Sentences with phrase «by weak economies»

None of those recommendations have been progressed under the coalition government, since they were ruled out by both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at the 2010 election, while Labour's always unrealistic projection of 400 - 600 million passenger movements in the UK by 2030 was further undermined by a weak economy.

and responds that «it was done in by the weak economy, the Wall Street meltdown, determined industry opposition and its own complexity.»

Not exact matches

The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.

According to a recent survey of 49 Canadian CEOs by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, 31 % believe the global economy will become weaker in 2016.

With weak oil prices and international sanctions crushing Russia's economy, «Putin has little else to offer to the public besides the classic narratives of Russia as a besieged fortress surrounded by enemies,» Borschevskaya said.

The economy is really being supported — this isn't just in the United States, it's in Japan, the ECB and Britain — the economy is being supported by quantitative easing that is allowing for a massive budget deficit and money printing exercises to go on... As you address the fiscal problems, you are going to have weak economic growth.

The affluent city - state's economy has been hobbled by dwindling exports amid stubbornly weak global demand, while domestic consumption has also remained anemic with entire floors at some central shopping malls empty.

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.

The stimulus arguments made by proponents of a higher minimum wage tend to both fairly weak (not a lot of empirical support) and the benefits fairly small relative to the size of the economy.

But the problem is caused by a weak global economy wherein inefficient demand is causing slow economic growth.

Incoming Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, chosen by U.S. President Donald Trump to keep the recovery humming, appears set to let an expected trillion - dollar tax cut run its course through the economy as weak wage growth and inflation buttress his view that the economy remains underpowered.

«Cuba's weak economy has been battered by the collapse in Venezuela, making it more vulnerable and open to foreign capital.

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 households.

The weakest aspect of Canada's economy this year was the feeble performance of private investment, projected by the Conference Board of Canada to contract by nearly 8 per cent compared to 2014 levels.

He warned that the global economy, despite or because of years of QE, ZIRP, and NIRP, is dogged by a «weak global outlook» and «sluggishness of global demand»:

A significant share of the corporate debt in stressed economies is now owed by companies with weak debt servicing capacity and this could negatively affect bank balance sheets and cut into profits, it added.

The ECRI is looking at year - over-year growth rates (not impacted by seasonal - adjustment formulas) and seeing a much weaker picture of the U.S. economy.

Wall Street stock futures are lower this morning over renewed fears for the global economy after some weak Japanese economic data and some routine gloom from the Bank of England, which is worried, among other things, by the potential impact of the U.K.'s vote on whether to leave the E.U..

The economy has been hobbled by a strong dollar and weak global demand, which have undermined exports.

Italian 10 - year bond yields fell 2.5 basis points (bps) to 1.754 percent while other euro zone yields were pushed higher by a sell - off in U.S. Treasuries and data suggesting the euro zone economy was not as weak as expected.

Still, in an economy where low and middle class consumers are bogged down by weak job growth and stagnating wages, better to have the rich spending than nobody at all.

Some analysts said it was because the policy shift by the People's Bank of China showed the Chinese economy was weaker than had been assumed.

After a weak first half, the US economy in particular is strengthening: solid consumption is being underpinned by strong employment growth and robust consumer confidence.

GDP growth likely stalled in the fourth quarter of 2015, pulled down by temporary softness in the U.S. economy, weaker business investment and several other temporary factors.

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.

Thus the wage gains are from a one time energy glut brought about by increased supply from fracking, lower demand from a weak global economy, and some producers increasing production to make up for lower prices (not entirely self defeating as consumer nations expand inventories while prices are low).

The economy is much weaker than the narrative promoted aggressively by Wall Street, DC and the financial media.

This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.

It would seem the Atlanta Fed agrees with the assessment that the economy is far weaker than is being promoted by politicians and Wall Street.

If we leave interest rates it can be interpreted as a fear our economy will be weak and / or impacted by China.

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

The negative impact of lower oil prices will gradually be mitigated by a stronger U.S. economy, a weaker Canadian dollar, and the Bank's monetary policy response.

Markets were also affected by the IMF's bleak forecast for the global economy that identified other weak spots, including Japan, China and major emerging market economies (EMEs).

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.

The electronics chain, like a lot of retailers, has been slammed by a still - weak economy and the ongoing migration of consumers from brick - and - mortar stores to shopping online.

Otherwise devaluation or exchange rate depreciation is supposed to help a weak economy dampen unemployment by lowering real wages or by stimulating real growth through greater real exports.

Commodity prices were on fire on Thursday morning, still soaring after comments by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that the weak dollar was good for the U.S. economy.

With weak consumer demand dampening investment, the economy is likely to shrink by close to 1 percentage point over the course of the year.

As we have long expected, the economy is tracing out a trajectory typical of the weak recoveries that follow balance - sheet induced recessions and credit crises caused by highly excessive debt.

The impact of the weak world economy and the drought over the first half of 2003 are evident in the latest national accounts, which show that real GDP rose by 0.1 per cent in the June quarter and 2.0 per cent over the year (Table 10).

Despite Trump's appeal to voters who feel they've been left behind by an economy that has given them limited job prospects, weak job markets have generally favored Democrats in past general elections.

Over time, the stock market has reached new records, powered by economic and earnings growth.2 We expect both to continue: The domestic economy is picking up a little speed, helped by improving growth in the rest of the world, and company earnings have benefited from better sales, the weaker dollar and still - low interest rates.

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.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Owning U.S. Treasury notes helps China's economy grow by keeping its currency weaker than the dollar.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

More importantly, issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism.

Issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism in which the social objectives of the peoples are destroyed for the sake of economic growth.

By 2017 the economy may be weak, austerity deepening and immigration could be rising (even as a newly associate EU member we will be as unable to control our borders as we are now).

Touching on the NPP's criticism of the economy, Mr Amissah - Arthur said the series of lectures by the party's running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, demonstrate the NPP's weak understanding of economic concepts.