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How to use the word taper in a Sentence?

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Throughout 2022, price increases were pretty extensive — all the way up to 20 % and almost 30 % price hikes versus the year prior — across the pet department, in early 2023, we have started to see those start to taper off a little bit. Prices are still increasing but at a lower rate than they were in 2022.

Andrea Binder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Fed has been telegraphing the taper for some time. They've learned a lot and do not want to make the same mistake twice.

Whitney Sweeney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A taper tantrum is unlikely to happen. But we have to wait to see how Jerome Powell discusses the rate hiking cycle.

Jim Caron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re seeing the right things happening in the market and will begin to taper incentives in the quarter ahead.

John Zimmer

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Will the Fed react negatively to a 300k print? Likely not, with the momentum on taper already really high the Fed will have a hard time making an about face after a small miss on what has been a very volatile series, if we were to see something more extreme like a negative NFP print for example, then we could have a different story and the Fed may be forced to at least pause.

Brad Bechtel

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Next week the focus will shift to fiscal policy, a debt ceiling crisis in late-October could even delay the Fed’s taper plans.

Capital Economics

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The BoE is already ahead of other central banks in reducing the pace of its asset purchases, so the market is prepared for any taper commentary going ahead, but the bigger question is on the timeline of rate hikes and how the central bank plans to tackle inflation headwinds.

James Smith

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Risky assets loved the (Fed’s) statement and updated projections as the Fed has well telegraphed that they were nearing a taper announcement and continue to show they are in no rush to deliver interest rate hikes.

Edward Moya

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The (Indian) equities at the moment have taken cues from how the rest of Asian market has responded to the U.S. jobs data which has not shown the strength required for taper or an interest-rate hike; that is now positive for the Indian market.

Anand James

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I don’t think Powell or anyone else at the Fed is going to be too aggressive in their language about tapering any more, the dollar keeps moving higher in my opinion just on the basis that sooner or later the Fed is going to taper.

Kyle Rodda

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Our base case is that the FOMC will announce a taper in September if the August non?farm payrolls is strong, we anticipate the taper will be implemented in October or November, though the recent increase in Covid infections and deaths in parts of the U.S. may give Powell pause.

Joseph Capurso

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It’s very much investors grappling with the growth outlook for the global economy, and how aggressive the Fed will taper when they get around to it.

Paul Nolte

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Global investors are likely cautious around upcoming Fed taper and the prospects of weaker Asian currencies. Current wave of virus resurgences across Asia and the resultant downside risks to regional growth are also weighing on investor sentiments.

Duncan Tan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We expect the FOMC to announce it will taper its monthly asset purchases in September if the August payrolls is strong, we judge a tapering announcement next month is not widely expected, so if the minutes show the FOMC discussed the possibility of announcing a taper as soon as September, we expect the dollar to jump.

Kim Mundy

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There is not a lot of disagreement on a taper announcement coming sometime between September-December followed by actual tapering sometime between November and January.

Rodrigo Catril

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

They should be announcing a taper.

Peter Boockvar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The biggest risks to the stock market are the Fed's taper tantrum and aggressive tax hikes.

Edward Moya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will reach the time at which we will taper asset purchases when we have made substantial further progress towards our goals from last December, that would in all likelihood be before, well before, the time we would consider raising interest rates. We have not voted on that order but that is the sense of the guidance.

Jerome Powell

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

If U.S. yields rise faster than markets expect, or if there is miscommunication about future U.S. monetary policy, adverse spillovers through financial channels and capital outflows, as during the 2013 taper tantrum, could present challenges by compromising macro-financial stability.

Jonathan Ostry

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We expect the January FOMC to repeat and reinforce the Fed’s existing dovishness, which is still significant given the recent taper discussions and other central banks’ considerations to adapt policy, dovish Fed policy is a key driver for our view of upside in risk assets and bearish USD view. We therefore continue to watch Fed-speak and potential policy changes closely.

Ebrahim Rahbari

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

As in most years, the opening weekend is very busy, normally the number of visitors will likely peak around Wednesday and will then begin to taper off.

Christina Steele

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What they're doing is trying to taper down super high levels of nicotine, unfortunately, manufacturers don't have a manual on how to quit their devices.

Elisa Tong

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There's not many things that I want to change, but there's probably those few things that are going to come with taper and swimming that bit faster in training.

Kyle Chalmers

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Right now the expectation is we will start to moderate in the 11- to 15-day period, then continue to taper off to near or slightly below normal for the latter half of the month.

David Streit

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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