Sentences with phrase «country eurozone economy»

Despite the backlash, the SNB will face from those who are nursing potential losses that could run into billions, many analysts thought the decision was inevitable in light of next week's expected announcement by the ECB to break new ground in its efforts to inject life into the ailing 19 - country eurozone economy.

Not exact matches

«I've heard stories of companies hedging their bets with some of the eurozone economies,» Langrish says, explaining that some have set up accounts to pay their employees in euros should their home country exit the eurozone and reintroduce its old currency.

Programs of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve in the United States and by the Bank of England in Britain have helped the economies of those two countries recover from the global financial crisis more successfully than the eurozone has been able to.

Together, those drags on the economy of the 19 - country eurozone are a reason the bloc's unemployment rate is more than double that of the United States, and why eurozone growth has lagged the American rebound in recent years.

In turn, this has allowed the Portuguese economy to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the eurozone's robust recovery, with the IMF forecasting 2017 could be the country's best year of growth in more than 20 years.

In terms of the actual economy in the Eurozone, in aggregate, I think that the Eurozone is roughly a 1.5 % growth economy, but again that's in aggregate so it masks the big divisions between the core countries like Germany and the weaker countries like Greece and Portugal, and Italy as well.

I think countries within the eurozone also should lift some of their controls to allow their economies to be freer, which would encourage growth, because Europe doesn't have a high - growth potential at the moment.

Underlining the health of the German economy compared with much of the rest of the eurozone, an independent bi-annual report produced by a range of economic institutions for the German Economics Ministry raised its forecast for the country's growth in 2016 from 1.6 % to 1.9 %, citing the strength of the labor market and private consumption.

And the crisis of confidence in the ability of Eurozone countries to pay their debts has spread from the periphery to major economies like Italy and Spain.

The eurozone crisis intensified just as the British economy began to enjoy a faster rate of growth than in particular southern European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

«Of course countries have got to make difficult decisions about their own public finances... but it's the open speculation from some members in the eurozone about the future of some countries in the eurozone which I think is doing real damage across the whole European economy.»

He is advising European leaders to: reassess the current plan in Greece - which will reportedly see its debt at 120 per cent of its GDP by 2020 -; recapitalise banks in struggling eurozone economies; and allow the European Central Bank to buy bonds from distressed countries.

Paralysis in the Eurozone is causing alarm in the markets and having a chilling effect on economies in many countries — including our own.

A 2013 study by NERA Economic Consulting revealed that the U.S. has the highest liability costs as a percentage of GDP of the countries surveyed, with liability costs at 2.6 times the average level of the Eurozone economies.

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