Sentences with phrase «economic base recent»

Sidestepping the Fraud Issue: Bailing out fraudsters instead of saving America's economic base Recent federal bankruptcy proceedings have exposed Lehman's deceptive off - balance - sheet accounting gimmicks such as Repo 105 to conceal its true position.

Not exact matches

The most recent Global Green Economy Index (GGEI), produced by the US consulting firm Dual Citizen, looked at 60 countries and 70 cities and ranked them based on their overall green economic performance, which includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemistry.

Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

That suggests the recent gain is based not only on stronger economic data, but a perception that the central bank is keen to keep raising interest rates.

But he insisted on CNBC Wednesday that the central bank is not yet behind the curve based on recent economic and jobs data.

Recent economic data point to some growth firming, inflation remains hard to find and long - term rates are up by barely 10 basis points (bps) from where they started the year, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.

«The rise in long - term inflationary expectations... suggests that part of the recent rise in headline inflation may now be expected to persist longer than previously thought,» the Paris - based group observed in the Global Economic Outlook released today.

As widely expected by the markets, the Fed raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday and upgraded its economic outlook, saying that economic activity and jobs gains had been strong in recent months.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

I've noted that the upward spike in bond yields in recent months was based not on information about an economic recovery, but merely reflected a normalization of maturity risk premiums.

Based on the country's recent economic activity, it certainly appears France could be in the early stages of outperforming its Eurozone counterparts.

While the recent employment report has made market participants expect a somewhat earlier Fed move, my impression of the FOMC's members is that they will be extremely reluctant to «risk» a still fragile economic expansion on the basis of moderate employment strength.

The president went on to announce that the broad - based economic expansion in the eurozone accelerated more than expected in the first half of 2017; however, recent exchange - rate volatility could lead to uncertainty in price stability over the medium - term.

The efficient frontier calculation, based on the recent five years, takes into the account the poor performance of European assets during the economic downturn.

Mario Draghi said Thursday that recent data points to «some moderation» in the economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro, while still remaining «consistent with a broad - based expansion.»

The momentum factor — securities with strong recent price gains — has outperformed in economic expansions, our Factor - based Strategies Group's analysis of U.S. factor performance since 1990 suggests.

Most importantly, the most recent Finance estimates were based on the October 2010 Update economic projections.

Based on demographic trends, the country should see a stronger rebound in multifamily construction than in single - family construction, Kansas City Fed senior economist Jordan Rappaport wrote in the most recent issue of the bank's Economic Review.

In the US, 10 - year bond yields are currently 4.4 per cent, around 120 basis points above the mid-June trough, reflecting the run of positive economic data in recent months.

«In light of this recent [economic] activity... we have lowered our 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage forecast for both 2016 (by 30 basis points) and 2017 (by 50 basis points) to 3.6 percent and 4.0 percent, respectively.»

This was assumed by most people until quite recent times, but around 1980 a series of policies were put in place on a global basis, the purpose of which was to reduce the capacity of political bodies to control economic actors.

After months of recession - based questions, recent events tag a bundle of political issues to our economic woes, mostly by a fierce concentration on exactly what the government will drop to fix the books.

A recent filing of documents from a meeting of the Genesee County Economic Development Center indicates that HP Hood, the Massachusetts - based dairy company, is planning to acquire the former Muller Quaker Dairy plant.

The governor's most visible recent economic redevelopment plan for the area fell flat last month when it became public on Dec. 18 that Austria - based ams AG had ended its involvement with the Marcy Nanocenter site at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

An economic «blast from the past», but based on experience and real intellectual rigour is Nigel Lawson's Memoirs of a Tory Radical (Biteback, # 14.99) which is an abridgement of his original memoir with a new concluding chapter looking at recent financial events.

A former president and CEO of Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress and the Orange County Partnership, respectively, DiTullo has a substantial background in economic development including his most recent position, managing director of the Orange County Business Accelerator where he established a high - tech incubator and attracted more than 22 early stage innovators focused in such industries as the life sciences, bio-medical and web - based software development, to name a few.

Zemsky also criticized the state comptroller's recent audits on economic programs, which documented flaws in the economic development programs, saying they were disappointingly negative and based on opinions rather than facts.

