Sentences with phrase «economies at»

Understanding how the brain works is also important to keep our economies at the forefront of new information technologies and services.

While economists can agree that trade liberalization benefits economies at the macro level, at the micro level there are always those who see welfare gains, and those whose immediate welfare is reduced as a result of the (necessary) changes in the economy brought about by greater overall efficiencies.

Now, with many economies at comfortable cruising speed, where do we go from here?

The company obtained 32 % of sales in such economies at the time, compared with about half for rivals Unilever and Colgate - Palmolive (CL).

But the mechanics of the euro guarantee escalating tension: The single currency makes the exports of weaker countries artificially expensive (and those of Germany excessively cheap), putting their economies at a crippling disadvantage.

A central bank governor «is not hired by the government to be a free - wheeling intellectual,» said Vivek Dehejia, an economic professor at Carleton University and a senior fellow in political economy at the IDFC Institute, a think - tank in Mumbai.

The fact is that new technologies, led by an intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and Internet of Things (IoT), are replacing humans in the mainstream economy at an alarming rate.

Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.

It means Uber can forgo lofty rhetoric to make itself a less - risky investment, says Arun Sundararajan, who specializes in the sharing economy at New York University's Stern School of Business.

As it turns out, Pepsi Cola originally distributed Stolichnaya in the U.S. in the 1970s as part of a barter agreement with the Soviet Union, which lacked a free market economy at the time.

Doing so, he says, could help grow the economy at a 4 percent clip.

Where he once touted outsized returns for investors, he's now promising to grow the Canadian economy at a fast clip.

The reason is partly fear: Technology is transforming many sectors of the economy at speeds and scales unprecedented in history.

The loonie is trading at levels far below what you'd expect given the state of Canada's economy at the moment.

«It's the economy at scale.

Canadian officials placed the potential value of CETA to the Canadian economy at about $ 12 billion per year.

The effect on the economy at large is harder to determine.

One of the arguments made to support curbs on immigration is that new arrivals hurt native - born American workers and the economy at large.

The appointment comes with the Fed in the middle of some key operations in carrying out its mandate of keeping the economy at full employment and stabilizing inflation.

Other data last week had painted a somewhat mixed view of the economy at the start of the year, with inflationary pressures easing — possibly pointing to softening activity — but better - than - expected import and export growth.

MADRID - Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, BANKIA CEO will be introduced by Luis de Guindos, Spain Ministry of Economy at Forum Europa in Madrid 0800 GMT.

«A quarter point is not going to kill the economy at all.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

Taking it one step further, they added that «insufficient» structural reform «leaves the economy at very significant risk of a lost decade, which we set at a 40 % probability.»

They are the latest symptoms of the slow - burning non-performing loan crisis that Italy will have to tackle,» Erik Jones, professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University, told CNBC via email.

China is the biggest export market for Canadian soybeans and while it might be true that Canada might stand to benefit from tariffs on U.S. soybeans, the ambassador told CNBC's Martin Soong that a trade war in general will still have a negative impact on Canada, and the global economy at large.

Unless conditions get radically worse, there isn't much monetary policy can do for the economy at this stage.

Strategists who spoke to CNBC said it will only take another disappointing report from China — or a significant drop in the yuan — for global investors to once again put the world's second - biggest economy at the top of their worry list.

«I am making a promise to Canadians that I can grow the economy at 3 %,» he said earlier this year.

Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender + the Economy at the University of Toronto, worries they push women to the sidelines, instead of levelling the playing field.

And above all, look for ways to communicate more with your local bank so that it will maintain its faith in you and your business no matter what's going on in the economy at large.

So, what does this all mean for the U.S. economy at large?

The economy at that time benefited from much higher rates of productivity growth, which allowed employers to raise pay and hire more without having to lift prices.

While Carney's move to drastically cut interest rates in Canada at the beginning of the financial crisis was prophetic, Philip Aldrick of the Telegraph likens the situation to Canada being an innocent bystander to a horrendous car crash with the U.K. economy at the wheel: the enormity and complexity of the economic problems Carney will face are on a whole different level.

The very first table you come across when reading the Trudeau government's 2017 budget isn't about tax changes, spending measures or the Canadian economy at all.

Secondly, while the world's central banks try to stabilize the economy at times by either increasing or decreasing the amount of cash circulating, Bitcoin has a fixed supply: 20 million.

Suzy Welch says if there's one thing she wishes she'd known in her 20s, it's that there is an invisible economy at work in business based on favors.

We impact public policy and advocate for Greater Vancouver's business community and economy at all three levels of government.

Bubble - type prosperity is based on debt - leveraged asset - price gains at the expense of the economy at large.

A key issue is whether the central bank is still inclined to view the economy at risk of overheating.

The health of the economy at the end of four years is a second yardstick by which Buffett said he'd evaluate the Republican Trump administration.

(The following is slightly adapted from a short piece on page 3 in the new issue of Economy at Work, the quarterly publication I produce for CUPE, which also covers a lot of other relevant issues.)

There is only a «New Normal» economy at best and a global recession at worst to look forward to, PIMCO Chairman Bill Gross writes in his monthly commentary for October.

WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund (Ticker: DTN) As I wrote last week, with the US economy at mid-cycle, we are looking for an ETF that holds better - quality, dividend - paying stocks to add to our portfolio.

The banks have very sharply reduced their credit card exposure by 22 percent in the last few years, so that they're not lending to the U.S. economy at all.

'» Mortgage fraud became rife as bank regulators failed to protect consumers or the economy at large.

(The following is something I've prepared for the next issue of CUPE's Economy at Work, a popular economics quarterly publication I produce.)

«My job as a prime minister and our job as a government is to bring everyone together and say we're all getting what we want — in that we are moving forward to protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time, and that doesn't have to be divisive,» he said.

«There is only a «New Normal» economy at best and a global recession at worst to look forward to in future years,» he says.

The «out of sample» behavior of the economy at that time, compared with post-war behavior, prompted my insistence on stress - testing our methods against Depression - era data.