.
That view on Fed's next possible cut was below an implied 83% probability shortly after the Fed announced its first rate decrease in a decade.
Iran brought disciplined ground troops who worked well with their local allies, while Russia provided the first-rate air power that Iran and Assad lack.
Britain's FTSE 100 built on the previous session's gains following the Bank of England's first rate hike in more than a decade, up 0.3 percent.
But its portraits of disappointed show business hopefuls dreading their expiration dates make no bones about their insecurities, and the ensemble acting is first-rate.
Choir singing opened the door to a series of scholarships that let him get a first-rate musical schooling and good jobs after he graduated.
Still, his efforts are bearing fruit now as inflation has undershot expectations for five straight months, facilitating the first rate-cutting cycle in four years.
This is first-rate political theater, maybe creates a few thousand jobs on the margin, and has driven down the value of the Mexican peso.
DaBaby may not be the most technically gifted rapper, but the MC does prove himself as a first-rate songwriter on his Baby on Baby.
While we agree that the set design and visual experience of 887 are first-rate, your humble reviewers are of two minds about the narrative.
Based on the first-rate movie starring Dustin Hoffman, it might have made any or all of the mistakes such adaptations typically do. Infidelity. Overfidelity.
While a large component of Alameda is its first-rate bar program, Brooklyn Star alum Nick Padilla's food is by no means playing second fiddle.
The cast members, all first-rate, wear Ásta Bennie Hostetter's 1980s costumes with discomfiting comfort, as if they had no idea how unflattering they were.
Joining Ms. Bouder will be a first-rate cast of mostly City Ballet corps members and apprentices, as well as her fellow principal Taylor Stanley.
In fact, the S&P 403 has fallen slightly since the central bank delivered the first rate reduction in more than a decade in July.
It's for anyone interested in first-rate ensemble acting and theater that keeps you on the edge of your seat as compellingly as any tiebreaker.
In July, central bankers also approved a quarter-point reduction; at the time, it was the Fed's first rate cut in more than a decade.
They grew up in the epicenter of globalization, privy to first-rate social services, medical care, and most of the pillars of a liberal society.
Ms. Devieilhe also had a superb partner in the pianist Mathieu Pordoy, whose artistry helped to make this an evening of first-rate chamber music.
Jane has tasked Mark Baartse, formerly a director at a marketing company called First Rate, with moulding her freeform marketing systems into a structured operation.
We'd take ProPublica's deep-dive investigative reporting and work with Vox's first-rate video storytelling team to convey the work in new and different ways.
Verde had already built a sizeable position in inflation-linked debt ahead of the recent start of the country's first rate-cut cycle in four years.
The markets have been widely expecting the Fed to raise the Fed funds target rate by a quarter point, the first rate hike in a year.
"It Happened on the Way to War – A Marine's Path to Peace" is a first-rate piece of writing, but don't take my word for it.
Federal Open Market Committee members, upon approving the first rate hike in a year last month, indicated that three more are on the way in 2017.
"The first rate came in higher than expected," Li Wei, China economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said, expecting the new rate to fall over coming months.
As a balanced piece of analysis that puts markets and consumers first, rather than big tech firms or the government, the experts' report is first rate.
The Fed is expected to cut interest rates by 22.9 basis points this week, for what would be the first rate cut since the financial crisis.
The Fed is expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points this week, for what would be the first rate cut since the financial crisis.
If I'm wrong about the inanity of the idea, then I can't trust my judgment in any case, and maybe these researchers really are first-rate.
He extends his celebration on the bandstand, leading a first-rate quartet with the pianist George Cables, the guitarist Peter Bernstein and the bassist John Webber.
Yields on most Treasury money funds are still running close to zero even after the Fed's first rate hike in nearly a decade, according to iMoneynet.
Around 55 percent expect no increase in 2019, while 45 percent predict policy makers will plough ahead and deliver the bloc's first rate hike since 2011.
The Bank of England will issue a rate decision on Thursday, that many expect will bring its the first rate hike in more than a decade.
If the ECB only announces a six-month extension, traders think the market would be quick to bring forward the timing of the first rate hike.
There are quite a few well-qualified law professors who teach Indian law, who are tribal members, and who would make first rate Harvard Law professors.
" Pickering points to a first rate hike of 25 basis points in the first quarter of next year but "with risks tilted toward a hike sooner.
But this year, it was more American than ever in my experience, a more unified company and, more evidently, a proud exponent of first-rate choreography.
Curator Amel Ben Attia's Fire/Naar : J'emporterai le feu (I Will Take the Fire) pavilion, in "El Matbaa, l'Imprimerie Cérès", is full of first-rate pieces.
"I think the young people who stood up, the Parkland kids, they were first-rate and we're wise to take a lead from them," said Rep.
The momentum of Target's sales over the past two years can be attributed to first-rate merchandising, expedited online delivery and their capability for curbside pickup.
How often, after all, do you get to watch a first-rate actress testifying so concretely to the notion that all women turn into their mothers?
Many in the art world had wondered whether the Met director job would draw first-rate candidates, given the museum's recent reorganization of its leadership structure.
He has put his life on hold for months to win the job, and his record on the appellate court is widely regarded as first rate.
At its previous meeting in July, the central bank had said its first rate increase since 2011 could come either in October or December this year.
"My impression is he is a first-rate corporate diplomat," said Chase Untermeyer, who was United States ambassador to Qatar in the George W. Bush administration.
The first major milestone in Qatar's museum-building program, the Museum of Islamic Art, has first-rate collections and a design inspired by ancient Islamic architecture.
Congress voted unanimously to pay the legal costs for the whistleblowers so that they would have a first-rate defense in the Rhode Island libel case.
A.T.M., also known as 顶级玩家 ("First Rate Players"), is a trio of young CDC rappers who make extremely solid Chengdu-flavored trap music.
The Fed in December lifted its benchmark overnight lending rate to a range of 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent, its first rate hike in nearly a decade.
Financial markets have since positioned for a first rate move closer toward the end of 2019 despite the ECB's guidance, largely echoed by Villeroy in his comments.
"It may be an opportunity for the ECB to signal that markets are not wrong to push out the timing of a first rate rise," he said.
While markets overwhelmingly expect the Fed to follow up its first rate cut in a decade with more stimulus at its meeting next month, some policymakers disagree.
Prior to Tuesday's election, Wall Street widely expected the Fed to enact its first rate hike in a year at the December Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
Once the Fed pulls the trigger on its first rate cut in more than a decade, the markets will quickly move on to anticipating the next one.
That's why mortgage rates rose last December in anticipation of the first rate hike and then fell after that due to other global economic issues. Yes-ish.
The bank lowered its deposit rate to 15.75 percent from 16.75 and its lending rate to 16.75 percent from 17.75, its first rate cuts since March 2018.
Economists expect Norway's central bank on Thursday to deliver the first rate hike since 2011 and say the focus will be on the bank's interest rate projections.
The central bank cut its benchmark interest rate to 4 percent on May 11, down from 4.25 percent previously, in the first rate cut since January 2015.
Some also expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to strike a more dovish tone at their next meeting despite launching its first rate hike since 2006 last December.
The wording is crucial because of the sequencing argument that purports that a first rate hike can only happen once the asset purchase program has fully terminated.
"There's a laundry list of data points that show weakness — the Fed will try to offset that because the first rate cut didn't do it," Boockvar said.
Then again, the recession nobody saw coming did commence in March 100, two months after the first rate cut that caused so much excitement at the time.
The Bank of England (BoE) announced its first rate hike in more than a decade in November, amid strong inflationary pressures and a low level of unemployment.
The thing drives beautifully, the interior is primo, and the infotainment system, with its crisp central touchscreen, is a blissful media center with first-rate GPS navigation.
Draghi said this pledge made continued bond purchases key for pushing market expectations for the first rate hike further into the future, helping to keep rates low.
In the mold of Lee Marvin or Lee Van Cleef, he was a first-rate thug, and his deadpan look was perfect for disaster pictures or comedies.
But to hear this rapturous score played by an orchestra of such size, under the guidance of a first-rate conductor, was a pure pleasure in itself.
The bank lowered its deposit rate to 15.75 percent from 16.75 and its lending rate to 16.75 percent from 17.75, its first rate cuts since March, 2018.
Phillis is a first rate cook washer & ironer nor do I know of any bodily infirmity or defect of either of them as to impair their value.
But all I was able to gather from Gonzalez's work was one interesting idea, a few awkward jokes and several dialectical mashups—and first-rate digital rendering.
His name is Harry (Mark Addy, first-rate), who has the complacent, well-fed look of an eater of beef and death-dealing servant of the crown.
Adding peaches to Dutch baby pancakes, to a cucumber gazpacho, to poundcake, to a Caprese salad and to condiments for pork and salmon are first-rate suggestions.
Now, we'd remind readers that after the market volatility in August, Barclays pushed out their forecast for the first rate hike in a decade to March 2016.
"Moka" is also a first-rate showcase for two of French cinema's finest actors, Ms. Devos and Ms. Baye, both of whom do career-high work here.
In its previous decision in November, the committee had voted to raise the interest rate from 0.1 percent, the first rate increase in more than seven years.
I've thrown first-rate resumes in circular file because of typos, and I've thrown excellent job candidates out of my office because they spoke seventh-grade English.
In Central Europe, the Czech central bank lifted its interest rates from near zero early this month, the first rate increase in the European Union since 2012.
Asked about Harris' exit, Biden said he had "mixed emotions," though he added that Harris was a first-rate intellect and a strong competitor, NBC News reported.
Here, at least, the Palace Museum has a first-rate example on display, Wen Zhengming's Zhong Kui in a Wintry Grove, a hanging scroll made in 1534.
And then emails starting flying with an idea: Why not join forces to combine ProPublica's deep-dive reporting with Vox's first-rate and impressively popular video storytelling?
"Donald Trump singled out a "young socialite" at his club at Mar-a-Lago by telling a reporter, "there is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy.
The director, Anne Kauffman, has made a specialty of adventurous new writing — I'll certainly give Mr. Haidle props for his freewheeling ambition — and the cast is first-rate.
According to IL's Roving Latin America Editor Jason Holland, who lives on the Riviera Maya, there are first-rate hospitals throughout the country—every major city has one.
Pin is a first-rate heroine, aware of the vulnerability of her sex to the chaos and dangers of both the amusement park as well as Chicago's slums.
It seems to us that the chance of the Company being able to attract a first-rate food executive in the middle of a proxy fight is low.
The Federal Reserve implemented its first rate cut in more than a decade on Wednesday, lowering its target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points.
The first rate cut in more than a decade should be distinguished from "the beginning of a lengthy cutting cycle," the Fed chief said Wednesday as stocks cratered.
Add to the mix that I'm not sold on Anderson as a first-rate talent, and there's a team in every fantasy league that could absolutely roster Booker.
And there are all these Nashville-associated women: Lori McKenna, Miranda Lambert, Brandy Clark, Angaleena Presley, Kacey Musgraves, Ashley Monroe—a tremendous bunch of really first-rate writers.
Optimism about Norway contrasted with caution over the euro zone economy after the European Central Bank last week slashed growth forecasts and postponed its likely first rate hike.
Coeure also said the council of governors did not discuss a scenario under which a first rate hike in the euro zone could take place in mid-2019.
