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
  • The central bank has raised its benchmark rate to 3.75% to 4%, up from close to zero in March.
    — Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • In Nancy, the door to a local French central bank office was set on fire.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The Chinese central bank has paused its purchases of gold over the past five months.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • His father, Louis, was a tax collector for the French central bank.
    — Paul Lewis, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Seven billion dollars in funds frozen by the U.S. that’s not going to the central bank.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The nation's central bank is in the midst of a yearslong fight to dial back inflation.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • But this year, inflation and the central bank’s efforts to tame it have caused rates to more than double.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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 central bank is now focusing more on that last factor.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • If central banks cut rates too soon, then the knock-on cost of those wage increases could push the overall prices of goods and services back up.
    — Adam Gale, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
  • To their leading lights, all a government needs is a central bank armed with a printing press.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The central bank at its June policy meeting held rates steady and penciled in one cut for 2024.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 18 June 2024
  • The central bank raised interest rates last week to boost the yen, which could be a drag on corporate profits there.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The Fed now plans to hold rates steady longer to ensure inflation moves toward the central bank's 2% target.
    — Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
  • The central bank has been fighting price spikes by raising interest rates to 16%.
    — David McHugh and Vladimir Isachenkov, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The central bank would go on to raise interest rates three more times before Election Day.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But for the past three months, that gauge has run at a pace faster than is consistent with the central bank’s inflation target.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 22 May 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
  • This is the textbook prescription for how a central bank should behave.
    — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Traders now aren’t fully pricing in the first move by the central bank until November.
    — Tom Rees, Fortune Europe, 22 May 2024
  • 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
  • This week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell stressed in a speech that jobs and wages were growing too fast for the central bank to quickly slow inflation.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The central bank does not expect to reach its inflation goal until 2025.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The nation's central bank has been able to start cutting rates this year as inflation began cooling down.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Three months later, just after the central bank on Wednesday announced its third cut of the year, the federal funds rate is down a full percentage point.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024

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