Sentences with phrase «as this recession does»

As long as this recession doesn't linger around for more than a year or two, Whole Foods should come out of all of this a lot stronger, and a lot more attractive to investors.

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It also does little to help the growing income gap or the overall economy, as people working several freelance jobs lack the purchasing power they may have had in more stable positions that disappeared during the recession, she said.

A wicked recession was putting pressure on marketing budgets, as recessions always do.

When asked why, the majority cited a continued high unemployment rate as the main reason and government policies as another reason they don't buy economists» views that we left the recession several quarters ago.

Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.

In a recession, just about any client will do, and professionals justify horrible projects and accounts as «learning experiences.»

Long bear markets, defined as a drop of 20 percent or more in stock prices over the course of months, do tend to correlate with recessions.

«It doesn't only matter how big GDP is in the future, but also how it gets there, such as by slow steady growth, or by periods of rapid growth mixed with recession,» he said.

OSLO, Oct 7 - Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don't fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher - emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed.

The lesson learned: Don't wait for a recession to plan for lost business; your customer base will continue to churn as more companies combine.

In fact, mutual fund company Hussman Funds, which analyzed events that precipitated the financial crisis, which began in 2007, in this blog post, notes that bear markets that induce recessions are usually twice as long as those that don't produce recessions.

And while Mills was lauded for increasing aid to small businesses during and after the recession, she faced some pushback, as programs didn't create as many jobs as critics would have liked.

From what I can tell, issues such as a possible recession, rising raw - material costs and unstable capital markets that seem to bother big companies do not seem to trouble many start - up CEOs.

Researchers at Pew argue that the recent decrease in birthrate has as much to do with the Great Recession in 2008 as it does with the increase of women who are not willing to sacrifice their careers for family.

And then if we do get into a recession, they can — cut interest rates and, as I said — as Richard says, we could go, if we have to, to — QE.

«They didn't want to make credit so easy as to fuel further inflation, but they didn't want to make it so tight as to choke the economy into another recession,» as Alan Greenspan later put it.

Unemployment due to the Great Recession certainly has a role, as does the overall decline in the size of the federal workforce.

Similarly, it is fairly unusual for countries to skip an international recession, though Australia and some other countries have recently done so, as did Japan in the early 1980s.

The paper says the global economy is now «almost certainly headed for a deep and prolonged recession,» and notes that global markets have already fallen as far as they did in the Great Crash of 1929.

They will over-tighten and cause a recession, same as they always do.

Fiscal options have, indeed, been closed off, irresponsibly if you ask me, but that doesn't mean it can't get worse in a recession as tax revenues fall off, which they will.

Not only did he want continuity at the Fed, but the president said he needed Summers by his side in the White House as he tried to lift the economy out of a deep recession, according to people familiar with the conversation.

As for individual stocks (at least the stable, quality businesses), you don't liquidate just because a recession may depress earnings next quarter, or even for a few years.

I did that for a 4 month duration taking that as the avg midpoint of past recessions» peak to trough.

General Electric (GE)- General Electric has been doing all of the right things lately as they continue to recover from the recession and the dividend cut that ensued.

When we were in the midst of the 2008 recession, our portfolio didn't suffer as much as expected — in fact it actually grew in value.

The telltale warnings in 1980 were the failure of capacity utilization to surge higher, as it typically does after recessions, while the Help Wanted Advertising Index also stalled, increasing only from 76 to 84.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

(As Bank of Montreal Chief Economist Derek Porter has commented, if economists do decide to call this a recession, it will be «one of the strangest recessions ever,» given rising consumer spending and employment throughout.)

As Paul Krugman has written, the common models used to forecast potential GDP take it for granted that if an economy doesn't bounce back quickly from a recession, it's because something has been fundamentally damaged, rather than because the government offered up an insufficient policy response.

But if that doesn't lead to a higher investment rate and productivity growth, we could expect growth to roll over and lead to what potentially could be a recession, something I haven't seen discussed as much before,» said Matt Toms, chief investment officer for Voya Investment Management.

A study of S corporations (small firms with 100 or fewer shareholders who are taxed as a partnership) found that those with ESOPs had higher average employment growth in the 2006 - 2008 pre-recession period than did the economy as a whole, and they also had faster growth following the recession from 2009 to 2011.

As I recall for the US data wages appeared to rise early in the recession and then flatenned out, though didn't fall.

«If he doesn't push the U.S. economy into recession by slashing public spending, Canada's exports might end up as collateral damage in his push to increase protectionism.»

Moreover, core inflation moved ahead of its level of 6 months ago, and leading economic measures continued to slip (though we don't see them as being indicative of recession risk at present).

But as we also saw earlier, Lazard only froze and did not cut its regular quarterly dividend during that recession.

Could the Fed have done more to prevent the recession from becoming as severe as it did?

Even allowing, as many authorities do, that the Great Recession was a national crisis warranting a similar expansion of the Fed's role, that fact alone can hardly continue to justify the Fed's vast expansion now that the recovery is well - nigh complete.

However, those concerns were mollified as Canadian data did not show deterioration early in the quarter, oil prices stabilized and U.S. recession fears diminished.

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.

Recessions can be particularly damaging to Main Street investors, as they typically exit the markets after most of the harm has been done and often do not reenter markets until well into the subsequent expansion, when confidence abounds.

But W - 2 jobs did not resurge as usual during our recovery from the last recession; instead, the growth has happened in the 1099 column.

-LSB-...] away — USA Today Debt Risk Shifting to Investors as Bank Regulations Bite — Bloomberg Do We Need a Recession for a Meaningful Correction in Stocks?

Again, I don't believe we are likely to observe major declines in consumption, or capital spending such as information technology - even assuming the U.S. has entered a recession.

So far, it did produce another 50 % decline in the stock market in 2008 and early 2009 as a credit crisis in 2007 caused the worst recession since the Great Depression.

They do not provide a particularly timely or forward - looking indication of the state of the economy, making their use as a predictor of recession limited.

I'll emphasize again that while I do view the economic picture as being consistent with progressive deterioration and a growing risk of recession, there is presently not enough evidence to expect a U.S. recession.

As I argued when the second quarter GDP numbers confirmed the recession, the big issue is not whether GDP growth is slightly positive or slightly negative. The big issue is why it has been so close to zero in the first place. The July GDP numbers do not change that analysis. And they do not change the empirical fact that the Harper government's overall economic record — even before this year's downturn — is uniquely weak, on both historical and international criteria.

But I do think that as inflationary pressures begin to develop, the Fed just naturally — they «ve done it in the past, they may panic, raise rates a little bit and that may be the one that — that «s going to trigger the next recession.

If things continue to improve and the US does come out of recession in the coming quarters, as growth returns to the world's largest econmy then with it will the demand for natural gas.