Sentences with phrase «2.58-fold bigger economy»

That wasn't a lot compared with other big economies.

A number of U.S. policymakers have sought to justify stoking a trade war with China in recent weeks, saying it is «unfair» for the world's biggest economy to have a current account deficit — which measures the flow of goods, services and investments into and out of the country — with Beijing.

Trade talks between the world's biggest economies broke down last week after the Trump administration demanded that China curtail support for high - technology industries, a person familiar with the situation said, signaling that a resolution may be some ways off.

If the U.S. dollar was a drag on the world's biggest economy earlier this week, it is even more so now.

Britain's exit from the European Union means that one of the biggest economies will stop making contributions to the bloc's budget.

It will be easier to convince the public of the central bank's efforts to re inflate the world's third - biggest economy if they can easily measure jumps in the size of the BOJ's balance sheet, supporters of the idea say.

Abe has demanded more aggressive action from the central bank to end years of deflation and lift the world's third - biggest economy out of recession.

Japan's economy contracted again in the final three months of last year, highlighting that the world's third biggest economy remains in recession.

GM Korea's future is important for South Korea as it accounts for some 13 percent of the nation's auto industry jobs and 16 percent of auto exports in Asia's fourth - biggest economy.

Indeed, the broader inflation trends shown in Friday's data confirm recent signs of a more sure - footed recovery in the world's second - biggest economy, allowing authorities to resist any fresh monetary easing as they move to curb an unsustainable build up of credit in the financial system.

China, the world's second biggest economy, is looking to build what some policy experts call a «string of pearls» — a network of defense and commercial facilities — around the massive area.

But even if he's right — like any of these predictions, it's debatable — that figure would be a minor blip in one of the world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World Bank.

Morgan Stanley's Garner recommended looking outside some of the big economies of north Asia.

The comments follow those of China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who Thursday criticized the U.S.'s decision to brand the country as a «strategic competitor» and dismissed the notion that it poses a threat to the world's biggest economy.

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

So there are reasons to feel queasy about the world's second - biggest economy.

Add to that the changing trends we see in the workplace with more remote workers, big economy workers, people that have different perspectives, all of that leads to a greater need to get employees engaged.

In recent days, there had been talk of of the world's biggest economies making an accord to quiet the volatility in currency markets.

Companies are broadly profitable, and the world's biggest economies are growing in sync for the first time in a decade.

German monthly retail sales unexpectedly fell in March, data showed on Monday, marking a fourth consecutive drop and dampening cheer around a consumer - led upswing in Europe's biggest economy.

Already in Brazil, the region's biggest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is starting to roll out a more conservative message of austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits, to tame a record budget deficit widened by the biggest economic slowdown in 25 years.

As for the global economic slowdown, the big economies are now finally gaining steam (thanks to the hugely stimulative policies of previous years).

Despite the slowdown, Buffett says the U.S. economy is still doing better than «virtually any other big economy» around the world.

China said it will merge its banking and insurance regulators, in a long - awaited move to streamline and tighten oversight of the financial system in the world's second - biggest economy.

Nordic pay is even further below that of big economies like Germany, Britain and Switzerland, which this month voted to impose strict controls on executive rewards.

We have the biggest economy in the world in terms of GDP, but when it comes to internet speed, we fall behind countries like Romania, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Russia.

LONDON, April 30 - Government bond yields in the euro area nudged higher on Monday as focus turned to preliminary inflation data from Germany and Italy, two of the bloc's biggest economies.

Alibaba is poised to dominate ecommerce in the world's second biggest economy; Snapdeal is struggling to keep pace in a crowded field.

Strategists who spoke to CNBC said it will only take another disappointing report from China — or a significant drop in the yuan — for global investors to once again put the world's second - biggest economy at the top of their worry list.

The hard reality of our times is that the world's biggest economies have become old and slow.

In Indonesia, the region's biggest economy and most populous country with more than 250 million people, it's in a fierce battle for customers with local app Go - Jek, which has backing from Google and Tencent.

NATO Europe's spending is rising again and Germany, Europe's biggest economy, has been increasing its defense budget, which will see its spending quota rise to 1.3 percent next year.

German monthly retail sales unexpectedly dropped in March, dampening cheer around a consumer - led upswing in Europe's biggest economy.

The world's two biggest economies have imposed import tariffs on each other's goods, including Chinese aluminum and U.S. aluminum scrap, and threatened more action in a trade dispute that has roiled metals markets.

Hollande hopes to turn the euro zone's second - biggest economy around with reforms cutting corporate payroll charges and a bill currently in parliament that would open many professions up to more competition.

However, in the region's biggest economy — Germany — inflation was 1.7 percent, way closer to the 2 percent that the ECB has targeted.

Skeptics said the United States, the world's biggest economy, might back away from targets set in the Paris climate agreement if the Republican Party wins the presidential election in November.

The push to return to the vanguard comes at a time of growing nostalgia for the heyday of Japan «s technological prowess, which has dwindled since China overtook it as the world's second - biggest economy.

Coffee consumption in the world's second biggest economy is still well below that of Europe and the US, and market researcher Euromonitor predicts that retail sales volume of fresh coffee will post a compound annual growth rate of 17 per cent in China.

U.S. government debt prices were higher on Tuesday morning, as investors looked ahead to fresh economic data and monitored tense trade talks between the world's two biggest economies.

But more important, the United States has by far the largest trade deficit in the world, which means that the other big economies like Germany, Japan, and China are dependent on U.S. demand for their economies to grow.

To win any new deal, Greece will have to overcome deep distrust among partners, above all Germany, Greece's biggest creditor and the EU's biggest economy, where public opinion has hardened in favour of cutting Greece loose from the euro.

He insisted that the country was headed in the right direction and that no ratings agency would dictate the policies of France, which has Europe's second - biggest economy, behind Germany's.

Premier Li Keqiang's plan to have slower but better balanced growth has run into difficulties and Beijing's struggle to transform its economic model has prompted fears that the world's second - biggest economy could be the source of the next global downturn.

A solid set of earnings from the world's biggest tech companies has global stocks on the march again Friday, while the U.S. dollar tests 2018 highs as the world's biggest economy continues to expand.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble announced at a joint news conference with visiting Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai that Germany, Europe's biggest economy and a major trade partner of Beijing, would be a founding member of the AIIB.

The country's embattled President, Michel Temer, defiantly refused to step down amid a corruption probe that has engulfed the government and pummelled financial markets in Latin America's biggest economy.

(Reuters)- Uber Technologies Chief Executive Travis Kalanick said about 30 percent of the ride - hailing company's trips now take place in China, underlining how important the world's second - biggest economy is to Uber's global growth ambitions.

Sept 24, 2015: On June 1, 2015 Saudi Arabia opened its $ 500 + billion stock market to direct foreign investors through a Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI) scheme, providing international investors with direct access to the Middle East's biggest economy.

While the numbers underscored the persistent weakness in the world's second biggest economy, they also fuelled investor hopes of more stimulus after a surprise interest rate cut last month.