Sentences with phrase «economic weakness»

The president views trade deficits as a sign of economic weakness that can be brought down by more aggressive trade policies.

This time around, multiple factors came into play, including continued appreciation of the dollar combined with political and economic weaknesses in a number of markets.

The path forward is not particularly clear to me because we've never managed such a long period of global economic weakness and zero to negative interest rates before.

Typically, inflation of one per cent signals economic weakness because there is too little demand to force prices higher.

The banks demonstrated that their personal and commercial loans businesses are still solid, even as expectations point to consumer lending growth slowing in the coming quarters amid persistent economic weakness.

We can't completely rule it out, but the highest probability is that gold will continue strongly higher only after a significant stock market decline and indications of economic weakness emerge.

American companies also have relatively little exposure to European economic weakness.

In crafting any policy response to near - term economic weakness, this is a key point.

The accompanying statement will still indicate that risks continue to be weighted toward economic weakness.

Central banks will continue to create money in response to economic weakness until blatant «price inflation» stops them.

But I believe that the stock market's run - up actually reflects economic weakness rather than strength.

Economic weaknesses upstate have led to out - migration and population declines.

But my point in showing both together was to show that one was indicating economic weakness and the other was not.

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

An ample cash balance and a manageable debt load are obviously preferable, as these qualities afford a company greater flexibility to invest in operations and provide added cushion during periods of economic weakness.

Three of those — the early 1980s, 1992 and 2009 — were associated with global economic weakness.

The gap for next year is estimated to be around $ 2 billion dollars, and comes at a time of continued economic weakness in New York and the nation.

An about - face by the Fed driven by economic weakness would more likely — after a brief celebration — contribute to panic that the Fed had lost credibility and control.

But for the last few days, global markets have been in a rout, based on economic weakness in emerging markets.

Second, the idea that emerging - market economies could fully decouple from economic weakness in advanced economies was far - fetched: recession in the eurozone, near - recession in the United Kingdom and Japan in 2011 - 2012, and slow economic growth in the United States were always likely to affect emerging - market performance negatively — via trade, financial links, and investor confidence.

While an aggressive exposure in precious metals most likely will require a reversal of long - term interest rate trends and some amount of fresh economic weakness, our focus is not so much on the next Market Climate we may observe next but on the Climate we observe at present.

The data released today by the BEA show pretty clearly that the arguments we make in House of Debt remain relevant for thinking about economic weakness today.

Purchasing power remains strong, despite economic weakness in places like Alberta, and the U.S. dollar goes further here.

These bad effects include economic weakness as investing mistakes become apparent, as well as uncomfortably - rapid «price inflation».

Acrimonious Contest It further predicted an acrimonious contest between the ruling NDC and the opposition NPP in November saying, «Ongoing economic weakness at a time of approaching elections will expose Ghana to a notable risk of political and social instability early in the forecast period.»

At that point, market participants are expecting the Fed to slowly raise rates and the yield curve inversion signal to eventually come back into play years later, signaling future economic weakness.

So even as activity abroad continued to contract, the Board had to be mindful of how much action had already been taken in anticipation of serious economic weakness.

There are other reasons to be pessimistic, most notably the ongoing economic weakness in China and lagging business investment in Canada.

While leading measures and our Recession Warning Composite do not currently provide enough evidence to anticipate an oncoming recession with confidence, they do suggest much greater prospects for economic weakness than the Wall Street consensus suggests.

The spread between the changes in global PMI Indexes and global earnings expectations is an increasing concern, especially considering the evidence that increases the probability of renewed economic weakness.

The Bank of Canada (BoC) opted to leave interest rates unchanged during the first quarter, and we think it is likely to remain on hold unless economic weakness and an energy price swoon return.

We concur with recent comments by US Federal Reserve (Fed) policymakers that US economic weakness seen in first - quarter data is likely to be transitory, and that activity should pick up over the rest of the year.

We concur with recent comments by Fed policymakers that US economic weakness seen in first - quarter data is likely to be transitory, and that activity should pick up over the rest of the year.

Bear markets plunge on revealed credit risk threatening economic weakness.

One strategist warns that the decision to raise interest rates really depends on how well the economy is doing, and at the moment, the Fed is being dismissive about recent economic weakness.

The real question is what the FOMC will do if economic weakness persists, and inflation continues to creep up.

AvalonBay cited economic weakness and the negative effects of record - low mortgage rates that enable renters to purchase homes.

Markets are spooked, interest rates are on the rise across the globe, and a manufacturing survey hinted at new economic weakness in China.

Eventually won't work if you have risk - based capital rules, or liabilities that can run, but if you are the Fed, then there are almost no limits except that of inflation kicking in amid economic weakness.

Global economic weakness remains the biggest threat to the U.S. economic recovery, followed by tax and regulatory policies.

Since the rate debate intensified last year, Brainard has spoken ahead of five out of the six key policy meetings, laying out her view that the U.S. recovery could not be taken for granted in a world of potentially perpetual economic weakness.

«The weak ending to 2016 and poor outlook for early 2017 are the result of market saturation for fitness bands, unappealing features, a lack of new products, greater competition from Apple, Garmin (GRMN, +0.55 %) and a host of cheap Asian manufacturers, and growing economic weakness in China, depending on which analyst or market research firm is talking,» he writes.

Should the Fed demure and recent seasonal patterns persist, i.e. first - quarter economic weakness, it's entirely possible that an initial hike gets pushed out until the second quarter of next year.

The initiation of QE4 would be likely only in the face of even deeper economic weakness.

Many of Bolivia's economic weaknesses relate to its extraordinary geographical situation as a landlocked [5] Andean country divided between the extreme highlands (4,000 meters) and tropical rainforest lowlands.