The 2.878 basis point rise was the largest since Dec 17, 2015, the day after the Fed's first rate hike following the financial crisis and the Great Recession.
It probably shouldn't come as a surprise that California chefs, with their bottomless bounty of first-rate produce, are inclined to throw fruits and vegetables into the flames.
"Together with the January inflation, this points to a postponement of a first rate hike ... at the next monetary policy meeting in April," Nordea analyst Andreas Wallstrom said.
Mortgage applications to purchase a home jumped after the first rate spike post-election, as buyers on the fence moved quickly to buy, leery of even higher rates.
There were certain things I was an ace at — I'm still a first-rate hospital patient — but it had been six years since I'd driven on a freeway.
Yet when pension funds invest in infrastructure, they typically invest in private equity-type funds that often have first-rate expertise but seek capital gains, not current income.
The Czech crown was flat before a central bank rate decision that is expected to keep policy unchanged but could signal the timing of its first rate rise.
Meanwhile Riddell believes the first rate hike has now been pushed out to the back end of 2019 and suggests watching for other nearer-term monetary policy actions.
You have earned a reputation as a first-rate conservative judge, and I thought it possible that there was some mistake and that you had been terribly wronged.
A U.S. diplomatic cable in 2008, among many thousands leaked by Wikileaks two years later, described her as "first-rate egomaniac" who "is obsessed with becoming prime minister".
Two first-rate London landscape firms, Muf and Vogt, handled the intricate design of the courts, gardens, paths and other public areas at both Colville and Kings Crescent.
But Powell suggested it was a one-off move, disappointing investors who had initially expected more rate cuts were coming after the Fed's first rate cut since 2008.
Financial markets have performed poorly even after the Federal Reserve granted investors' wishes by lowering interest rates in late July, the first rate cut in nearly 11 years.
But I was sorry that Chris Evans was excluded (no Captain America on Tony night!), since I thought every member of the "Lobby Hero" ensemble was first-rate.
Stylish design, first-rate service, and an excellent entry-level price point are all deserving of praise but it's the prime location that gives it a real edge.
"The possible first rate hike – even if only a cosmetic in nature - that we expect to see in the first quarter of 2019 may come later," he added.
While markets overwhelmingly expect the Fed to follow up its first rate cut in a decade with more stimulus at its meeting next month, some policymakers are not keen.
The data cemented expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again in September after it delivered its first rate reduction in more than a decade last month.
Fully 20183 percent of respondents expect the Fed to hike rates on Wednesday, which will mark the first rate hike in a year and the second in a decade.
Fully 96 percent of respondents expect the Fed to hike rates on Wednesday, which will mark the first rate hike in a year and the second in a decade.
The inflation outlook will most likely determine the timing of further interest rate increases by the Fed, which last month imposed the first rate increase in nearly a decade.
Ms. Meza brings an appealing combination of lightness and depth to all the material, singing in a bright, clear voice against the agile stir of a first-rate band.
With expectations running high that the U.S. Federal Reserve will signal on Wednesday its first rate cut since the financial crisis, only a few asset classes were straying far.
We have the RBA on hold until late 20173 where a first rate hike would be appropriate if the RBA's forecasts for growth, wages and inflation come to fruition.
The Fed cut rates by a quarter point in its first rate cut in more than a decade but disappointed markets by not signalling much more of a reduction.
The Fed announced Wednesday that it would implement a widely expected cut of 25 basis points, its first rate reduction since the grip of the financial crisis in 2008.
They put out a newspaper, The Rope, which was sort of a third-rate The Onion (or first-rate Daily Currant), that featured articles making fun of Bible-thumpers.
Last month, Bank Negara Malaysia surprised markets by cutting its overnight interest rate MYINTR=ECI by 25 basis points to 3.00 percent, the country's first rate cut since 2009.
Padres starter Joey Lucchesi (23-23) was not first-rate either, giving up six runs on 24 hits over 23 26/63 innings with three walks and three strikeouts.
The reality is that it was a shrewdly assembled caper, assembled by both a smart leaker and the team of first-rate lawyers and investigative journalists at the Times.
Yellen will defend the U.S. central bank's first rate hike in a decade and likely insist that further rises this year remain on track, albeit at a slower pace.
Poland's zloty touched a three-month low against the euro a day after its central bank said its first rate increase might come a year later than previously expected.
Some of the orchestra's strengths — its voluptuous and flexible string sound, the first-rate horn section led by Todd Leighton — only truly came to the fore in the Mahler.
In his hospital tales, my father stars as a first-rate diagnostician with a near-Holmesian power for inferring rare or easily missed pathologies from the slightest of symptoms.
The CNN special documentary about the Russian connection was one of many shining examples of first-rate journalism that have been produced by CNN and other key news organizations.
That view on Fed's next possible cut, while still strong, was below an implied 83% probability shortly after the Fed announced its first rate decrease since 2008 earlier Wednesday.
Cunliffe said market pricing of the BoE's first rate hike had been pushed out by two years compared with only a month ago, into the second quarter of 2019 .
That marked the first rate hike in nearly a decade and the first step toward the Fed trying to renormalize monetary policy after the financial crisis and resulting recession.
The British public could take fright at a first rate increase since 2007, especially at a time of weak growth as the country prepares to leave the European Union.
He also offers a first-rate ratatouille, and here he announces that he has defied convention by creating a recipe that allows each vegetable to retain its individual character.
Draghi is also likely to avoid providing a more precise timing for the first rate hike, sticking with the ECB's wording for steady rates "through the summer" of 2019.
Indonesia's central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.25 percent to support sagging economic growth, the first rate change in 11 months.
The market is far from convinced that the Fed is going to raise rates in March, after implementing its first rate hike in almost a decade only last month.
Democrats should begin — today — the largest early stage recruitment and fundraising operation in modern political history to find first-rate candidates to run for governor and seats in Congress.
Organisers say spectators will be able to travel around the city using public transportation, including a beefed-up metro system, but LA is up against Paris's first-rate metro.
Touches of Asia have not vanished as the menu retains the first-rate fried head-on shrimp from the original: 232 Eighth Avenue (22nd Street), 8353-518-1919, momofuku.com.
"Travels With Lizbeth" — the title is a nod toward John Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley" (1962) — can also be read as a first-rate book about the human-dog relationship.
The actors who embody the participants in a two-steps-forward, one-step-back process that mostly (and improbably) occurred over a concentrated nine months are all first-rate.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates twice in the past six months, with the initial reduction marking the central bank's first rate cut in 11 years.
But if the hybrid approach he employs by weaving in the dramatized scenes isn't quite a cancer on his documentary, it's a drag on an otherwise first-rate account.
It should be noted that Ms. Field — who provided a first-rate Amanda at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 2004 — brings emotional conviction to all of Amanda's incarnations.
This is part of an initiative the orchestra has developed at home and in European Union' countries to give young musicians the experience of playing alongside first-rate professionals.
From Apple's standpoint, meanwhile, what it probably really wants in the long run is for first-rate game developers like Nintendo to develop software for the Apple TV platform.
The Fed overcame deep market skepticism that it would initiate a hiking cycle when it pulled off its first rate rise in almost a decade in December last year.
"While this was the first rate increase in January, rates remain about 10 basis points lower than four weeks ago," said Lynn Fisher, MBA vice president of research and economics.
Our challenge is to continue providing first rate medical care while stabilizing our finances so that we can continue to meet the needs of our community for years to come.
The data cemented expectations that the Federal Reserve will deliver another interest rate cut in September after it delivered its first rate reduction in more than a decade last month.
Barclays' chief U.S. economist, Michael Gapen, moved forward his forecast for a first rate cut to July, from September, after the weak May employment report of just 75,000 nonfarm payrolls.
Though Kalanithi lacks Coutts's Shakespearean nuance, he is a literate, first-rate reporter in the vanguard of a modern battle, and he writes with the urgency of his looming incorporeity.
As Mr Macron pointed out in his new year's address, France has excellent infrastructure, (mostly) free education and first-rate health care that comes at little direct cost to patients.
Earlier in the week, there were unexpected actions from India's central bank, which cut more than predicted, and the Bank of Thailand, which made its first rate cut since 2015.
But she should also be remembered as one of the most dismal party managers the Conservatives have had (for all his failures David Cameron was a first-rate party manager).
Dealing with people with mental illness "involves none of the skills, acumen, and prowess that characterize the ideal image of a first-​rate officer," wrote sociologist Egon Bittner in 1967.
It's early yet, but Reeves' reputation after Apes could not be more sterling, his world-building chops are clearly first rate and the studio will throw its support to him.
Back in March, the ECB announced another program to stimulate bank lending in the euro zone, and pushed back the timing of its highly-anticipated first rate hike to 2020.
Economists polled by Reuters expect bond purchases to end this year after a short taper and see the first rate hike since 2011 sometime in the second quarter of 2019.
Gunpowder and Sky The indie science fiction film Prospect, directed by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell, shows that you don't need $100 million to make a first-rate space opera.
The U.S. has had a dozen bull markets since 1933, and when the Fed made its first rate hike in each, the markets moved higher over the subsequent 39 months.
LIMA, May 11 (Reuters) - Peru's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate to 4 percent on Thursday, down from 4.25 percent previously, in the first rate cut since January 2015.
"All of that should not alter the ECB's QE exit plans, but it will keep all of us busy speculating about the first rate hike," Rakau from Oxford Economics said.
Dunkirk (July 20143) With The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan emerged as one of our finest blockbuster filmmakers, weaving pathos, moral nuance and emotional shading into his first-rate action sequences.
The ECB has said that the first rate move would come "well past" the end of bond buys, a signal markets have taken to mean around three to six months.
The concert would provide the opportunity to conduct a first-rate regional orchestra in the core repertory, which he said some orchestras were patronizingly reluctant to offer minority guest conductors.
" A memo from campaign manager Robby Mook on Tuesday said the campaign has "built first-rate organizations in each state and we feel very good about our prospects for success.
In large part, this is thanks to the consistently outstanding actors who populate "Marriage Story" — not just the two impressive leads, but an ensemble of funny, first-rate supporting players.
That album, reissued, is now designated "Volume I" because there was far more first-rate, previously unreleased live material recorded at what was a prime moment in Mr. Morrison's career.
Poland's zloty touched a three-month low against the euro a day after its central bank governor said its first rate increase might come a year later than previously expected.
Given that traders were expecting a first rate hike would come as early as June 2019, the euro dropped on the news and stocks soared to close sharply higher Thursday.
Fish, mollusks and crustaceans are impeccably fresh, and the immense menu includes plump mussels, succulent grilled langoustines, a first-rate mushroom risotto, and pargo (red snapper) in a cream sauce.
The Norwegian crown rose to its highest in four months after the country's central bank signalled that its first rate rise in seven years will come earlier than previously expected.
The European Central Bank (ECB) announced another program to stimulate bank lending in the euro zone on Thursday, as well as pushing back the timing of its first rate hike.
Or, as occurred under Peter Rodino in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee could conduct an investigation of its own by assembling a first-rate team of lawyers and calling witnesses.
"The last time we saw that language from the Fed was last year before the first rate cut," said Michael Chang, interest rates strategist at Societe Generale in New York.
The First Rate Blinds Custom Cordless Single Cell Shades are our top pick because they open and close with minimal effort and the company has a sterling customer service record.
