Sentences with phrase «balance of opinion»

There hasn't been a higher balance of opinion on investment since 2011.

The first chart (below) plots balance of opinion against log GDP per capita for the 1996 wave.

The average balance of opinion on investment since 2001 is about 13, so Canadian companies are positively giddy by by modern standards.

While the near - zero balance of opinion suggests that labour market slack remains, the indicator has continued to improve gradually since the oil price shock, as conditions in affected regions have bottomed out.

Chart 1 - A shows the contributions to the overall balance of opinion by region.

And yet even furthermore, Iain Stewart's presentation of the «Climate Wars» was far from the perfect balance of opinion and «consensus» that Cox believed it to be.

Being «half way» on the question about the appropriate balance of opinion (yes, opinion) in the media is not «half way» between censorship and editorial freedom.

It then takes the percentage who report improvement and subtracts the percentage who report a deterioration to calculate a «balance of opinion.»

Hiring intentions also slipped; the balance of opinion on adding workers versusus getting rid of them was 34 per cent compared with an off - the - charts 59 per cent in the previous quarter.

In the autumn report, the balance of opinion was 55 percent for future sales, compared with 59 per cent in the summer.

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

The Bank of Canada presents the results of its business survey as «balance of opinion,» subtracting the percentage of companies that expect less of something from the percentage that expect more.

The balance of opinion for investment was 24, meaning the number of executives who intend to spend more on operations over the next 12 months is significantly higher than the number who intend to cut investment.

The balance of opinion reached its highest level in five years and indicates that, by a solid margin, businesses across the country saw better indicators of future sales than 12 months ago.

The balance of opinion for investment in machinery and equipment continued to increase after a two - year period of weakness (Chart 3).

Input prices are expected to grow at a marginally faster pace over the next 12 months, as indicated by the positive, but low, balance of opinion (Chart 7).

The balance of opinion of close to zero continues to mask a divergence between the Prairies, where sales growth slowed, and the rest of the country, particularly Ontario and British Columbia, which experienced stronger growth.

The balance of opinion on credit conditions remains near zero, suggesting that the terms and conditions for obtaining financing are unchanged (Chart 10).

For this question, the balance of opinion excludes firms that responded «not applicable.»

Firms reported little change overall in the pace of past sales growth (Chart 1), with the balance of opinion hovering around zero for more than a year.

The balance of opinion can vary between +100 and -100.

The balance of opinion on investment intentions continued to recover (Chart 3), mainly because fewer firms pointed to a drop in investment spending.

The balance of opinion on output prices also turned positive in this survey (Chart 8).

The balance of opinion on credit conditions is near zero, suggesting little change in the ease with which firms can access credit (Chart 10).

The balance of opinion on employment intentions improved and is positive, pointing more strongly to hiring plans over the next 12 months (Chart 4).

After being close to zero for two quarters, the balance of opinion on input price growth swung into positive territory, indicating faster cost growth over the next 12 months (Chart 7).

Hiring intentions also slipped; the balance of opinion on adding workers versus getting rid of them was 34 per cent compared with an off - the - charts 59 per cent in the previous quarter.

In the autumn report, the balance of opinion was 55 per cent for future sales, compared with 59 per cent in the summer.

The spontaneous comments about the tax reform legislation had a positive balance of opinion, but the trade tariffs generated a negative balance of opinion.

The balance of opinion on investment receded closer to its historical average, indicating that plans to increase spending over the next 12 months are somewhat less widespread than in the previous two surveys (Chart 3).

After recovering in the summer survey, the balance of opinion on past sales growth edged down but remains positive (Chart 1).

The election of Link indicated the balance of opinion in favour of Luther within the Order.

I calculated the balance of opinion corresponding to each prospective member state as simply the percentage «in favour» minus the percentage «against».

The second chart (below) displays the relationship between balance of opinion and log GDP per capita for the 2008 wave.

I then examined the association between balance of opinion and log GDP per capita, taken from the World Bank.

Here we obtain a very different picture of the balance of opinion on how Scotland should be governed.

It goes almost without saying that the balance of opinion in the Party - and at its top - has changed startlingly in the last ten years.

«It would be a dramatic reversal of not just decades but centuries of British engagement and leadership if we were to suddenly back ourselves out of the whole enterprise, but it would also in my view have a very detrimental effect on the balance of opinion, the balance of debate in the rest of Europe,» Clegg insisted.

While it makes tactical sense for rebellious MPs to unite behind a single candidate, Monday's hustings entrench a misconception about the balance of opinion in the Labour party.

Whether that is politically tenable given the balance of opinion within the Conservative party is a different matter.

The balance of opinion seemed to be in favor of giving each school a single summary grade on grounds that if it wasn't done by the DCSF it would be done in 10 minutes by the nation's many newspapers, and not necessarily done well or accurately.

For the U. S. public as a whole, the balance of opinion is much more favorable: 45 % in favor, 34 % opposed.

Obama's comments reflected the balance of opinion in the public at large.

But, like PDK, we found that the balance of opinion shifted toward vouchers between 2017 and 2016, when those favorable had barely edged out those opposed by 45 % to 44 %.

«We were asking for a balance of opinion on that board,» Jones said.

Cockerell may well have tipped the balance of opinion towards park service takeover, for in 1938 the NPS made the decision to take the excess lighthouse property and ask for national monument status.

No balance of opinion.

Climate Audit is just a blog, but it's probably slowly changing the balance of opinion within the scientific world, by focussing on one specific area, the statistics of climate change predictions.