Tighten Quotes

A curve inversion will last until the Fed stops tightening. As long is the Fed keeps tightening and inflation remains benign, the curve should be inverted. - James Caron

A couple of years ago, someone asked about a seven-and-a-half hour pre-game, I remember our executive producer said, 'If they can sell it, we can produce it,' ... Now we think it's smarter to tighten up the inventory, given [the] softness in the market place. - Lou D'Ermilio

A backdrop of monetary tightening, high commodity prices, robust productivity growth and buoyant activity will continue to offer support to the peso. - Alberto Ramos

2006 could take a lot of economists by surprise. The market is priced for the fed funds rate to top out at 4.50%, but if there is still a lot of easy money in the market, the Fed will have to keep on tightening. - Michael Darda

[Yet this peppering of data notwithstanding, economists are not too sanguine about the immediate prospects for income growth on the bottom rungs of the wage scale.] The job market is slowly tightening... We are wringing out the slack. But we're only six months into a process that could take a year and a half. - Jared Bernstein

[The numbers] confirmed the existing pattern of very strong growth with virtually no inflation. They make the Fed look better by tightening a notch but then moving to a neutral bias. - David Jones

[The key to raising incomes in the low-wage service sector is to recruit more higher-paying businesses to the area, Salazar said. Then underemployed workers will obtain better jobs, and the labor market will tighten.] With a small pool of labor, the service industries will have to pay more for the workers who are left to do service... A rising tide raises all ships. - John Salazar

[The Beige Book report] raises the possibility of a cut because it emphasize the fear of shift toward tighter lending conditions... It did show a tendency toward a new tightening of credit conditions. - Anthony Crescenzi

[However,] most people probably expected them to tighten... The policy statement was the source of differing opinions. - Joshua Shapiro

[Greenspan] seems to be a little more sanguine about inflation today than he was on Tuesday. Since there is no red flag of an early tightening by the Fed, it's almost a relief trade. - Steven Wood