Why you'll love them: The First Rate Blinds Custom Cordless Single Cell Shades are available in multiple colors and are fully customizable to any width between 24 and 48 inches.
In addition to being filled with as many twists and turns as a first-rate suspense thriller, "Dawson City" is packed with near-metaphysical intimations, both awe-inspiring and humbling.
He was also an amateur music historian and a first-rate dramaturg, and his death created a theatrical void that was both personal — for his friends and collaborators — and professional.
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter point at its July meeting which was the first rate cut by a central bank in over a decade.
A solid U.S. labor market "has strengthened" the case for the first rate increase since last December, Fed Chair Janet Yellen told a central banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Carney pointed out that wages were gradually rising, something the central bank wants to see as it considers when to follow up on November's first rate hike in a decade.
We also agreed that whether the period under consideration was a decade or a quarter-century, 25 didn't begin to accommodate the range and depth of first-rate new work.
A quick end to the program would likely cause a reverse impact, leading to higher yields and market participants would likely bring forward the timing of the first rate hike.
I was looking for memoirs that really crack open a world, that have the intensity of first-rate novels, that make us feel we've been brought along on an adventure.
ECB President Mario Draghi said the central bank's decision to extend the programme until September 2018 was key in pushing market expectations for the first rate hike further into the future.
Asian shares flip-flopped on Wednesday with markets cautious ahead of what is expected to be the Federal Reserve's first rate hike in a year, with comments on the outlook key.
In December 2015, after approving the first rate hike in more than nine years, committee members had indicated four hikes were on the way in 2016, but ultimately only approved one.
The metal has also been helped by speculation that the Federal Reserve may not raise U.S. interest rates this year, after the first rate hike in nearly a decade in December.
It has also been reassuring to hear that Robert Kimmitt appears to be the top choice for deputy secretary of state: He is first-rate and has deep experience in diplomacy.
"Guys from Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Snapchat — these first-rate technology giants were all trying to figure out how to get into the Bill Simmons business, " James Dixon, Simmons' agent, told THR.
In the past four episodes of the Fed's easing cycles, the dollar gained against the yen twice, in 1995 and 2001, in the three months immediately following the first rate cut.
Going forward, around 100,000 IT specialists from all over the world who are registered on Honeypot will be able to connect with the many first-rate employers in German-speaking countries.
After a successful reboot of the series in 2013, and a solid second installment three years later, Lara Croft's Tomb Raider has established itself as a first-rate action-adventure franchise.
The fresh trade tensions come before a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting that's expected to see interest rates reduced by 25 basis points, its first rate cut in more than a decade.
The Fed dropped the target range for its overnight lending rate to 2% to 2.25%, or 25 basis points from the previous level, marking the first rate cut since December 2008.
While emerging markets have held up after the Fed's first rate hike, rising rates in the U.S. will attract capital from elsewhere — effectively putting a ceiling on long-term rates here.
Cashin noted that the manufacturing sector had already fallen into recession prior to the Fed's first rate hike and said the risk remains open that the services sector could follow suit.
The Fed has signaled it will exercise caution on interest rate increases because of concerns over the global economy, after implementing its first rate rise in almost a decade in December.
But it was a hawkish shift in view over the weekend from Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden who had previously voted against the first rate hike back in November that helped sterling.
Sweden's first rate hike since July 2011 is inching closer, with the central bank's board giving broader backing for policy tightening in the months ahead, according to minutes published on Monday.
In December 2015, the Fed enacted its first rate increase in more than nine years and brought its benchmark interest rate off near-zero where it had stayed for seven years.
The first rate cut, when the economy isn't in a recession, leads to a stock market rally 100% of the time, according to data compiled by Fundstrat going back to 1971.
Sterling dropped sharply against the U.S. dollar Thursday after the Bank of England (BOE) announced the first rate hike since the financial crisis, but said any subsequent rises would be gradual.
During her tenure, Yellen oversaw the first rate hike in seven years as the Fed sought to normalize policy after the extremely accommodative measures put in place during the financial crisis.
However, some market players were hoping to see the first rate hike in June of next year, and not as late as the third or even fourth quarter of next year.
CNN's reporting about the intelligence briefings given to Obama and Trump, and the 35-page dossier that has been so controversial in recent hours, was absolutely fair and first-rate reporting.
But the proliferation of social media, where every misstep can become an immediate embarrassment, has made coaches and college officials wary of offering second chances to anything but first-rate players.
His supporters point to the first-rate team he assembled at the National Economic Council as evidence that he — perhaps alone among top White House officials — could attract and retain talent.
He's a famous former high-ranking official with good media and political connections and first-rate legal skills who also earned millions of dollars during a brief stint on Wall Street.
According to Morgan's Law, Rick Atkinson has been doing first-rate journalism, enjoying critical and commercial success for three masterly books on World War II, all thoroughly researched and splendidly written.
First, rate-setters may have built up too much inflation-fighting credibility for their own good, as Christina Romer, a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, pointed out.
This partly depends on a unique formula no other country has been able to copy: the large number of first-rate American universities pursuing advanced research with long-term federal support.
"The Girl With All the Gifts," directed by Colm McCarthy, is a moderately engrossing, reliably gory British variation on the tried-and-true zombie-apocalypse theme with a first-rate cast.
The new owners appeared to understand the business better than others in the private equity industry, Mr. Jones said, and they were committed to hiring a first-rate team of executives.
Euro zone indicators from industrial production to sentiment readings have consistently disappointed in recent months and investors have now pushed their expectations for the first rate hike well into next year.
It was the fourth straight meeting the Fed has declined to raise rates after lifting them from near zero in December 2015 in the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
He also voted against the Fed's first rate hike this year, in March, although he said that his June decision was a closer call because the labor market had clearly strengthened.
Its peculiar instrumentation has discouraged frequent performances: to program it, you need a virtuoso pianist, a first-rate French-horn player, tireless wind and brass, and a vast battery of percussion.
The story Clark returned with — comprised of births and deaths, terrible injuries and old rituals, furtive love affairs and intertribal rivalries — has the texture and coloring of a first-rate novel.
Donald Trump singled out a woman at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 and told a reporter that "there is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy," according to The Daily Beast.
The ECB has promised to keep rates at their current level until well after it concludes asset buys and markets now see the first rate hike in late 2019, at the earliest.
The bank lowered its deposit rate to 22019 percent from 1003 and its lending rate to 2100 percent from 2100, it said in a statement, its first rate cuts since March 22018.
Read More Why millennials may have more sway on rates than the Fed He sees the first rate hike taking place in June, followed by another hike in late summer/early fall.
After its first rate increase in 2015, however, the central bank didn't again hike its short term rate for a year, thanks to economic weakness in the US and unstable global markets.
Jahangir Aziz, head of emerging market economics at JPMorgan told CNBC's "Squawk Box " that the first rate cut would likely come in July, although it may be postponed due to high inflation.
Critic's Notebook LONDON — Rage ricochets in the National Theater's first-rate revival of August Wilson's great, early play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," glancing off the walls like bullets in a closed room.
The Fed raised rates from near zero last December - the first rate hike in nearly a decade - but has since stood pat given an economic slump at home and volatile markets overseas.
The Fed lifted rates from near zero last December - the first rate hike in nearly a decade — but has since stood pat given an economic slump at home and volatile markets overseas.
The Fed lifted rates from near zero last December — the first rate hike in nearly a decade — but has since stood pat given an economic slump at home and volatile markets overseas.
We asked them to share their wisdom for anyone who might be looking to turn their dorm room or urban hovel into a first-rate place to be bound, boned, or beaten.
The bank lowered its deposit rate to 15.75 percent from 16.75 and its lending rate to 16.75 percent from 17.75, it said in a statement, its first rate cuts since March 2018.
Lindsey Bahr, AP: While there might not be character arcs to speak of, the performances are first-rate nonetheless (even pop star Harry Styles, who might just have another viable career option).
Canada's central bank meets on Wednesday and is expected to deliver its first rate rise in nearly seven years and in recent weeks policymakers have been laying the groundwork for a hike.
Traders are eagerly anticipating Thursday's meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB), with some contemplating whether President Mario Draghi's actions could radically reschedule when the central bank's first rate hike could come.
If GDP growth deteriorates in the 1-to-1.5 percent range, the Federal Reserve would refrain from raising rates this year following their first rate hike in nearly a decade in December.
The Fed lifted rates from near zero last December - the first rate hike in nearly a decade - but has since stood pat given an economic slump at home and volatile markets overseas.
Goldman Sachs said that in light of the recent inflation data it now expects the first rate hike by the NBH in the third quarter of 2019 rather than the fourth quarter.
"Despite elevated political and economic uncertainty, the Bank of England seems to be heading for a first rate hike soon," Kallum Pickering, senior U.K. economist at Berenberg, told CNBC in an email.
This first-rate film very amusingly tells the true story of self-styled male-chauvinist pig Bobby Riggs's efforts to defeat Billie Jean King in a landmark singles-tennis matchup in 1973.
"It's unacceptable to have anything other than a first-rate transit service as we had before several years ago," said State Assemblyman John F. McKeon, a Democrat who leads the Judiciary Committee.
The number of monthly rate cuts dwindled as the year progressed, troughing at three each in August and October, before the Fed delivered its first rate hike in a decade that December.
He recommended they read a 2011 book, "A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness," by Nassir Ghaemi, director of the mood disorders program at Tufts Medical Center.
" Because Mr. Karnow "has a sharp eye for the illustrative moment and a keen ear for the telling quote, his book is first-rate as a popular contribution to understanding the war.
That such a woebegone project attracted such a largely first-rate cast is peculiar but not inexplicable; sometimes the urge to bite the hand that feeds you overwhelms your quality control filter.
He also has a first-rate mind, capable of thinking through both the minute choreography of his moves across the wall as well as the basic questions of his time on earth.
It was the strongest signal to date that Britain's first rate hike in a decade is approaching, despite the still big uncertainties surrounding the country's scheduled 2019 departure from the European Union.
The Bank of Canada meets to set policy on July 12 following a run-up in the Canadian dollar, with markets leaning toward expecting the first rate rise in nearly seven years.
It pleased my father greatly that the year of my birth, 1959, and that of Bruce, my brother, 1961, were shaping up to be first-rate vintages, in both Burgundies and clarets.
In its first rate decision of the year, the central bank's Governing Council voted unanimously to keep the main deposit rate at a historic low of -0.5%, in line with market expectations.
Economists polled by Reuters ahead of the meeting expected bond purchases to end this year after a short taper and to see the first rate increase in the second quarter of 2019.
We congratulate Neetzan Zimmerman, Senior Director, Audience and Strategy and his social team for a tremendous job and our editorial team led by Bob Cusack for their first rate non-partisan coverage.
The Fed's first rate hike of the year, and first under new Fed chair Jerome Powell, is expected to come when the Federal Open Market Committee meets on March 20 and 21.
The bank's board voted to maintain the two-week repo rate at 0.25 percent, after it delivered its first rate hike in nearly a decade at the last meeting on Aug. 3.
There are also first-rate museums, vivid street art, some splashy new hotels in centuries-old edifices and, tucked away in the maze of cobblestone streets, some of the country's best restaurants.
