Communication systems share a "symmetric A-like amplitude" shape: more symmetric for humans and dolphins, less symmetric for birds.
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ENTER 'SYMMETRIC' Over the past year Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and policymakers in general have made that point clear, leaning heavily on the word "symmetric" to describe their inflation target.
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"Most participants expressed concern that introducing a symmetric inflation range...could be misperceived as a signal that the Committee was comfortable with continued misses below its symmetric inflation objective," the Fed said.
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Each message uses a new symmetric key for message encryption.
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The weapons may be symmetric but the losses are not.
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Paulson is not the only fund that got burned: Symmetric.
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Inflation, though, has remained well below the Fed's 2% symmetric target.
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Some, especially women, paint a heart, a womb, a symmetric shape.
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Most glasses are mass manufactured to fit a supposedly symmetric head.
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"That helps the storm remain intact, upright, and symmetric," said McNoldy.
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That's according to data compiled by hedge fund research firm Symmetric.
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Digital Symmetric-key cryptography has made reading secret messages infinitely harder.
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American politics is deeply polarized, but that polarization is not symmetric.
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Filings for the quarter ended in December were due Wednesday. Symmetric.
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The tiles are decorated with simple patterns that are not rotationally symmetric.
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Within the strong force, things are unexpectedly symmetric with respect to time.
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Why not make your jawline a little bit sharper, your chin more symmetric?
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"It is perfectly time-symmetric and reversible under the conventional definitions," he said.
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He claims he wants to "re-negotiate" more symmetric trade terms with China.
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Top new positions also included Freshford's bets on Liberty Broadband and Comcast, Symmetric.
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The top 10 funds from Symmetric are mostly run by lesser-known managers.
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We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does that really mean?
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The sphere's symmetry is demanded by the symmetry of the two balanced symmetric forces.
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If that were the case, the gravitational field would be more or less symmetric.
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Embedded among the neat, symmetric rows of plants are science-fiction-like monitoring devices.
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Since January 2012, price stability has meant a symmetric 2-percent inflation rate target.
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Powell has said that the target should be a symmetric one and not a ceiling.
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But it is a symmetric objective, and we certainly don't seek to overshoot our objective.
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The cases aren't symmetric – this deficit will do much less good than austerity did harm.
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Second, the molecule should be complex enough that it isn't mirror symmetric, for similar reasons.
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There's some debate over whether rebus puzzles should have symmetric placement of the theme squares.
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Mathematicians often say that the more symmetric an object is, the easier it is to study.
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Our new target is not 0 to 2 percent but in fact symmetric around 3 percent.
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Third, that means that trade consultations must insist on an orderly and symmetric international trade adjustment.
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Economists interpreted symmetric to mean policymakers would not be too worried with inflation overshooting the target.
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This generally means swooping symmetric half-circles across your cheeks, forehead, chin, and down the nose.
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In the diagram it looks kinda symmetric but I think you'd want to go real close.
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As some political scientists are now acknowledging, America's two major parties are not at all symmetric.
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He's now beating the market benchmark by 853% over the last 285 months, according to Symmetric.
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The Committee will carefully monitor actual and expected inflation developments relative to its symmetric inflation goal.
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In the wheat market, we don't see market failure because buyers and sellers have symmetric information.
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Economists interpreted symmetric to mean policymakers would not be too concerned with inflation overshooting the target.
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"Normal bicycles are symmetric: You have to adjust yourself to the bike," said Mr. Jastrzebski, 51.
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The Committee will carefully monitor actual and expected inflation developments relative to its symmetric inflation goal.
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The numbers are not the funds' outright returns but an estimate of their stock-picking ability. Symmetric.
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KASHKARI SAYS AN UNEXPECTED RISE IN WAGES COULD HELP GET INFLATION BACK TO FED'S SYMMETRIC 2% TARGET
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Put simply, it is a symmetric obligation of surplus and deficit countries to correct excessive trade imbalances.
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Second, the Fed regularly proclaims that it has a symmetric commitment to its 23 percent inflation target.
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The rules there are setting out the obligation for symmetric trade adjustments of surplus and deficit countries.
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In its present form, Italy has a unique parliamentary government system, referred to as perfectly symmetric bicameralism.
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Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has repeatedly called for a "symmetric" target with inflation sometimes above 2 percent.
