Not exact matches
The figures suggest
weak economic growth may be making businesses cautious
about hiring.
Recent work at the Bank of Canada and elsewhere shows that
about half of the slowdown in trade
growth among advanced economies in the post-crisis period can be explained by
weak economic activity, especially sluggish business investment.
Getting excited
about Materials stocks is not easy given the
weak outlook for global
economic growth and elevated commodity prices.
The bellwether S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were essentially flat, and major foreign indexes were all down (some sharply) during the same period, after a volatile year marked by
weak global
economic growth, slumping U.S. corporate profits and uncertainty
about the outlook for the China and the European union.
Here is an
economic data point that you will not hear
about in the mainstream financial media: U.S. wage
growth in 2017 had been the
weakest since 2010.