Sentences with phrase «about slower growth rates»

Not exact matches

The decline is attributable, in large part, to slow growth in pension values — tweaks to assumptions about interest rate and life spans had inflated them the prior year — and underwhelming corporate performance.

The bank cited the prospect of slower economic growth in Canada brought about by lower oil prices as one reason for moderating the rate.

The unexpected rate cut bolstered Asian markets today, though many worry about China's «new normal» of slower growth.

«Our growth rate has slowed to about 22 %, but we've been profitable since 1990, and net profit margins have improved each year.»

Amazon on Thursday said that Amazon Web Services revenue is continuing to grow strongly, with an annual run rate now of about $ 16 billion, although the company noted that revenue growth for the public cloud giant has slowed down.

The central bank, which kept its rate at 1.25 per cent Wednesday, said slower first - quarter growth of about 1.3 per cent was largely a result of housing markets» responses to stricter mortgage rules and sluggish exports.

There were a few reasons: the transition from Fed quantitative easing to anticipation of interest rate hikes and worries about the impact of lower commodity prices and slowing Chinese growth.

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

Worries about further capital flight leave little room to cut interest rates to stimulate growth, which may slow to just 4 percent this year, Capital Economics reckons.

Many economists think the Fed may put off further rate increases until more is known about President Donald Trump's ambitious agenda, or whether his drive to cancel or rewrite trade deals will slow growth or unsettle investors.

Concerns about the slow rate of economic recovery from the recession, which has seen GDP growth broadly stagnate in the last three quarters, are unlikely to disappear soon.

Mander, a chemist from the Australian National University in Canberra, has developed a version of a plant growth hormone which keeps grass lush and green but slows its growth to about a third of its normal rate.

In the cold seep worm, the cells at the edges of the trophosome die at about the rate that new cells are produced, slowing the worm's growth and keeping the worm stocked with young cells.

On the other hand, casein takes about 80 % of the milk protein and unlike whey protein it is very slowly digested.Casein proteins offer a much slower absorption rate of around 7 - 8 hours and continue to constantly provide amino acids into the blood stream for this time.Another thing that makes casein a good protein for athletes is the fact that micellar casein proteins contain high percent of amino acid glutamine (which is vital for muscle repair and cell volumization), growth factors, and properties that support the immune system.

The Babson survey itself noted that even as more students are taking online courses, the growth rate is slowing and some university leaders are becoming more skeptical about how much students are really learning.

The stock market is plummeting today because of concerns about the global economy, including the European debt crisis and the slowing growth rate in China.

• Slow dividend growth rate at about 2 % per year.

I'm excited about the yield and the dividend growth, and even a slowing of the growth rate still provides for strong risk - adjusted returns.

Earnings growth is slowing year - over-year to about a 4 % rate, and actually fell from the third to fourth quarters of 2006.

Their population growth rate is slow but positive, at about 0.6 % per year.

My one knock about the stocks is that the dividend growth is relatively slow at a compound annual growth rate of about 7.5 % and 5.0 % in the last 10 years and 5 years, respectively.

Wealthier Democrats («limousine liberals») have the luxury of being able to care passionately about solving the problem, whether or not it slows economic growth rates by a fraction.

In reality, although greenhouse gases continue to increase, the growth rate has slowed to about 3 W / m2 per century.

To add emphasis to your point about low cost energy and world population; a sure method to slow population growth (birth rates) is to raise overall standards of living.

with its highly optimistic assumptions about the future availability of renewables, nuclear, and CCS, the mid-century carbon emission reduction goal could only be achieved if the annual growth in GDP per capita between now and 2050 were to slow to a rate of 1 % per year.

But while America's total population has increased annually at a rate of around 0.75 % (equal to about 2.5 million new residents each year) since at least 1900, Manhattan's population growth is much slower.

Buyers, purchasing agents, and procurement clerks can all expect a slightly slower rate of growth, at about 12 percent.

Unlike past housing downturns, which were precipitated by slowing local economies, U.S. economic fundamentals remained solid, with 3.3 percent growth in the gross domestic product, job gains averaging about 150,000 a month, and interest rates remaining historically low during 2006.

That far outpaces the rate of population and job growth, but follows about 20 years of slow apartment construction.