Sentences with phrase «economic activity at»

NAHB estimates this lower limit will place up to $ 8.5 billion in annual remodeling economic activity at risk, as even the simplest of remodeling jobs, like installing new appliances or updating bathrooms or kitchens, could result in many homes reaching the 30 percent threshold and triggering higher premium rates.

While January and February offered positive economic news, March and April reporting suggested that unusually warm weather may have accelerated some economic activity at the expense of the spring months.

Long - time community activist Howie Hawkins, who is running as the Green Party candidate for governor, said after the meeting that he thought opening a federal shelter might help the North Side by creating a few jobs and some economic activity at a vacant campus.

Christians can work to curb the anti-community, anti-nature effects of current economic activity at two levels.

The plan always was to create an economy like that of the U.S., which generates most of its economic activity at home through domestic consumption.

The decision about how to adjust the discount rate depends on whether investors believe that additional infrastructure spending will increase the country's potential growth rate, or instead that it will simply increase economic activity at the expense of higher debt.

Admittedly, the latest numbers on economic activity at the end of 2012 have some wondering whether uncertainty matters all that much after all.

Traders in Anambra State have expressed disappointment over the non-commencement of economic activities at Onitsha seaport three years after the commissioning of the port.

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The Fed expressed a confident economic outlook, saying activity had expanded at a moderate rate and that inflation was close to its 2 percent target.

The textbook definition of a recession is a downturn in economic activity, characterized by at least two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP).

It expressed a confident economic outlook, saying activity had expanded at a moderate rate and that inflation was close to its 2 percent target.

Wages barely are keeping up with inflation, and oil prices have settled at a level that is unlikely to generate the kind of economic activity to which we had become accustomed before the 2014 - 15 crash.

Information since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March suggests that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a moderate rate.

Meanwhile Dennis Bevington, MP for the Western Arctic, issued a report noting the diamond industry had come to account for half of all economic activity in the N.W.T. Ekati and Diavik were harvesting ore at rates exceeding original targets.

At the same time, we're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we were not seeing that activity, but it was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we're providing other resources to do exercises with the military in the remote parts of the world but with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard was providing a unique capability.

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«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

In a statement Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues said that the economic outlook had «strengthened in recent months» and that activity should expand at a «moderate pace.»

In its announcement, the U.S. central bank expressed a confident economic outlook, saying that activity had expanded at a moderate rate and that inflation was nearing its 2 - percent target.

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

Earlier in the session, a report showed U.S. factory activity increased more than expected in December, in a further sign of strong economic momentum at the end of 2017.

While immigrant - led entrepreneur activity peaked in 2010 during the economic slowdown and has since fallen to 0.43 percent, activity among native - born entrepreneurs essentially has been flat at 0.3 percent or below during the past decade.

At the same time, the rate of self - employment has barely budged so it seems clear that much of this big shift has been tax - motivated rather than reflecting changes in actual economic activity.

When I look at decisions to expand my business, if I look to hire new people, the reason I make the decision to do that is based upon what the economic climate is going to be and the economic activity of my industry,» said Rowen.

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 1.1 percent annualized rate in the January - March period, the slowest in nearly five years, after surging at a 4.0 percent pace in the fourth quarter.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

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Nevertheless, Canada has been able to control inflation and has been a successful inflation targeter since 1991, influencing economic activity and aggregate prices through adjustments in interest rates at the short end of the yield curve.

While the United States and Europe only now seem to be at or near a turning point, there has already been a marked improvement in economic activity in much of east Asia and India.

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.

Looking forward, I expect economic activity to expand at roughly a 2 percent annualized pace over the next 18 months, appreciably above that of the past three quarters.

On several occasions, China's economic activities in Europe have translated into tangible influence on policy decisions taken at the EU level:

The researchers at Strathmore University's Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) in Kenya used a 2013 estimate by the economist Friedrich Schneider which showed the average unrecorded economic activity in 49 African countries stood at 37.6 %.

On the corporate side of the code, tax expert Bill Gale and his colleagues summarize that «there is virtually no evidence that broad - based [corporate] tax cuts have had a positive effect on [economic] growth... That has been amply demonstrated at the national level, where tax cuts have eroded revenue without discernable effect on economic activity.»

Commodity prices may be affected by a variety of factors at any time, including but not limited to, (i) changes in supply and demand relationships, (ii) governmental programs and policies, (iii) national and international political and economic events, war and terrorist events, (iv) changes in interest and exchange rates, (v) trading activities in commodities and related contracts, (vi) pestilence, technological change and weather, and (vii) the price volatility of a commodity.

It is fundamental to the way the growth model works, and we have arrived at the stage, probably described most imaginatively by Hyman Minsky in his work on balance sheets, in which the system requires an acceleration in credit growth simply to maintain existing levels of economic activity.

Kessel argued that the yield curve tended to flatten or invert at or near cyclical peaks in economic activity.

«It stands to reason that the decline that we've seen over recent weeks is a reasonable signal that the pace of economic activity has flipped,» said Nick Chamie, global head of emerging markets research at RBC Dominion Securities Inc..

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, expanded at its quickest pace since 2006 in the fourth quarter.

(This increased economic activity sometimes comes at the expense of human and environmental health, but that's a different discussion).

-- The economic calendar in the U.S. on Monday includes the Chicago Fed National Activity Index at 8:30 a.m. Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart speaks at 3:55 p.m.

Household spending continues to underpin economic activity and is expected to grow at a moderate pace over the projection period.

Broadly, the Fed said economic activity expanded at a slight to moderate pace in June.

The labor market has continued to improve and economic activity has been rising at a moderate rate.

In its statement, the Fed said, «Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a moderate rate.

At Goldman Sachs, CFO Marty Chavez said there was «clearly the potential for increased business activity» resulting from more mergers and acquisitions, more financing and more economic growth in general.

In 2017, the country's economic activity expanded at its fastest pace since 2011.

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a moderate rate.

Economic activity in Japan has rebounded strongly from its trough at the end of last year, with GDP having increased by 2.2 per cent over the first half of 1999 (Table 2).