Sentences with phrase «as economic indicators»

Buyers are still dreaming in California a good look at the San Diego Real estate market, and the Los Angeles real estate market as economic indicators, and a fresh look at mortgage rates.

Trend continues for Americans with disabilities as economic indicators improve for seventh consecutive month, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment — Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability (UNH - IOD).

This strong performance is admittedly unexpected (and somewhat confusing) as economic indicators are mixed.

Now as economic indicators like low unemployment and increased consumer spending tick toward the positive, many economists are pointing to a limited rate hike as a way to move the economy towards normalcy after the volatility of the past decade.

These types of play make the copper / gold ratio less valuable as an economic indicator, especially as the ultra-low interest rates have provided the backdrop for potential commodity squeezes.

Treasury international capital is used as an economic indicator that tracks the flow of Treasury and agency securities, as well as corporate bonds and equities, into and out of the United States.

CPI is widely used as an economic indicator.

The emphasis on commodity prices as an economic indicator, most prominently by the ECRI, is also proving wrong, as is the impact of a stronger dollar.

In response, I included a special piece in this month's Briefly Noted section about the factors that contributed to the drop and the index's usefulness as an economic indicator.

Credit card companies use it as an economic indicator for determining the interest rate on its variable rate credit cards.

In fact, because of copper's generally accepted importance as an economic indicator in predicting and reflecting over-all economic health, it is ascribed to be the only commodity with a doctorate degree in the field of economics, hence the title, «Dr. Copper».

For example, fishing provides an important food source to people in Gaza, so using it as an economic indicator is misleading.

Conversely, labor laws in some European countries make it difficult to fire and hire employees, rendering job numbers useless as an economic indicator, he says.

Not exact matches

Analysts said they weren't reading too much into what they described as a «backward - looking indicator» and were hopeful about the economic prospects given an upturn in recent indicators such as confidence and machinery orders, not to mention efforts by Japan's new government to revive growth.

As I've explained elsewhere, CPI is an important economic indicator for gold investors to track.

These indicators have not surpassed their highs from the last economic expansion, Sonders said, and recessions happen when there are excesses in the economy, such as high inflation or surplus inventories.

Indeed, Randell Moore, who survey's economists as the editor of the Blue Economic Indicators, says the current consensus is for the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond to rise to 3.25 % by the end of 2015.

The world's largest package delivery company, viewed as an indicator of economic strength, reported revenue increased 10 percent to $ 17.1 billion in the first quarter from a year ago, topping analyst expectations of $ 16.47 billion.

THE proposed large increases in global steel production in WA have been welcomed by the Australian gas industry as a leading indicator of improved metals demand and a sign of economic recovery in the North East Asian markets.

But if this economic cycle indeed has another extended leg in — as plenty of indicators suggest — and companies can keep the profit machine running along with stock buybacks and mergers, there's no saying the market as a whole can't work its way a good deal higher before it reaches its ultimate peak.

Unlike other economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP), the PMI is forward - looking and helps investors manage expectations.

* The majority of our economic indicators are released at a set date and time as shown on our calendar.

While junk bonds may not represent a systemic risk as credit derivatives did during the financial crisis, they can be one of the more effective leading economic indicators.

As a timely indicator of economic momentum, GDP is completely useless.

Copper, as an industrial metal, is a leading indicator of economic activity.

The GS folks take a unique and informative approach: they compare a spate of economic indicators in the US to the «Big Five» advanced economy financial crises (taken from the work of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff) as well as to the 2008 European crisis economies.

Still, investors continued the habit of confusing lagging and coincident indicators for leading ones, so the positive GDP figure was taken as evidence that an oncoming economic downturn was «off the table.»

It's important to understand that the USCI isn't a random concoction of data, but rather the gold standard for measuring current economic growth, as it summarizes the key coincident economic indicators used to determine the official start and end dates of U.S. recessions; namely, the broad measures of output, employment, income and sales.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- U.S. stocks closed higher on Monday as investors prepared for an expected Federal Reserve rate hike later in the week, while stocks rose around the world on continued solid global economic growth indicators.

