How to Use central bank in a Sentence

central bank

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  • The central bank has hiked rates 11 times since last March.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In Nancy, the door to a local French central bank office was set on fire.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • His father, Louis, was a tax collector for the French central bank.
    — Paul Lewis, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Most experts Fortune spoke to said the answer is clearly no, and a July rate hike from the central bank is still on the way.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • The Russian central bank raised borrowing costs to 12% Tuesday in an attempt to stop a slide in the ruble.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The central bank has been fighting price spikes by raising interest rates to 16%.
    — David McHugh and Vladimir Isachenkov, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • And those differences surely overwhelm a central bank’s attempt to set the cost and amount of credit.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • In July, Powell said the central bank's staff had abandoned its forecast of a downturn.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Look out for any pushback against the notion, gripping the bond market, that the central bank will soon cut interest rates.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The Korean won has lost about 7% against the dollar since the beginning of the year, when the central bank in Seoul halted rate increases.
    — Frances Yoon, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Shimizu noted that her colleagues in other G7 and G20 economies are more worried than Japan’s central bank is about fast wage growth.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Investors imply nearly 72% odds that the central bank will cut rates in March, according to the FedWatch tool.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the meantime, most Fed watchers expect the central bank to keep rates unchanged in December as well.
    — Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The central bank, as a result, could opt to keep rates at their current level to try to ensure that prices resume their downward path.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Moving before the central bank of the world’s biggest economy would be an unusual step for the ECB.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But completing the soft landing is a looming challenge for many central banks.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The Fed chair also reiterated that the central bank’s next meeting in March was likely too soon for a rate cut.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The rate the Fed watches most closely now sits just slightly above 3% — higher than the central bank’s 2% target, but not alarmingly so.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Instead, the central bank has raised rates to their highest level in decades, and the job market is holding steady, or perhaps even gaining steam.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Some Wall Street analysts now forecast that the central bank could move to trim its benchmark interest rate by the middle of 2024.
    — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • That would be the central bank’s 10th consecutive rate increase.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That beat the highest estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg, as well as the central bank’s estimate of a 0.2% drop.
    — Ott Ummelas, Fortune Europe, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Some Fed watchers are eyeing the central bank's March meeting as a possibility for the first cut.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And as inflation eases to its lowest point, the central bank is likely to pare back its rate hikes — which would make new bonds cheaper to repay.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Like other central banks around the world, the Fed defines that as a 2 percent annual inflation rate.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Officials at the central bank and the White House have long warned that getting inflation down to more normal levels will take time and include bumps along the way.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Bond prices tumbled for much of the year, and their yields rose, over uncertainty about how far central banks would go in raising rates to curb inflation.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • More than two-thirds of Russia’s immobilized central bank funds are located in the EU.
    — Fatima Hussein, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Even so, Powell stressed in a press conference that the central bank would remain open to raising rates, if necessary.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • That inflation remained too high and the central bank had to remain vigilant.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023

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