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The data reflects third-quarter holdings that hedge funds disclosed last week in required quarterly filings. Symmetric.
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If you want your theory to be "time symmetric," and work the same every day, retrocausality is required.
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The "symmetric" smartphones have a curved glass body on both sides now with metal running along the edges.
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Hugh Behroozy is obsessed with symmetry — so much so that they wanted his company's name is even symmetric.
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It serves as a simple model for how symmetric animals develop, and how stem cells affect that development.
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SKEWED DISTRIBUTION A normal distribution is symmetric (as if reflected in a mirror) with one peak (or unimodal).
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But when I looked at the WotY list, I realized the word lengths might allow for symmetric placement.
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Hedge funds such as S Squared and Contour scored high in technology stock picking using research firm Symmetric.
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A viral genome could include instructions for only a limited number of distinct capsid proteins, which meant that in all likelihood viral capsids were symmetric: The genomic material needed to describe only some small subsection of the capsid and then give orders for it to be repeated in a symmetric pattern.
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Included in her monthly rent bill is a $10 fee for 50 Mbps symmetric access (equal uploads and downloads).
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As I keep saying, the Republican and Democratic parties, as revealed by their primaries, are not at all symmetric.
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KASHKARI SAYS FED MUST ALLOW INFLATION TO RISE ABOVE 2% TO DEMONSTRATE IT IS SERIOUS ABOUT ITS SYMMETRIC TARGET
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I, frankly, would be a little more aggressive than most in terms of defending our 2% symmetric inflation objective.
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In this neat and symmetric world, as a country's imports fall because of a weaker currency, its exports rise.
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Copom repeated its view from its policy statement in March that the balance of risks to inflation are "symmetric".
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"I don't want to go into too much detail, but there are options both symmetric and asymmetric," Mattis said.
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Reference:Boyle, L., Khoo, J.Y., and Smith, K. (2016) "Symmetric satellite swarms and choreographic crystals," Physical Review Letters 116: 015503.
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Once I settled on five symmetric theme answers, I had to go 16 wide with JEANS in the middle.
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"Down" quarks and all other quarks also come in these symmetric triplets, which are like sides of an equilateral triangle.
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Two percent is our objective but it is a symmetric objective, and we certainly don't seek to overshoot our objective.
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So the two parties are, as usual, not at all symmetric, much as some commentators would like them to be.
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"Regarding our definition of price stability, the current formulation of the target is not symmetric in my view," Weidmann said.
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Here's Navient Corp, which would take Omega 26 days to exit given the size of its position, according to Symmetric.
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Smith came up with an ingenious mathematical solution to identify all possible symmetric orbits, regardless of the number of satellites.
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The "symmetric" inflation target also signaled a tendency to let prices run a bit higher, however, before tightening policy further.
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Although the horizontal theme entries are symmetric, it would have been ideal to also have symmetry in the vertical themers.
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"This is a dialog, features may be added or removed to make the panel more symmetric or elegant," says Gillet.
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They even have indicated, through the "symmetric" terminology, that they will allow inflation to run above target for a while.
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According to data from Symmetric, which tracks investment funds, hedge fund ownership of some shipping stocks rose in the first quarter.
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Thinking hard about what symmetric inflation objectives really mean is important in conducting policy to achieve that over the medium-term.
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The equations with a magnetic charge (a monopole) would be symmetric with each magnetic term looking like the corresponding electric term.
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Viking Global Investors, Paulson & Co., Third Point, and Pentwater Capital Management each lost more than $200 million on Tuesday, the Symmetric.
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Previously, Dan served as an associate at Symmetric Capital, where he sourced and executed investments in software, healthcare and business services.
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Viking Global Investors, Paulson & Co, Third Point and Pentwater Capital Management each lost more than $200 million on Tuesday, the Symmetric.
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The further back in time we go toward the Big Bang, the matter in the universe gets hotter, and more symmetric.
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But you've got to be flexible; my solving pattern wound up being a very symmetric radiation from the bottom right corner.
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This action will help support economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation returning to the Committee's symmetric 20.00 percent objective.
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Perhaps the biggest change to the Fed policy statement was the use of the word "symmetric" to describe its inflation target.
