Sentences with phrase «effects of the fall of»

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And the sounds of nature — birds chirping, rain falling, bees buzzing — have a calming effect.

«The author of the EIU's report has told me that he did not mean to suggest that Vancouver's fall from grace was a result of the closures of the Malahat highway on Vancouver Island, though many have understandably interpreted it this way and commented to this effect, both on this article and elsewhere.

A separate index by the Bank of Japan that strips away the effect of energy costs also showed inflation slowing, suggesting that weak consumption and falling import costs are discouraging firms from raising prices for a broad range of goods.

Auction sales for 2016 fell by 29 %, though the effects of the drop were dampened because profit margins were up 2.8 %.

As for the broader effects of the GOP tax law, Pfizer said that it would pay $ 15 billion in taxes over the next eight years in order to repatriate overseas cash as its effective tax rate falls from about 20 % to 17 %.

Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

While this may seem to fall under the category of someone else's problem consider the possible ripple effects that may profoundly impact your life.

Though the Trump White House has acknowledged that Russia meddled — while maintaining that it was not to help Trump and did not have an effect on the election's outcome — it has so far fallen short of making a specific statement or calling out Russia for its aggression.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 1 - Novo Nordisk operating profit fell short of expectations in the fourth quarter as it felt the effects of price pressure in the United States and it warned that a weak dollar would hit earnings this year more than expected.

In Marten Falls, band members are on the fence, assuming they will see substantial economic benefits but worried about the environmental effects of mining.

Taxes on marijuana will amount to $ 1 per gram, or 10 per cent of product price, when a legalized cannabis regime comes into effect by this fall.

This fall, with the support of his investors and employees, he even reincorporated the company as a public benefit corporation, which legally requires it to prioritize its effects on society as much as its profitability.

While a weak sterling is being keenly watched as the driver of higher prices within the country, Ben Brettell from Hargreaves Lansdown says its effect should fall out of the numbers reasonably soon and we should watch for more permanent trends.

Latin American and Caribbean emerging and developing economies are projected to continue a gradual economic growth recovery from the effects of the fall in commodity prices during 2014 — 16.

The net effect is likely to be slower growth in tax revenues in the first quarter of 2018, and a possible fall in revenues as the year progresses.

In effect, the couple charges they were fall guys for Glaxo and suffered while in jail, where Humphrey developed prostate cancer that worsened due to lack of treatment.

The combined effects of drought in California and the falling Canadian dollar have caused the price of cauliflower to triple since the fall.

Clearly, the first - order effect of falling oil prices for these companies is lower input costs, with the degree of reduction dependent on both foreign - exchange effects and the companies» degree of exposure to oil prices.

Shares fell last week after Axios reported last Wednesday that Trump was considering changes to the retailer's tax treatment, in part because of anger over how Amazon has hurt the commercial real estate industry because of its negative effect on brick - and - mortar retailers.

The effect may be to wreck the futures of the graduates that fall for the false promises that are being made.

OPEC cut 10 mmbpd of production between 1980 and 1985 with no effect on falling oil prices.

The big money knows to hold on while a steeply profitable move is in effect (as seen in the trader saying, «let profits run») and to patiently stay in cash in the grip of a market panic («don't attempt to catch a falling knife»).

Unified deficits (which includes on - and off - budget accounts) would fall from 3.6 percent of GDP ($ 693 billion) in 2017 to 1.7 percent ($ 485 billion) in 2027, excluding economic effects.

The effect of a cash transfer from the Fed to the household sector is almost identical to receiving a tax rebate check, with the added benefit that it causes the budget deficit to fall, not rise (Tax revenues will rise and there has been no increase in government borrowing).

The budget's savings, without the economic effects it claims, would stabilize the debt and put it on a slightly downward path, falling from 77 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017 to 75 percent by 2027.

«The importance of the wealth - saving relation goes beyond the case usually designated by the Pigou effect, viz., beyond the effect of an increase in the real value of cash balances and government bonds due to falling prices.

They discuss the causes of negative equity — smaller down - payments and falling home prices — along with the effect on current and future delinquency rates.