Meanwhile, recent economic readings from the U.S. cemented expectations that the Fed will cut interest rates again in September after it delivered its first rate reduction in more than a decade last month.
The people around him, embodied by a winning ensemble of everyday chameleons (including the first-rate Ian Barford and Enid Graham as Christopher's parents), are his personal reconceptions of their real-life prototypes.
In the minutes of the July meeting, central bankers called their first rate cut in more than a decade a "recalibration," emphasizing it is not on a "pre-set course" for future cuts.
Just as he was leaving his post, the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee approved its first rate hike in a decade after keeping its benchmark overnight funds rate near zero for seven years.
The Fed, in the minutes of its last meeting, called its first rate cut in more than a decade a "recalibration," emphasizing it is not on a "pre-set course" for future cuts.
Christine Lagarde said a tightening in U.S. monetary policy, which started last month with the first rate hike in a decade, should be supported by "clear evidence" of inflation in the United States.
"The level of resource to do this in an absolutely first-rate way is probably beyond most institutions," said King's principal and president, Professor Ed Byrne, explaining the decision to work with Pearson.
They've pushed back expectations for the ECB's first rate hike of this cycle to later in the year, with a 23-basis-point increase now only fully discounted by the October 22 meeting.
The U.S. is currently in the longest economic expansion on record, and historically the stock market has always rallied after the first rate cut when the economy isn't in a recession, data shows.
The upward move in bond yields also came after the U.S. Federal Reserve delivered its first rate hike of the year on Wednesday, albeit having prepared the market well in the days before.
This all fuels the case for the BoE's first rate cut since 2009 but also highlights the challenge it faces as sterling's slide since the June 23 vote puts upward pressure on inflation.
"In order for that segment (of the market) to remain consistent with a continued gradual inflation convergence, our communication on policy adjustments beyond the first rate hike will become increasingly important," Praet said.
Knot, like Liikanen, meanwhile rejected a suggestion by some policymakers that the ECB could change its guidance, which now sees the first rate change only well after the end of the asset buys.
The Fed kept interest rates at the 2023 to 1.75 percent target range it set in March -- the first rate hike under Chairman Jerome Powell, who took control of the bank in February.
Trump's move may force the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates again to protect the U.S. economy from trade-policy risks after its first rate cut in more than a decade on Wednesday.
The Fed on Wednesday made the first rate cut in a decade, but Chair Jerome Powell said the 25 basis points trim was "not the beginning of a long series of rate cuts".
The bank had said after that meeting that it could make its first rate hike in almost a decade already in the third quarter, as a strongly-growing economy keeps inflation on track.
The Fed kept interest rates at the 28503 to 22019 percent target range it set in March — the first rate hike under Chairman Jerome Powell, who took control of the bank in February.
Fed officials say they want more confidence that inflation is rising toward the Fed's 2 percent goal before raising interest rates again, after a first rate hike in nearly a decade in December.
It has a rare, intuitive and ultimately anti-commercial vision, presented with purpose and first-rate sound on a thoughtful scale to a growing audience that isn't even close to jaded about it.
He also said the sheer novelty of a first rate hike created some uncertainty about its impact on the economy, but there was no reason to expect this to be larger than normal.
In Quebec he founded two ensembles, Les Violons du Roy and the chamber choir La Chapelle de Québec, that have become first-rate proponents of historically-informed performance practice, known widely as HIP.
In place of a narrator, Bolt employs a first-rate crew of bioethicists, geneticists and researchers to guide the film, and provides interviews with patients who have diseases that could soon be cured.
TAIPEI, March 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission said on Tuesday it is encouraging financial companies to buy "first rate" stocks, as global equities plunge due to worries about the fast spreading coronavirus.
"I was looking for memoirs that really crack open a world, that have the intensity of first-rate novels, that make us feel we've been brought along on an adventure," said Dwight Garner.
Portrayed by a first-rate Kathryn Erbe, in a performance as delicate as it is heartfelt, Charlotte is the sort of woman who always packs rubber gloves and sanitary wipes in her purse.
Compared with the back roads, where there is sometimes a single lane of bitumen (put your outside tires in the dirt if you encounter oncoming traffic), one might describe them as first rate.
The central bank raised its key interest rates by 200 basis points last week, citing stronger economic growth and falling unemployment, its first rate hike since a 300 basis point increase in November.
The best case for declaring victory goes something like this: Qassem Soleimani was a uniquely talented Iranian general, a first-rate strategic mind with irreplaceable personal ties to Iranian proxies around the region.
She retired from the Marine Corps in early summer, moved her family (husband and three children) back to Kentucky, and hired a first-rate media firm (Putnam Partners) to help launch her campaign.
" During a news conference in New York, the President claimed the individual -- who has not been identified -- "didn't have any first class or first rate or second tier information from what I understand.
The U.S. central bank last month raised its benchmark overnight interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 0.25 and 0.50 percent, the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
I happen to live only a few blocks from a first-rate independent book store, Three Lives, in the Village; the people who work there actually read books and have opinions about them.
It's just another data point that tells us a first rate cut from the Fed isn't coming any time soon ... It's almost become more about the Fed reaction function than the underlying data.
Even with an absolutely first-rate group of Senate-confirmable executive branch appointees, the practical problems with having elected a president with no knowledge of or interest in public policy will be considerable.
The limited scope of DeVos' education policy experience has raised questions for many about whether she is suited to run the federal agency charged with making American public education first-rate for all children.
They're going to have to get the best and the brightest and the most experienced and the most skillful, and assemble an absolutely first-rate team of lawyers to conduct defense on multiple fronts.
The fresh trade tensions come ahead a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting which is expected to see interest rates reduced by 483 basis points (bps) in its first rate cut in more than a decade.
A key marketing gimmick for SkyBridge was the annual SALT (this is a fake acronym that doesn't really stand for anything) Conference in Las Vegas that regularly attracted a first-rate cast of speakers.
Meanwhile, recent economic readings from the U.S. cemented expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again in September after it delivered its first rate reduction in more than a decade last month.
The Fed's first rate cut in over a decade will also make it slightly cheaper for consumers to borrow money from a home equity line of credit or pay back their current HELOC loan.
The country slashed its main interest rate to 19.75% from 24% in the first rate meeting since President Tayyip Erdogan sacked the former central bank chief for not cutting rates fast or furiously enough.
He also said the ECB would keep investing cash from maturing bonds back into the market for an "extended period" after the first rate increase, vague wording that gives the bank plenty of flexibility.
In the run up to interest rate reductions in 73, 27, 227 and 219, the FOMC met three to six times between first noting signs of slowing growth and making the first rate cut.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is widely expected to cut rates on Tuesday to a record low of 1.25% from 1.5% in what would mark the first rate change in nearly three years.
"It's traders digesting Carneys comments yesterday and assessing that they may have jumped the gun a little with regards to the timing of the first rate hike," said Jake Trask, corporate dealer at OFX.
Obviously, that isn't necessarily an either-or proposition, and there are plenty of first-rate shows -- "Better Call Saul" comes to mind -- that benefit from spooning out story at a slow but steady clip.
The median forecast in a recent Reuters poll of economists was for a 2100-basis-point cut lowering the base rate to 6.25% — a cautious approach for the first rate cut since March 2018.
The BoE has said most of its policymakers expect to back a first rate rise in more than a decade "in the coming months" if the economy and inflation pressures grow as they expect.
The U.S. central bank last month raised its benchmark overnight interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 0.25 percent and 0.50 percent, the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
Australian National University (ranked 22nd in the world by QS World University Rankings), the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney all carry the imprimatur of first-rate centers of research and learning.
But with growth and inflation expectations picking up in the euro zone, many analysts are projecting an end to the stimulus program in September and a first rate hike at some point in 2019.
Still, equity investments rose as a share of total assets for the first time since at least 2014, tracking a historical rally in Brazilian stocks and the first rate-cutting cycle in four years.
He even argued that recent market pricing, which put the bank's first rate increase for some time in the fourth quarter of 2019, were broadly in line with the ECB Governing Council's own scenario.
The first rate-fixing prosecution to focus on Euribor was delayed last year when five of 11 traders Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) planned to charge did not appear at a London court hearing.
Played with exquisitely clouded radiance by Saycon Sengbloh in the Signature Theater's first-rate revival of this genre-mutating 1999 drama, the illiterate Hester would probably never presume to talk in such highfalutin terms.
" Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised Isakson as a "first-rate legislator" and a "man of the highest integrity," while Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called Isakson "one of the kindest, most thoughtful senators.
For all its problems, N.C.A.A. basketball remains the best route for players to advance to the N.B.A. They get first-rate coaching and the availability of round-the-clock medical, training and support staff.
In July, Powell characterized the Fed's first rate cut since 2008 as a "mid-cycle adjustment to policy," rather than the beginning of a period of successive cuts that the market was looking for.
This impeccably realized show — whose first-rate creative team includes Palmer Hefferan (sound), Junghyun Georgia Lee (the funky fairy-tale costumes) and Annie-B Parson (choreography) — gives us story and subtext in one breath.
The result is a sedate sampler, without a shaping point of view, but it has some excellent artists — Belkis Ayón, Carlos Garaicoa, Wilfredo Prieto, José Angel Toirac and Meira Marrero — with first-rate work.
It was a veritable temple devoted to the past two or three centuries of first-rate, secondhand and antiquarian books: the Brontë sisters, the Mitford sisters, George Eliot, James Joyce, James Jones, Henry James.
We entered into a bad war, with widespread support, because first-rate experts were not influential enough in these decisions or were too scared in the aftermath of 9/11 to voice their concerns.
Haldane said the risk of moving too late with a first rate hike in a decade had grown after British economic growth and, to a lesser extent, inflation had proved more resilient than expected.
Deeply personal, this first-rate CNN Films documentary -- making a pit stop in theaters before its date with primetime -- also has something to say about the male-dominated world of comedy that Radner inhabited.
After its first rate hike in a decade last December, the Fed forecast four more rate rises this year, but weak global economic growth and market volatility have delayed any further monetary policy tightening.
Are you drinking red wine with your breakfast in celebration of some first-rate drunken diplomacy, or are you munching on bugs, training yourself to subsist on lean proteins in preparation for a hard winter?
The weak data comes just as some policymakers at the BoE have started to signal that a first rate hike in a decade might be approaching in order to curb the sharp rise in inflation.
Going back to 1982, the average annualized return for the S&P 500 between the first rate cut and the next hike has been 20%, while the median increase has been 19953%, according to Strategas.
"Both projects prioritize legacy and sustainability by capitalizing on winter sports tradition and experience, with first-rate, established World Cup venues, knowledgeable and passionate fans, volunteers and event organizers," said evaluation commission chief Octavian Morariu.
Firstly, because my personal interest in food—already negligible at the time—saw few miraculous developments during my four years of higher education, throughout which I survived exclusively on Cheetos, first-rate tarama, and Bolinos.
Nor did she give indications whether the first rate hike of the year might come at its next meeting in March or at the June meeting, which is when most analysts expect a rate increase.
Villeroy said there was no rush to detail further steps toward normalization than those the ECB has already outlined, which also include plans to gradually reduce its stock of assets after the first rate hike.
"Draghi at least just sent a clear signal of the ECB's willingness to err on the side of caution when it comes to the first rate hike," said Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING Germany.
