"Economic shock" refers to a sudden and unexpected event that disrupts the normal functioning of the economy and causes a significant negative impact on people's livelihoods, businesses, and financial stability. This can include events like natural disasters, financial crises, recessions, or sudden shifts in market conditions. These shocks often lead to a decline in economic growth, job losses, reduced consumer spending, and financial hardships for individuals and businesses.
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While we do not expect the same kind
of economic shock that we experienced during that period, we do expect a «healthy» market correction.
After years of moving in lock step on the back of
global economic shocks, individual stocks increasingly have been dancing to their own tune.
He said the economy could crumble under any
major economic shock such as crop failure or sharp fall in commodity prices.
The study also adds to the evidence that factory closings, mass layoffs and
other economic shocks have widespread negative effects on communities, reaching beyond the individuals who lose work.
The other way currency can
absorb economic shock is that all earnings coming from abroad become worth more when converted into pounds.
Over that same period, millions of American households experienced
severe economic shocks, including unemployment, large declines in home values, and big drops in retirement account values.
There is no way if someone made away with a tenth of your reserves that you will not have a
major economic shock.
«Cities seem to respond quite differently to major
economic shocks in terms of their economic behavior, and the personality of a region may play a critical role,» said lead researcher Martin Obschonka, PhD, an assistant professor of psychology at Saarland University in Germany.
VIDI allocates to countries based on their perceived ability to
withstand economic shocks as determined by multiple factors, an approach that can produce significant and unusual differences from market - weighted country exposure, including a bias to emerging countries.
«A more resilient and integrated economic monetary union would buffer euro area countries against
external economic shocks, preserve the European model of social cohesion and maintain Europe's influence at the global level.»
The lower a payout ratio, the more secure a company's dividend will be in the face of
economic shocks because they have more free cash flow that can be used to pay the dividend if earnings drop.
Mid-cap stocks have gained more than large stocks over the long term and they're generally able to
weather economic shocks better than smaller firms.
And then how they are shocked again — by corporations and politicians who exploit the fear and disorientation of this first shock to push through
economic shock therapy.
Second, the Rule has the desirable feature that when
economic shocks push the economy away from the central bank's objectives, the Taylor Rule prescribes a policy response that can help push the economy back toward the central bank's goals.
Chapter 5.2 of the budget provides a helpful analysis of the
effect economic shocks have on the federal government's books, through the following three economic indicators:
Blanchard asked in the paper if inflation targets should be raised from 2 % to 4 % in the future toprepare for
potential economic shocks, but he adopted a much stronger tone in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
«You can't throw major
economic shocks into a market that's softening, and that's why a high - tax agenda and debt scares people,» she says.
Material upticks in delinquency, interest rate increases beyond what is expected, or other
unanticipated economic shocks could certainly impact the market adversely.»
On the other hand, the Poloz - led Bank's record at identifying the timing and magnitude of
economic shocks on output has been bad — granted, the sample size is small (1!).
We didn't respond to that large
regional economic shock by building light rapid transit lines in Saskatoon or sending stimulus bonus cheques to people living in Hamilton.
«We discuss the US balance of payments trade deficit which creates US credit to finance the US national debt and war abroad;
Russian economic shock therapy as the final stage of the cold war; the real estate bubble; permanent war and the inevitable collapse of the current US dominated global economic system.»
There's a downside, though: When a
big economic shock like Brexit occurs, some economic indicator has to move in order to reflect the increased volatility and uncertainty.
«The revision of the rating Outlook to Negative from Stable reflects the very limited fiscal space to absorb further
adverse economic shocks in light of such elevated debt levels and a potentially weaker than currently forecast economic recovery.
«We should be very careful at a time when the British economy is still haltingly recovering from the
worst economic shock in a generation to create a very high degree and a prolonged period of uncertainty because in my view uncertainty is the enemy of growth and jobs and our priority, in this government and in the national duty, has got to be to foster growth and jobs.»
A source close to Cameron said that there was now overwhelming evidence, backed up by Sunday's Observer survey of economists, that leaving the EU would cause a «
serious economic shock» and that «the suggestion that crashing your economy is the best way of dealing with immigration is clearly nonsense».
Mr Osborne had earlier warned business leaders in Manchester that leaving the EU would deliver a «
significant economic shock to our economy».
This important research challenges common sense notions that unemployment and
economic shocks inevitably mean rises in property crime.»
«Job loss was not simply a proxy for other aspects of the state's economic climate, but instead represented a
meaningful economic shock, which led to changes in girls» and black adolescents» suicide - related behaviors,» Gassman - Pines writes.
In the face of large -
scale economic shocks, enforcing debt contracts places an unbearable burden on debtors, who cut back their spending and send the entire economy into deep recession.
This is why Hormel was able to continue growing its dividend not just during the Great Recession, but also throughout numerous other
economic shocks over the past half century.
The procyclical or trend - chasing allocation accentuates the
underlying economic shocks to various investment styles as flows push valuations.
About four - in - ten college - educated student debtors possess total debts exceeding the value of their assets, hence asset liquidation will not entirely meet their outstanding debts in the event of job losses and other
unforeseen economic shocks.
Mission Transition US is a resource and catalyst for building resilient communities across the United States that are able to withstand severe energy, climate or
economic shocks while creating a better quality of life in the process.