Sentences with phrase «gdp numbers»

«While the continued expansion is encouraging, faster growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the recent downturn and to reduce long - term unemployment,» Alan Krueger, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in his blog after the GDP numbers were released.

Shortly after the GDP numbers disappointed, the University of Michigan - Reuters index of consumer sentiment was reported, and it came in slightly higher than consensus expectations.

In addition, there are offsetting social benefits to the environment and public health that may not get captured in GDP numbers.

Any economic progress that comes out of GDP numbers is attributed to financial markets and the profits of oil companies as the price of oil goes up and drags other prices along with it.

Values given in this table correspond to the full literature across all baselines and mitigation scenarios that provide GDP numbers.

Then we look at how bulls are spinning bad news into good and, if we have time, look at how you should analyze GDP numbers.

This morning after the bad GDP numbers were released the Dow soared and made it above...

Since equity markets are forward - looking, strong jobs and GDP numbers to start 2018 could drive stock markets higher, at least for part of the year.

A. Ebook readers are very expensive here, even with the GDP numbers I've given above (Wikipedia, so take them with a grain of salt, but they're still in the ballpark).

As a result, the negative GDP numbers in two or more quarters satisfies the definition of a recession.

Our first blog post touches briefly on events from a very productive last week, when we met with the Minister of State for Business and Energy at our exhibition at BIS, held our AGM and annual lunch, commented on Q1 GDP numbers, and arranged interviews on the BBC and Channel 4 with our Economics Director and Chairman, respectively.

Another round of good employment and GDP numbers have buoyed spirits in Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street, but only to serve as evidence that the plan is working.

Across the Pond, focus will be on 1st quarter GDP and employment cost numbers, any better than forecasted figures another Dollar positive, with the markets expecting upward revision to GDP numbers following the March goods trade numbers released on Thursday.

Kim Jong Un crosses the DMZ into South Korea, the Bank of Japan ditches a target date for inflation to hit its 2 % objective as the markets look towards GDP numbers out of EU member states, the UK and the U.S later in the day.

For the EUR, economic data scheduled for release this morning is on the heavier side and includes inflation and GDP numbers out of France and Spain, unemployment numbers out of Germany and French consumer spending figures.

And while the June and July GDP numbers are positive, in my view it is too early to conclusively declare the recession over. Here are some cautionary notes:

As I argued when the second quarter GDP numbers confirmed the recession, the big issue is not whether GDP growth is slightly positive or slightly negative. The big issue is why it has been so close to zero in the first place. The July GDP numbers do not change that analysis. And they do not change the empirical fact that the Harper government's overall economic record — even before this year's downturn — is uniquely weak, on both historical and international criteria.

Seeking to further explain the weakness, a number of economists emphasized the recurring pattern evident in quarterly GDP numbers since 2010 — whereby first - quarter growth has averaged less than half the rate for the rest of the year — raising suspicions that seasonal effects may be skewing the data.

Updates on inflation tallied with the backdrop suggested by the first - quarter GDP numbers.

As we go into 2013, there will be a shocking hit to the reported GDP numbers as discretionary government spending shrinks.

While 1st quarter GDP numbers were said to have all but removed the chances of a May rate hike, April's PMI could confuse matters should the numbers impress.

In this issue: The Recent GDP Numbers -; A Real Statistical Recovery Consumer Spending Rose?

Growth in household consumption was subdued with business investment and net trade contributing to the annual GDP numbers, in line with the MPC's November Inflation Report.

The size of Canada's economy was around $ 2 trillion dollars at the end of 2016, and according to the latest GDP numbers released by Statistics Canada, the Canadian economy expanded at 0.6 percent in May 2017 compared to the previous month, largely led by advances in the oil, gas and mining industries, which accounted for around two - thirds of the country's GDP growth.

Initial second - quarter GDP numbers are due on July 28 and may prove pivotal in the Fed's decisions for the balance of the year.

It can be maddening to read an article that quotes Chinese GDP numbers as if they were a real measure of long term economic growth.

We recognize that the fourth quarter GDP numbers might not be available at the time of the budget.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report (pdf - h / t to Kady O'Malley) that makes note of the distinction between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI), and shows that by the latter measure, the fourth quarter of 2008 was even more dreadful than the GDP numbers that made all the headlines.

On Friday, Statistics Canada revised its real GDP numbers upward for the first and second quarters.

That family is clearly better off, but you would never know it by the GDP numbers.

Despite its massive debt - to - GDP numbers, the chance of China going belly up is minuscule, said Lau.

Thursday's GDP numbers only reinforced expectations for aggressive monetary easing, analysts said.

The second quarter GDP numbers showed that companies in most industries were spending, and imports of machinery and equipment — a proxy for investment — are strong.

And the latest GDP number was released after the survey of million - dollar self - directed brokerage investors, conducted by E-Trade and provided exclusively to CNBC.

When the «outstanding» November GDP number was released on January 31, the IFSD nowcast for fourth - quarter GDP was revised to 1.8 %.

On the one hand, the U.S. central bank is in moving into tightening mode, while on the other is China's central bank is devaluing its currency as that country deals with a growth recession (despite the positive GDP number they are reporting publicly).

As soon as a GDP number of a large economy is reported, there is always a deluge of commentary about the supposed health (or lack thereof) of the economy concerned.

Friday's GDP number was a disappointment.

But the third - quarter GDP number also revealed that consumption growth remained robust, and many observers expect growth to pick up in the year's final quarter as the rundown in corporate inventories that impacted the third - quarter data is taken out of the equation.

I'm still negative the entire bond sector as I think the yields are way too low as the United States experienced a 2.9 % GDP number last quarter which is very solid.

The markets will more than likely ignore the house price figures, with the GDP number now key to weather the BoE can consider lifting rates next month.

Some haunting math from the GDP number.

He thinks the data on GDP is flawed, since the Government mandates a certain GDP number and makes sure that -LSB-...]

As an example, $ 100 billion of additional foreign earnings isn't going to have much effect on a GNP / GDP number that is already in the trillions.

Equity Traders Optimistic about Earnings after Today's Better GDP Number Todayâ $ ™ s surge in the equity futures markets helped stocks recover close to 50 % of their recent decline.

In summary, the reason the 3.3 % real GDP number looks weird is that imports have a negative weight in the GD Product price index, so a large move up in energy prices (largely imported) makes the GDP product price index go down, and real GDP go up.

I've long wondered whether the increasing percentage of profits U.S. companies earn abroad weakens the usefulness of the Corporate Profits / GDP number.

If not for SV, that GDP number would be lower, much lower.

When the Chinese progress is measured, it should not just be looked at simply as a GDP number, or even an emissions generated or saved number.

TreeHugger has written about these alternatives and supplements to GDP a number of times — The Genuine Progress Indicator, Gross National Happiness, and others — so I won't rehash them.