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Yet the Fed also emphasised the inflation target was "symmetric", suggesting it was not inclined to speed up its tightening plans.
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Members also agreed that they would carefully monitor actual and expected developments in inflation in relation to the Committee's symmetric inflation goal.
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UBS economist Samuel Coffin echoed this in his interpretation of the Fed's inclusion of the word symmetric to describe its inflation target.
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Over the past four decades, physicists have proposed a variety of GUT models that describe possible initial symmetric arrangements of the particles.
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Likewise, if a certain symmetry exists in the laws of nature, then a set of symmetric particles must exist to realize it.
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"Part of the mystery here is this object turns out to be vastly more beautiful and symmetric than it sounds," Cohn said.
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Both gravity and pressure are isotropic, meaning that they too are symmetric, and have no reason to prefer one direction over another.
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We've talked about how it's likely temporary, but I also think that we should be overshooting 2% in order to be symmetric.
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Our objective, which is symmetric, so we should be above 1723 percent sometimes and below, and I think it's worked all right.
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Analysts said while ECB officials including President Mario Draghi have debated the adoption of a symmetric inflation target, Thursday's report was timely.
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In that statement, policymakers said they expected annual inflation to run close to its "symmetric" 2 percent target over the medium term.
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The database revealed the hedge funds that Symmetric tracked cumulatively bought more than 32 million shares of Facebook in the first quarter.
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I was lucky to find symmetric pairs of themers, and also lucky that my first choice for revealer was the right length.
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As things progress, "further gradual increases" in rates would be possible without disrupting the recovery and while sustaining the "symmetric" inflation goal.
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Similarly, Keith Meister's Corvex Management lost an estimated $33.6 million, while Philippe Laffont's Coatue Management lost an estimated $38.4 million, the Symmetric.
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In that statement, policymakers said they expected annual inflation to run close to the "symmetric" 2 percent target over the medium term.
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But then I realized I could make it a left-right symmetric puzzle, and the grid worked nicely with just 72 words.
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Right now, the Fed shoots for a 2 percent symmetric inflation target, meaning it is always trying to hit exactly that rate.
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"In the Monetary Council's assessment, risks to inflation had become symmetric again," the Monetary Council said in the minutes published on Wednesday.
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O, which went public last year after raising $450 million, enticed Janus Capital Management LLC, according to securities filings compiled by Symmetric.
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I also noticed that the distribution of the temperatures starts as an approximately symmetric distribution and becomes skewed right over the years.
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"Seeing the quantum mechanical structure for a molecule this large and symmetric has never been done with this sort of clarity," said Weichman.
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"We will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion, with a strong labour market and inflation near its symmetric 2% objective," he said.
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"In my view, these rate increases were not called for by our symmetric framework," Kashkari said during a speech in Santa Barbara, California.
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Policymakers said inflation should now "stabilize" around 2 percent and they would continue to monitor developments relative to the Fed's "symmetric" inflation goal.
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The hydrogen atoms of the water molecule begin to inhabit six different symmetric orientations simultaneously, with the oxygen atom stuck in the middle.
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The Higgs is more symmetric than any other particle we know about; it's the first particle that we have discovered without any spin.
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Following the stock picks of the Berkshire portfolio would have underperformed a market benchmark by 2500% the last three years, according to Symmetric.
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One, known as symmetric-key cryptography, follows the same pattern that people have been using to send secret messages for thousands of years.
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That's why the architects of the post-war global economic system introduced symmetric trade adjustment rules applying to surplus and deficit countries alike.
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I was lucky to find symmetric entries among limited options for bump and spike, so the grid came together without my typical struggle.
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The charred sugar beads do the same, falling into a pattern somewhere between interlocking hexagons and squares, depending on how symmetric the beads are.
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Mutual fund giant Fidelity added 43 million shares, bringing its total holdings to 24 million shares, regulatory filings and data from research firm Symmetric.
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"Inflation on a 12-month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term," the statement said.
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Michael Shaoul, chairman and CEO of Marketfield Asset Management, also pointed out the central bank used the word "symmetric" to describe its inflation target.
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A symmetric band of tolerance around 2% that allows equally for below-target misses as for above-target overshoots should be rejected, he said.
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Goldman is forecasting inflation, by the Fed's preferred gauge, to hit 2.3 percent by the end of 2019, above its 2 percent symmetric target.
