How to Use central bank in a Sentence

central bank

noun

• The Chinese central bank has paused its purchases of gold over the past five months.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Government bond yields have dropped, and traders have significantly lowered their bets on how high the central bank will have to raise interest rates.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• That could be bad news for investors who have been hoping the central bank would pause its interest rate hikes, or even pivot to rate cuts, amid signs inflation peaked in June.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
• The report said an investigation by the central bank suggested there were no records of the dollars entering the country.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Dec. 2022
• Market watchers will get some more details on the Fed’s thinking through the central bank’s latest meeting minutes due out Wednesday.
  — Jacob Pramuk,kristian Burt, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
• The Federal Reserve delivered a bold half-point rate cut last month, the first time the central bank has lowered interest rates in more than four years.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024