Sentences with phrase «economists at»

Benjamin Tal and Royce Mendes, economists at CIBC World Markets, estimate that Canadians currently hold about $ 75 - billion in excess cash that they typically would have used to purchase assets that promise a return.

Economists at Unicredit noted that the support for the center - right was relatively high and had increased the chances that this bloc will gain a mandate to form a government.

Economists at TD issued a report on Tuesday revealing that household debt has increased across all age groups during the last decade, both in absolute terms and relative to income.

Morneau is scheduled to sit down Friday in Toronto with leading economists at a roundtable that typically includes about a dozen experts from commercial banks, think tanks and trade associations.

According to fresh research from economists at Texas A&M University, donors are far more likely to give if they receive a gift — or «donor premium» — in return.

«There is extensive academic literature suggesting that populism is bad for economic growth and prosperity but also for most investment classes,» economists at Macquarie wrote last week.

Late last year, economists at CIBC said rising household debt was to be expected; Canadians «responded rationally to an era of very low interest rates.»

'' Lost Einsteins,» a paper released last year by economists at the Equality of Opportunity Project, posed that question.

The stakes are high: The loss of preferential access to the U.S. could result in the loss of $ 20 billion in annual economic output, according to recent estimates by economists at Royal Bank of Canada.

Paying for all of the costs associated with a detached home in the Vancouver area requires 121 per cent of median household income; for a condo, it's 46 per cent of income, making it Canada's least affordable city, according to economists at the Royal Bank of Canada.

The reason lesbians earn more than heterosexual women has long been a bit of a mystery, but a group of economists at the University of Nevada have an answer.

As economists at National Bank of Canada showed last week, that is happening too:

Economists at Macroeconomic Advisers boosted their forecast for fourth - quarter economic growth by three - tenths of a percentage point to an annualized rate of 2.4 percent, on the «unexpected strength» in consumer spending.

«We expect further fragmentation of the political landscape, and, as a result, difficulties in forming a new government coalition,» economists at Rabobank told CNBC via email.

«Macro shocks trigger bigger reactions today than historically because markets are less liquid,» economists at Bank of America wrote.

Economists at the International Monetary Fund concluded in 2014 that Canada's measures had curbed credit growth.

Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

Earlier this year, economists at the FDA and Ohio State University published a paper positing that the key factor linking above - average height and professional success is good nutrition.

«There is much less arrogance out there,» says Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University and an early Qualtrics customer.

But according to Paul Donovan, global economist at UBS Wealth Management, the 3 percent threshold is just a number.

Another good sign noted by Dawn Desjardins, assistant chief economist at RBC, is an improvement in labour market conditions in the U.S.

As Krishen Rangasamy, an economist at National Bank, observed this week, all the hiring in Canada over the past year has been by large businesses, not tiny ones.

Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at RBC, expects positive results for consumer spending in the quarter overall (up an annualized 2.8 % in Q2 from a weaker Q1), but noted that retailers are still dealing with modest levels of spending by households.

«The Canadian real - estate market already is in correction mode,» said Krishen Rangasamy, an economist at National Bank Financial in Montreal.

A basic living wage in Ethiopia is about 3,000 Birr ($ 109) a month, according to Ayele Gelan, a research economist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

And Avery Shenfeld, chief economist at CIBC World Markets: «The NAFTA comments, and favourable comparison of the trade relationship with Canada relative to Mexico, should give at least some comfort to Canadian economy watchers.»

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

Nick Exarhos, an economist at CIBC World Markets, said the numbers offered a glimmer of hope that the worst could be over.

Factcheck.org ran Heritage's analysis by Roberton C. Williams III, a resource economist at the University of Maryland who is a senior fellow at the economic - analysis nonprofit Resources for the Future.

«We do not see an imminent turning point in commodity prices and thus forecast further negative repercussions on the Canadian economy next year,» Sebastien Lavoie, assistant chief economist at Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, said in an analysis of the Bank of Canada's latest policy statement.

The move «still left the Canadian dollar, in our view, at historically high levels — as high as what we've been seeing,» said Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at RBC.

«Canada's relationship with Mexico has blossomed,» Peter Hall, chief economist at Export Development Canada, said in a commentary on January 26.

«The fall in inventories suggests some of the weakness could be temporary and indicates that this is unlikely to be repeated» in the third quarter, said Charles St - Arnaud, an economist at Nomura, a bank.

«The growth outlook may be sunnier, but it seems to be all about the negatives for Governor Poloz,» grumbled Brian DePratto, an economist at Toronto - Dominion Bank.

«Then, investors will dump Treasuries,» says John Cochrane, an economist at the Hoover Institution.

Companies with high - energy inputs, like airlines, railways and miners, should also be trying to lock in long - term fuel contracts at current low rates, says Janice Plumstead, senior economist at the Canada West Foundation.

«We're expecting a soft landing for Canada's housing market in 2015,» explains Marc Pinsonneault, senior economist at National Bank of Canada.

«There's no more direct way to cut growth than restricting immigration,» says Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae.

«The bigger impact will be next year, rather than this year,» says Beata Caranci, chief economist at TD.

Last week, Benjamin Tal, an oft - cited economist at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, kept things going with a note on what could be done to restrain international demand.

Beata Caranci, chief economist at TD Bank, doubts another rate hike in the U.S. would have much of an impact on bond yields in Canada.

There could also be opportunities for manufacturers, for whom transportation is often a major cost, says Derek Burleton, deputy chief economist at TD Bank Group.

«A VAT won't happen under this President and this Congress, but its stock will rise,» says William Gale, an economist at the liberal - leaning Brookings Institution.

Harriet Jackson, an economist at the Bank of Canada, determined that money markets — the biggest worry of doubters — were running smoothly.

«We happen to think the Bank of Canada may not manage to pull off quite as many as the Fed,» says Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management.

«It works against the administration's goal of increasing U.S. exports to eliminate our trade deficit,» says Dan Ikensen, an economist at the Cato Institute.

For one, the ECB's use of quantitative easing to fight potential deflation may be misplaced, Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank, in a note last week.

Meanwhile, Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING, also told CNBC that these reasons hurt the chances of Germany putting Weidmann forward.

We dig into the numbers with Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.

«You do have to see it in the wider context of all the other roles that are on offer,» James Nixon, chief European economist at Oxford Economics told CNBC Tuesday, about the appointment of Luis de Guindos.