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An adaptive variational finite difference framework for efficient symmetric octree viscosity (this white paper is not yet online) allows programmers to realistically melt chocolate bunnies.
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But some undershoots and overshoots are part of how the economy operates, and our tolerance for those is symmetric with respect to under and overshoots.
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Each size of curling head has two versions: one for clockwise wind and one for counterclockwise, for symmetric curls on each side of your head.
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But some undershoots and overshoots are part of how the economy operates and our tolerance for those is symmetric with respect to under and overshoots.
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Conversely, the hedge funds in the Symmetric database sold a total of 28.6 million shares of Apple in the first three months of the year.
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I THINK THE WORD "SYMMETRIC" IS A SIGNAL TO SAY, THAT INFLATION SHOULD SOMETIMES WILL BE SOMETIMES ABOVE, SOMETIMES BELOW BUT ON AVERAGE AT 220%.
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And unless inflation starts going up to something that is inconsistent with our 2% symmetric inflation objective, I think we're pretty well set for policy.
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Sadly, that symmetric trade adjustment process, meant to apply equally to surplus and deficit countries, has always been a non-starter — and it still is.
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The molecule, propylene oxide (CH3CHOCH2), is chiral, meaning it can form "left-handed" and "right-handed" versions that are perfectly symmetric and have identical physical properties.
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In their policy statement last week, Fed officials said they expected annual inflation to run close to the "symmetric" 20.3 percent target over the medium term.
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CNBC PRO found the top stocks hedge funds owned for their market-beating performance using research from Goldman Sachs and Symmetric, a hedge fund tracking firm.
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The Symmetric Hedge Fund Exposure Index tracks the top 50 companies where hedge funds constitute a large percentage of the public traded shares of a stock.
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Policymakers said in a statement that inflation should "stabilize" around 2 percent and they would continue to monitor developments relative to the Fed's "symmetric" inflation goal.
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Instead, the respectable, "balanced" thing was to pretend that the parties were symmetric, to turn a blind eye to the cynicism of the modern Republican project.
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Following the May meeting, the policymaking arm of the Fed said it wasn't raising rates yet but added the word "symmetric" to describe its inflation goal.
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Following the May meeting, the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee said it wasn't raising rates yet but added the word "symmetric" to describe its inflation goal.
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A pleasingly symmetric still life of a kitchenette goes slightly askance with the inclusion of a round-edged avocado and the abstract curve of a banana.
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False equivalence, portraying the parties as symmetric even when they clearly aren't, has long been the norm among self-proclaimed centrists and some influential media figures.
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In July, Ralph Pucci in New York will reissue five McCobb pieces including the 22 Symmetric sofa, which has curving arms and a ribbed upholstered back.
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As with so much about the current political scene, it's essential to realize and acknowledge that this is not a symmetric, both-sides-do-it situation.
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And so, I think that we need to keep our eyes on inflation, defending, promoting the symmetric 2% inflation objective, showing that we can get there.
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This boundary line—which differs for every polynomial—can be plotted on the complex plane, where it assumes all manner of highly intricate, swirling, symmetric fractal designs.
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"We suspect transitory factors may be at work," Powell said, adding inflation should return to the Fed's target over time, and then be symmetric around its objective.
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Steadfast has $10.6 billion in asset under management and the fund's stock picks have returned 23.4% year to date, beating the 's 14% gain, according to Symmetric.
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But it is one of the best stock-picking funds this year, almost doubling the year-to-date gains for the S&P 500, according to Symmetric.
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Activist Fir Tree Partners held to that rule last year, though its energy investments - including Williams - still helped it rack up $259 million in paper losses, Symmetric.
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The two holdings together comprise nearly 10 percent of ValueAct's total portfolio and lost a combined $656 million in value in the course of last year, Symmetric.
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"Although the risk associated with economic slack has increased at the margin, the balance of risks is symmetric," the policymakers wrote in a statement explaining their decision.
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In its March policy statement, the Fed said that its inflation target was "symmetric," indicating it could tolerate price rises temporarily overshooting its 2 percent target rate.
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In the prepared remarks, Evans said the central bank would have to tighten more quickly should inflation move "unacceptably" higher than the Fed's symmetric 2 percent objective.
