The Federal Open Market Committee is wrapping up a meeting on interest rates, and many analysts expect interest rates to remain unchanged.
Analysts at Nomura said they expect interest rates to remain unchanged.
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Many analysts expect interest rates to hit 3.75% in early 2007.
Yes, we do indeed expect interest rates to rise at some point in the future, we do expect them to get back to something approaching historical averages.
But what is surprising is the degree to which the shift in donor behavior seems driven not by cold calculations of political interest (how you expect interest groups to behave, axiomatically speaking) but by a mixture of pique and paranoia.
U.K. consumers, who have some of the highest personal debt levels in Europe, are bound to start watching their spending more closely this year, and many economists expect interest rates and taxes will gradually start to rise, which will crimp spending further.
There is perhaps a more fundamental point, made this morning by Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research - which is that one of the main reasons the government can borrow more cheaply than for a century is that the economy is so weak that investors expect interest rates to remain incredibly low for years.
And if the economy grows slower than we expect, interest rates will stay depressed.
The survey also found that most economists expect UK interest rates to remain at 0.5% throughout next year.
But we can expect renewed interest as the legislators tackle part two of the fiscal cliff crisis: cutting spending and raising revenue.
We expect higher interest rates and more growth as it proceeds.
Wall Street seems to expect another interest rate cut this year.
Within the technology sector I expect more interest in IBM and Microsoft, obviously multinationals, but very inexpensive properties with innate capacity for financial engineering, namely stock buybacks, rising dividends and fill-in acquisitions.
Bankers expect lower interest rates to spur growth.
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Observers say that Kenyans can expect tax and interest-rate rises, spiralling unemployment and deepening poverty.
In other words, don't expect any more interest rate cuts for the time being.
One retailer where you might expect a keen interest in the future of the penny is 99p Stores.
Both houses expect strong bidder interest at the April sales in New York, and at subsequent jewelry auctions in Geneva and Hong Kong.
Extrapolating from North Carolina, perhaps other states with an abundance of energy-producing manure and lower-than-average energy costs (like Iowa) can expect to see interest from other tech giants and their fuel cells.
It will not surprise me if people in Greece, Spain and other weak economic Euro Zone countries will start moving Euros to stronger countries such as Germany and the UK. If you see governments start to impose limits on capital movement I would expect those countries interest rates to rise.
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Rising inflation is putting pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates when it meets this week, though the majority of analysts expect it to leave interest rates unchanged at 6%.
When inflation rises, for instance, bondholders will expect a higher nominal interest rate on new debt.
Expect long-term interest rates to go above 6%, perhaps reaching 7%.
Goldman Sachs does not expect the Fed to raise interest rates before mid-2005.
But for GDP to slow materially, we would expect to see higher real interest rates or more breadth to the slowdown.
Most economists expect the Fed to cut interest rates again next week, but they are split on whether it will by another half-point or by just a quarter.
So we would expect Treasuries have the lowest interest rates (or the highest prices, the yield being the inverse of the price), munis higher and corporate bonds the highest.
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So if this extra spending means that their current account surplus becomes smaller, then there's less available to buy U.S. Treasuries, and you'd expect U.S. interest rates to go up a bit.
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