The sources said policymakers also agreed that interest rates will not be raised before the asset buys end, indicating by default that any extension of the program would also push out the first rate hike.
The central bank held interest rates steady at record lows on Thursday, but it opened the door to its first rate cut since 2016 and the revival of bond purchases designed to spur economic growth.
With "War for the Planet of the Apes," technological wizardry and first-rate storytelling combine into a bracing action-adventure that concludes the best science fiction trilogy since the original trio of "Star Wars" movies.
With its key interest rates on the floor, the ECB is still buying tens of billions of bonds a month in economic stimulus and its first rate rise won't likely come until well into 2019.
The Fed is expected to approve its first rate increase of 2018 at its next policy meeting in March, when it will also provide fresh economic projections and Powell will hold his first news conference.
"We will remain patient in determining the timing of the first rate rise and will take a gradual approach to adjusting policy thereafter," Mario Draghi told an ECB conference in the Portuguese town of Sintra.
In other words, startups get code that is self-maintaining, self-improving, and self-documenting—the equivalent of hiring a first-rate engineering team dedicated to a non-core part of the codebase—for free.
This war chest would empower an unprecedented recruitment drive for first-rate candidates for governor and Congress who would know, while deciding whether to run, that they would receive huge financial support, if they run.
The euro's weakness propped up the dollar against a basket of its rivals before a U.S. central bank meeting got underway with expectations growing the Fed will signal its first rate cut in a decade.
The Fed already cut interest rates by half a percentage point on March 3 at an emergency meeting, the first rate cut outside of a regularly scheduled policy meeting since the financial crisis in 2008.
" The Times critic John Leonard wrote of her, "When you can say in eight pages what most novelists have never been able to say at all, heavy breathing notwithstanding, you are a firstrate writer.
" The show, produced and directed by Harold Prince, had first-rate songs by Stephen Sondheim in the brassy mainstream Broadway tradition, and a clever book by George Furth, who had been the librettist for "Company.
The Russian rouble opened slightly firmer against the dollar but remains near two-week lows ahead of Friday's central bank meeting at which some market participants expect the first rate cut in almost a year.
All other euro zone bond yields fell on Wednesday before the results of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting investors expect to deliver its first rate hike in 12 months and flag its stance for 2017.
"We have had many commercial best sellers, of course, but this adds another first-rate editorial mind," Robert L. Bernstein, Random House's chairman, president and chief executive, said at the time of Mr. Kaminsky's hiring.
First-rate intelligence reporters like the Times' James Risen, the Post's Dana Priest, and this magazine's Jane Mayer aren't just a pain in the ass, in his view—they have low motives and unfair agendas.
Mubi is one of several first-rate sites that cater to cinephiles, and its mix of current and vintage films, the global scope of the selections, and the truly eclectic array of genres is great.
"We're getting first rate assets at a valuation reflecting the downside of the cycle and we will have the ability to benefit from a strongly growing Brazilian agricultural market as business conditions improve," he added.
"We have a first-rate ambassador in Washington doing a very good job of relating both with the present administration and with the administration to be, and there is no vacancy for that position," he said.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's life insurers are holding out for the possibility that the Federal Reserve's first rate cut in more than a decade will afford them better levels at which to be buying the U.S. dollar.
You go from fighting second-rate gunmen wearing literal redshirts and carrying handguns to battling black-clad elites sporting first-rate military equipment and full body-armor that outclasses most of the weapons your soldiers carry.
In fact, as the U.S. central bank nears what is expected to be its first rate cut in a decade, global markets are hanging on to every clue about the upcoming decision to an unusual degree.
For StubHub, Primesport and the 1018 Club, the Masters is their business, securing hard-to-acquire entry badges and setting up first-rate hospitality experiences within a well-struck Dustin Johnson three-wood of Augusta National.
Everyone at CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times and others who produce first-rate journalism under difficult circumstances should be proud of their work, which serves our country and elevates the profession of journalism.
Dinner and lunch at Le Pourquoi Pas restaurant, in the same space, featured first-rate seafood, while snacks and fancy Champagne cocktails are served all day in the indoor lounge and bar or on the terrace.
It is likely to keep open-ended its time horizon for investing cash from maturing bonds and could discuss fresh long-term loans to banks or whether to push back its first rate hike since 2011.
"Chicago," with its first-rate score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and stiletto-sharp book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, is a great musical, but for theater-loving New Yorkers, it's not exactly a novelty.
Its members include Andrew Durand as an awkward young photographer, David Wilson Barnes as Lamb's lieutenant and a first-rate Michael Siberry as the gentlemanly rival editor Hugh Cudlipp, the personification of the tottering old regime.
"Jack Welch at that point was obviously already celebrated as a uniquely first-rate CEO and, the more I talked to Jack, the more impressed I was with what his designs were for NBC," Rogers said.
In addition, the ECB could push out expectations for its first rate hike, which it has said won't happen before purchases end, by spreading out its buys over a longer period of time, two sources said.
Three first-rate actors — Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles — created a centuries-crossing multitude of characters in this panoramic tale of financial rise and decay, based on the history of the Lehman Brothers.
"I know that Thames Valley police will do a first rate, professional job of keeping everyone safe and policing the visit by President Trump and the associated protests," Moran told her local newspaper, the Oxford Mail.
Nor did she give indications whether the first rate hike of the year might come at its next meeting in March or at the subsequent June meeting, which is when most analysts expect a rate increase.
"We move forward the first rate hike by Norges Bank to Dec-18 (from Mar-19) as the central bank reiterates their intention to hike despite inflation below target," DNB Markets said in a monthly review.
"We have a first-rate ambassador in Washington doing a very good job of relating both with the present administration and with the administration to be, and there is no vacancy for that position," he said. 15.
The long awaited Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday and if, as widely expected, an interest rate hike is announced it would represent the first rate rise of 20163.
If you're on the hunt for a pair of top-performing earphones, all you have to do is turn to the ever-reliable Google, and you'll be instantly presented with lists upon lists of first-rate contenders.
"We have a first-rate ambassador in Washington doing a very good job of relating both with the present administration and the administration-to-be, and there is no vacancy for that position," he said before Parliament. .
"This transaction shows how there is still room in Italy to help banks better manage their impaired loans, relying on first-rate managerial and financial skills," Andrea Nappa, a partner at Pillarstone Italy said in a statement.
The latest survey, released this week, showed those traders sharply docked the Fed's grades last month for what they viewed as inconsistent and confusing messaging ahead of the Fed's first rate cut in more than a decade.
The reduction from 6.50% was the central bank's first rate cut since March 2018, following significant progress on domestic fiscal reforms and looser monetary policy abroad, including the U.S. Federal Reserve's rate cut earlier in the day.
LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar edged higher against a basket of rivals on Monday after posting four consecutive weeks of gains as financial markets braced for the first rate hike of the year from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The Bank could cut interest rates as soon as Thursday, after its monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting, although most economists who took part in a Reuters poll last week expected a first rate cut only in August.
Less than two months after the Fed enacted its first rate hike in more than nine years, market talk already has turned to whether the central bank's future may not be more hikes, but rather negative rates.
Yellen is expected to defend the U.S. central bank's first rate hike in a decade and likely insist that further rises this year remain on track, albeit at a slower pace, when she addresses Congress on Wednesday.
The employment report "leaves us comfortable with the view that the Fed will not cut in July and wait until September to deliver the first rate reduction," Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists said in a note.
In spite of a first-rate cast (notably including Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving), the film, based on a novel by Rosemary Ham, lurches from broad comedy to gruesome melodrama without finding an effective balance.
Those wasted chances squandered another first-rate performance from Chad Green, who allowed only a run-scoring single by Andrelton Simmons in the first, a grounder that scooted past Simmons's childhood teammate Gregorius and into left field.
The MOMA show's lead curator, Leah Dickerman, has incorporated first-rate works by those artists, and others, to augment a sense of the tumultuous change, which in Rauschenberg's case entailed irreverence brought to the point of malice.
That was an income of better than a thousand dollars a week at a time when dinner for two at the finest restaurant in New York cost about $40, including a bottle of first-rate French wine.
Along with director Michelle MacLaren, whose work on series like "Breaking Bad" and "Game of Thrones" has been consistently first rate, Simon and Pelecanos have crafted a feature-length first episode that doesn't behave like a feature.
So in 218, when a new program director began disparaging them and other veteran E.S.L. staffers while promoting younger and less experienced people, they wondered — despite their consistently first-rate performance reviews — if they'd screwed up somehow.
One hesitates to sound like Jeff Daniels's pompous character in "The Squid and the Whale" and categorize "Manhunt" as "minor Woo," but it's undeniable that "Manhunt" delivers first-rate cinematic technique while skimping on substantial emotional investment.
But the entire cast — which also notably includes a heartfelt Lindsay Roberts in the ingénue role of Cindy Lou — is first-rate, and each member creates a specifically defined individual whom you somehow feel you've met before.
Cohen, an American historian at Harvard, reminds the reader, as any first-rate historian would, that what look, in the retrospective cartooning of polemical history, like obvious choices and clear moral lessons are usually gradated and surprising.
Books of The Times The qualities that make Seymour Hersh a first-rate reporter — his hustle, his wonkiness, his nighthawk drive to unearth a radioactive fact and then top that fact — make him a second-rate memoirist.
Though they loved the players — among them Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Carl Furillo, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella — and knew they were first rate, they lamented the team's seeming inability to claim a championship.
The interior of the cheese, a first-rate melter, has a fruity aroma and flavor with a tart aftertaste: Calderwood, $24.99 a pound, Saxelby Cheesemongers, Essex Street Market, 120 Essex Street (Delancey Street), 212-228-8204, saxelbycheese.com.
"If the ECB, in line with the Fed and the BOE (Bank of England), shifted to a symmetric 2% target, we would probably push out our call for a first rate hike," said Florian Hense with Berenberg.
But Draghi went out of his way on Tuesday to stress the ECB will be "prudent" when timing its first rate hike in eight years in the autumn of 2019, and any further hike will be "gradual".
"It would be the greatest honor of my life to be president of the United States, but it's also something I have to make sure I could run a first-rate effort to do this," he said.
The early departure of Ty Cobb from President Trump's legal team initially seemed like more bad news for the president's long-troubled efforts to build a first-rate operation to go toe to toe with Robert Mueller.
Blueface is, perhaps above all, a first-rate character actor of the meme era, right down to the tattoo of Benjamin Franklin that creeps from his right ear all the way to the middle of his cheek.
Last but by no means least, there's the question of why the richest and most powerful empire the world has ever known can't build itself a first-rate, truly high-speed national rail network along Chinese lines.
In December, the Fed said it expects to raise rates three times this year, and approved the first rate hike in a year amid signs that the U.S. economy soon could shed its long period of sluggish growth.
The penthouse gang politely stayed mum about Nimoy's oddball, campy album Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space, wherein "his serious tone and refusal to break character makes this a first-rate experiment in comedy," according to one review.
Ahead of the release, market expectations for a rate rise next month were 19 percent, while the markets were expecting the first rate hike of 2016 to take place in September, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
Both of them wanted to be artists, and after graduation they spent five years at the John Herron Art Institute, in Indianapolis, a first-rate art school that gave them a solid grounding in traditional methods and materials.
Whatever the rationale for the change, it doesn't seem to have affected the end product, an episodic film with a first-rate cast, including Zoe Kazan, Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, Tyne Daly, Tom Waits, and James Franco.