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"Inflation on a 2043-month basis is expected to run near the committee's symmetric 2% objective over the medium term," a statement from the Federal Reserve said.
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In its post-meeting statement, the central bank also indicated that inflation is beginning to creep higher and used the term "symmetric" when referring to its target.
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And let's make a further simplification and assume that the countries are symmetric, so that the underlying situation looks the same if we reverse the countries' identities.
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Rather, the Fed said its inflation target was "symmetric," indicating that after a decade of below-target inflation it could tolerate a quicker pace of price rises.
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So if you're not spinning very much, then that would result in a sphere, because that force is [symmetric] to a point, which is the center of mass.
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Rather, the Fed's statement said the inflation target was "symmetric," indicating that after a decade of below-target inflation it could tolerate a quicker pace of price rises.
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Here are the firm's top 10 most crowded hedge fund stocks in the index down the most this year, which may offer the most upside according to Symmetric.
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The Committee continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes.
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Following the May 1-433 session, the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee said it wasn't raising rates yet but added the word "symmetric" to describe its inflation goal.
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From a constructor's standpoint, it's also much easier to put the rebus wherever you want and then fill around it, making symmetric rebuses a more technically impressive feat.
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There's something about filling in areas of intersecting longish words and phrases and there's an aesthetic appeal of using relatively few black squares in symmetric fields of white.
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The only thing Americans and Europeans can do now is try to reinstate the rules of symmetric trade adjustments to avoid excessive current account imbalances in the future.
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Over the past year Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and policymakers in general have made that point clear, leaning heavily on the word "symmetric" to describe their inflation target.
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The U.S. central bank on Wednesday left interest rates unchanged and said it expected annual inflation to run close to its "symmetric" 274.87 percent target over the medium term.
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But the July 11, 2017 event was the first MMS observations of reconnection in the magnetotail where symmetric reconnection occurs—where the tail pinches in and interacts with itself.
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"You have to have these holes on your device, and [manufacturers] are trying to make their devices symmetric and having a difficult time," says Laila Danielsen, CEO of Elliptic.
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The U.S. central bank on Wednesday left interest rates unchanged and said it expected annual inflation to run close to its "symmetric" 0003 percent target over the medium term.
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Lansdowne Partners is a big hedge fund winner with more than 11 percent of the firm's long portfolio in Amazon alone, according to Symmetric, a hedge fund tracking firm.
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Women may like the idea of having reconstructive surgery on both breasts because they think their breasts will look symmetric or better than if only one breast were removed.
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Analysts said while the news was not a surprise given that ECB officials including President Mario Draghi have debated the adoption of symmetric inflation target, Thursday's report was timely.
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The U.S. central bank on Wednesday left interest rates unchanged and said it expected annual inflation to run close to its "symmetric" 2 percent target over the medium term.
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The Fed's reminder that its inflation target was symmetric was a clear negative for Treasury yields, and so the U.S. currency's recovery was encouraging for dollar bulls, Callow said.
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Officials also see hitting 2 percent in a symmetric way — so that they are above the target as often as they are below it — as important to their credibility.
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I think with the unemployment rate at 22.25%, a very long and successful recovery, we really ought to be getting inflation above 213% to show it is symmetric objective.
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Lastly, de Sitter space is symmetric under "special conformal transformations": When you invert all spatial coordinates, then shift the coordinates by a translation, then invert them again, nothing changes.
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The U.S. central bank on Wednesday left interest rates unchanged and said it expected annual inflation to run close to its "symmetric" 2202 percent target over the medium term.
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His comments add to the understanding of what a "symmetric" inflation target means - more a rough guide than any explicit promise to offset past inflation losses with future inflation gains.
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"We officially have a symmetric target and actual inflation has averaged around 1.7%, below our 2% target, for the past several years," Kashkari said in response to questions on Twitter.
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I had recently done a Valentine's puzzle that utilized stacked central themers in a 16-row grid, so that seemed like a great way to make this difficult construction symmetric.
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Although inflation is "close" to the Fed's 2-percent target, it noted that goal was "symmetric," indicating a possible willingness to allow prices to rise at a slightly faster pace.
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In the original Bretton Woods international monetary system, these people would be subject to penalties, because the rules set out at that time called for symmetric trade adjustment policies – i.e.
