Sentences with phrase «economy slows this year»

The thinktank notes: «The government is likely to argue that further bad news on the public finances will only be temporary and that fiscal policy should support monetary policy as the economy slows this year.

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Canada's economy was due to slow from its torrid pace at the start of the year, and that's what is happening.

Emerging economies are set to slow this year as the U.S. Federal Reserve begins raising interest rates and there's a rising protectionist rhetoric in advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund warned on Monday.

That could carry risks since the country's once - booming economy has been slowing and its markets have been volatile over the past year.

The IMF predicts the global economy will expand 3.5 % in 2015 — about the same as last year, but dramatically slower than the 5 % rates that preceded the financial crisis.

There are some significant competitive advantages that should begin to accrue to the U.S. economy in the years to come - energy, manufacturing competitiveness and demographics - though the savings required to fund investment could be redirected to the public sector if policymakers do not slow the growth of mandatory spending.»

It's hard to verify independently the claims of retail traders who say they have made good money this year, when worries about a slowing Chinese economy and the slumping oil price have wiped up to $ 8 trillion from world stock markets in January alone.

China «s consumer price inflation slowed to its weakest pace in almost a year in August, pulled down by abating food costs, although an encouraging moderation in producer price deflation added to growing evidence of a steadying economy.

The government forecasts the economy will grow 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

The government forecasts growth of 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, putting Malaysia in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

The US economy could experience more recessions in the coming years for one simple reason: slower growth.

The U.K. economy, which went into last year's referendum as the fastest - growing in the G7, is now the slowest - growing in the group.

Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

The economy is nearly seven years into a recovery, with no immediate signs of slowing down.

The slowing of China's growth and manufacturing sector during the past year has hit investor sentiment towards the world's second - largest economy, causing volatility in its capital flows, putting pressure on its yuan currency and forcing the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

COPENHAGEN, Nov 22 - The Icelandic economy, known for its often dramatic ups and downs, is now slowing down after years of strong growth - and that's good, its chief central banker told Reuters.

It sees the economy as likely to expand 3.0 percent this year, slowing slightly from last year's 3.1 percent.

Policy makers responded with more than a year of restrictive policies that slowed the economy and created a credit crunch that has been particularly severe for medium and small firms and that only recently has led to a moderation of inflation.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

With the global economy slowing, the numbers might fall further and a five - year commitment may not be so appealing, although this may be offset in the future by Malaysia pulling out as F1 fans in the region would have only one nearby option.

U.S. economy off to a slow start this year.

After years of downward forecast revisions that strained the central bank's credibility, the Fed finally settled in 2016 on expectations that maybe the economy's growth rate would not exceed 2 %, having been permanently affected by the Great Recession, slowed by changing demographics, or a combination of the two.

The risk is that the economy needs monetary policy tightened to cool prices before industrial activity and retail sales regain momentum lost last year as the Chinese economy delivered its slowest full year of growth since 1999, at 7.8 percent.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said Friday that he thinks the economy got a lift last year from temporary factors and he noted there are «ominous signs» ahead due to U.S. uncertainty, slowing growth and weakening investment.

Apparently, they're filling in for their Chinese counterparts, who aren't feeling particularly chipper this year, with the economy there slowing and Beijing cracking down on lavish gifts to corrupt officials.

«Downside risks are also present in emerging market economies, where growth has slowed rapidly in recent years,» she added.

After four years of strong sales increases — and limited discounts — as the economy improved, U.S. demand for new cars and trucks is expected to slow this year.

The company's strategists observed that the world's advanced economies are scarcely growing, while the developing and even some non-developed ones are growing fast; though China and others are slowing, together they still create more new GDP every year than do the more established economies.

In late 2008, after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, Tysh Mefferd's 10 - year - old wedding paper business drastically slowed as the region's economy sputtered.

The province may finally be crawling out of its deepest recession since the dreadful 1980s, but it's a slow crawl, and years will pass before the economy makes up the ground it lost.

«As the U.S. economy slowed and Europe's debt crisis worsened, investors sought the safety of Treasuries and sold the bonds PIMCO had bet on, leaving the fund trailing 89 % of competitors in August and 67 % this year through Sept. 8.»

«You're definitely seeing the impact of the currency headwinds in the first quarter results, and also the European economies have slowed relative to last year,» said Will Hamlyn, investment analyst at Manulife Asset Management.

China's economy grew by 10 % a year for the last three decades, but slowed to 7.8 % last year and risks a hard landing.

Last week, new government data showed the economy ground to a near halt in the first half of the year, and on Monday, a factory activity survey showed U.S. manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in two years in July.

If such trends persist, China's economy, the second - largest in the world behind the United States», may then slow even more than it has, further harming the many countries that have for years relied on China for their growth.

Data showed that the U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter as consumer spending grew at its weakest pace in nearly five years.

After assuring us Tuesday that China's economy — which is growing a little slower than the 7.5 % target and, is expected to slow further over the rest of the year — was nonetheless «operating within a reasonable range», in his Tianjin speech on Wednesday Premier Li suggested again that the China's 7.5 % growth target is not a hard target, and that there may be «variations» in China's growth relative to the target.

Commonwealth Bank has cut its Australian dollar forecast for this year and next to take into account a slowing global economy, the pricing out of an interest rate hike in Australia this year and a firming of the US dollar.

The economy would have to slow very dramatically over the balance of the fiscal year — much more than implied in the November 2012 Update.

The economy had been showing signs of slowing, of course, in the first part of this year.

«By the time 10 - year and 2 - year Treasuries reach parity, as is almost the case now, the economy is typically slowing and the Fed is at or near the end of its tightening cycle.»

Growth in the Canadian economy is projected to slow from 3 per cent in 2017 to 2.2 per cent this year and 1.6 per cent in 2019.

Growth in the Canadian economy is projected to reach 2.8 per cent this year before slowing to 2.0 per cent next year and 1.6 per cent in 2019.

2018.03.12 Canada's economy expected to slow in 2018, amid looming interest rates hikes and lower consumer spending After a year of rapid growth, the Canadian economy is expected to slow in 2018 amid the prospect of rising interest rates and lower consumer spending, according to the latest RBC Economic Outlook...

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The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.

After a year of rapid growth, the Canadian economy is expected to slow in 2018 amid the prospect of rising interest rates and lower consumer spending, according to the latest RBC Economic Outlook...

In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is reportedly mulling a massive stimulus package to boost India's economy, following slow growth in the first half of the year, per Indian media.

The move is aimed at boosting Southeast Asia's largest economy by GDP which has been growing at its slowest pace in six years because of falling commodity prices and cooling growth in major trading partner China.

These questions come as EM stocks have had a rollercoaster year, with valuations beaten up by concerns about China's economy, slowing global growth and lower commodity prices, just to name a few of the headwinds facing developing markets.