The Fed is widely expected to cut interest rates by a quarter point — which would be the central bank's first rate cut in over a decade — and the anticipation of monetary easing has supported risk asset prices worldwide.
If the wand has missed a few tricks that prevent it from rising above first-rate family entertainment into a pure romantic fantasy to equal Ever After, Drew Barrymore's revisionist Cinderella – well, it's nothing to get beastly about.
PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could give fresh guidance on the timing it its first rate hike as the end of its exceptional bond purchases approaches, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday.
The optimism over Norway's economic outlook was in contrast to the general caution over the broader European economy after the European Central Bank slashed its growth forecasts for 2019 and postponed its expectations of a first rate hike.
Some interest rate-setters at the BoE want to raise borrowing costs to control Britain's fast-rising inflation rate, suggesting a first rate hike in a decade might be approaching more quickly than had been expected until recently.
But the BOJ's move sparked talk that the U.S. Federal Reserve could consider negative rates if threats to U.S. growth increased, despite the fact the Fed enacted its first rate hike in nine years just two months ago.
The economic rout helped push inflation from a double-digit annual rate in 2015 to near the government's 4.5 percent target this year, allowing the central bank to embark on the first rate-cutting cycle in four years.
Whatever Holzmann's views, it will be difficult for him to be more outspoken than Nowotny, who drew an extremely rare public rebuke from the ECB last April for telling Reuters what the ECB's first rate move could be.
So if you are taking jobs from the Successor States, you'll find yourself being pulled into stand-up fights against first-rate national armies, in the middle of some wasteland where getting replacement equipment will be almost impossible.
Writing in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther called the movie "Fear Strikes Out" a "first-rate psychological film" in describing Piersall's relationship to a father portrayed as being obsessed with his son's becoming a major league ballplayer.
Character truly is fate in this breathless interpretation of Shakespeare's taut portrait of lives razed by jealousy, in which Mr. Oyelowo and Mr. Craig, best known as movie stars, enter the ranks of first-rate classical stage actors.
That title could also describe the experience of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, whose participation in an accelerated training program with first-rate conductors and soloists leads to often thrillingly vivacious performances in famous halls.
It is far from clear the Trump loyalists who took their places are first-rate, and even in the best of circumstances, it is hard for either party to get previous nonvoters or infrequent voters to the polls.
The details of the Fed's December meeting, during which the central bank agreed to its first rate hike in nearly a decade, show that central bank officials generally believed the economy was ready to weather a rate hike.
" Reviewing it alongside two other suspense novels, Tina Jordan calls it a "first-rate, superbly paced paranormal thriller," and applauds its hybrid nature: "Suddenly, sharply, so deftly you hardly notice, Carey steers the novel straight into horror territory.
One question, of urgent interest to media and political elites in New York and Washington, is why Northeast Corridor passenger rail service is so much slower than the first-rate systems found in France, Spain, China, and Japan.
Three weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell characterized the U.S. central bank's first rate cut since 2008 as a "mid-cycle adjustment to policy," suggesting the move was not the start of a lengthy series of rate cuts.
Three weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell characterized the U.S. central banks first rate cut since 2008 as a mid-cycle adjustment to policy, suggesting the move was not the start of a lengthy series of rate cuts.
Mr Stach himself lauds "the many pieces of the mosaic discovered by others", a half-century of academic discovery (about Kafka's first-rate work as an insurance clerk, for example) that Mr Stach now brings to a wider audience.
"As far as the first rate hike is concerned, we could give additional guidance on its timing, 'well past' meaning at least some quarters but not years, and additional guidance on its contingency on the inflation outlook," Villeroy said.
Other forecasters on the Street are joining the calls for weakening conditions that prompt the Fed to take a sharper knife to rates than officials indicated at the July meeting, which saw the first rate reduction in 231.5 years.
A U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks in 2011 described her as a "first-rate egomaniac" and she remains unapologetic about her personal extravagance, although officials in her party say she has since reduced the level of public pomp.
" After the Fed lowered its benchmark rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, Chairman Jerome Powell said that the central bank's first rate cut in over a decade was "not the beginning of a long series of rate cuts.
Created by Jesse Armstrong, directed by Adam McKay (who tackled high finance in "The Big Short") and counting Frank Rich ("Veep") among its producers, "Succession" has put together first-rate teams both in front of and behind the camera.
But weakening business surveys over the past week have made many economists doubt the BoE will press ahead with its first rate rise in a decade at a time when the shape of Britain's Brexit deal is highly uncertain.
The Bank of England is expected to announce the first rate hike in a decade on Thursday as inflation remains above its 2 percent target and economic growth has surprised and proven more resilient after last year's Brexit vote.
The Fed approved its first rate increase in nearly a decade at its December meeting, choosing to wait and see how global market turbulence at the beginning of the year and weaker United States exports affect the overall economy.
Simple pastas dressed with vegetables, fennel au gratin, typically soupy risottos, a zucchini and mint frittata, and peaches in amaretto syrup are some standouts, and her fig-and-mascarpone cake, and pine nut-and-custard tart are first-rate.
In a city known for its first-rate vintage stores, Ruse stands out as one of the best in which to find designer garments — look out for pieces by Prada and Comme des Garçons — at typically friendly Montreal prices.
As opera it may not be first-rate, but it is still important as the work of a composer who is arguably a missing link between the prewar Austro-German serialists (Schönberg, Berg) and postwar modernists (Henze to Stockhausen).
With subsequent productions and a first-rate film in 1983 — featuring Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Hodge — earlier naysayers began to perceive a creeping depth and delicacy in the work, which for me now ranks among Pinter's finest.
Another way that venture capital is unlike private equity proper, Nicholas explains in his first-rate history, is that the venture-capital industry was itself a product of speculative funding, tamed and coddled into being by the U.S. government.
Even the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong said that people's rights to peacefully protest and political expression are "a core component of those ingredients for success" for Hong Kong as a first-rate center for international trade.
It was the first rate increase by the Chinese central bank since March, but market interest rates have risen on their own in the interim as the government pursued a range of policies to lower debt in the economy.
Accelerating the dollar's slide on Thursday was a jump in the euro after the European Central Bank stopped short of suggesting an interest rate cut and instead pushed back the timing of its first rate hike since the 2008 financial crisis.
The Czech National Bank delivered its first rate hike in almost a decade in August, lifting its base rate by 20 basis points to 0.25 percent after starting policy tightening in April when it abandoned a long-held currency cap.
He cautioned, however, that the ECB would not need to wait more than a year between the end of its bond purchases and its first rate hike - as the Fed did - because economic conditions are better in the euro zone.
Regarding noncommercial outreach, Mr. Lamar often collaborates with first-rate, innovative jazz musicians, like Kamasi Washington, who not only are happy to work with him but also benefit — in their own audience growth — from showing up in his album credits.
Due to celebrate its 20th anniversary in December, Galaxy Quest arrived near the end of a film year filled with striking visions from new and emerging voices (as chronicled in Brian Raftery's first-rate recent book Best. Movie. Year. Ever.).
"The process depends on having good lawyers involved, and I can't imagine that it hasn't been frustrating to Mueller's team to be criticized for taking too long" given the lack of a first-rate legal team advising Trump, the person said.
The full game is going to have an overarching campaign where you lead a band of mercenaries from contract-to-contract, slowly growing from a fly-by-night operation of mechanized goons into a first-rate, full-service military contractor.
The Czech National Bank took its first tightening step in April when it abandoned a cap on crown strength after 3-1/2 years and attention is on when it will follow with its first rate hike in almost a decade.
A summary from the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting shows that there are some central bank officials who are ready to resume the tepid tightening policy begun in December that marked the first rate increase in more than nine years.
But policymakers privately argue that the slowdown could mean a first rate hike comes later than currently expected and the overall interest rate path would be more shallow as the ECB could hardly afford a major tightening in financial conditions.
Together with risks from Brexit and U.S.-China trade tensions, it has caused talk about the timing of the ECB's first rate rise since 2011 to be replaced by what stimulus measures might be needed to support a flagging economy.
The Federal Reserve announced its first rate cut since 2008 on Wednesday, lowering its target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, but Chairman Jerome Powell called the move a "midcycle adjustment" that didn't necessarily signal future cuts.
Trump's decision has thrown the Federal Reserve another curve ball that may force it to again cut interest rates to protect the U.S. economy from trade-policy risks after its first rate cut in more than a decade on Wednesday.
Expectations in the July 275-225 poll for the first rate cut in more than a decade have firmed this month after several Fed members have strongly hinted policy easing is coming soon, pushing U.S. stocks to new record highs.
Another source noted that a fresh helping of cheap cash would contradict the ECB's efforts to normalize its monetary policy by winding down its 2.6 trillion euro bond-buying program and paving the ground for the first rate hike since 2011.
The optimism over Norway's economic outlook was in contrast to the general caution over the broader European economy after the European Central Bank last week slashed its growth forecasts for 2019 and postponed its expectations of a first rate hike.
Joseph LaVorgna, Natixis' economist for the Americas, studied the last five tightening cycles and found there was an average of just 43 months from the Federal Reserve's last interest rate hike in a hiking cycle to its first rate cut.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England's first rate cut since 2009 looks unlikely to be passed in full to borrowers, despite the BoE being ready to lend banks as much as 100 billion pounds ($130 billion) to ensure it happens.
Speculation mounted last week that Governor Carney's grip on decision-making at the BoE was weakening when chief economist Andy Haldane said he might break ranks and join dissenters who voted this month for Britain's first rate hike in a decade.
This is the central bank's first rate decision since the landslide victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government last month, which is expected to stimulate India's economy after it grew at its slowest pace in 17 quarters in the March quarter.
Both indexes are weaker this week after trade negotiations between the United States and China ended on Wednesday with little sign of progress and the Federal Reserve dampened expectations for further monetary easing after its first rate cut in a decade.
Still, calls by a "number" of policymakers to push the timing of the first rate hike to after the first quarter of 2020 were rejected, with others warning about the risk of committing to policy too far into the future.
She and the other young actresses are flanked by a truly first-rate cast in this three-hour production that's being spread over two nights, including Emily Watson as their mother, along with Michael Gambon, Angela Lansbury and Dylan Baker.
Increasing inflation, fueled by rising energy costs and the pound's post-Brexit vote plunge, has strained the BoE consensus recently and prompted some investors to speculate that a first rate hike in nearly a decade might come sooner than expected.
On Friday, sterling rose past the $1.36 level for the first time since the Brexit vote, after comments from BoE policymaker Gertjan Vlieghe echoed the central bank's signal that the first rate increase in a decade could happen in "coming months".
The main takeaway is that the police were blocked from conducting a first-rate investigation -- beginning with the contamination of the crime scene -- both by the Ramseys and higher-ups who balked at pressing the family on inconsistencies in their stories.
Written by Aaron Loeb ("Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party") and directed by Josh Costello for the San Francisco Playhouse, it gradually ramps up the uncertainty and moral horror of its little band of collaborators, played by a first-rate ensemble.
The British central bank surprised markets just over two weeks ago when it said most of its policymakers thought the first rate hike in more than a decade would be needed "in the coming months," if inflation pressure continued to build.