The $ 330 - billion spending plan says while several economic indicators such as employment numbers and tax revenues are up, and this year's deficit will likely be lower than expected — there are risks ahead: oil prices are expected to remain low; Canadian exports may remain flat; and «possible U.S. policy actions affecting trade could restrain exports to the U.S. even further,» the budget says.

And our BlackRock GPS, which combines traditional economic indicators with big data signals such as Internet searches, still points to above - trend growth as the global economy transitions from catchup to steady expansion.

The nation's first major economic indicator for August signaled a further deterioration as a private manufacturing index fell to the lowest level in six years.

When considering their investment choices, global macro managers take into account many factors, which may include a country's or region's economic indicators, as well as central bank trends and divergences.

Conception, then, could be used to anticipate recessions just as well as any other economic indicator.

In the years after stabilization, Bolivia enjoyed a restoration of economic growth, low inflation, democratic governance, and improvements in social indicators [3] such as life expectancy and infant mortality.

For example, many day traders are focused on trading e-minis with a focus on either economic event - driven moves — such as GDP releases or FOMC minutes — or purely technical trading using chart setups or indicators.

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According to the CIA's World Factbook, which uses the so - called «Gini coefficient,» a common economic indicator of inequality, the United States ranks as far more unequal than the European Union and the United Kingdom.

The red dots show the indicator itself, which is quite noisy, and the 3 - month moving average, which is more useful as an indicator of coincident economic activity.

The rebound in the yen, which has caused a de facto tightening in Japanese monetary conditions, creates a further headache for the Bank of Japan, as it continues its extensive quantitative easing program, against an economic background in which inflation indicators have remained sluggish.

On the one hand numerous indicators point to solid economic conditions, or at least buoyant economic confidence, and lending conditions are very easy, as are credit spreads and borrowing rates.

Strong economic growth from diverse sectors, rising consumption and income growth are strengthening macroeconomic indicators such as exports, which now make up 17.3 % of GDP; remittances, which constitute 8.6 % of GDP; and foreign reserves, which cover over six months of imports.

The BlackRock GPS — which combines traditional economic indicators with big data signals such as web searches and text mining of corporate conference calls — suggests a higher growth rate over the coming 12 months than currently reflected in consensus estimates.

Business media and expert commentators sometimes cite the monthly University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index as an indicator of U.S. economic and stock market health, generally interpreting a jump (drop) in sentiment as good (bad) for future consumption and stocks.

When measured as a sector of the economy, the performance of consumer discretionary companies can be an indicator of future economic conditions and stock market performance.

The large blocks of blue areas reaching the top of the graph represent periods of widespread economic growth, such as the late - 1980's and -1990's, when the leading indicators for all four regions were positive.

As the indicator in Chart 4 suggests, even as the Fed has recently raised interest rates under their control, monetary conditions remain a long way from being sufficiently «tight» to restrict financial system liquidity and putting the economic expansion at risAs the indicator in Chart 4 suggests, even as the Fed has recently raised interest rates under their control, monetary conditions remain a long way from being sufficiently «tight» to restrict financial system liquidity and putting the economic expansion at risas the Fed has recently raised interest rates under their control, monetary conditions remain a long way from being sufficiently «tight» to restrict financial system liquidity and putting the economic expansion at risk.

Eurostat stated that eurozone unemployment was 10.9 % in July, the first time it fell below 11 % since February 2012, while a range of leading indicators (such as the Markit composite purchasing managers» index, the European Commission's Economic Sentiment Index and money supply data) suggest growth has continued apace in the third quarter.

Economic Reports Scorecard The economic data released since my last update has been fairly positive but future growth and inflation expectations, as measured by our market indicators, have waned consiEconomic Reports Scorecard The economic data released since my last update has been fairly positive but future growth and inflation expectations, as measured by our market indicators, have waned consieconomic data released since my last update has been fairly positive but future growth and inflation expectations, as measured by our market indicators, have waned considerably.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesAs usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesas measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesas measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.