Sentences with phrase «market tightness»

The survey's indexes measuring Market Tightness (76), Sales Volume (54), Equity Financing (58) and Debt Financing (77) all measured at 50 or higher, indicating growth from the previous quarter.

The Market Tightness Index edged up to 76 from 74.

Majority report increased market tightness.

The survey indicates a Market Tightness Index at 28 — the lowest level since July 2009.

Among exporting countries, Indonesia deserves special attention: expanding domestic demand combined with constraints on ramping up production might increase market tightness and push prices up.

Despite the weakness in manufacturing payrolls (a loss of 36,000 jobs in goods - producing sectors in May) that accompanies this secular shift, labour market tightness has allowed for some moderate wage gains and further declines in the unemployment rate, beyond the influence of the declining participation rate.

The job market's strength in recent years has driven down unemployment and resulted in labor market tightness.

Despite the weakness in manufacturing payrolls (a loss of 36,000 jobs in goods - producing sectors in May) that accompanies this secular shift, labor market tightness has allowed for some moderate wage gains and further declines in the unemployment rate, beyond the influence of the declining participation rate.

Labor market tightness, on the back of previously strong gains, and the softening of corporate revenues and profits have made it hard for the jobs market to continue its long stretch of historic strength.

Another way to assess labor market tightness is to look at labor flows — in other words, how workers move between being employed, unemployed (not working, but looking for work), and out of the labor force (neither employed, nor looking for work).4 Figure 11 shows the flow from being employed to unemployed.

One area of uncertainty relates to wages growth, where there is a risk that current labour market tightness will result in higher - than - expected wage increases.

«Extreme labor market tightness and mounting wage / price pressures are all too apparent in the NFIB survey,» Edwards wrote in a recent client note.

Not exact matches

«This likely won't help affordability in the near - term because of demand - supply tightness in the two markets at the present time, but some relief could arrive late this year or early in 2017.»

Again, the smooth trend (6 - mos average, in this case) in wage growth deserves a close look, and it shows remarkably little acceleration given the persistent tightness of the job market.

Three years ago, it would have told you that global oil markets were at record tightness.

Zinc's raw materials shortfall has made it all the way down the supply chain to the refined metal market, tightness will be here for a while

Japan's inflation has been slow to respond to the country's sustained economic recovery and the increasing tightness of labor market conditions.

The company added that global inventories of commodities were «generally low, both on exchanges and within supply chains», a sign of tightness in the physical market.

This is half the yield seen for GNMA MSRs back in 2012, another indication of the tightness of asset markets.

Rather, the increase in spreads appears to reflect both tightness in the Commonwealth Government bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate bonds are priced) as companies have sought to lock in fixed - rate borrowings due to expected increases in interest rates.

On the one hand, the ongoing evidence of tightness in the labour market suggests that growth in labour costs may pick up faster than is assumed in the current forecast.

The extraordinary tightness in the labour market has intensified in recent months; the unemployment rate, at 4.5 per cent in July, has now been below 5 per cent for the past year and earnings growth has picked up accordingly.

SCHNEIDER: The number one metric and this gets back into my comments about optionality for the Fed, but the number one metric that the Fed is going to be focused on is the tightness of the job market and wage pressures on the go - forward basis, so sure inflation — headline inflation has perked up a little bit.

This trend and tightness in the potash and phosphate markets will continue.

But, despite the tightness of the labor market, July's report once more gave little indication of any accompanying pressures on wages.

Increasing demand for corn, wheat, soybeans, sugar, vegetable oil and cassava competes for limited acres of farmland, at least until farmers have had time to plow up more forest and grassland, which means that tightness in one crop market translates to tightness in others.

As I noted in my post from this morning, some of this tightness is due to the CPDO market.

As for the dollar, Fed Chairperson Yellen seemed to backpedal on the FOMC's hawkish tone during this month's statement as she admitted that they may have overestimated the tightness of the labor market and the potential for inflation to pick up.

We all need third party data to tell the story of what the company faces related to tightness in recruiting markets, turnover and more.

However, Strope says the tightness in these markets has pushed tenants into secondary sub-markets further from the core.

Our projections continue to show tightness in the entry - level market for the foreseeable future, which could further prevent millennials from purchasing homes in 2018 and 2019, even as much of that generation reaches its prime home - buying years.»

«On the one hand, the associated tightness in the labor market might help speed the return of inflation to the committee's 2 percent goal and induce a further increase in labor force participation,» the minutes said.

A simple measure of tightness in a market for owner - occupied housing is the homeowner vacancy rate (number of homes for sale divided by the number either for sale or owner - occupied).