Sentences with phrase «coast port strike»

Part of the recent soft U.S. growth is admittedly a function of two temporary factors: a brutally cold winter and the West Coast port strike.

Most market watchers have consoled themselves with the view that most of the softness was a function of temporary factors, including harsh winter weather and a West Coast port strike.

Economists blamed the slowdown on poor weather and the West Coast port strike, though a recent paper from the New York Federal Reserve found the latter event to have only a modest drag on growth.

Not exact matches

In particular, Vancouver must shake its reputation of being perennially vulnerable to strikes (a reputation shared by US west coast ports).

The magnitude - 8.2 quake that struck off the northern coast of Chile Tuesday, 1 April, pounded the port city of Iquique with a 2 - meter tsunami.

Nintendo has attributed the shortage to the port strikes on the East Coast, as evidenced by photos showing international stores with plenty of stock.»