Sentences with phrase «during the recession as»

Reaching customers became easier during the recession as the cost of advertising time dropped, meaning companies could buy more ads.

  It increased as a share of GDP during the recession as the underlying economy itself shrank, but has declined since then and was 4.26 % of GDP in 2012 â $ «a drop of 23 % since 1991.

Typical new home size falls prior to and during a recession as home buyers tighten budgets, and then sizes rise as high - end homebuyers, who face fewer credit constraints, return to the housing market in relatively greater proportions.

McAleese says the company also provides convenient, low - cost products that have proven popular during the recession as people eat out less frequently and spend more time at home.

Surprisingly people continue to spend as much money on many leisure activities during a recession as they do in times of prosperity.

This leaves us mostly with paperbacks and hardcover books, both of which, according to a Guardian article, are suffering «dramatically» (I don't see a 6 % decline in paperback sales during a recession as dramatic, but that may just be me).

If you can network with long - term clients now, then you can have a steady income stream during the recession as you shouldn't lose every existing client.

They generally give a very good dividend (about 4 - 6 %) and are a good asset during the recession as its very unlikely for their stock to feel too hard.

Across industry sectors, IT staff will be in the highest demand as 52 per cent of companies will refill roles which were lost during recession as companies reinvest in previously shelved IT projects.

The city has reflected a similar economic setback during the recession as most of the nation.

Typical new home size falls prior to and during a recession as some homebuyers cut back, and then sizes rise as high - end homebuyers, who face fewer credit constraints, return to the housing market in relatively greater proportions.

Like the rest of the housing market, home improvements and remodeling plunged during the recession as consumers hunkered down.

Prognosticating during a recession as long and deep as we have seen the last couple of years is a tricky business, indeed.

Not exact matches

Carla Harris, chair of the National Women's Business Council, suggests that women of color may have been more likely to have been laid off during the beginning of the great recession, and so may have been more likely to need entrepreneurship as an alternative way to make a living.

It also does little to help the growing income gap or the overall economy, as people working several freelance jobs lack the purchasing power they may have had in more stable positions that disappeared during the recession, she said.

Casino operators agreed to raise wages during the last round of negotiations in 2013 as the city was coming out of the recession.

Ontario could be accused of hypocrisy, as its manufacturers decried so - called Buy American provisions in U.S. stimulus efforts during the recession.

The aversion to conspicuous consumption during a recession should come as no surprise.

As Business Insider has previously reported, these 18 to 35 - year - olds grew up during a recession, which has impacted their spending habits.

1) Reward the survivors with cold, hard cash: With many employers forced to cut back on benefits and freeze wages during the recession, as things slowly pick up, it is time to reward the survivors.

Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.

The number of small - business loans fell dramatically during the recession, as big banks cut off credit to customers they considered risky and many smaller and regional banks that once lent to local business owners shut their doors.

Still, much of the brisk business overall reflected the abundance of deals, showing that shoppers are as bargain - hungry now as they were during in the first years after the Great Recession, if not more.

Still, the temptation now to use historically low - interest money from mortgages, personal credit lines and 401 (k) plans to invest in the stock market is great, especially as the Dow is reaching historic heights at more than 26,000 — a milestone unfathomable in 2009, during the Great Recession.

In any case, McDonalds can be seen as a recession - proof company; its fans walk through the doors to celebrate good times and walk in to save money during bad times.

American parent AMR Corp. lost $ 1.47 billion last year — and $ 3.59 billion in the past two years — as traffic fell during the recession and competition limited American's ability to raise fares.

And while Mills was lauded for increasing aid to small businesses during and after the recession, she faced some pushback, as programs didn't create as many jobs as critics would have liked.

This year's show comes just as intimate apparel sales are beginning to come back following a slowdown during the recession, said Marshal Cohen, retail industry analyst with NPD Group.

The retailer thrived during the Great Recession, but its results have held up despite the improving economy as underemployment continues to hurt its core customer.

The trend has already taken a sizeable bite out of Canada's resource - heavy economy, possibly tipping it into recession during the first half of this year, and comes as Europe is still struggling with the fallout of the last crisis in Greece.

As this other chart, by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston shows, government employment held up relatively well during the recession, but started bleeding jobs during the recovery.

Now successful companies that waited to go public during the depths of the recession, such as Pandora, Skullcandy, and, most recently, Yelp, are looking to take advantage of the much improved market conditions.

Glen Hodgson, chief economist at the Conference Board of Canada, says that adjusting for the size of its economy, Australia attracts six times as much investment from China as Canada — one reason its economy grew during the recession.

Herzog has served as CFO since late 2008 and helped the insurer recover from its bailout during the recession.

It strikes me as at least possible that businesses launched during recessions are of a different nature than those launched otherwise, in that the entrepreneur presumably launched a business knowing it was during a recession.

A woman I work with borrowed against her 401k to buy a ski - in, ski - out condo for around $ 150k during the recession, which she now rents out on a daily basis for a crazy high return, as in her gross rents paid for the entire purchase price after 2 years of ownership, and she's now paid back her 401k loan.

Stocks reacted to recession fears during last week's sell - off but were much calmer on Wednesday, even as analysts say they expect more selling.

This despite the fact that our most reliable statistical evidence indicates a recession in progress which will eventually be dated as having started during the first quarter of this year.

Again, I want to stress that the U.S. economy was already in recession (which will ultimately be dated as beginning during the first quarter of 2001), and the market was already in a bear market before last week's tragedy.

As a share of the economy, deficits are currently 3.1 percent of GDP and will reach 5.0 percent of GDP in 2027 and 9.0 percent of GDP within three decades — higher than any time except for 5 years during World War II and the Great Recession.

(Though the trade deficit always «improves» during recessions, that shrinking deficit will nonetheless be hailed as a «bright spot» in the economy by analysts in need of an undergraduate economics class).

During recessions, the government will occasionally offer a tax cut as an economic stimulus.

As Canadians are becoming all too aware, the spectre of a recession, no matter the definition, looms large during an election campaign.

According to the dictionary, a recession is defined as, «a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two successive quarters.»

Under the more adverse scenario of a longer and deeper recession, the two - year loss rates on average across the 19 banks were projected to be as high as experienced during the Great Depression.

During the recession of the late 2000s, he served as a white knight - at - large, coming to the rescue of Goldman Sachs, General Electric and Swiss Re, while rejecting pleas from Lehman Brothers Holdings.

As I mentioned earlier, business investment collapsed during the Great Recession, and its much - weaker - than - expected recovery since, despite historically low financing rates, has been a major source of disappointment in advanced economies.8

Awash in Liquidity The second round of quantitative easing, known as QE2, follows the Fed's purchases of nearly $ 2 trillion of bonds during the Great Recession.

But as we also saw earlier, Lazard only froze and did not cut its regular quarterly dividend during that recession.

In contrast, it may be more helpful to think of risk as increasing during upswings, as financial imbalances build up, and materializing in recessions.»