What's going on: More than 250 students and researchers from 20 countries are in Toronto, where Canada is attempting to attract as much of the world's best AI talent it can by showcasing itself as a first-rate center for research.
Exactly 10 years to the day after the Bank came to the doomed mortgage lender's rescue, BoE policymakers sent out a stark warning to financial markets that the first rate hike since July 2007 could come in "the coming months".
This "first-rate" book — touching on everything from an Eastern European immigrant's life in New York to an overnight bowling sensation — offers Hanks "a second career path if this movie thing doesn't work out," the Times critic Janet Maslin wrote.
After taking early infield work before batting practice, the Mets (45-63) put together a rare game of first-rate defense to delight a crowd of 36,946 that had showed up eager to receive bobblehead figures depicting Noah Syndergaard as Thor.
His body of work is prodigious: 290 feature movies, of which at least three are absolutely first-rate; a half-dozen more are flawed classics, and all of them are at least sporadically brilliant, artistically daring and always intellectually ambitious.
Legendary Maine documentary editor Mary Lampson (Harlan County, USA [1976]) received a hat-tip from Cameraperson's Kirsten Johnson, and Mary had recently worked on a CIFF film, Mike Day's first-rate Faroe Islands-focused doc, The Islands and the Whales.
The painting, along with dozens of other first-rate artworks and hundreds of pieces of furniture, ceramics, porcelain and knickknacks on sale this week, belonged to David and Peggy Rockefeller, potent symbols of New York society and formidable collectors and philanthropists.
The euro had strengthened earlier on Monday after European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that the ECB could give fresh guidance on the timing of its first rate hike as the end of its exceptional bond purchases approaches.
Gray is especially adroit at rendering these intricate emotional shadings.) In one scene, Alan (a first-rate Todd Cerveris), a friend of the couple's, tells Stephen to bring Anne to dinner, so that they can all say exactly what they think.
A year ago, The Times introduced a series of essays about the transformative year 229, beginning with F. Scott Fitzgerald's observation, in his essay "The Crack-Up," that a first-rate intelligence could hold two opposed ideas at the same time.
This ballet has been a first-rate vehicle for this intensely musical virtuoso for some years, but on Tuesday she broke through to a new fire-and-wind level of fervor; her brilliance was fueled by both abandon and vehemence.
The euro had briefly strengthened on Monday after European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that the ECB could give fresh guidance on the timing of its first rate hike as the end of its exceptional bond purchases approaches.
"Given the ECB's track record of reacting only very gradually, we continue to see an end to QE in December and a first rate hike in June 2019, but the likelihood of an earlier normalization has logically increased," Annenkov added.
" Helliwell agreed, adding: "Education in Finland has not always been first-rate; there were many important reforms introduced several decades ago, something they recount to show that good education is not culture or nation-specific, but can be developed anywhere.
Yet the book was written by a highly respected professor in a first-rate department, and was published by a major trade press — and has been acclaimed by well-known figures on the left (and now shortlisted for a major prize).
"Johnny's deep and abiding love for Georgia and this nation have animated his years of service, making him not only a first-rate legislator, but also a man of the highest integrity," said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader.
"Johnny's deep and abiding love for Georgia and this nation have animated his years of service, making him not only a first-rate legislator, but also a man of the highest integrity," said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader.
First-rate associates Freddy Negrete (who learned how to tattoo in prison during the 1970s), Boo Boo Negrete, Asa Crow, Max Hanson and Bob Tyrell work alongside him at what is arguably the finest black-and-gray shop within 2,400 miles.
Markets are overwhelmingly betting the Fed's next move will be its first rate cut since the global financial crisis a decade ago, and Trump has demanded easier policy to strengthen the economy and his hand at the negotiating table with Beijing.
The impact of last year's Fed rate increases on China's capital outflows was smaller than in 2015, which saw the first rate rise in nearly 10 years, according to the spokeswoman, who attributed it to the completion of dollar-denominated debt repayment.
The next move could be to formally push out the date of its first rate hike, a more tricky move as it could tie the hand of the new president, who is likely to named only after European elections in late May.
" An earlier statement from the ECB had outlined how the 2.6 trillion-euro ($3tn) bond buying program would end this month but attached the rider that reinvestment of existing maturing bonds would continue for an "extended period beyond the first rate hike.
Cleveland and Detroit also feature major airports that currently operate below their historical peak passenger loads, and are blessed with first-rate cultural amenities (museums, sports teams, live performance venues, etc.) as part of the legacy of their pasts as more prosperous cities.
But you will be surprised at how readily you can assimilate the novelties involved, and soon find yourself pleasurably immersed not in a worthy, let's-pat-ourselves-on-the-back experience, but simply in a first-rate production of a transporting musical.
The top layer of the state is stocked with first-rate technocrats, brought in by the president, who has used her fluency in aid jargon (from time spent at the UN and World Bank) to make Liberia a darling of Western donors.
BEIJING, Aug 1 (Reuters) - London copper prices slipped to a three-week low on Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank's first rate cut since 2008 was not the start of a long easing cycle, while Sino-U.
While private payrolls rebounded this month, the pace of growth remained moderate, adding to the host of factors that are likely to encourage the Fed to announce its first rate cut since 2008 when policymakers conclude a two-day meeting at 2 p.m.
Wall Street turned negative on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell characterised the U.S. central bank's first rate cut since 211.72 as a "mid-cycle adjustment to policy," suggesting the move was not the start of a lengthy series of rate cuts.
The common currency received a boost on Tuesday after European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said the ECB's bond buying programme would be wound down by the end of this year, paving the way for the bank's first rate rise since 2011.
The next move could be to formally push out the date of its first rate hike, a more tricky move as it could tie the hand of the new president, who is likely to named only after European elections in late May.
The Labour Party has broken with the Blairite habit of dropping metropolitan MPs into regional constituencies and has begun promoting first-rate local talent such as Angela Rayner (who left school at 16 with no qualifications and a child on the way).
Money markets indicate that expectations for the ECB's first rate hike have been pushed to late next year; trade tensions, emerging market turmoil and Italian budget uncertainties are causing investors to question how far authorities can get in dismantling crisis-era policies.
The next move could be to formally push out the date of its first rate hike, a more tricky move as it could tie the hand of the new president, who is likely to named only after European elections in late May.
The inflation outlook will likely determine the timing of further interest rate increases after the Fed last month raised its key overnight lending rate by 0.33 basis points to between 0.25 and 0.50 percent, the first rate hike in nearly a decade.
When Trump selected Army Gen, H.R. McMaster to be his national security adviser, that, too, was an outstanding choice of a first-rate military strategist who is rock-solid in favor of the key aspects of the long-term bipartisan national security consensus.
The Fed is widely predicted to lift interest rates 25 basis points to 0.50-0.75 percent at the end of a two-day meeting on Wednesday, which would be its first rate hike in a year and its second since the financial crisis.
ISTANBUL, April 9.3.0750 (Reuters) - Turkish markets were little changed on Wednesday with investors looking to the central bank's first rate-setting meeting under its new chief later in the day to see how policy priorities will play out under Governor Murat Cetinkaya.
Speaking just 12 days before the Fed is expected to ease monetary policy, Rosengren said he is aware of uncertainties and downside risks but doesn't think they're strong enough yet to warrant the first rate reduction since late 2008 during the financial crisis.
Today it's more riveting than terrifying, with a first-rate Great War exhibit that includes a recreated trench from the front lines, and an equally excellent Holocaust exhibition, with a gripping history of the rise of Hitler and footage of a fulminating Goebbels.
Some online banks including Ally and Marcus by Goldman Sachs already lowered the rates on their popular high-yield savings accounts earlier this summer in anticipation of the Fed's first rate cut in July, though only by 10 basis points, Greg McBride, Bankrate.
Jin Xu, secretary of the academy's board of trustees, said the school had hired Ms. Zhang because it felt she could recruit a top-flight staff that would in turn bring in first-rate students, half of them foreign and half local.
Little more than a week before the BoE gives its latest assessment of the economy, Carney said wages were gradually rising, something the central bank wants to see as it considers when to follow up on November's first rate hike in a decade.
Emefiele said the nine committee members at the first rate-setting meeting of the year voted unanimously to hold the rate at a record high of 14 percent, where it has been since July 2016 to support the naira and help curb inflation.
While investors are near unanimous in expecting the ECB to end bond purchases by December after a short taper, forecasts for the bank's first rate hike have shifted quite sharply in recent weeks, from around next April to possibly as late as September.
LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Bank of England rate-setters spelled out their differences on Tuesday over the central bank's first rate hike in a decade, as they focused on the challenge of deciding when low unemployment was about to push up inflation.
The play's meta-theatrical elements — the exposed backstage sets (a first-rate design by Sandra Goldmark); the actors in the wings watching the action; the occasional acknowledgment that we are watching not life but an artificial imitation of it — are hardly original.
William Johnson is a good ploughboy & handy with horses Joseph Johnson is a good house boy Martha is a good cook, washer & ironer and seamstress Lewis is a first rate coach painter and performer on the violin being the leader of a band.
LONDON — Dulwich Picture Gallery sits in a picturesque, well-heeled parkland area of south London, its relatively small galleries a destination for first-rate Reynolds, Poussins and Van Dycks as much as its cafe and grounds are for families and strollers on weekends.
Because Mr. Grammer is a first-rate actor who, since his distinguished stint on the sitcom "Frasier" hasn't had many meaty screen roles come his way, he really sinks his teeth into Harry, and Ms. Bell is no slouch playing against him.
Hard Candy isn't first-rate Madonna, either: she recruited Timbaland after he'd produced huge hits for Nelly Furtado ("Promiscuous") and Justin Timberlake ("Cry Me a River"), so it felt at the time as though she was chasing pop trends rather than setting them.
After the U.S. Federal Reserve stood pat on interest rates, as expected, investor attention now shifts to the Bank of England's decision due later in the day, with expectations of the first rate cut in more than three years standing at nearly 50%.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said it was likely to raise interest rates in the coming months if the economy and price pressures keep growing, giving its clearest signal to date that Britain's first rate hike in a decade is approaching.
Immanuel Kant had connected the sublime with terror, but as I experienced it in Antarctica, from the safe vantage of a ship with a glass-and-brass elevator and first-rate espresso, it was more like a mixture of beauty and absurdity.
The rise in inflation expectations coincided with a selloff in bonds markets after the ECB's Francois Villeroy de Galhau said the central bank could give fresh guidance on the timing of its first rate hike as the end of its bond stimulus approaches.
Euro bulls were also given a boost on Monday after European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that the ECB could give fresh guidance on the timing of its first rate hike as the end of its exceptional bond purchases approaches.
"Emerson Collective is excited to work with David, with his first-rate leadership team, and with his enormously talented staff, to ensure that The Atlantic continues to fulfill its critical mission at this critical time," Powell Jobs said in a press release.
Add to that excellent health care backed by first-rate technology—medical tourism is a fast-growing industry here—and temperate weather throughout the year, and it's easy to see why tens of thousands of expats call this 18th-century colonial town home.
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will defend the U.S. central bank's first rate hike in a decade and likely insist that further rises this year remain on track, albeit at a slower pace, when she addresses Congress on Wednesday.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech central bank is in no rush to tighten policy and should only move when it is sure it will not have to undo what will be its first rate hike in almost a decade, board member Vojtech Benda said on Monday.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's economy shrank in April for the first time in more than a year, government data showed on Tuesday, while the central bank held its policy rate stable at 40 percent in the first rate decision since a shakeup in its leadership.
