Below you will find example sentences with "rate cut". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Rate Cut in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: cut
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.8 words

Words in this phrase

rate cut

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • rate can mean: The worth of something; value. Common word
  • cut can mean: To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 13 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

of a rate cut in june 2× a march rate cut or pricing 1× a may rate cut 1× a september rate cut and didn 1× a september rate cut is not 1× a significant rate cut due to 1× absent a rate cut nim is 1× adjusted its rate cut forecast to 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

fed chair powell 2× despite these downbeat 1× experts indicated that 1× financial markets are 1× furthermore it adjusted 1× in fact we 1×

Common sentence endings:

2024 figure 5 1× a rate cut 1× another rate cut 1× below market expectations 1× cut in 2024 1× cut in july 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

september 6× market 5× cuts 5× fed 5× expectations 4× bank 4× pricing 3× 2024 3× first 3× last 3× absent 3× down 3×

Related phrases

unemployment rate interest rate exchange rate tax rate growth rate cut off rate cuts inflation rate poverty rate rate increases

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around cut:

cut off 17× tax cut 10×

Just before it in the phrase index:

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Just after it in the phrase index:

rate cuts rate increases rate monitoring rate tracking rated aaa rated good

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

rate cuts rate increases rate tracking rate monitoring

Same ending:

tax cut

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "rate cut" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as of a rate cut in june, a march rate cut or pricing, september, market and cuts stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with unemployment rate, interest rate, exchange rate, cut off and tax cut, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with rate cut

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Furthermore, it adjusted its rate cut forecast to only one cut in 2024. (13 words)

That rate cut on September 18th, 2024 was the first US rate cut in 4 years. (16 words)

Investors increased their estimates of a rate cut in June after the Federal Reserve’s interest rate announcement. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

And then, just clarifying your last -- your comment on the last question, you said absent the any change or are you just saying absent a rate cut NIM is flat to down or absent a change in the projections for a rate cut? (43 words)

Last month, governor Tiff Macklem announced a half-percentage point rate cut in response to inflation returning to the bank's two per cent target, but said the size of the next cut would be determined by incoming economic data. (40 words)

Traders are betting that the Fed will raise its lending rate in May by another quarter of a percentage point and pushed out to late this year expectations of a rate cut, as typically occurs in a slowdown. (38 words)

Question examples

And then, just clarifying your last -- your comment on the last question, you said absent the any change or are you just saying absent a rate cut NIM is flat to down or absent a change in the projections for a rate cut? (43 words)

Example sentences (20)

In fact, we have already priced out the March rate cut, so the market is now caught in a limbo between pricing back in a March rate cut or pricing out a May rate cut.

That rate cut on September 18th, 2024 was the first US rate cut in 4 years.

And then, just clarifying your last -- your comment on the last question, you said absent the any change or are you just saying absent a rate cut NIM is flat to down or absent a change in the projections for a rate cut?

With the inkling of rate cuts in the air, Wall Street traders have gone from expecting the first rate cut in June (Figure 4) to aggressively pricing in 6 rate cuts in 2024 (Figure 5).

Fed Chair Powell adopted a hawkish tone as the Fed cut rates by 0.25% but reduced 2025 rate cut projections to two, down from four in September and below market expectations.

Furthermore, it adjusted its rate cut forecast to only one cut in 2024.

Last month, governor Tiff Macklem announced a half-percentage point rate cut in response to inflation returning to the bank's two per cent target, but said the size of the next cut would be determined by incoming economic data.

Money markets reflect around an 85% chance of a rate cut in June and fully price a 25 basis point cut in July.

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The market has already fully priced in a rate cut in September and one in December with some chances of a back-to back cut in November.

It is somewhat strange that the third straight policy repo rate cut, the first time this has ever happened in RBI history, caused anything but euphoria in the markets, though the cut did match market expectations.

Some Fed officials feel the economy is strong and does not warrant a rate cut, others believe it makes sense to monitor the current situations, and some feel that now is the time to cut rates decisively.

The latest consensus points to another rate cut in the final quarter and nearly 40% of respondents predicted a follow-up cut was likely to come as early as September.

Traders are betting that the Fed will raise its lending rate in May by another quarter of a percentage point and pushed out to late this year expectations of a rate cut, as typically occurs in a slowdown.

Despite these downbeat figures, a September rate cut is not certain given that some rate setters are still sufficiently nervous over lingering price pressures to delay loosening policy again, at least until November.

Experts indicated that the State Bank remained cautious despite room for a significant rate cut, due to the considerable gap between the headline consumer inflation of 11.8% and the prior policy rate of 22%.

Fed Chair Powell hinted to a September rate cut and didn’t even close the door for “several” rate cuts before the end of the year.

Financial markets are expecting a rate cut from 4% as early as April, but ECB President Christine Lagarde said she and other bank officials agreed it was “premature to discuss rate cuts”.

Investors increased their estimates of a rate cut in June after the Federal Reserve’s interest rate announcement.

Market expectations for an interest rate cut by the United States Federal Reserve Bank have shifted, with more bets towards delayed rate cuts.

Savings rates are variable and move in lockstep with the federal funds rate, so your APY will likely go down following another rate cut.

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