Sentence examples for further rate reduction from inspiring English sources

One official said today that four of the members were prepared to vote for a further rate reduction.

Other changes in the House bill are directed at businesses, including a further rate reduction for certain qualified "pass-through" firms that send their earnings to their owners to be taxed as individual income.

At their October meeting, Fed policy makers signaled that further rate reductions might not be needed.

But the Fed will soon have to start signaling that it will limit any further rate reductions to a quarter point, he said.

And it held to its policy bias toward further rate reductions, concluding that "the risks are weighted mainly toward conditions that may generate economic weakness in the foreseeable future".

But the bank did leave open the possibility of further rate reductions when it next meets on Oct. 3 and 4, saying today that at that time it would "assess more fully the impact of recent events".

But his analysis of economic conditions suggested that further rate reductions were likely, if perhaps not so certain and so large as investors and analysts have assumed in recent days.

The Fed will probably retain language in its policy statement signaling a willingness to consider further rate reductions, he said, but "the easing cycle that began in January 2001 is now probably over".

When neither of those major trading partners did so in recent weeks, despite open urgings by Paul A. Volcker, the Federal Reserve chairman, the financial community began to worry that the Federal Reserve might make no further rate reductions here.

Analysts said the Fed's decision to take a wait-and-see stance on further rate reductions was prompted at least in part by the recent passage of President Bush's $1.35-trillion 1.35-trillion

True, the economy is weak and unemployment is too high, but a further interest rate reduction could just pile on more pain, without generating growth.