Sentences with phrase «few economic numbers»

A few economic numbers were recently announced that offered up some clues.

Not exact matches

Bolton thinks the low application numbers are partly due to the blame that has been placed on business schools for the global economic crisis, along with the bleak job market for MBAs, which has led to lower starting salaries and fewer job offers.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

These numbers reveal that while no government could please everyone, especially where economic stakes differ and emotions run high, the Trudeau government has laid out a path towards a lower - carbon economy that has alienated few and found acceptance by a large majority.»

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

He is one of the prescient few who anticipated today's never - ending economic crisis, and one of a smaller number still whose advice about how to end the crisis would actually work.

Corporate income tax revenues were higher than expectedin 2012 - 13 and are expected to continue to be higher than originally projected in their April 2013 Economic and Fiscal Outlook The lower EI benefits «are driven by a lower expected number of regular beneficiaries to unemployed persons», or in layman's terms, fewer people are claiming benefits than those claiming to be unemployed.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 percent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

I've been friends with the people at the Foundation for Economic Education since I first discovered them in college and over the past few years have spoken at a number of their summer seminars, helped them improve some of their marketing, and did some photography for them one summer.

I didn't buy «Japan is Number One» when that was the mantra two decades ago, because Japan had severe demographic problems» as in, very few children; its lack of the most basic form of people power in the most elementary form, I thought, would soon become evident in economic weakness (as it has).

This step would reduce the number of insane and wasteful program such as Cash For Clunkers and get the political class focused on fewer but more impactful economic policies and programs.

«The number crunchers were telling him that there was good evidence that the Tories» economic recovery was only going to work for a few people rather than for everyone — and that in an election about the cost of living, he would always have the upper hand.»

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

For example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impact.

The data thus show that though most charter schools are small — and their numbers are relatively few — they serve the great racial and economic diversity of students that make up public education.

A few strong economic numbers can make fear temporarily dissipate.

Just a few years later, the economic meltdown exploded the number of mortgage failures and foreclosures.

Mortgage rates are moving sideways right now but that could certainly change over the next few days as we get a number of economic reports and hear from some Fed officials.

And so, accordingly, it tends to attract pretty dissimilar investor constituencies, who may only focus on: i) a handful of the largest caps, regardless of valuation & exposure, ii) stocks which (may) offer cheap / alternative access to overseas growth (a surprisingly large number of Irish companies are UK / Europe / globally focused), iii) stocks offering domestic exposure (notably, economic pure - plays are actually pretty rare), iv) a listed commercial & residential property sector that's only emerged in the past couple of years, and finally (& perhaps most notoriously) v) a (junior) resource stock sector that's been decimated in the last few years.

As we look at the numbers, the one area that did decline for NFCC Member Agencies between 2006 and this year is the number of clients enrolled in Debt Management Plans — certainly not because the need declined, but because economic conditions deteriorated so much that even as more people came to us for help, fewer had the resources to qualify for DMPs.

Here we will look at a few of the climate bills proposed by the U.S. Congress which would have put a price on carbon emissions, and examine a number of economic analyses mainly by non-partisan economic groups which evaluated both the costs and benefits of each proposal.

• Depending on the size of the firm and the insolvency and restructuring group that one practises in, it may be necessary, in positive economic periods where insolvency matters are few in number, to supplement an insolvency and restructuring law practice with other practice areas.

Having past the mist of the elections and the immediate shock of the attempted coup, we expect a stabilised and normalised political and economic environment in Turkey which will hopefully bring the number of deals, as well as the deal values, to higher figures as compared to last few years.

The number of employees claiming they have been sacked or disciplined for blowing the whistle on malpractice at work has soared in the last few years and is likely to rise further because of the economic downturn, says Jon Taylor, head of employment law at EMW Picton Howell.

The MUN Whitepaper also contained an illustration of the «Munchee Economic Model,» a feedback loop that indicated that the MUN token's value would increase, and described a token «tier» plan, under which restaurant reviewers holding a greater number of MUN tokens than reviewers holding fewer tokens.

There are a number of features of existing native title law and policy that inhibit economic development, and a few aspects that support it and need to be built on.

There are a number of factors that account for why children in divorcing families may have difficulties — loss of contact with a supportive parent, fewer economic resources that lead to multiple changes, more stress, poor parental adjustment, lack of parental competence and conflict between parents.

In Missouri, we've seen improvement in family economic well - being with more parents employed full - time, fewer families spending a burdensome amount of their income on housing costs, and a drop in the number of teen mothers.

There have been a number of economic assessments of general health promotion and wellness programmes (Pelletier, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2009; Chapman, 2005), but few have specifically mentioned mental well - being orientated components, and even when they do include these components they may not report mental health or even stress - specific outcomes.

A number of officials viewed a stronger economic outlook and greater confidence for higher inflation implying «the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

The number of new household formations was far fewer in the current economic expansion than in previous recoveries.

If you believe the current CPI numbers then you could argue we've been in economic stagnation for the last few years with the exception of assets which we discussed earlier.

The basic economic principals of supply and demand dictate that when fewer numbers of a desired commodity (like median - priced homes) are available, buyers will compete over ownership, driving up prices.