Sentences with phrase «economic strength»

While the movement of interest rates is a critical signal of future economic strength, we believe drawing overarching conclusions, at this time, is premature.

More consumers fell behind on their card payments, but with continued economic strength, the possibility of a delinquency epidemic seemed remote.

Those advantages are tremendous economic strength, and the dollar's power as magnet for global capital.

Both offered the same cautious message about the need to wait for further confirmation of economic strength before lifting rates from zero.

This is the measure most economists prefer for comparing living conditions and economic strength across countries.

Thus people with little economic strength have little value to us.

I believe this is due to less than desirable economic strength and company fundamentals.

There's another way to gauge economic weakness versus economic strength.

In the minds of many people the stock market and the economy are linked, with a rising stock market supposedly being a sign of future economic strength.

It is about American competitiveness, international influence, national security and long - term economic strength and prosperity.

«Data in the euro area, and even Japan, matter as much as economic strength in the US economy if the Fed is to be successful in removing monetary accommodation for next year or two.»

But they are also material: they take immediate sources of national military and economic strength as their lodestars, and they rely on calculated assessments of potential outcomes, taking risk (including the risk of being wrong) into account.

He noted that the current state of the country's economy has not been favourable as it were in time past therefore advising that Nigerians have to bear with the effort of the Buhari led Federal Government and its dispositions towards restoring economic strength of the nation.

Via QE3, the Federal Reserve buys $ 40 billion in mortgage - backed bonds monthly to surpress mortgage rates which, the Fed believes, will lead to broader U.S. economic strength.

Unrelated note: kudos to Dr. Jeff Miller on his piece on economic strength today.

Due in part to a strong economy, notable in the face of the 2008 recession and its aftermath, Baton Rouge was ranked as one of the «Top 10 Places for Young Adults» in 2010 by Portfolio Magazine, as well as one of the top 20 cities in North America for economic strength by Brookings.

«Until very recently, it was taken as a given that tech equaled progress and tech equaled good and tech equaled economic strength,» said Leslie Berlin, the author of Troublemakers, a history of Silicon Valley.

1) Lower economic strength in light of the diminished medium - term growth outlook, constrained by foreign currency shortages, high inflation, lower public sector spending and a weak banking system.

«Driven by economic strength, a growing mass of online users and the regional fondness for gaming, Asia is expected to be the world's largest gaming market in 2013.»

However, to maintain high GDP figures and create the impression of economic strength post-crisis, China spent more than $ 4 trillion on a stimulus program.

«We expect the U.S.'s broad economic strength to support its credit profile for the foreseeable future,» states the study.

For example, even though the Fed was still holding the funds rate steady in autumn 2016, fixed mortgage rates rose by better than three quarters of a percentage point amid growing economic strength and a change in investor sentiment about future growth and tax policies during the period.

Recent USD strength (shown above against the Euro YTD) is due to several factors including perceived and increasing economic strength in the US.

First, despite the relative economic strength of the United States, retail sales fell 0.9 % from the prior month in December.

8) I have often thought that analyzing the strength of the states is a better measure for US economic strength, than relying on the statistics of the Federal Government.

The movement suggests underlying consumer prices have been creeping higher along with Canada's recent economic strength.

In a league table ranking the overall economic strengths of the countries, Britain has slipped from 13th place last year to 16th place.

Wall Street has found a semblance of stability after a roller - coaster week, but some investors are convinced the rockiness in stocks and bonds isn't quite over for one main reason: The markets have yet to fully come to terms with how aggressively the Federal Reserve may respond to surprising economic strength.

According to tweets from those in the audience, Dimon said that ensuring economic strength is more important than changing interest rates, although he added that the U.S. economy currently is sturdy enough to survive a rate hike.

«We're proud to be working with Recurrent Energy to grow California's solar industry, helping to power economic strength, job creation and tackle climate change by transitioning our communities to clean energy,» said Dawn Weisz, CEO of MCE.

In his comments, Powell did not express worries that the economy was starting to overheat, stressing instead a number of developments showing economic strength.

The build - up of foreign currency reserves during the first part of the cycle is therefore not a sign of strength; it is a sign of a future «price inflation» problem and a warning that the superficial economic strength is a smokescreen hiding widespread malinvestment.

More and more, so - called experts are questioning whether the current economic strength can continue in the absence of the Fed's monetary stimulus, which will be coming to an end this year.

Higher retail sales, higher home prices, and general economic strength should generate more revenues for municipalities, which could also mean reduced issuance of new bonds and lower muni yields for investors.

Our view is predicated on the ongoing economic strength in the United States, the absence of a contraction in credit to date in Canada, and robust Canadian consumer spending.

The wider economic strength of the housing scenario in Britain had a knock on effect on all house building and related companies.

So we wrote in that report that all the cell phones and PCs being bought by Chinese was not the result of domestic economic strength, but merely the recycling of export revenues and direct foreign investment funds.

The underlying economic strength of the RXL token is its utility.

The Industrial Revolution is important in this regard: as industry lifted productivity out of the confines of the seasons and the soil and decisively shunted economic strength away from the rural pathways to the urban factories and offices, the superiority of the city to the countryside became a given of both Right and Left, to the Gradgrinds and to the Marxes.

For long - time residents, supermarkets are paradoxical actors appealing to, as well as, challenging the narrative of a community whose economic strength was based on the surrounding natural environment and local people's endeavours.

Over time, the Northern Powerhouse project moved away from its initial aims of strengthening the economies of major city regions in order to boost the whole of the North, to instead considering the North as one big region with common economic strengths and challenges.

«Despite the numerous geopolitical challenges Israel faces, Israel has exhibited consistent economic strength: an ability to maintain its economic growth during and despite political turmoil,» Dinapoli's office said.

In fact we may be entering a new age of geopolitics, in which economic strength wields greater power than military strength.

HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. — On Thursday, November 3rd, the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) hosted a luncheon at the League office for credit unions, interns, and representatives from the disability community to discuss the experiences of Cycle VI of the Building Economic Strength Together (BEST) internship program.

As Policy Points concludes, although the U.S. can certainly learn from other educational systems, drawing direct connections between international assessment rankings and economic strength fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of such tests and ignores the multitude of cultural, political, and societal factors that also influence economic performance.

The Northeast Corridor Commission was created — in accordance with the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 — for a simple reason: You may come from different states, with different economic strengths and different needs, but we are stronger and more effective when we work together.