The causes of
the economic slowdown remain hotly debated, with the Conservatives blaming Gordon Brown's handling of the economy and the government keen to divert blame to the US subprime market.
How China will respond to the BRI's financial viability and
its economic slowdown remain to be seen.
Not exact matches
We've observed a
slowdown, but not a downturn, in real retail sales and real personal income, so those
remain areas of focus as we monitor the sequence of
economic data.
At its peak in 2008 that deficit was close to 10 % of GDP, and today, after four years of
economic slowdown, it
remains at 6.5 % (giving Spain's trade deficit figure the rare honour of being ranked 176 out of 210 countries listed in the CIA World Factbook).
The Construction Products Association's latest State of Trade Survey, which has been launched today, shows that although a Eurozone crisis appears to have been averted for the time being, the prospect of an
economic slowdown in the major European economies, together with increasing global energy and raw material prices,
remain as the major threats to further recovery in the UK construction products industry.
Singapore's burgeoning biomedical sciences industry stood firm against last year's global
economic slowdown and
remains on track toward achieving its growth target for the coming years.
Either way, India
remains one of the most conspicuous growth opportunities in a global economy suffering from a
slowdown in China,
economic crises in Russia and Brazil and widespread uncertainty elsewhere.
Otherwise, Trinity (TRN)
remains uniquely susceptible to an
economic slowdown and / or contraction.
Despite the
slowdown in Chinese
economic growth and tighter regulations on outflows of foreign exchange, Chinese foreign buyers
remained as the top foreign buyer of U.S. residential property, according to NAR's 2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate.
Miami's real estate market
remains a top destination for foreign buyers despite
economic slowdowns in Latin America and Western Europe.
However,
economic growth will
remain constrained by various headwinds, such as a potential spike in oil prices due to tension in the Middle East; an expected decline in net exports from the global
slowdown; and an expected increase in fiscal drag, including the fading of federal spending from the stimulus and a decline in defense spending for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.»
While most markets are expected to
remain relatively solid, Calgary and Toronto will feel the fallout of the global
economic slowdown as these two markets share the same short - term over-supply issues, with several million square feet of new office space completed in 2009 and 2010, says the report.