Sentences with phrase «by economic slowdown»

The president also touted his initiative to help rebuild communities hard - hit by the economic slowdown by incubating new businesses and working with public and private partners to rebuild vacant homes.

Both sides of the traditional relocation operation — corporate transfers and broker - to - broker referrals — have been hit hard by the economic slowdown.

Troy, some significant corrections — e.g. in 2011 and 2015 — were not caused by recessions nor by economic slowdown, and the real rates were then lower than now.

With the global organic food industry affected by the economic slowdown, market leaders are adopting «Organic Plus Strategies» whereby they go beyond organic and undertake sustainability initiatives.

Consumer discretionary companies produce goods and services that are not considered necessities, and thus tend to be impacted by economic slowdown.

Not exact matches

«In our experience, geopolitical shocks tend to provide a buying opportunity, unless there is: an underlying economic slowdown... clear cut overvaluation; or a monetary tightening,» Andrew Garthwaite, an equity strategist at Credit Suisse, wrote in a note reported by CNBC.

Unilever reported lower - than - expected fourth - quarter sales on Thursday, hurt by demonetization in India and an economic slowdown in Brazil.

The report found that where there is greater workforce participation by women, including in their own businesses, there is also greater economic resilience, and fewer economic slowdowns.

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.

The dollar has been buoyed in recent weeks by the strong U.S. economic outlook and rising yields amid signs of a slowdown in some other developed economies, especially in Europe.

Recent work at the Bank of Canada and elsewhere shows that about half of the slowdown in trade growth among advanced economies in the post-crisis period can be explained by weak economic activity, especially sluggish business investment.

Beijing is more likely to believe that the economic slowdown was caused by been weakness in domestic real estate and infrastructure construction, and not because exports are weak, and the latest trade dataconfirms the relatively strong export performance.

Typically during an economic slowdown there is a surge of stimulus spending, financed by issuing debt.

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President Trump was successful in pushing through the business tax cuts, but Cohn didn't want to be tainted by protectionist policies that could cause a bear market on Wall Street and an economic slowdown.

By the second quarter of 1952, the price increases had petered out as it became clear that the Korean War would not spread into a worldwide conflict and with the sharp slowdown in economic growth recorded in that year.

The 2009 election campaign was dominated by economic and financial issues as the province attempts to deal with the global economic slowdown, rising unemployment, and possible government deficits.

It's a legitimate concern, considering the spikes in volatility this year caused by fears of global economic slowdown, dissolution of the European Union and policy reversal by the Federal Reserve.

Notably, the economic slowdown in the US has, by and large, followed the sub-prime crisis rather than been a cause.

A slowdown in China's economic growth and, by extension, much tamer global commodity demand, presents Canada with both a challenge and an opportunity.

«People are extrapolating low oil prices to mean economic slowdown, but we disagree,» he said by telephone from London.

In the minutes of their December meeting, Fed officials signaled stronger economic growth and improving labor markets would likely offset any inflation slowdown caused by oil's slump.

Georgia residents were particularly hard hit by the nation's most recent economic slowdown, and are still recovering.

China's economic slowdown is having major ripple effects, and some major steel - producing countries in Asia have responded by propping up their own domestic steelmaking industries.

Fears around China's slowdown and the consequences of the U.K.'s Brexit vote started to dissipate by late summer as stronger economic data began to emerge worldwide.

When Alistair Darling delivered his first Budget in March 2008 it was in the midst of a global economic slowdown precipitated by a crisis in the US mortgage sector.

Following months of hearings and negotiations, after funding for a number of Council priorities was added to the mayor's final proposal, and amid concerns of a widely expected economic slowdown and potentially insufficient savings, the Council approved a plan that increases city spending by about $ 3.6 billion over last year's adopted budget.

Mayor Bill de Blasio released his $ 82.2 billion Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2017 on Tuesday, increasing spending by about $ 100 million from his proposed preliminary budget while expressing concern about a possible economic slowdown and the effects of consistent underinvestment by the state and federal governments.

An economic slowdown is widely expected by city officials, economists, and budget watchdogs, and the Council's budget response notes the consequences it could have on consumer spending, tax revenue, real estate prices, and cost of living.

But a raft of mine expansions during the boom years and weak demand caused by the global economic slowdown pushed prices to a 3 - year low near $ 80 a metric ton in October 2012, and they have stayed below $ 100 since.

Human carbon emissions are certainly disturbing the climate system upon which we depend, and in spite of the economic slowdown, and despite all the efforts by governments, businesses and people to reduce them, our emissions are reaching new highs.

By promoting a shift towards low carbon economic activities, governments can not only help avoid dangerous climate change impacts but can also make the region more competitive, contributing to a faster recovery from the current economic slowdown.

An event could be large and continous interest rate hikes of the sort in the early 1990s, massive layoffs by a nearby employer, an oil crisis, national economic slowdown, etc..

Wracked by signs of economic slowdown, which may be exacerbated by further uncertainty in the wake of the debt ceiling agreement, investors sold stocks from late July through part of August.

Over the past decade, MPs have seen their incomes soar and their lush pensions grow, undisturbed by market crashes or economic slowdowns.

Market participants are spooked by a multitude of fears including Greece, China, potential interest rate increase, global economic slowdown, commodity...

«In part, the global economic slowdown has helped to instigate this change, with the high ticket price of long - haul first - class seating proving to be in stark contrast to cost - cutting measures implemented by governments around the world»

«In part, the global economic slowdown has helped to instigate this change, with the high ticket price of long - haul first - class seating proving to be in stark contrast to cost - cutting measures implemented by governments around the world,» said Heath Lockett, senior analyst, aerospace electronics at IHS.

China's economic slowdown hasn't damped the enthusiasm of mainland buyers for contemporary art, if the results from Art Basel Hong Kong are anything to go by.

Although the economic slowdown has had the greatest impact on auction houses, the closing arguments on the stability of the art market in Asia will certainly be presented by Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 and its 239 participating galleries.

She also argued that the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, was likely to cut US interest rates by half a percentage point in coming months to prevent the US economic slowdown turning into a full - blown recession.

In the short - term, Japan's economic slowdown had resulted in a sharp downturn in capital spending by utilities, which has delayed several new power plant projects.

That's one of the predictions offered by legal consultancy Hildebrandt and Citi Private Bank in what they describe as their first downbeat Client Advisory since the economic slowdown of 1998.

India's insurance business was full of promise when it was thrown open to competition in 2000, but instead has been battered by losses, regulatory change, uncertainty and a sharp slowdown in economic growth.

This year also could deal some economic and political wild cards to investors, such as rising interest rates, leasing to a short - term surge of borrowers, followed by a slowdown of origination, according Tad Philipp, Moody's managing director for CMBS.

Today's home sales slide is something of an anomaly, since past housing downturns have been fueled by big hikes in mortgage rates and economic slowdowns.

This stability is evidenced by the long - term tenancy and strong renewal rate for the vast majority of the tenants despite the economic slowdown over the past several years.»

«While the increase in rates by the Fed has been well anticipated given the progress seen in unemployment, low inflation and wage growth are still a concern, and we anticipate they will move forward cautiously in the second half of the year given the asymmetric nature of policy available to counteract an economic slowdown versus a nascent acceleration in inflation.»

The main reason for this poor performance by equity markets is the ongoing slowdown of China's economic growth rate.

REIT stocks have been pummeled by the same issues shaking markets around the world, including China's economic slowdown and a rout in commodity prices.