Sentences with phrase «because of the slowdown»

Though her unit's revenue has shrunk — in part because of a slowdown in big - ticket orders from its largest customer, the U.S. Department of Defense — its operating profits grew 15 % in the first half of 2017.

LONDON (AP)-- The 19 - country eurozone lost some economic momentum in August, largely because of a slowdown in Germany, a closely watched survey showed Monday, days ahead of another possible stimulus package from the European Central Bank.

Although its production has been delayed because of a slowdown in engine development and testing, Chevy's new Corvette ZR1 is this year's symbol of driving thrills, with a price tag that will make your heart pound: more than $ 50,000.

The problem became so severe that I would often die because of these slowdowns.

Many contrarians claim it's because of the slowdown in surface warming in the past 15 years or so.

The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have started investigating Apple software updates because of the slowdown issue, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Analyst Omotayo Okusanya also cut the outlook for publicly traded apartment landlords from positive to neutral because of a slowdown in key coastal markets.

Not exact matches

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

Ironically, the selloff of U.S. stocks began a few weeks ago because of weakness in the Chinese economy, the devaluation of the yuan, and stock market turmoil in the Asian nation, which led to serious concerns about a global economic slowdown.

If the Fed is indeed putting off raising short - term interest rates — perhaps because of an economic slowdown overseas, economic turmoil in Russia, or because of lower oil prices — then that's potentially good news for the stock market.

There was a depressing story in the The Globe and Mail the other day about how toy retailers aren't stocking as much product this year because of the economic slowdown.

Despite a slowdown in traditional beer production, craft breweries are experiencing almost a 10 percent increase because of shifting consumer tastes.

(The recent slowdown in productivity could arguably be because of the low cost of labor and, therefore, reduced incentives to invest in capital and would likely rebound as labor markets get genuinely tight and start pushing wage - growth up.)

Thanks to a slowdown in China and other emerging markets, but also because of a sluggish U.S. economy and political risks in the Middle East, Madani thinks oil prices could fall to $ 75 a barrel next year.

Omar said Malaysia was suffering particularly because it was an emerging market at a time of capital outflows, it was a net exporter of oil and gas at a time of a significant drop in prices, and it was perceived to be badly affected by the Chinese slowdown as China was its largest trading partner.

Often, companies will overlook sources of process slowdowns because of their lack of visibility and inability to understand the impact of a bottleneck.

Those numbers are similar to what we've seen most of 2012, but in addition the Scorecard survey also found that 80 % of small business owners are now concerned about an economic slowdown because of turmoil in Europe and slow growth in the U.S.

This is because the province has accumulated a large public debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.

The problem is that a divergence of this size between the housing sector and the rest of the economy can't persist indefinitely, because the housing slowdown feeds back into employment, incomes and other forms of spending.

The slump was related to higher material costs and a weaker performance among its nickel - battery products, historically the firm's biggest revenue source, because of the global slowdown and weaker power tool sales.

Had you not had that slowdown in the first part of the year, had you not had the unsettledness with the value of the dollar and the price of oil, I think the Fed was gearing up for a June rate hike and in a sense missed that opportunity because the data turned against them.

The currency is being let off its leash right at the moment when market sentiment on China is pessimistic because of a continuing economic slowdown, an increase in private capital outflows, and entrenched producer price deflation.

Euro zone inflation eased in June because of more moderate energy price rises, but the slowdown was less than expected by markets and the core measure of price growth the ECB keenly watches increased by more than anticipated.

Back in September, the IEA trimmed its market forecast because of weakness in Europe and China, calling the slowdown in demand «nothing short of remarkable.»

Thus, from Australia's perspective, the Asian slowdown may have its biggest effect not through lower export volumes, but through a fall in commodity prices, some (or, conceivably, a lot) of which has already happened because these markets are forward looking.

Now there are times that the yield curve is inverted because we are predicting a slowdown in the economy but I don't think, you know, here we are into the eighth year of economic expansion, ninth maybe, and it doesn't really seem to be any particular reason that that economic expansion is going to die any time soon, so the traditional inverted yield curve «we're about to go into recession» I don't see.

