Sentence examples for tightening rate from inspiring English sources

Chicago ranked seventh worst for listings outpacing sales and fifth worst for the tightening rate of the market.

However, the Federal Reserve is tightening rates.

Even once the Fed starts tightening rates, equities may not be a bad place to play.

But hedge funds will want to buy them now because low-risk yield will be hard to find even when the Federal Reserve starts tightening rates.

In its statement, the Federal Reserve said the recovery in financial markets was one of the reasons why it moved to a bias toward tightening rates.

At the peak of market fears about Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's tightening rates on May 15, BAA/BBB investment-grade credits like Lockheed Martin, Philips Petroleum or Time Warner paid between 2 and 2.5 percentage points more than U.S. Treasurys in intermediate (7-to 15-year) maturities.

The Fed last began tightening rates back in June of 2004 mainly to cool a rapidly rising housing market but also to cool off the "irrational exuberance" in the stock market, as the S&P had gone from 800 in August of 2002 to 1,300 in April of 2006 (up 62.5%) while housing prices had doubled off their mid 90's lows.

(Conversely, to tighten rates, the New York Fed borrows money).

He tightened rates in the latter part of 1959, triggering a recession that began in April 1960.

(In Fed parlance, hawks want to tighten rates; doves favor easing them).

Nor did it tighten rates as much as the Fed did when times got better.