Sentences with phrase «eurozone economies»

A 2013 study by NERA Economic Consulting revealed that the U.S. has the highest liability costs as a percentage of GDP of the countries surveyed, with liability costs at 2.6 times the average level of the Eurozone economies.

Eurozone economies are in disarray and have had their credit ratings lowered, which jeopardizes U.S. exports.

He is advising European leaders to: reassess the current plan in Greece - which will reportedly see its debt at 120 per cent of its GDP by 2020 -; recapitalise banks in struggling eurozone economies; and allow the European Central Bank to buy bonds from distressed countries.

Under Osborne, productivity is abysmal, business investment is weak, exports are struggling (despite the fact that, unlike the eurozone economies, we still have full control of our own currency thanks to the decisions of the last government).

The first is the notion that wealth transfers to less competitive Eurozone economies are bound to exceed the economic benefits of the EMU over time.

It is the neoliberal stance now demanding austerity for Greece, Ireland, Italy and other Eurozone economies.

-LRB-...) The strength of demand for eurozone «periphery» debt reflected increased investor appetite for higher - yielding government bonds as well as rising confidence in the creditworthiness of eurozone economies.

«I've heard stories of companies hedging their bets with some of the eurozone economies,» Langrish says, explaining that some have set up accounts to pay their employees in euros should their home country exit the eurozone and reintroduce its old currency.

The most widespread opinion is that the European Central Bank is going to announce a new round of bond - buying next week to try to stimulate the Eurozone economy, which will further depress the value of the euro and make the franc yet more attractive.

Despite the backlash, the SNB will face from those who are nursing potential losses that could run into billions, many analysts thought the decision was inevitable in light of next week's expected announcement by the ECB to break new ground in its efforts to inject life into the ailing 19 - country eurozone economy.

There are also worrisome developments in Spain, the fourth - largest Eurozone economy.

«Our decision to upgrade Europe at the end of last year was driven by our belief that we would see a solid upturn in the eurozone economy, earnings and investment flows into a region that was unloved and underowned,» says Sheets.

Goldberg says bold moves by the European Central Bank have mitigated the threat of a cascade of major bank failures, but an anemic Eurozone economy would be bad news for American export - driven companies.

The step represented a significant escalation of the E.C.B.'s efforts to get banks to lend more money, apply a jolt to the eurozone economy and head off the threat of a destructive decline in prices known as deflation.

The long - awaited program, known as quantitative easing, is meant to spur growth in the listless eurozone economy and to raise inflation to healthier levels.

FRANKFURT — Faced with a eurozone economy stubbornly resistant to revival, the European Central Bank on Thursday went where no central bank — at least no major one — had gone before.

The uncertain state of the eurozone economy may become clearer on Wednesday when the European Union statistics office releases an estimate of its economic growth in the first quarter.

Eurozone indicators have softened in recent weeks, raising concerns that ECB President Mario Draghi could sound dovish about the eurozone economy.

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the eurozone economy still needs abundant stimulus to raise inflation to more normal levels even in the midst of a strengthening recovery.

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the expanding eurozone economy still faces «risks and uncertainties» — including a looming trade dispute with the United States — and has cautioned that inflation needs to rise further before monetary stimulus is ended.

Earlier this week, it was reported that the 19 - member eurozone economy expanded by 2.5 % in 2017, the fastest rate since 2007, and ahead of the 2.3 % expansion the U.S. saw last year.

Draghi has long insisted the bank would continue to take what it feels is appropriate action to get the eurozone economy on track, and he reinforced that message most recently in August at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - sponsored economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The European Central Bank is currently tapering its asset purchase program, and we anticipate an end to the program as the eurozone economy improves.

Nevertheless, we think the ECB is likely to wait for far more compelling evidence that the eurozone economy is generating appropriate and sustainable levels of price increases before contemplating a change of stance.

Nevertheless, with the ECB's own inflation forecast for 2019 still only at 1.7 %, our sense is that ECB President Draghi is likely to wait for far more compelling evidence that the eurozone economy is generating appropriate and sustainable levels of price increases before contemplating a change of stance.

In our view, a favorable combination of four factors should help drive the eurozone economy much higher:

But the eurozone economy is still weak overall and recovering only slowly from years of financial crises and recessions.

The European Central Bank announced a massive stimulus program to get the struggling eurozone economy growing again.

Nor is there much prospect of relief for the eurozone economy from fiscal stimulus.

Although markets generally seem to have been underwhelmed by the latest monetary policy announcements from the European Central Bank (ECB), I believe the measures unveiled by its president, Mario Draghi, are exactly what the eurozone economy needs, and are exactly what the market should have expected.

We would agree an adjustment in the ECB's monetary - policy settings looks likely to be made soon, as it would be surprising if the central bank continued on its current highly accommodative course for much longer, considering the stronger - than - expected recovery in the eurozone economy.

I think improvement in the eurozone economy in the 11 months since the current QE program was announced is one of the reasons why Draghi and his ECB governing council colleagues were reluctant to do more.

The European Central Bank cut its benchmark rate to a record low of 0.25 % on November 7 to keep the eurozone economy from slipping back into recession.

Our base - case scenario for the end of 2015 sees the eurozone economy remaining more or less where it is now, not really growing much or shrinking much either.

That Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy are calling the shots in the attempted salvaging of the eurozone economy — with Merkel the dominant of the duo — is not new news.

The OECD also predicted that the eurozone economy would shrink over the next three months.

Britain can not exclude economic migrants from the EU and now the British economy is recovering while the eurozone economy continues to flatline, this type of immigration is increasing.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls told Sky: «If Greece does try to leave the eurozone in a disorderly way it would cause huge damage to the world economy, to the British economy, and to the eurozone economy, as the eurozone has not sorted out how to stop this crisis spreading to Spain and Italy.»

Yes, there were other problems, bureaucrats in Brussels, seeking human perfection though regulation, helped to strangulate a previously more competitive Eurozone economy.

As such, I would not expect this move to have a large effect on the eurozone economy.

Pressure from firm dollar and falling equities as market continues to deal with uncertainty about the eurozone economy.

European stocks remain attractively priced and the eurozone economy is improving, as demonstrated by data accessible via Bloomberg.

Europe Benefitting From Tailwinds The eurozone economy relies to a very important extent on exports and should benefit from several strong tailwinds largely being ignored by the financial markets.

Not exact matches

The Commission, meanwhile, said Britain will continue to lag the eurozone over the coming years, forecasting growth of only 1.5 percent this year and 1.2 percent next, with the economy hobbled by Brexit uncertainty.

The Eurozone's economy slipped in the third quarter as the slowdown in China and other emerging markets more than offset the benefit to consumers from low oil prices.

«I think [they] are trying to get a strategic stake in the strongest economy in the eurozone,» says Carsten Brzseski, chief economist at Dutch financial giant ING.

Italy is the eurozone's third largest economy, and its debt - to - GDP ratio of 133 % is the second largest in the currency union, after Greece.

The eurozone's recovery from the sovereign debt crisis has been about improving situations in the economic bloc's peripheral economies like Italy and Portugal, and this new batch of uncertainty in Portugal's financial sector is not sitting well with investors.

Some of that is for good reason — the eurozone's recovery is still extremely modest, China's growth is slowing (along with most other emerging markets) and investors are uncertain over the ability of the halfway - recovered US and UK economies to sustain higher central bank interest rates.

And the market still (largely) expects that the ECB will eventually undertake a larger QE program than what it is currently executing as the eurozone's economy continues to flag.