«Because of the amount of construction that's been done, I have noticed banks will simply say «I have too much exposure on this product in this area of the city»,» Kapahi said, cautioning that he hasn't noticed a marked slowdown in condo lending over the past twelve months.

As long as Canada remains weak because of low oil prices, a weakened currency and a general slowdown of the world economy, we'll continue to see opportunities in the beaten down Canadian banking sector.

that isn't because I necessarily totally buy into the Friedman ans Schwartz explanation for why the slowdown of 1929 turned into a Great Depression rather than a sharp recession.

The times of economic slowdown also because of Dem Congresses (because Dems always spend money).

«Because of our injuries and inexperience the coach had tried to change us to a more controlled, slowdown style,» said Midfielder Doug Radebaugh, one of Maryland's three captains, as he tried to explain the Terps» early - season sluggishness.

The city is losing about $ 10 million per week on parking ticket revenue because of the NYPD work slowdown, according to the Citizens Budget Commission.

DiNapoli said the slowdown is a concern because Cuomo and lawmakers agreed to spend record amounts of money on school aid.

Due to recent heightened security concerns because of 9/11, has this caused a slowdown in the hiring of foreign scientists compared to minority scientists in the national laboratories?

I say «may» because research that tries to take gaps in measurement into account (particularly in the fast warming Arctic) or that takes into account temporary phenonomena (like volcanoes, solar variability, etc) show that there has barely been any slowdown in this one aspect of climate change.

Part of the slowdown in our schedule is because several of us are working hard at building the GreenSpace permaculture center, specializing in fresh microgreens with indoor vertical farming.

Since you state that a decrease in net calcification could result from a decrease in gross calcification, an increase in dissolution rates, or both, you distinguish between these responses and get to the conclusion that the impact of ocean acidification on a creature's net calcification may be largely controlled by the status of its protective organic cover and that the net slowdown in skeletal growth under increased CO2 occurs not because these organisms are unable to calcify, but rather because their unprotected skeleton is dissolving faster.

The slowdown is because of his mother's death, an event he hasn't fully processed.

Fifteen states have reported deficits or projected lower - than - expected revenues for fiscal 2008, largely because of the nationwide slowdown in the housing market.

It would be precisely because of the economic slowdown that Viz most likely took a look at One Piece and suddenly realized that they have a series with declining sales and 30 volumes that they MUST publish.

No analyst can say that there's a slowdown of Kindle sales because no one outside of Amazon knows how many are being sold.

In his statement, Poloz identified that because of the regulatory changes, including a tightening of mortgage rules in January, households pulled forward their housing purchases to the fourth quarter of 2017, resulting in a slowdown in the first quarter of 2018.

Interestingly, even though these kinds of high volatility events can occur with some warning, many online brokerages continue to suffer slowdowns or outages because of the trading volume.

To cap off the bad news, the economic slowdown of 2008 - 09 hit the company's profits hard because Canadians thought twice about buying new leather coats in a recession.

However, selling interest remained and the so pound became mixed after that before getting kicked lower across the board on Wednesday when U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond revealed the Autumn 2017 Budget before Parliament since that showed that the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) drastically downgraded its U.K. growth forecasts largely because of an expected slowdown in business investment and productivity growth:

So far we've seen stock markets down because of a perceived (or real) slowdown in China.

While this in itself isn't necessarily a problem, it is suspect because the flattening of the yield curve has likely caused a slowdown in the economy and put pressure on marginal borrowers.

Will there be other effects not presently expected, including a quick reversal or slowdown of policy changes because of public opinion changes and future electoral losses?

This is actually a good thing, because the game quite simply can not handle anymore than that, as there is a ton of slowdown when you are fighting enemies on screen while your dragon is firing down fire on the battlefield.

I say mostly stable frame rate because there are random moments of heavily noticeable slowdown.