Sentence examples for modest tightening from inspiring English sources

Modest tightening in China is probably hurting asset prices there and in commodity markets.

But both of these averages also show a modest tightening over the past week.

And the recent strengthening of the dollar has already delivered what effectively amounts to a modest tightening in policy.

Carney said that if the economy performed as the Bank expected, a "modest tightening" of policy would be warranted.

A more modest tightening along the lines of what President Obama wants — which would include extending most existing tax rates and spending programs — would still substantially reduce growth, analysts say.

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- The 12 to 2 vote in the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to impose a modest tightening of sanctions on Iran poses a conundrum: How could an administration that first tried reaching out to Iran and then spent months working with its allies end up with less international unity than when George W. Bush was president?

First, having overheated last year, the economy stalled in the third quarter, partly as a result of earlier interest-rate rises and modest fiscal tightening.

Indeed, futures markets have already anticipated a further, modest credit tightening.

The bill has been spun as a modest "belt tightening" measure.

It is widely believed in Washington that there is no chance the gun lobby and the new Republican majority in the House would ever permit passage of the modest ideas for tightening America's absurdly lax gun laws that have surfaced since the massacre in Tucson.

Other central banks around the world are also seeking to raise interest rates, which means "the case for a modest monetary tightening is reinforced".