Sentences with phrase «biggest economies of the world»

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As the agreement involves 40 percent of the world's competing economies, it's a big deal for business owners.

A number of U.S. policymakers have sought to justify stoking a trade war with China in recent weeks, saying it is «unfair» for the world's biggest economy to have a current account deficit — which measures the flow of goods, services and investments into and out of the country — with Beijing.

It will be easier to convince the public of the central bank's efforts to re inflate the world's third - biggest economy if they can easily measure jumps in the size of the BOJ's balance sheet, supporters of the idea say.

Abe has demanded more aggressive action from the central bank to end years of deflation and lift the world's third - biggest economy out of recession.

Japan's economy contracted again in the final three months of last year, highlighting that the world's third biggest economy remains in recession.

Indeed, the broader inflation trends shown in Friday's data confirm recent signs of a more sure - footed recovery in the world's second - biggest economy, allowing authorities to resist any fresh monetary easing as they move to curb an unsustainable build up of credit in the financial system.

In his paper «Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies,» he writes: «A local resident who goes to an All - Star Game when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the game.

China, the world's second biggest economy, is looking to build what some policy experts call a «string of pearls» — a network of defense and commercial facilities — around the massive area.

But even if he's right — like any of these predictions, it's debatable — that figure would be a minor blip in one of the world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World World Bank.

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

China may now be the largest trading partner of the United States, but Canada still has a bigger influence on economic growth in the world's largest economy.

The comments follow those of China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who Thursday criticized the U.S.'s decision to brand the country as a «strategic competitor» and dismissed the notion that it poses a threat to the world's biggest economy.

A readjustment in the second - biggest global economy could hurt growth in the rest of the world.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

In terms of the global impact of the crisis, execs said the damage to Japan was big enough to change fundamental forecasts for the world economy, giving the statement a 4.2.

This year's World Economic Forum in Davos, a sort of brain spa for the world's movers and shakers, named rising income inequality as the biggest challenge now facing the world ecoWorld Economic Forum in Davos, a sort of brain spa for the world's movers and shakers, named rising income inequality as the biggest challenge now facing the world ecoworld's movers and shakers, named rising income inequality as the biggest challenge now facing the world ecoworld economy.

In recent days, there had been talk of of the world's biggest economies making an accord to quiet the volatility in currency markets.

The world's second largest economy hosts some of the golf industry's biggest tournaments, including the BMW Masters in Shanghai.

The deal was part of a broader trend of Chinese resource companies making foreign acquisitions as part of a global strategy to gain better access to the key commodities needed to fuel China's economy, the world's second biggest.

But let's face it: With all the talk of small businesses being the backbone of the U.S. economy, it's really the big companies who rule the world.

China said it will merge its banking and insurance regulators, in a long - awaited move to streamline and tighten oversight of the financial system in the world's second - biggest economy.

We have the biggest economy in the world in terms of GDP, but when it comes to internet speed, we fall behind countries like Romania, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Russia.

The announcement raises the bar for the world's most valuable company — now a huge driver of the economy — to continue its dominance and growth in the wake of political pressure on big tech companies.

These mega-projects are fraught with challenges ranging from new engineering demands to public opposition.But to look at any one pipeline or container - port controversy in isolation is to miss the big picture of inexorable change in the world economy and Canada's place within it.

Strategists who spoke to CNBC said it will only take another disappointing report from China — or a significant drop in the yuan — for global investors to once again put the world's second - biggest economy at the top of their worry list.

The hard reality of our times is that the world's biggest economies have become old and slow.

The push to return to the vanguard comes at a time of growing nostalgia for the heyday of Japan «s technological prowess, which has dwindled since China overtook it as the world's second - biggest economy.

Me: If you look at the world, and you look at languages, and you look at economies... if you were to try to target those parts of the world that in 15 years, 20 years will have taken a bigger step than other parts of the world, where would you go?

Coffee consumption in the world's second biggest economy is still well below that of Europe and the US, and market researcher Euromonitor predicts that retail sales volume of fresh coffee will post a compound annual growth rate of 17 per cent in China.

Premier Li Keqiang's plan to have slower but better balanced growth has run into difficulties and Beijing's struggle to transform its economic model has prompted fears that the world's second - biggest economy could be the source of the next global downturn.

A solid set of earnings from the world's biggest tech companies has global stocks on the march again Friday, while the U.S. dollar tests 2018 highs as the world's biggest economy continues to expand.

US stocks tumbled as another big drop in Chinese stocks spurred more worries about the world's second - largest economy and triggered another wave of global selling.

(Reuters)- Uber Technologies Chief Executive Travis Kalanick said about 30 percent of the ride - hailing company's trips now take place in China, underlining how important the world's second - biggest economy is to Uber's global growth ambitions.

While the numbers underscored the persistent weakness in the world's second biggest economy, they also fuelled investor hopes of more stimulus after a surprise interest rate cut last month.

By his own admission, he will move from one of the smallest and least expensive world capitals to one of the biggest and most expensive (hence the housing allowance) and from a reasonably healthy economy to one in a state of serious stagnation.

When Canada's export economy gets savaged, as it will in the next year, the only fall back position is the domestic economy — potentially one of the biggest in the world.

Elections on the calendar for developing economies around the world in 2018 may bring more volatility to emerging - market funds, which were some of last year's biggest winners.

Thanks to the billionaire's surprise election win, investors around the world have been frantically trying to do just that — look beyond the present and peer into the future, trying to get a handle on just how financial markets might behave with Trump at the reins of the world's biggest economy.

The IEA, which advises the world's biggest economies on energy policy, said some reductions in non-OPEC oil production «may result in the loss next year of half a million barrels a day — the biggest decline in 24 years».

Gold advanced the most in more than two weeks amid speculation that China, the world's biggest consumer, will take more measures to bolster the economy, boosting demand for the precious metal as a store of value.

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's efforts to weaken the yen in a bid to stimulate economic growth and inflation in the world's third - biggest economy are likely to be relentless and successful, macro investment manager Mark Yusko told attendees today at ETF.com's second annual

Profoundly powerful and fast - emerging technologies — from ubiquitous digital connectivity, to smarter big data, to computing systems that can reason and learn — are transforming a business landscape that accounts for almost 20 % of the U.S. economy and steadily growing shares elsewhere in the world.

These elements are turning China into a more sophisticated, more domestically focused economy and will have a far bigger effect on China's prospects — and indeed on world prospects — than the short - term gyrations of the much - manipulated Chinese stock market.

The officials recommended that the nation closely watch factors such as the outlook for supply of U.S. government debt, along with political developments including trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies when deciding whether to cut some Treasury holdings, the people said.

A series of important economic data is being released in the USA, since the biggest economy in the world has a lot to share with its citizens and the world.

Get ready for more years of gridlock and uncertainty in the world's most important economy, all because Republicans wanted to secure a big corporate tax cut before an arbitrary deadline of Christmas 2017.

China is the world's second - largest economy and the biggest producer of steel and cars.

BEIJING A raft of Chinese data over coming weeks is expected to show the world's second - biggest economy cooled slightly in March from the first two months of the year, with the main risk to the outlook now centered on an escalating Sino-U.S. trade spat.

As China and the United States got closer to a full - blown trade war on Wednesday, with China threatening to impose tariffs on 106 more U.S. products after a similar U.S. move on Tuesday, one major question is looming larger than ever over the world's two biggest economies: Once you're in a trade war, how do you get out of it?