Sentences with phrase «business and consumer confidence»

«So as long as inflation can be kept in check — and business and consumer confidence restored — look for a slow return to normalcy in the months ahead.»

Government and Fed Policies: The Federal Reserve's second quarter program of purchasing $ 600 billion in long - term Treasuries and the extension of the Bush tax - cut program have, without a doubt, provided a significant short - term boost to business and consumer confidence.

The consumer is doing most of the heavy lifting as business investment remains soft, but both business and consumer confidence is rising.

After the vote to leave the EU, against the backdrop of weakening business and consumer confidence, and volatile financial markets, Osborne ruled out an emergency budget.

This could have negative implications for activity via business and consumer confidence and might result in greater volatility in financial and other asset markets».

And the fact is, when this Government took office, focusing exclusively on further and faster tax rises and spending cuts, business and consumer confidence collapsed, firms postponed investments and stopped taking on workers.

Business and consumer confidence are collapsing.

In May last year, we were at significant risk of a downgrading in our international credit rating, with a catastrophic impact on public services, business and consumer confidence, a long period of stagflation, and a contraction in the economy.

The deteriorating external situation has also had an adverse impact on business and consumer confidence.

Notwithstanding the broad pattern of slowing GDP growth in 2004, business and consumer confidence remained very strong during the year.

The Kiwi Dollar moved from $ 0.70868 to $ 0.70764 upon release of the figures, with both business and consumer confidence now having softened.

These factors appear to have offset any dampening influence from the declines in business and consumer confidence that occurred in the March quarter.

Because of the important roles business and consumer confidence play in fostering economic growth, central bank officials often find themselves taking too - rosy a view of the economic figures.

If the market fluctuations continue, they could dampen business and consumer confidence and ultimately slow U.S. economic growth.

There are some early signs that business and consumer confidence in the United States have begun to be affected by falling equity prices, but it should be kept in mind that swings in confidence can be quite ephemeral.

Skeptics feel that these figures are mostly repercussions of a combination of the ECB's quantitative easing program and cheap oil, but positive indicators like rebounding business and consumer confidence show clear signs of economic improvement.

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Consumer confidence, although still volatile, has returned to pre-recession levels and business confidence has rebounded to near - record highs.

Wheeler's statement also mentioned a «sharp decline» in exports, a «weakening» of consumer and business confidence, and that home prices in Auckland were «becoming more unstable.»

Consumers aren't going to have much confidence in a business that is trying to convey their expertise and professionalism using stock photos.

No entrepreneurs interviewed credited Trump's actions or policies with any material improvements to their businesses, although several praised his salubrious effect on consumer confidence and the stock market (and consequent willingness by large clients to spend).

At the end of the day, though, the biggest threat to Canada might likely come not from financial markets, but from what a debt ceiling breach would do to U.S. consumer and business confidence and thus the pace of growth south of the border.

The GBTA attributes the uptick in business - travel spending to improvements in the U.S. economy, job market and consumer confidence.

The move is a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy — a signal that consumers and businesses don't need quite as much help via monetary policy now that the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.6 percent, close to what economists call full employment.

What's interesting here is that according to other metrics, the economy and job market have improved, and so too have other measures of confidence, including surveys of consumers, small businesses and homebuilders.

Consumer and business confidence ratings still ebb and flow on a monthly basis.

Further, consumer sentiment tends to track small - business confidence, and small - business owners aren't all that positive right now.

However, the current recession, as noted, is unusually severe, and consumer confidence and trust in business are at record - breaking lows.

All of this is part of the current US government's initiative to drive domestic business growth and we are not sure how it will affect Canada's economy, business confidence and consumer spending.

Policy makers should raise the statutory borrowing limit «well ahead of the deadline» in order to «mitigate risks of financial market disruptions and a loss in consumer and business confidence,» they warned.

Although volatility can go both ways, «market volatility» is usually code for «market declines,» which can erode consumer and business confidence and cause a weakening in economic fundamentals.

The chargeback process is designed to increase consumer confidence — it's very easy for credit card users to dispute charges, while businesses and banks have to do all of the legwork to figure out whether or not a transaction is legitimate.

Consumer confidence and high yield bond spreads corroborate the unemployment rate in suggesting that we are in the mature stages of the current business cycle.

Economists believe a rising stock market benefits the economy, helping support consumer and business confidence.

As well, both consumer and business confidence have returned to quite high levels after a couple of setbacks last year.

Those negative forces include a drop in demand for eurozone exports from emerging countries like China, unstable financial markets, and a decline in confidence among consumers and business managers.

The equity market has been volatile in recent months, business conditions have deteriorated slightly, and consumer confidence fell to a 10 - month low in March 2014.

In the process, the Fed's actions and pronouncements can influence the expectations and confidence of consumers and businesses and, thereby, what they do in the various economic and financial market places.

This has been far from a typical recovery: Healing the post-crisis economic wounds has meant U.S. businesses and consumers took longer to regain confidence and animal spirits.

Analysts and investors worry that a government shutdown this week would hit not just consumer and business confidence, but also make it more likely that the United States will default on its debt when it reaches its borrowing limit in about two weeks.

On the upside, however, it is possible that as momentum builds consumer and business confidence will see a synchronized upturn — not just in Canada, but in the United States — adding more momentum to growth.

As a result, even though a tightening labor market and recently supportive levels of business, consumer, and investor confidence may bode well for the near - term outlook, the hard data currently seems considerably less encouraging than the soft data.

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But recovering from a shock like the global financial crisis can be a long drawn - out process — just as it was in the 1930s — as consumers and businesses repair their balance sheets and rebuild their confidence in the future.

Deregulation and / or the awakening of «animal spirits» in the form of a sustained upsurge in consumer and business confidence could give an additional boost.

The strength of our brand, an unparalleled connection with our consumers and the continuation of investments in our fastest growing businesses — footwear, international and direct - to - consumer — give us great confidence in our ability to navigate the current retail environment, execute against our long - term growth strategy and create value to our shareholders.

It is noteworthy that, although measures of consumer and business confidence suggest that people are essentially quite optimistic about the future, a degree of caution still characterises consumer spending decisions.

Surveys of consumer and business confidence are generally above long - run averages and unemployment is near its lowest level in almost 30 years.

Positive conditions in the euro area are also reflected in both consumer and business confidence, which are now at or around record highs.

With business investment and profits growing strongly and business confidence high, the US recovery has now broadened well beyond its initial reliance on consumer spending.

There are a number of factors: the stimulus of lower energy costs, the Modi reforms to alleviate supply side constraints, a reversal of FDI outflows, and robust domestic demand as a result of improving consumer and business confidence.