As such, Bank of Israel economists expect a 15 basis point rate increase to 0.25 percent by the end of 2018, although most private economists believe inflation will move back to its target only in 2019, with the first rate hike also next year.
In addition to the satisfying jambalaya, which is made with andouille sausage, chicken, crayfish, chicken, shrimp and rice, there is first-rate fried chicken (crisp outside, tender within) that draws a crowd on Wednesday nights, when it is priced at $12.95 (four pieces, two sides).
In the U.S., the economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.1% in the second quarter of the year — 1 percentage point lower than in the previous quarter — and the U.S. Federal Reserve announced in July its first rate cut in more than a decade.
NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. interest rates futures held at lower levels on Wednesday as traders stuck to their bets the Federal Reserve would lower key lending rates by a quarter-point in September, following their first rate cut since 2008 last month.
It is too early to declare the first rate hike in nearly a decade a mistake, they say, or to fear the U.S. central bank will be forced, like the European Central Bank and others, to retreat before the current tightening cycle is complete.
Ewald Nowotny told Reuters in an interview that its 2.55 trillion euro ($3.1 trillion) bond buying programme would be wound down by the end of this year, which would then pave the way for the bank's first rate rise since a fumbled move in 2011.
Compared to the last major shift in policy in 2013, when the Fed began reining in the quantitative easing bond-buying programs and caused the so-called taper tantrum in the markets, the Fed's first rate hike in almost a decade was gracefully executed.
" Spike SVP, Sports and Specials Jon Slusser added: "The addition of highly-regarded announcers Mauro and Mike to our fantastic lineup of broadcasters, and our first-rate production led by Scott Fishman, further demonstrates our commitment MMA fans and expanding the global Bellator brand.
The euro was up 0.18 percent at $1.2376, a day after getting a boost when European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said the ECB would wind down its bond buying program by year end, paving the way for the first rate rise since 2011.
Investors started to bring forward their rate hike expectations last week and hints of a quick end to the bond buys could further bolster market bet as the ECB has long tied the first rate move to the end of its quantitative easing scheme.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street turned negative after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell characterized the U.S. central bank's first rate cut since 2008 as a "mid-cycle adjustment to policy," suggesting the move was not the start of a lengthy series of rate cuts.
Asian shares slipped to six-week lows on Thursday while the dollar jumped to two-year highs as the U.S. Federal Reserve rattled markets by signaling that its first rate cut in more than a decade was not the start of a lengthy easing cycle.
But as redemptive as the story of the countless trials and unlikely triumph may be, what makes the book most rewarding is Levin's exquisite prose, which bears the mark of a first-rate writer: an acute critical mind haloed with a generosity of spirit.
The new biopic The Young Karl Marx is the work of Raoul Peck, former Haitian minister for culture and maker of such first-rate pictures as the James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro and Lumumba, a fictionalized portrait of the Congolese prime minister.
We ordered a 55-day dry-aged rib-eye with a side of roasted mushrooms but the steak really needed nothing more than a glass of red wine (the list is first-rate and the staff knows it well; half-glasses are happily poured).
The euro was up 0.06 percent at $1.2362, a day after getting a boost when European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said the ECB would wind down its bond buying program by year end, paving the way for the first rate rise since 2011.
FRANKFURT, June 14 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers meeting on Thursday differed on whether to keep the door more open to a new extension of the ECB's stimulus scheme and on the likely timing of its first rate hike since 2011, three sources said.
That brought some comfort to bond markets unnerved in the past two weeks by signs that major central banks are stepping up efforts to unwind ultra-loose monetary policies - the Bank of Canada on Wednesday delivered its first rate hike in nearly seven years.
While there are an array of superb statistical approaches available for analyzing the contributions of players already in the NBA, the tools for evaluating prospects are less robust, despite the efforts of several smart independent analysts and the first-rate minds employed by actual teams.
The views contrast with those of the ECB chief economist, Peter Praet, who said in London this week that only a major shock would derail its plans to move towards its first rate hike since 2011 next year once it stops its bond buying program.
" It was actually Vincent Canby who wrote a strongly positive review in The New York Times, calling De Palma, hitherto known for his anarchic comedies, "a first-rate director" and noting, with regard to "Sisters," that "an intelligent horror film is very rare these days.
Traders now await clues on the Fed's next move after it embarked on its first rate cut since 2008 in July when Fed Chair Jerome Powell participates on a panel about the economy and monetary policy in Zurich, which begins at 12:30 p.m.
None of it would matter, though, if his cooking wasn't first rate, so I called my brother-in-law Ben who is one of my favorite people and someone who can effectively put away a ton of food while still effectively judging its quality.
Nowotny told Reuters in an interview that the ECB's 2.55 trillion euro ($3.1 trillion) bond-buying program would be wound down by the end of this year, which would then pave the way for the first rate rise since a fumbled move in 2011.
But BoE Governor Mark Carney says that even if the economy is growing only modestly, it risks overheating unless borrowing costs rise from their crisis-era emergency lows, something the central bank began in November with its first rate increase in more than 10 years.
But in recent years Nintendo has struggled to produce truly first-rate hardware, and pressure has mounted from investors for the company to focus on what it does best — game design — and take its games to the devices people are likely to already own.
One of the many ironies of the European election is that the supposedly backward-looking Brexit Party has exploited social media much more astutely than the self-consciously with-it Change UK. Mr Farage's public events have been perfectly choreographed and his online campaign first-rate.
The quarterly inflation report, due next week alongside the BoE's first rate decision of the year, could signal a shift with the bank focusing on a healthier outlook for economic growth rather than worrying about "stagflation", Credit Agricole's head of G10 FX Strategy Valentin Marinov said.
ISTANBUL, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank raised the highest of the four interest rates it uses to set policy by a less-than-expected 50 basis points on Thursday, making its first rate hike in eight months after inflation hit a 14-year peak last month.
Finally, can there be any doubt that the Independent Slate would be better positioned to recruit a first-rate CEO than the current Board, which is dominated by two family shareholders who have stood in the way of necessary and important changes to the Company for decades?
"I am very blessed with a wonderful family, a first-rate medical team, a great staff, dear colleagues and friends, a calling to which I have given my life, and above all a good, great and loving God in whose hands we always remain," he said.
While the U.S. Federal Reserve used forward guidance to ease the way for markets ahead of its first rate hike in nearly a decade in 2015, markets should be prepared for little in the way of explicit guidance from Poloz, who dropped the practice in 2014.
"FIRST-RATE EGOMANIAC" Born into a family of leather workers and raised in a Delhi slum, Mayawati, unmarried and her private life fiercely guarded, lives in a windowless room in a palatial house with 20-foot boundary walls and a towering statue of herself in the garden.
MARKET NEWS * The dollar rose to a two-year peak against the euro and hit a two-month high versus the yen on Thursday as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ruled out a lengthy easing cycle after delivering the first rate cut since the financial crisis.
"I am very blessed with a wonderful family, a first-rate medical team, a great staff, dear colleagues and friends, a calling to which I have given my life, and above all a good, great and loving God in whose hands we always remain," he wrote.
The bulk of the first-rate worker appreciation images Kollar created were done between 1931 and 1934, during France's Great Depression, when he fulfilled a large commission to photograph the workers of France in the diverse areas of advertising, fashion, heavy industry, handicrafts, manufacturing, and agriculture.
While sweets are the main draw in this year-old spot, savory lunch items like stromboli and croque-monsieurs are also first-rate — and you can watch the chocolate being stirred mechanically through a glass floor panel, giving the place a wonderfully Willy Wonka-like vibe.
As one of the principal characters in Tony Kushner's great play "Angels in America" — an embodiment of hubris and shame, not without a tragic dimension — Cohn has been posthumously played by a handful of first-rate actors, including Al Pacino, Nathan Lane and F. Murray Abraham.
The resulting Bronx Museum exhibition, assembled from its own Cuban holdings and American loans, is a sedate sampler, without a shaping point of view, but it has some excellent artists — Belkis Ayón, Carlos Garaicoa, Wilfredo Prieto, José Angel Toirac and Meira Marrero — with first-rate work.
The resulting Bronx Museum exhibition, assembled from the museum's own Cuban holdings and American loans, is a sedate sampler, without a shaping point of view, but it has some excellent artists — Belkis Ayón, Carlos Garaicoa, Wilfredo Prieto, José Angel Toirac and Meira Marrero — with first-rate work.
Still, when a film with so much going for it -- from the first-rate cast to the meaty premise -- basically unravels and loses steam, it's a reminder that the challenge of wrestling one of King's epic books into a genuinely satisfying movie can be, well, redrum.
"The law has no mention of the word democracy or the word equality, and is wholly committed to brutish emphasis of ethnic supremacy, leaving no doubt that there are two types of citizenship — first-rate ones for Jews and second-rate ones for Arabs," the alliance said.
That has been the subject of heavy market speculation since minutes of the ECB's last meeting unexpectedly showed rate-setters were considering taking early steps towards the end of stimulus, which led some investors to bring forward their expectations for the first rate increase to December 2018.
While Yellen is expected to defend the Fed's first rate hike in a decade last year and likely insist that further increases remain on track, any signs of a departure from such a stance in the wake of global growth concerns could provide risk assets with a breather.
With more than two billion monthly users, a comprehensive data collection scheme, first-rate data analytics and aspirations to, literally, read our minds, Facebook can not only make inferences about personal details we did not disclose, but also become better familiar with us than we are with ourselves.
Dazzling though Mr. Frayn's engineering is, "Noises Off" would be a mere dissertation in clever dramaturgical mechanics, were it not for the expertly drawn characters, here embodied by a first-rate cast well aware of the addictions, indulgences, pretensions and general egotism of actors (some actors!) that Mr.
The Federal Reserve is expected at 21.2167 GMT to announce its first rate cut since 228 and 21.2120% of traders now price a 25 basis point cut, with the likelihood of a deeper easing diminishing as data, including second-quarter economic growth and consumer confidence, has beaten forecasts.
"Can there be any doubt that the independent slate would be better positioned to recruit a first-rate CEO than the current board, which is dominated by two family shareholders who have stood in the way of necessary and important changes to the company for decades?" the letter asked.
By 1973, after eight years spent getting his BA, MS, and PhD in Austin, Allison wanted to stretch his legs and find somewhere new and "first-rate" for his immunology research, and that took him 1,300 miles west into California and a postdoc program at the prestigious Scripps Institute.
LONDON (Reuters) - Financial markets braced this week for what could be the Bank of England's first rate rise in a decade - a step into the unknown for a generation of young traders who started work after 236 but also for the state-of-the-art technology they use.
Governor Mark Carney has made it clear over the past two weeks that the BoE will not join a recent round of action by other central banks, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve's first rate hike since 2007 and the Bank of Japan's move into negative borrowing costs.
U.S. 3-month Libor was set near an eight-year high early Wednesday at 1.09278 percent vs 1.064 percent on Tuesday, with the 2.878 basis point rise being the largest since Dec 17, 2015, the day after the Fed's first rate hike following the financial crisis and Great Recession.

No results under this filter, show 891 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.