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And I like to have two windows on each side of the bed to bring in natural light," Torres tells CNBC Make It, adding: "I believe in keeping things symmetric.
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Since adopting its explicit and symmetric 2 percent inflation target in 2012, the Fed has routinely undershot it, almost without exception, citing transitory factors as the cause year-after-year.
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Mr. Sonnier went on to make wall-mounted sculptures of painted bamboo, whose symmetric arrangements of diagonal rods were inspired partly by a long stay in India in 1980-81.
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Hedge funds bought 2.44 million Validus shares, equating to 20173 percent of its stock, in the third quarter, bringing the industry's total ownership to 14 percent, the Symmetric data showed.
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Asymmetric encryption enabled the creation of a symmetric key among communicating parties in a communication link, and is even able to identify the intervention of a malicious party in the communication.
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"Participants continued to view sustained expansion of economic activity, with strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes," the minutes said.
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Let's hear from Mr. McCoy: For most puzzles, one of the most time-consuming components is scouring word databases (both online and mental) to find a symmetric set of theme entries.
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There was not a lot of flexibility in theme entries (D, DA, and DARIN did not have many choices) so we were fortunate to be able to get symmetric theme entries.
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That symmetric trade adjustment mechanism, set up by Bretton Woods Agreements in 1944, was ignored by surplus countries, while deficit countries had to adjust because they would run out of money.
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The mathematician Claude Chabauty discovered that inside a larger geometric space he constructed (using an expanded universe of numbers called the p-adic numbers), the rational numbers form their own symmetric subspace.
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Departing from the diplomatic tone he held during the ECB's presidential race, Weidmann directly contradicted Draghi's assertion that the ECB's target for an inflation rate "below, but close to, 2%" was symmetric.
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CHICAGO, July 16 (Reuters) - Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Tuesday the Fed needed to lower rates in order to "ratify" its commitment to a symmetric 2 percent inflation target.
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WILLIAMS: WELL, AS YOU KNOW, FROM THE BEGINNING, WE'VE SEEN OUR INFLATION TARGET AS BEING A SYMMETRIC ONE WHERE WE WANT INFLATION TO BE AROUND – ON AVERAGE - 22%, SOMETIMES ABOVE OR BELOW.
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Indeed, on Wednesday, investors appeared to view the Fed's use of "symmetric" as a signal that the Fed was willing to allow inflation run above the 2 percent level for a period.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's inflation target must be symmetric, flexible and credible with the general public rather than just financial markets, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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The ECB targets inflation at close to but below 2 percent and recently emphasized this was a symmetric target, so an overshoot would be treated with the same vigour as an undershoot.
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"Monetary policy is now well positioned to support a strong labor market and return inflation decisively to our symmetric 2 percent objective," Mr. Powell said, reiterating what has become a common line.
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KH: Well, I think that the global big-picture target of Trump trade policy is to reform it so that we have lower tariffs and lower non-tariff barriers and symmetric trade deals.
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"The U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders: Growth is strong, unemployment is low, and inflation is approaching our 2 percent symmetric target on a sustained basis," he said in describing current conditions.
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Playing around with the phrasing for several hours, though, led to nothing that worked with symmetric lengths other than DUE TO BUDGET CUTS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, CROSSWORD PUZZLE, with no final line.
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However, the statement twice retained language that the Fed had a "symmetric" 2.13 percent inflation target, indicating a tendency to let price pressures run a little hot before putting the clamps on growth.
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In a statement following a meeting on Wednesday, Fed policymakers made clear that the 2 percent inflation goal is a 'symmetric' aim, meaning they will not be immediately concerned with increases above it.
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While noting that the Fed would continue to "keep a close eye" on inflation, he seemed to indicate a general comfort with inflation stabilizing around the symmetric objective with wage growth slowly firming.
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I wish that there had been an entry that would have been a symmetric opposite to SLIDING SCALE without the ONA in front of it, but you can't always get what you want.
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Several said that "mild overshooting" might help the Fed to reinforce that its goal is symmetric, meaning that officials want price increases to oscillate around 2 percent rather than hovering below that level.
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The Committee judges that the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate to support sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation returning to the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective.
