Sentences with phrase «by in the slow economy»

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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.

China «s consumer price inflation slowed to its weakest pace in almost a year in August, pulled down by abating food costs, although an encouraging moderation in producer price deflation added to growing evidence of a steadying economy.

China Oceanwide Holdings Group has agreed to buy U.S. insurer Genworth Financial for $ 2.7 billion in cash, the latest in a series of moves by Chinese firms to buy overseas assets as their domestic economy slows and the yuan weakens.

In a recent note to clients, RBC Capital Markets chief US economist Tom Porcelli examined the trends by using two components of GDP as proxies: net exports of goods and services to reflect the effects of a slowing global economy, and real personal consumption expenditures to reflect the US consumer.

In the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S. growth; higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted householdIn the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S. growth; higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted householdin less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted households.

The world's second largest economy expanded by 6.9 percent in the July - September quarter, slowing from a 7 percent increase in the previous quarter.

Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

Hiring of permanent staff via British recruitment firms increased at the slowest pace in six months in March, with employers perturbed by Britain's approaching European Union referendum and the global economy, a survey showed on Friday.

With the global economy slowing, the numbers might fall further and a five - year commitment may not be so appealing, although this may be offset in the future by Malaysia pulling out as F1 fans in the region would have only one nearby option.

After years of downward forecast revisions that strained the central bank's credibility, the Fed finally settled in 2016 on expectations that maybe the economy's growth rate would not exceed 2 %, having been permanently affected by the Great Recession, slowed by changing demographics, or a combination of the two.

This renewed crisis in the Eurozone comes at a time when the European economies appear to be slowing down after a strong first quarter, and despite this, policy interest rate increases by the ECB are expected in the coming months.

But after 1975 — when the Swedish state began to expand in earnest — Sweden's economy noticeably slowed, falling from the 4th richest in the world to the 13th by the mid 1990s.

Canada's economy still has momentum, but it slowed in the third quarter, judging by the latest hiring data.

Gross called the rate of return, discovered by Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel, a «historical freak, a mutation likely never to be seen again» in a «New Normal economy» in which GDP growth is «slowing significantly.»

«The congestion caused by the existing tunnel and adjacent interchanges severely slows goods movement, which in turn, slows our economy,» added Manning.

A slowing Chinese economy might be good or bad for the world, depending on how it affects the relationship between domestic savings and domestic investment, and this itself depends on whether Beijing drives the rebalancing process in an orderly way or is forced into a disorderly rebalancing by excess debt.

It's true that demographic forces are leading to slower growth in the labour force, which reduces the neutral interest rate in the economy and increases the chances that monetary policy will be constrained by the lower bound on interest rates.

The speed with which China's GDP growth slows in 2013 will tell us a lot about how determined Beijing is to rebalance the economy in such a way that growth is driven more by higher household income and consumption and less by investment funded by rising government and government - related debt.

Capital has been fleeing China, for example, since 2012, at first mainly in reaction to the anti-corruption campaign, but later these outflows were exacerbated by worries about the slowing economy.

«Add to all this the selling by central banks (reserve managers) in emerging economies and a slow shift to lower duration benchmarks, and the result resembles for now a «technically damaged,» asset class,» El - Erian writes.

Year - on - year, this equated to a 6.8 percent increase, meaning that the Chinese economy grew by 6.9 percent in 2015, the slowest pace in 25 years (< --- hence all the headlines).

Growth in the all - important US services sector slowed for a third straight month in April, according to a closely watched survey, as optimism over the state of the American economy is tempered by concerns over labour shortage and rising input costs.

It is true that China's economy is slowing down, but lower growth rate in the country should not be a reason for global concern since the pace of growth is «as much by design as by accident,» noted the article, written by British businessman Martin Gilbert, who is the founder and CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management.

The move is aimed at boosting Southeast Asia's largest economy by GDP which has been growing at its slowest pace in six years because of falling commodity prices and cooling growth in major trading partner China.

Advance estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis report on Friday showed that the U.S. economy slowed more than expected in the fourth quarter, rendering the annual GDP growth...

The U.K. economy expanded by only 0.1 % in the first quarter causing year - over-year growth to slow to 1.2 %, its weakest level in 5 years.

Data from the Institute for Supply Management, along with other statistics, suggest the US economy continues to be driven by the services sector, whereas growth in manufacturing (outside the buoyant auto sector) showed signs of slowing in August, possibly due to dollar strength and weakening economic prospects outside the United States.

