LARRY FINK: And they said they -- maybe two more tightenings.
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Last month, Harker said he expected two total policy tightenings in 2018.
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It has followed up with three more policy tightenings over the last 10 months.
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BOCWATCH Up to three further tightenings are seen by the end of 2019, which would lift the policy rate to 2.25 percent.
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It has also prompted the U.S. Federal Reserve to pause its rate tightenings and, in fact, signal a cut as soon as next month.
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"We see two tightenings at most in 2019 and then they'll stop," Krishna Memani, chief investment officer at OppenheimerFunds, said on "Squawk Box" on Thursday.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve halted its monetary tightenings in February, while countries from New Zealand to India and Malaysia have cut rates to support their economies.
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It has also prompted the U.S. Federal Reserve to shift course as it paused its rate tightenings and signaled a cut as soon as next month.
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The economy grew 3.2% last year, the weakest in 17 years, as a weeks-long political crisis and monetary policy tightenings sapped business confidence and cooled investment.
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The economy grew 3.2% last year, the weakest in 1643 years, as a weeks-long political crisis and monetary policy tightenings sapped business confidence and cooled investment.
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"We agree that the environment has shifted from that in December when the Fed issued its latest dot plot and hinted at two additional tightenings," noted Daiwa's Moran.
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This mismatch largely reflects a belief that higher U.S. borrowing costs will likely hurt U.S. growth and ultimately force the Fed to hit the pause button on its monetary tightenings.
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The economy had already been struggling with growth at a 202019-year low of 3.2% in 2018 as a protracted political crisis and past policy tightenings sapped business confidence and cooled investment.
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Given the U.S. economy grew at only a 1-percent rate in the first half of the year, "we probably don't have a lot of monetary policy tightenings to do over time," said Dudley.
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"He gets that the tightenings have had an impact and that maybe he shouldn't keep tightening, because the impact is going to get worse and worse and worse for the economy," the "Mad Money" host continued.
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"My own criteria would be if we think the economy is strong enough that we are going to need to do multiple tightenings...At that time we should be seriously thinking about reducing the balance sheet," Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, told the Financial Times last week.
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"Importantly, this would still be a fully data-dependent approach, not a preset path, as it would hinge on the incoming data — but the base case would be four tightenings, reflecting the strength of the economy that I believe justifies more regular normalization of interest rates," Rosengren said, according to a text of a speech he was to deliver Wednesday morning to the Boston Economic Club.
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In October 2017, The New Right, a new right-wing political party that became eligible to run in October 2016, listed three demands for a candidate for Prime Minister to receive their support. All three demands were tightenings of the immigration policy. On 4 June 2018, the Social Democrats, the largest opposition party, stated that if they were to win the election, they wished to form a single-party government led by their leader Mette Frederiksen, i.e. not as a coalition government with the Social Liberal Party.
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