Sentences with phrase «economy figure as»

Since the manual manages the same economy figure as the most efficient Cruze in Chevrolet's current U.S. lineup, the ECO, but under harsher conditions without dimming down performance, predictions can be made for what a diesel would bring to the U.S.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

And as a small business owner, you're likely concerned about a looming Congressional impasse, which could knock the wind out of the economy's momentum — shaving the country's economic output and your sales figures in the process.

And as a bonus, he figures the economy will likely improve and GDP may well go up.

U.S. retail sales figures may well determine how Wall Street opens — as well as worries about Europe's debt crisis, concerns over the U.S. economy have also been behind the recent turmoil in markets.

Specifically, the appointments of rising center - right figures Bruno Le Maire as economy minister and Gerald Darmanin as budget minister are an attempt to split the Republicans (LR) in two.

The survey, which measures the outlook of the small business economy, shows small business optimism holding steady at 53 percent, the same figure as last month.

The legal tussle may well divide the on - demand economy into two camps: the fundamentally sound companies — the ones that can figure out how to compete on any sort of playing field, as long as it's level, because they're selling a real innovation — and the companies that exist only because the current haze of legal and regulatory uncertainty paired with free - flowing venture capital has permitted them to flourish.

Take into considering factors that might affect your sales numbers — such as the economy or the loss of a major customer — but don't worry too much because the basic tenet of budgeting is that the figures will never turn out to be exactly right.

The economy in eastern Europe was slowly liberalizing, and Kholodenko figured he could find success as an entrepreneur thanks to his business education and language skills (his family emigrated from Ukraine when he was five years old).

Security software developer McAfee estimates that cybercrime already costs the global economy $ 445 billion a year, a figure destined to surge as more companies and consumers across the planet connect to the web.

Lula leaves office on Dec. 31, his legacy as a transformative figure in Brazilian history all but assured thanks to massive social programs like the Bolsa Familia that have lifted millions out of poverty, the securing of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, and a rapidly growing economy that's expected to become the world's fifth largest in the next six years and pay for it all.

The German ZEW figures beat all expectations, a sign that the euro zone crisis was no longer hitting Europe's largest economy as hard as it was last year.

The 2014 - 2015 oil price collapse may be understood then as a supply surplus that occurred at a time of a strengthening U.S. economy (low economic uncertainty) and relatively low geopolitical risk (Figure 15).

The talk all day has been that this figure somehow proves the economy is not in recession, because analysts actually believe the fairy tale that a recession is defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth.

In 2005, I asked our Economics department to put a dollar figure on what it actually cost the Canadian economy when employers fail to realize the potential of immigrants as well as other under - utilized groups such as women and seniors.

As seen in the two figures below, sectors of the economy tied to housing began contracting in April 2006 while elsewhere employment growth and nominal income continued to grow.

Powell, known as a collegial consensus - builder, could help serve as a steadying force for the U.S. economy as well as a unifying figure among the central bank's policymakers.

For weaker economies in the euro zone that are seeing subdued domestic demand as a result of austerity programs, there were also encouraging signs in the trade figures for August.

Here's Nick Laird of Sharelynx's chart setting out the SGE withdrawal figures for the past eight years, which demonstrates nicely the huge (and very consistent apart from a blip in 2014) upwards trend in withdrawals as China's economy has continued to grow and individual purchasing power has grown with it.

I don't credit official figures with any great accuracy, but if we take them as being approximately right, then the U.S. economy is growing at 2 %, and China's at about 7 % — but with a base of about four times the population.

The Chinese leadership had been widely expected to prioritize economic stability ahead of the congress, and figures showing third - quarter growth of 6.8 % year - on - year confirmed this goal, leaving the economy on course to exceed the official target of around 6.5 % growth for 2017 as a whole.

The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.

Instead, it reflects a tendency to respond to all economic data as if it is coincident (reflecting the current state of the economy) rather than carefully distinguishing leading data — primarily new orders and order backlogs, from coincident data — primarily income and production, from lagging data — employment figures, particularly payrolls and the unemployment rate, which are essentially the most lagging data series in economics.

The Reserve Bank of India cut its main repurchase rate by 0.25 percentage point to 7.5 %, citing weakness in parts of the economy as well as favorable inflation figures and structural overhauls included in the government's proposed budget.

Figure out, they said, what you have to import from abroad, set aside exports, and money to cover those imports, and set targets for each industry and the economy as a whole, so that every family can be assured an adequate standard of living.

