Sentences with phrase «current slowdown»

«Current slowdowns in shipments of building materials and remodeling contractor employment trends, as well as restrictive consumer lending environments, are lowering remodeler sentiment and could keep spending gains in the mid-single digit range moving forward.»

«Summary of ocean current slowdowns, rapid sea level rise of east coast of North America, wavy jet streams and extreme weather events, Arctic and Antarctica connections and declining carbon sink in Amazon rainforests.

Although the reasons for the current slowdown differ from those in 2008, the public reaction by the Harper Government isn't.

However, the current slowdown is largely concentrated in the oil - producing provinces.

That may prove to be a serious mistake if the current slowdown turns out to be more than a temporary blip.

We would all like to know how large the current slowdown in exports will prove to be.

That said, we also observed a greater slowdown a few years ago that was not associated with a fresh recession, so the current slowdown may prove to be a false signal.

Despite committing $ 100 billion in capital expenses over the next five years for the MTA, the money was spread around to the various transit agencies and is not considered enough to alleviate the current slowdowns and overcrowding on the subway system.

The price of e-books was also selected by many respondents as a reason for the current slowdown in e-book business.

I anticipate that the current slowdown will be worse than those of the last two decades.

That is one of the reasons why senior Federal Reserve officials told the Washington Post July 8 that they are considering (but are still a long way from deciding on) new interventions that could reverse the current slowdown in economic recovery.

This comment insults everybody's intelligence: «The current slowdown is «strange» because it can not be explained by macroeconomic factors such as interest rates or unemployment that traditionally reduce demand for houses,» Toll said.

If the current slowdown continues or temperatures drop I'd expect alarmists to go, as a Plan A, for the Y2K excuse, «all our vastly - expensive work averted disaster», (despite the fact that countries or organisations which did nothing suffered few or no ill - effects which weren't easily fixed).

As you can see in our paper we looked at this by separating all available future projections into two groups - those that captured the current slowdown and those that did not.

Our research shows that limiting the projections to models that capture the current slowdown in no way alters long - term projections.

[55] According to the World Climate Report, «Dr. MIchaels» general message was that the recent behavior of global temperatures is starting to push the (lower) bounds of climate models» expectations of such behavior and that if the current slowdown in the rate of global warming continues for much longer, we must start to question the reliability of climate projections of the future state of our climate.»

Law firms are increasingly concerned that the current slowdown in M&A activity will damage their profitability, reveals new research by Thomson Reuters Legal business, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.

Although Kimco's management has cited it is well positioned to withstand the current slowdown in consumer spending, the company did scale back its development pipeline to $ 2 billion from $ 2.1 billion.