The Chinese economy is slowing (worryingly, opinion differs as to how much), maintaining downward pressure on commodity prices, while Chinese stock prices continued to tumble in August in spite of huge intervention by the authorities.

In late October, South Korea announced that its economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6 % in the third quarter, the fastest pace in five years, aided by a stimulus - driven rebound in domestic demand that outweighed the negative effect of slowing Chinese and global demanIn late October, South Korea announced that its economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6 % in the third quarter, the fastest pace in five years, aided by a stimulus - driven rebound in domestic demand that outweighed the negative effect of slowing Chinese and global demanin the third quarter, the fastest pace in five years, aided by a stimulus - driven rebound in domestic demand that outweighed the negative effect of slowing Chinese and global demanin five years, aided by a stimulus - driven rebound in domestic demand that outweighed the negative effect of slowing Chinese and global demanin domestic demand that outweighed the negative effect of slowing Chinese and global demand.

«Chinese buyers» global presence is fuelled in part by a strong Yuan and slowing domestic economy, both of which are encouraging Chinese investors to look further afield in an attempt to diversify their investments.»

As we saw in the months following The Great Recession, when economic growth slowed abruptly, the Fed moved to jumpstart the economy by lowering its target for the federal funds rate.

Rising incomes within the middle class will play a major role in boosting China's consumer economy from $ 4.2 trillion last year to $ 6.5 trillion by 2020, he noted, all despite the country's oft - discussed slowing GDP.

Rather than follow a disastrous road taken by some of her predecessors, and slash funding to government services while the price of oil is low, the NDP government is taking an opportunity to invest in much needed public infrastructure when the economy is slow and the price is right.

These low rates have encouraged investors in recent months to pile on risk, taking U.S. equities markets to record highs earlier this year despite an economy that's still being slowed by relatively high unemployment, huge debt levels, and tighter government spending.

The US economy has continued to recover from the recession in 2001, though the pace of growth slowed a little in the first half of the year, with GDP increasing by 2.3 per cent over the year to the June quarter (Graph 2, Table 1).

«(I) f Sonoma County does not create 8,143 new (housing) units by 2020... there will likely be drag in the overall economy leading to slower employment growth,» says a new county plan released Thursday for recovery from the fires.

As growth has slowed, China must transform its export - led economy to one fueled by domestic consumption, become a leader in technological innovation, and power these changes with renewable energy.

As noted above, the contractionary impulse arising from the Asian crisis has occurred in two stages — an initial, rapid contraction in the economies first affected by the regional financial instability, and a more delayed slowing of other economies in the region.

The overall outlook expected by the IMF is for firmer growth in the world economy, but for the distribution of growth to change across countries, with the United States economy slowing back towards trend but greater strength in some of the other major economies.

China's stock rally has come as a sharp contrast to the nation's slowing economy and is all the more precarious because it has been driven by unprecedented levels of margin financing, or investors» taking on debt to trade in shares.

The Philippine economy grew by 5.7 per cent in the first quarter, much slower than market expectations, as it continued to feel the lingering...

The eighth sure thing was that, with non-U.S. developed market and emerging market economies generally growing at a slower pace than the U.S. economy (and with many emerging markets hurt by weak commodity prices, slower growth in China's economy, the Fed tightening monetary policy and a rising dollar), international developed market stocks would underperform U.S. stocks in 2017.

As housing prices began to drop and the economy slowed, the Federal Reserve began cutting its discount rate from 5.25 % in June 2007 all the way to 0 % by the end of 2008.

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.

«Up until recently, there was pretty overwhelming support by central bankers to keep U.S. interest rates low by buying up bonds in a second round of quantitative easing with the goal of boosting our slow - growing economy.

«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.

As the major areas of contention become clear, some remain from recent years, while others are new, and questions loom over the city budget cycle due to uncertainty in Washington, D.C., state funding shifts being proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and a slowing city economy.

That legislation, considered watered down by de Blasio and other more liberal members of the City Council, would have only applied to businesses with 15 or more employees, and included exemptions for certain sectors, like manufacturing, and implementation delays in the event of a slowing economy.

While Murphy embraced the bill as a job - creator for the Upstate, which has been saddled by a slowing economy for years, Tedisco wavered — ultimately announcing that he would have opposed the bill and using the bonuses granted to AIG executives as evidence that his Democratic opponent was supporting business as usual in Washington.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.