These paths were calculated based on CBO's economic projections, historical data on public R&D investments from the OECD, and recent AAAS estimates of R&D.

Somewhere along the line, an expectation may have arisen that computers by themselves would improve learner performance — the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's education director Andreas Schleicher infers as much to Sean Coughlan of the BBC, based on a recent OECD report.

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies.The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields.

Based on the latest quarterly GDP figures, the recent explosion in the number of countries in economic contraction is striking.

Nouriel Roubini, the economist known as Dr. Doom for predicting the recent economic crash, argues that the current price of gold isn't based on fundamentals, rather it's being driven up by a herd - like mentality among investors.

The blue line attempts to capture the expectations of investors for economic variability based on the recent past.

DIV STRK is consecutive years of dividend increases; DIV YLD is yield using the most recently announced dividend; 5 YR YLD is average dividend yield over the past 5 years; REC DG is most recent year - over-year dividend growth; 5 YR DG is average annual dividend growth over the past 5 years; PRICE was at market close Friday, March 2; FAIR VAL is Morningstar's «Fair Value Estimate»; FWD P / E is price / earnings ratio based on projected 2018 earnings; 5 YR P / E is average P / E ratio over the past 5 years; MOAT is Morningstar's rating of competitive economic advantage; SFT is Value Line's «Safety» score; CRD is Standard & Poor's credit rating; MKT CAP is market cap in billions of dollars.

That suggests the recent gain is based not only on stronger economic data, but a perception that the central bank is keen to keep raising interest rates.

It could be that the U.S. economic system has become more productive than it has ever been before in recent decades and that on a going forward basis the long - term return will be 7.0 percent real.

Market commentators are continually thinking up new ones, based on recent market strength or weakness, historical market patterns, political or economic predictions, changes in tax policies — the list is endless.

But some of the recent shift in international beta can also be explained by the concert of central back easings around the world, forcing investors to make investments based on expected monetary policy rather than the individual economic and fundamental corporate performance of each country.

I missed the recent low, but decided to give it another run now based on the hope of an economic recover sometime in the not too distant future.

By platforming and interrogating the parallel themes of growing economic inequality and information abundance, much of Busuttil's recent work looks at tendencies toward increased isolation and fortification, based on economic and technological strata.

In fact, recent data indicates that small - scale and community - based wind projects have 3.5 times the economic benefit for local communities because the owners typically reside where the farm has been built.

Although reasonable disagreements exist about what equity and justice requires of nations in setting their INDCs as demonstrated by numerous proposed equity frameworks discussed by the recent IPCC chapter in the 5th Assessment Report on equity (IPCC, 2014, chapter 4), the national commitments that are based upon national economic interests alone clearly fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

Low levels of U.S. coking coal consumption in 2009 and 2010 were also partly attributed to the recent economic downturn; the February 2011 STEO forecasts a slight increase in U.S. coking coal consumption and an increase in coking coal exports in 2011, based on the assumption of improved economic performance and continued strength in international demand, respectively.

De Souza points out that the two - degree threshold is a «goal set out in recent international climate change negotiations, based on scientific and economic studies, to prevent irreversible damage to the planet's ecosystems and economy.

Significant recent amendments to South Africa's broad based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) laws and regulations need to be considered.

The most common strategic issue facing firms in recent years has been how to respond to the economic shift in the legal market since the Great Recession, with fewer clients and a tighter bottom line, says John Olmstead, principal at St. Louis - based consultancy Olmstead & Associates.

For example, new career fields such as a social media manager may present great opportunities given recent social and technological advancements while one might want to avoid a legal career based on a conveyancing practice due to the current economic and competitive environment in this field.

Here's a recap of everything that could be announced at the March 27 event based on recent rumors: 9.7 - inch iPad for $ 259: Taiwanese websites DigiTimes and the Economic Daily News reported that Apple is

In the battle to cut off energy tariffs, Eric Martel, the CEO of Hydro - Quebec, a massive state - owned enterprise based in Montreal that generates electric power in Quebec and other cities has shown his interest to attract cryptocurrency miners to rescue the company's economic prosperity in a recent interview with Le Journal, the Quebec's local publication.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.