Sentences with phrase «while trade concerns»

While trade concerns and uncertainty over Iran policy continue to weigh.

Not exact matches

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

Stocks have been struggling all year to gain footing amid myriad fears over trade tensions, the inflation specter and concern that while earnings have been strong, this might be as good as it gets.

«While markets seem not to be concerned right now about any impending trade war, we have a lot to be worried about when it comes to that potential,» she said.

While I don't presume to read traders» (or trading computers») minds (see Barry ritholtz» note this morning about ex post facto rationalizations), generally speaking there is concern that the «taper» of long term bond purchases will cause bond yields (the percent of interest paid on them) to rise.

He provided «clear advice on what regulatory measures might be most effective in addressing those concerns in the shorter term, while preserving any benefits that HFT / AT [algorithmic trading] may bring.»

Not surprisingly, ISP trade groups cheered the announcement while consumer groups voiced concern.

The U.S. dollar clung to gains amid fading concerns over a global trade war, while oil soared on a reported decline in U.S. crude inventories and the possibility of supply disruptions.

While the trade data had little impact on U.S. financial markets, concerns about weakening global demand pushed Brent crude oil prices to the lowest level in more than four years, dragging down U.S. stocks.

While saying that the Liberals welcome investment --» we do need investment in the oilsands and in other industries» — Liberal trade critic Wayne Easter also expressed concerns.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

While the anonymously maintained blog tends to be on the hyperbolic side, many articles point out real concerns with everything from economies laden with debt to high - frequency trading dynamics.

While these four products account for only 4.1 % of total U.S. imports (0.5 % of U.S. GDP), these measures raise concern about a full - blown trade conflict.

Though for a while the stock may trade purely on SWOR subscriber numbers, I am not concerned about success or failure of SWOR, for two reasons: first, though it is important, it is still just one of five dozen of EA franchises.

Still, a team at the bank is reportedly looking towards the eventual trading of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies if it can find regulatory clarity and settle concerns over securing the assets while the bank holds them.

Separately, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer issued his own statement that read in part: «While we have made progress on some of our efforts to modernize NAFTA, I remain concerned about the lack of headway.

When asked whether their firms allow employees to trade on their own behalf through external accounts, 61 % of respondents said employees and spouses can trade on their own behalf as long as they report their activities to the company, compared to 51 % in last year's survey; 22 % said their firm's no - trading policy is strictly enforced and is a major deterrent to outside trading activities, slightly down from 25 % in January 2016; 14 % said their company has a no trading policy and that it is clear that violation it is a fireable offense, compared to 12 %; and another 3 % said that while their firms have no trading policies, they are loosely enforced and of little concern to employees, down from 12 %.

While Ripple was soaring in trading in 2017, concerns have been mounting recently that it could be a bubble pressuring it and other cryptocurrencies.

While the [EXCHANGE] is open for trading in the Shares for a limited period each day, the Bitcoin Exchange Market is a 24 - hour marketplace; however, trading volume and liquidity on the Bitcoin Exchange Market is not consistent throughout the day and Bitcoin Exchanges, including the larger - volume markets, have been known to shut down temporarily or permanently due to security concerns, directed denial of service attacks and DDoS Attacks and other reasons.

While there is no shortage of cocoa beans in the world, speculative trading in cocoa bean futures soared in part due to weather concerns in the Ivory Coast.

WASHINGTON — Cocoa butter prices jumped to 1 1/2 - year highs during March while cocoa bean futures traded up to 2 1/2 - year highs in London and 1 1/2 - year highs in New York amid indications of improving cocoa demand and earlier weather concerns about the West African cocoa bean crop.

While a dozen rival teams were frantically unloading the contracts of unwanted players at the NBA trade deadline last week, the Denver Nuggets literally had more life - and - death concerns.

Rudolph might get a desperation trade - up from someone in case NO or PIT take him as a developmental QB with that fifth - year option, and while Hurst is the most immediately appealing option here, what if the Falcons front office are scared of his health concerns?

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«While the Government should be commended for guaranteeing spending for international development, it must put ethical concerns and children's rights ahead of commercial trade interests and profit margins.

According to the paper, the bloc is concerned that Britain under Labour would provide generous subsidies to manufacturers that could give them an unfair advantage in trade with the EU, while there are fears that nationalised utilities firms could out - compete foreign rivals.

While Labour distributed ballot packs to its members, the trade unions were responsible for sending out literature relating to the contest to their members, leading to concerns from each side about the content of the other's election material.

While trading in personal information has opened up some lucrative business opportunities, from the perspective of the individual, this practice poses some privacy concerns.

In addition, the group is a learning community where you stand a chance to gain access to educational webinars while being able to ask any questions concerning binary options trading.

As far as quality of research is concerned, the trading calls and tips at intraday level is around average in nature while the fundamental research is pretty thorough.

There's a trade - off where preservatives are concerned, though; while natural preservatives are more trusted by animal health professionals, synthetic preservatives — all of which are generally recognized as safe, of course — are more effective.

While ALEC purports to spend zero dollars on lobbying, Exxon has deliberately used ALEC for the past two decades to advance its legislative goals concerning cap - and - trade policies, fracking, the Keystone Pipeline and the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan.

«This leaked proposal further confirms our concerns that, while the public is being kept in the dark, the EU - US trade deal is being used to trade away regulations that protect us from dangerous climate change,» said Natacha Cingotti, corporate campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe.

The Institute added that while concerns have been expressed about the trading scheme's impact on European business, trading was devised in response to businesses's desire for flexibility in achieving compliance and the scheme «should be judged in light of other options for emission reduction, not the status quo».

«While Directive 98/84 is intended to ensure adequate legal protection at EU level for the services concerned in order to promote trade in those services within the internal market, the contested decision, by authorising the signing of the Convention on behalf of the European Union, is intended to introduce similar protection in European non-member countries, in order to promote the supply of such services to those States by EU service providers.

anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public, or, if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence, or he chooses not to do so, must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed.

«While practitioners may have had some influence the government may have been particularly concerned about the voices from the City that suggested the increases would affect the multi-billion trade London does as the leading centre in the World for international dispute resolution.»

All of the sales were done using a 10b5 - 1 trading plan, which executives use to sell shares while avoiding concerns over inside trading.

While the Gear S3 might not be an Android Wear smartwatch, it arguably stole the show where wearables were concerned during this year's IFA trade show.

While some Bitcoin exchanges also provide a digital wallet feature, we do not recommend this route due to security concerns — exchanges focus more on currency trading, and less on keeping the user's Bitcoins safe.

While price decline is a point of concern, trading platforms that had listed the Cryptocurrencies Initial Coin Offerings could find themselves in trouble with regulators.

Some telling stats indicate that while salary is a concern, there are trade - offs such as opportunity and benefits that count for much more.

«While most trade associations comply with the Competition Act, we are concerned that, if the tribunal's decision is left to stand, trade associations may be tempted to develop rules aimed at preventing or eliminating potential new forms of competition.»