Sentences with phrase «biggest economy by»

As the biggest economy by far, the United States» effort to bring the continent's average up to 50 percent will be tested most rigorously.

Tackling climate change could boost the world's 20 biggest economies by nearly 5 per cent in 2050, compared to a continuation of current policies, the Paris - based OECD said on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

But as it and other digital «cryptocurrencies» have evolved, along with the public ledger system that makes up the blockchain, much of the bitcoin economy has been increasingly overtaken by big money — or by entrepreneurial prospectors who want to grab a piece of the bubblicious ICO phenomenon.

«I think we're a big growth engine for the economy, and it's really, again, driven by what we're seeing [in] commercial traffic growth around the world,» the CEO said.

Opened as an experiment in 1912 near the company's most profitable location in Jersey City, N.J., the first A&P economy store was operated by a single man, who moved big volumes at warehouse prices.

Manley contends the explosion in sovereign debt caused by all the stimulus spending over the past two years is the biggest issue facing both the Canadian government and the world's other major economies.

These are called disruptive technologies or the next big thing, in the sense that existing markets or economies of scale are disrupted by the scope of change.

«Markets are coming to the conclusion that the U.S. economy is close to overheating and therefore that the risks of inflation are bigger than the risks of a recession,» Deutsche Bank economist Torsten Slok said, quoted by the Financial Times.

A UBS team led by economist Seth Carpenter analyzed year - over-year changes in US county - level unemployment rates and saw that they illustrated some bigger patterns in the national and global economies.

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

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.

Just as baby boomers took over business, politics, and the consumer economy during the 1980s and»90s, millennials currently in their mid-20s will make up the majority of jobs and big - ticket purchases such as houses and cars, Slok wrote in a recent brief, which was first reported by Axios.

Already in Brazil, the region's biggest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is starting to roll out a more conservative message of austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits, to tame a record budget deficit widened by the biggest economic slowdown in 25 years.

A White House official pointed to trade as part of a «bigger picture» for the economy, with cabinet - level discussions described as «deliberative» and the President focused on doing right by American workers.

The improved economy and rising stock market have helped repair the damage to university endowments, but the biggest investment gains and largest gifts have flowed to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis by Moody's Investors Service.

Also, sometimes, there are things that you can't control (e.g. the economy, the weather — we were hit by two big hurricanes and one of the worst winters I can remember).

The fall was brought on by some lost contracts, big layoffs, worries about a Chinese slowdown and drop in private jet travel; it was uncertain times to be sure, but with the economy in recovery mode today, many think the stock price is poised for a rebound.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Oil traders got what they wanted Wednesday: another big move by the Federal Reserve to stimulate the slow - growing U.S. economy.

That's because many of the so - called nonbank banks — some of the big credit - card companies and brokerage houses, for instance — have based their own business plans on growth within the entrepreneurial marketplace, in large part because that segment of the economy has been ignored by much of the banking community for years.

The «new» economy, then, is a digital one, as characterized by the big five in 2016: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

Western Australia's status as a powerhouse in the supply of LNG — the preferred low - pollution fuel in fast - growing Asian economies — is assured, according to a study of the global LNG business by JP Morgan, one of the biggest banks in the US.

GORDON: The big debate is about how important these new inventions will be, how rapidly they will be diffusing throughout the economy, and that's where we get into some of the controversy that's been caused by my book.

But more important, the United States has by far the largest trade deficit in the world, which means that the other big economies like Germany, Japan, and China are dependent on U.S. demand for their economies to grow.

Countries experiencing the biggest reductions in expected growth include Brazil and India, whose economies have cooled this year; newly industrialized Asian economies, like Korea and Singapore, hit by a broader global slowdown; and Britain, struck by austerity budgeting.

While an improved economy and rising stock market have helped private institutions repair much of the Great Recession's damage to their endowments, the biggest investment gains and largest gifts are flowing to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis by Moody's.

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.

As America industrialized in the late 19th century, the economy became dominated by big corporations.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

The argument from Gavin and other who supported increasing the transaction capacity by this method are essentially there are economies of scale in mining and that these economies have far bigger centralisation pressures than increased resource cost for a larger number of transactions (up to the new limit proposed).

The propaganda about a hot economy, «overheated» housing market and tight labor market is just one of several Big Lies being promoted by politicians and business leaders.

Just consider Amazon Prime's two headline features — free shipping and Prime Video — and then consider three of the primary industries in the consumer economy: consumer packaged goods companies leverage their size to secure shelf space in big box retailers; both are reached by people driving their cars.

The emergence of these peer - to - peer (P2P) lending platforms, offering loans ranging from as little as a few hundred dollars to several thousands, has so far been welcomed by Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy where tens of millions of people have little or no access to bank credit.

The easier way to compare this tax bill to the tax cuts under past presidents is to look at how big the cut is as a size of the economy, which is measured by gross domestic product.

One of the biggest ways that businesses affect local economies is by creating jobs.

Consumer spending, by far the biggest piece of the economy, accelerated in the first quarter, and the moribund housing sector also showed signs of improvement.

The app economy is expected to double up by 2020 even though the market is already very big.

High prices are often a signaling mechanism to tell the market that your product is worth more than a competitor's, and trying to compete with bigger companies by cutting prices is often a mistake, as it undercuts your profitability while still failing to match the bigger brands» economies of scale.

Residents talk about the collapse of the naira, Nigeria's currency, caused by the slump in oil revenues, which are crucial for Africa's biggest economy.

And now the big push by Washington to boost an economy that's been growing for nearly nine years is adding to the worries, especially with new Chairman Jay Powell taking over at the Federal Reserve.

This is especially true for big bank CEO's where reckless risk - taking — encouraged by stock - based compensation schemes — lead to financial busts that exact a heavy price from the economy, workers and all taxpayers, repeatedly.

Investors were also keeping a close watch on U.S. - China trade talks, though analysts said they had little confidence that the U.S. delegation in Beijing, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, will achieve any breakthrough on the tariff standoff between the world's two biggest economies.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

Such a protest by employees of a chaebol, the family - controlled big businesses that dominate the South Korean economy, is rare.

Canada's economy is being held back by a lack of demand for exports, the result of a recession in Europe and slower - than - expected growth in China and other big emerging markets.

The tag issue can be solved by the Big O. To get ye olde economy revvin» agin he can do like the «cash for clunkers» deal and renew everybody's plates.

I even find myself a little mystified by why it was such a big deal back in the day, telling myself, «Well, of course they were going to reconcile at some point, and in certain strategic and economy terms they already had, so why the big fuss?

«Now being owned by a larger company will help us facilitate growth and development,» he says, while conceding that consumers currently are cautious in their big - ticket purchases because of the slow energy economy.

Big crops across the globe have contributed to a wheat glut unable to be absorbed by sluggish global economies.