Sentences with phrase «during global crises»

The US dollar is often seen as a safe investment, and it's often purchased more aggressively during global crises.

Not exact matches

«The global unemployment rate would remain broadly constant during the next five years, at half a percentage point higher than before the crisis,» the ILO said.

It was the first time the portfolio had declined since 2009, which was during the global financial crisis.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

During the 2008 - 09 slide, it was the other way around; then, as soon as the global financial crisis was contained and energy traders could see the level at which global demand would bottom out, the price trend reversed itself.

In fairness, McDonald had the misfortune of taking over during the punishing global recession that followed the financial crisis.

During difficult market conditions, such as the asset - backed commercial paper crisis in the summer of 2007 and the global financial crisis of late 2008, the BAX has consistently provided customers with price transparency, liquidity and central counterparty guaranteed transactions.

Along with managing Canada's performance during the global economic crisis, I am pleased our government brought forward positive measures to make Canada one of the world's best places to do business.

During the crisis, the global community came together to address weaknesses in the international monetary system: creating the Financial Stability Board and European Stability Mechanism, strengthening central bank swap lines, and carving out a more prominent role for the G - 20.

«Their caution is a learned behaviour from (quite rightly) protecting themselves during the onslaught of the global financial crisis, which rapidly destroyed human and physical capital,» he added.

During the years since the global financial crisis, we have been doing a lot of thinking and research to improve our understanding of the nexus between monetary policy and financial stability.

These tools were used effectively by many central banks during the global financial crisis of 2007 — 09.

Rather, measures of early improvement in market action that were effective across every post-war market cycle quickly proved insufficient during the global financial crisis.

Consistent with this improvement, many Asian monetary authorities allowed their currencies to depreciate during the global financial crisis.

It would be more worrisome to me if we were seeing the kind of stock market exuberance we saw during the dot - com boom in the late 1990s or leading up to the 2007 — 08 global financial crisis.

It also helped the economy in 2008 when global risk aversion was at its peak, and during both the Asian financial crisis in the mid to late 1990s and the bursting of the tech bubble in the United States a decade ago.

And the drying up of US dollar funding markets during the global financial crisis prompted greater awareness of liquidity risk in foreign currencies.

The fact that Guterres ran a major UN agency during a global refugee crisis would help him to focus on ways to better integrate the various UN operations and to partner with other institutions.

Asia's financial systems functioned relatively well during the global financial crisis in 2008 — 09.

Speaking by phone from Montreal on Wednesday, economist Paul - Andre Pinsonnault predicted Governor Stephen Poloz will cut the policy rate by a quarter point to 0.25 percent next month, matching a record low set in 2009 during the global financial crisis.

The signal from our Recession Warning Composite at that time was triggered by a shortfall in employment growth (alternate condition 4 below) that was subsequently revised away, so the last signal on this composite in the revised data appears during the global financial crisis.

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

Tobias Carlisle of Eyquem Investment Management LLC has run the blog since December of 2008 during the global economic crisis, with a focus on research - based strategies that have generated long - term, market - beating returns for investors.

Likewise, in July 2007, during the peaking process that preceded the 55 % market plunge of the global financial crisis, I wrote:

Under Canada's inflation - targeting regime, inflation expectations have been very well anchored, even during the global financial crisis and subsequent recession.

Across the global economy, investment spending fell sharply during the financial crisis, and the recovery has been unexpectedly weak.

(This is the lesson we learned during the recession of 1981 - 82, which for Canada was even more severe than the global financial crisis of 2008 - 09).

During the global financial crisis of 2007 - 08, the famed stock picker's bets turned bad, and once - loyal clients took their billions and left.

The price of soya beans is heading towards the record high set during the 2007 - 08 food crisis, which is set to reignite fears of runaway global food inflation.

A Paris - based intergovernmental organization, the IEA was established during the 1973 oil shocks and was charged with coordinating international responses to global oil crises, including the release of strategic reserves.

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

The average decline in the S&P 500 Index during a recession is 26 %, and during the global financial crisis, the index declined nearly 50 %.

During the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. investors gave up on global growth.

First, product complexity increased significantly from 2002 to 2010, with no discernible drop during the global financial crisis.

In particular, it looks at how some of the most prominent changes to central banks» modus operandi have come as they sought to meet their monetary policy mandates in the exceptional circumstances seen during and after the global financial crisis of 2008.

«A «failure of diversification» during the global financial crisis has prompted wider use of factor analysis across portfolios and reduced reliance on simplistic asset allocation measures.

That's particularly good news when you consider the economic shadow cast on the solar energy industry during the global economic crisis.

As we saw during the global financial crisis, even the United States — considered the world's deepest, fairest, most liquid, best - regulated market — is prone to extreme price swings far exceeding any lasting changes in underlying business value.

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, clients were forced to review their banking relationships based on the support they received during the crisis, says Isaac Thomas, senior vice president and head of cash management for ADCB.

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

During the global debt crisis of the»70s, Cobb claims, the World Bank's lending prevented net capital flows from shifting from the South to the North.

The National Catholic Reporter: Bishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in Atlanta.

Order your limited edition chalice before the Oscars and enjoy a couple exclusive Stella Artois cocktail recipes during the show to celebrate the partnerships and mission to end the global water crisis.

During the height of the global deforestation crisis in the mid-1980s, a small group of young people in Manhattan came together with a singular goal: to save the world's tropical rainforests from destruction.

Elders investors will receive their first dividend in nearly a decade as the rural services and pastoral company cements its turnaround from some dark days during the global financial crisis.

Following a price crisis for world dairy farmers earlier in the decade, global prices for milk and other dairy products look set to grow strongly during 2017.

(* Reforms were initiated under an INC government, but under pressure from the rise of the BJP and global institutions such as the IMF, during an economic crisis in 1991)

During the current global financial crisis, and through the Occupy movement, public attention has increasingly turned to the top 1 per cent who now own approximately one fifth of all personal wealth in the UK.

Labour leaders will try to stifle dissent at the conference by arguing that the party will alienate voters if it indulges in «navel - gazing» during the global financial crisis.

Labour's five turbulent years of office from 1974 to 1979 came during the global oil crisis and also saw domestic unrest — from militant unions, inflation, IRA and coup talk — which stimulated growing attacks on the Westminster leadership for betrayal and incompetence in the face of harsh choices.