With the cut in the growth of the CHT that will take effect in 2017 - 18, it will fall even further in the following decade.

The best accidental side effect of running a website and writing articles for Seeking Alpha is that it occasionally allows me to stumble into friends I haven't to in a while — the kind of people that you enjoyed being around, but then life happens, and for whatever reasons, things happen and you fall out of touch.

But the effect of the higher prices, assuming they are typically paid to suppliers elsewhere in the world, also acts somewhat like a tax on spending, hence aggregate demand falls.

The House budget assumes savings and increases in economic growth that would reduce debt from its current level of 77 percent of GDP to 63 percent by 2027; ignoring economic effects, debt would fall more gradually to 73 percent in 2027 *.

Our starting point has always been that the imposition of the GST should not have an effect on wages because wage - earners will gain more from the accompanying fall in income tax rates than they will lose from the introduction of the GST.

Because some asset prices may fall more abruptly than they rise, and because the effects of downward moves in asset prices on demand may be larger due to the greater negative impact of deflation on the net worth of borrowers — witness the United States in the 1930s or Japan in the 1990s, the case for adjusting monetary policy in response to negative asset price shocks is commonly considered more compelling than in the alternative context.

Nevertheless I do worry that the fall in exports from a strong dollar is a bit stronger than the rise in exports from a weak dollar: I suspect because there is a hysteresis effect: Once a factory is shut down, it stays shut down — and if firms don't continuously invest to stay at the cutting edge of technology, it can be hard for a high - wage advanced economy to stay globally competitive.

Remember Buffett's maxim that when you read a headline to the effect of «investors lose as market falls,» you should re-adjust that headline in your brain to «dis - investors lose as market falls, but investors gain.»

They also were oblivious to the effects of their actions on real people, and their motto was «Let justice triumph though the heavens may fall» — i.e., even if mankind is destroyed.

Third, when policymakers appear like they might be endorsing a falling dollar after a period of sharp dollar decline, like we have seen, there is some risk of avalanche effects.

A tornado watch is in effect northwest of Fort Worth that includes Wichita Falls and Archer City.

All in all, its actually the Reliance Jio effect — during 4G revolution, the entry of Jio has provocatively forced other operators to cut down their tariffs and match Jio's highly competitive prices which have resulted in losses and falling ARPU.

Individuals in the top 10 % of past performers earn average abnormal (adjusted for size and momentum effects) monthly returns starting at 7.85 % after one month and falling gradually to 5.20 % after 36 months.

There is typically a bit of a lag between falling energy prices and their effect on consumer spending, but by Q3 12, declining energy prices should be supporting real consumer spending; we look for 2.5 % consumer spending growth in H2 12.

Since last fall, chamber pols have raised a litany of objections, from the protections afforded to driver data collected by cars to the effects they might have on the trucking industry.

At the Shadow Open Market Committee fall meeting on Sept. 15, economist Peter Ireland of Boston College argued that the effect of reducing the balance sheet is ultimately equivalent to an open - market sale of bonds by the Fed of the kind it would undertake in order to push up the fed funds interest rate.

BT reported a 0.2 percent fall in revenue for the full year, stripping out the effects of one - offs, currency moves and its acquisition of mobile operator EE.

The dampening effect of falling imported goods prices at the final stage of production continued to ease over the year to December, suggesting that the disinflationary impetus from the appreciation of the exchange rate in 2002 and 2003 has moderated substantially.

Valuation effects, largely due to falls in the prices of bank shares, reduced the value of the household sector's directly owned share portfolio by 1.4 per cent in the March quarter, but these shares have since rebounded in value.

Interestingly, the new speculation tax — set to come into effect in the fall of 20183 — is actually more like a non-resident owner levy instead, as it will impose a 2 % tax on both domestic and international homebuyers who own a vacant property in the B.C. but do not pay income tax.5, 6

Profits of the farm sector as a whole continued to recover from the effects of drought, while mining profits were flat in the December quarter 2003, following falls in the previous three quarters.

The effect of falling average wages has generally outweighed that of rising employment, contributing to the softness in labour income.

This has led to increases in CPI inflation in most economies, reversing the effects of falling oil prices last year.