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The Fed is also discussing moving from a targeted 2% inflation target to a symmetric target — or more of a range, on either side of 2%, though there is disagreement on that as well.
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With the producer SebastiAn again acting as a second set of hands (perhaps a DP?), Gainsbourg turns in three new lush, dramatic, artfully rendered originals that prize symmetric mise-en-scene and mood lighting.
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The Fed did say inflation has moved close to its 2 percent target, and that it would take a symmetric view of inflation, meaning it expects it to run both below and above target.
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"I will want to monitor inflation developments carefully, and to move cautiously on further increases in the federal funds rate, so as to help guide inflation back up around our symmetric target," Brainard said.
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"Looking ahead, my colleagues and I see a sustained expansion of economic activity, a strong labor market, and inflation near our symmetric 2 percent objective as most likely," he said in his remarks Wednesday.
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NEW YORK, Oct 16 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot called on Wednesday for a "symmetric band" around the ECB's inflation target to give it more time and flexibility when setting monetary policy.
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PARIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's inflation target must be symmetric, flexible and credible with the general public rather than just financial markets, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday.
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Gleaming, seemingly symmetric images of the world's largest centrifuge, Centrifuge TSF-18, and of the James Webb Space Telescope — intended to be the world's most powerful — immediately evoke scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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So when the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's policy-setting arm, added the word "symmetric" to a description of its official 2% inflation target, the central bank was clearly trying to send a signal.
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The Fed is tasked with keeping inflation around 2 percent, though officials have indicated that the goal is "symmetric," meaning they wouldn't be alarmed if it overshoots or undershoots the mandate by a small margin.
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But even though the Fed says its current inflation target is "symmetric," in practice, people have seen the figure as a "ceiling," and prices have tended to grow less than 2% each year, Rosengren said.
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Paul Krugman There are still quite a few pundits determined to pretend that America's two great parties are symmetric — equally unwilling to face reality, equally pushed into extreme positions by special interests and rabid partisans.
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President Trump is not doing anything so drastic; he just wants to negotiate fair trade deals for America with people who are abusing free trade by rejecting the rules of symmetric balance-of-payments adjustment.
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The Committee continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes, but uncertainties about this outlook have increased.
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"We also don't need a large additional budget to counter deep symmetric crises," he said, in comments that may be seen as dampening down French President Emmanuel Macron's ideas for a sizeable euro zone budget.
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In Helsinki, Olli Rehn said the current formulation was skewed in favour of lower inflation rates while the ECB's target should be symmetric, meaning any undershoot should be taken just as seriously as an overshoot.
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"But as the labor market overshoots full employment, the distribution is becoming more symmetric, and in any case we think that market pricing of just one hike per year is much too low," they noted.
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In a speech earlier this year, Powell explicitly reiterated that the Fed's inflation target was "symmetric," meaning they should feel the same whether inflation runs a little higher or a little lower than their target.
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"The current stance of monetary policy is appropriate to support sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective," the FOMC said in a Wednesday statement.
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Some are applying the bootstrap to get a handle on an especially symmetric "superconformal" field theory known as the (2,0) theory, which plays a role in string theory and is conjectured to exist in six dimensions.
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You can read about the technical details in the paper itself (PDF) but the gist is that it uses a mix of public-key and symmetric cryptography, not dissimilar to how it works on the web.
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"The market was bracing for a hawkish tone to the meeting minutes and what they got was symmetric and balanced in terms of the language," said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist for State Street Global Advisors.
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Nevertheless, with inflation continuing to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run objective, the FOMC indicated in its June statement that it intends to carefully monitor actual and expected progress toward our symmetric inflation goal.
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I mean, we all say, yeah, it's symmetric; but when you start explaining what you think is consistent with that, mine is a bit more picturesque on the upside relative to, you know, quite a few people.
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"Inflation is just a little light relative to our symmetric 2% inflation," Evans in an interview on Bloomberg Television on the sidelines of a conference his bank is hosting to review the U.S. Federal Reserve's operating framework.
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In determining the timing and size of future adjustments to the stance of monetary policy, the Committee will assess realized and expected economic conditions relative to its maximum employment objective and its symmetric 230 percent inflation objective.
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"The Committee judges that the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate to support sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation returning to the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective," the Fed's statement read.
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"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.
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