They argued that since there was a fairly high positive correlation, it was acceptable to use GNP figures as a guide to policies designed to improve the economy.

The alcoholic's psychic economy often depends on perceiving his wife as a mother figure.

Unfortunately, just as U.S. organic dairy production was ramping up, the downturn in the U.S. economy started in late 2007 and organic milk sales actually declined 4 % between 2008 and 2009 — the only time in recent years that sales of conventional milk showed positive growth (Figure 1).

Even the figures quoted by the President as the growth rate for 2016, is higher than the West African average especially when note is taken of recessions in the Nigerian and other economies.

But speaking on Ho - based Volta Star on Thursday, April 21 as part of the «Accounting to the People» tour of the Volta Region, President Mahama said figures of the gross domestic product (GDP) over the last three years show that the economy is growing — especially on the macro-economic front.

He wrote: «Dig around in the figures and what becomes swiftly apparent is that if you look at trade deals in terms of the size of the economies they're signed with (rather than just counting them, as the EU seem to prefer) Europe's numbers stop looking quite so rosy,» Sunak stated in his first mayor intervention in the debate.

Those figures explain why Labour scores so badly on having business policies that are good for the economy as a whole.

David Cameron claimed Labour was «desperate» for a double - dip in the economy, as he was quizzed after figures showed the UK economy grew by 0.5 % in the first three months of the year.

A number of other senior Labour figures also took up senior positions: the trade union leader Ernest Bevin, as Minister of Labour, directed Britain's wartime economy and allocation of manpower, the veteran Labour statesman Herbert Morrison became Home Secretary, Hugh Dalton was Minister of Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade, while A. V. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty.

There have been renewed concerns about the economy after official figures showed a 0.5 per cent jump in the rate of unemployment from the previous quarter as 164,000 people lost their jobs.

There was more gloomy news for the UK economy today, as figures showed unemployment up by 80,000 in the three months to July.

Unite has accused the government of being in a slumber of complacency as new manufacturing and production figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) show more bad news for Britain's economy.

Figures released by the Ghana Statistical service indicate that as at June, Ghana's economy minus oil and gas grew by 3.9 %.

The actual reasons seems to be the polls were wrong, which means Labour's defeat is suddenly pretty easy to explain: people did not have a positive perception of their party leader, people did not think they were competent on what they considered two of the three major issues of the day (the economy and immigration) and even in the area Labour normally have better figures than the Tories, perceptions of the party itself, people increasingly saw them as out of touch with ordinary people.

Hopes that the Nigerian economy will rebound anytime soon were on Monday dashed as the country's Gross Domestic Product growth rate slipped further to -2.24 per cent in the third quarter from the second quarter's figure of -2.06 per cent.

Speaking at a Media Encounter on Wednesday as part of his one - year stay in office at the Flagstaff House, the President, who spoke about the high unemployment figures leading to the thousands of people applying for jobs in the public sector, said the government is on a good course to stabilize the economy, enhance business growth and subsequently create more jobs.

A day after Astorino trashed New York's condition, Skelos signed on to a statement with the governor and Assembly Democratic Speaker Sheldon Silver trumpeting the latest unemployment figures as proof that «upstate New York's economy is heading in the right direction.»

The prime minister said Labour was «desperate» for a double dip in the economy, as he was questioned after figures showed the UK economy grew by 0.5 % in the first three months of the year.

Though they will surely discuss other things, such as education and perhaps guns, the main focus of the fall election figures to be the economy and the budget.

They point to earlier figures showing a decline of 0.5 % in the final quarter of 2010 and growth of 0.5 % in the first three months of 2011 as proof of the coalition's ineffective grasp on the economy.

David Cameron yesterday ruled out tax cuts or spending increases to kick - start Britain's economy as ministers braced themselves for figures showing growth has ground to a halt.

As fuel economy and carbon emissions become more important to car buyers, manufacturers have identified cutting air resistance as a cost - effective way to improve these figures and so boost their product's appeaAs fuel economy and carbon emissions become more important to car buyers, manufacturers have identified cutting air resistance as a cost - effective way to improve these figures and so boost their product's appeaas a cost - effective way to improve these figures and so boost their product's appeal.

In low - and middle - income countries, the demand for animal products is rising sharply as economies and incomes grow; in the next few decades, we'll need to figure out how to produce enough protein for billions more mouths.

I just love how scientists can pick up from the tiniest clues something as broad a question and something as [ethereal] as a question of sociability; but they can look at beads and they can figure out how they are used and factors of economy that go into it.