Sentences with phrase «first global crisis»

«This highly anticipated sixth edition has been revised to include an in - depth analysis of the first global crisis of the twenty - first century.

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When we bought our first plane, air travel was considered very expensive, extremely frustrating and awfully dull; more recently, the banking sector has been held responsible for the financial crisis and global recession, so we used our reputation to instil some trust and, as Virgin Money's slogan says, «Make everyone better off.»

Gold demand slumped to its weakest first quarter since the global financial crisis, the World Gold Council said Thursday.

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.

It was the first time the portfolio had declined since 2009, which was during the global financial crisis.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

The first quarter was China's weakest since the global financial crisis, when growth tumbled to 6.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2009.

While the world has been laser - focused on the woes of the heavily - indebted PIIGS nations for the last couple of years, property markets in Northern and Western European countries have been bubbling up to dizzying new heights in a repeat performance of the very property bubbles that caused the global financial crisis in the first place.

That was China's weakest performance since the global financial crisis, when growth fell to 6.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2009.

The latest moves coincide with signs that China's annual economic growth may dip below 7 % in the third quarter for the first time since the global financial crisis, marking a slowdown in one of the world's main engines of economic expansion in recent years.

Also in 2015, divergence in monetary policies unsettled developed currency markets: the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan continued quantitative easing programs while the Federal Reserve rhetorically led markets on a long, slow walk to the first increase in the fed funds rate since the global financial crisis.

We believe it was our friend Claudio Grass of Global Gold in Switzerland who first mentioned that the eurocracy may possibly have plans to use the Greek crisis as an opportunity to expand the ongoing war on cash.

While both the Oakmark International and International Small Cap Funds had acceptable investment performance in the fourth quarter of 2011, the full year was not good for global equities or for our two Funds, as natural disasters (first in Japan, later in Thailand) and Europe's sovereign debt crisis took their toll.

For the first time since the 2007 — 2009 global financial crisis, the European economy appears strong enough to stand on its own, no longer in need of massive central bank support.

For the first time since the global financial crisis, investors can earn positive after - inflation returns from these bonds.

First, product complexity increased significantly from 2002 to 2010, with no discernible drop during the global financial crisis.

In another well - flagged move, the Bank of England (BoE) raised interest rates in the United Kingdom (UK) for the first time since the global financial crisis, following data showing third - quarter UK growth was a little higher than consensus forecasts.

Since March 2009, the S&P 500 Index has had a total return of approximately 250 %, driven by two primary factors: First, super-easy global monetary policy in the wake of the banking crisis, which drove down returns on safe assets to the point where risky assets became a much more compelling proposition than is typical.

At a press conference on the opening day of the Assembly, General Secretary Emilio Castro attempted to sum up his goals for the meeting by first repudiating the notion that it would focus on global crises.

If, however, our scenario had been a different topic — say, a student had experienced extreme poverty for the first time, or realized the magnitude of the global AIDS crisis and wanted to talk to her pastor about how her faith speaks to that — I imagine the response would have been easier for our students to get out and distinctly Christian.

Elders investors will receive their first dividend in nearly a decade as the rural services and pastoral company cements its turnaround from some dark days during the global financial crisis.

Steve Keen, along with Nouriel Rubini as a non neoliberal economist states, «The first thing that the global financial crisis should therefore do to economics is to galvanise student protest about the lack of debate within academic economics itself, because dissident academic economists will be unable to shift the tuition of economics themselves without massive pressure from the student body».

The need for savings in the first place was derived from the global financial crisis, but also from the Ministry of Defence's significant historical overspend of its procurement budget.

When Alistair Darling delivered his first Budget in March 2008 it was in the midst of a global economic slowdown precipitated by a crisis in the US mortgage sector.

Hammond's first test today — responding to the Bank of England decision to cut interest rates to a record low of 0.25 % — may not quite be at the same level as Darling's, who had to deal with the enveloping maelstrom of a global financial crisis, but he will be hoping his understated approach will inspire greater confidence in the markets.

The one outcome the clever boys who invented new Labour never considered as they excised the socialism from their party was that we would witness a crisis of global capitalism in the first decade of the 21st century so severe that it would force both Britain and America into nationalising financial institutions.

But global energy use is set to fall in 2009 for the first time since 1981 as a result of the global economic crisis, reducing the need for emission reductions by a full two billion metric tons, according to the IEA.

Food and economic analysts are warning that these governments could be the first victims of the global food crisis, and others are similarly vulnerable.

While declines in emissions have previously occurred during periods of economic crisis, this would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth.

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The Chinese economy reportedly grew 8.1 % in the first quarter, the weakest since the global economic crisis and now is expected to slip to 7.5 % for the year, although some economists think that target could be missed as the slowdown in world markets drags it lower.

The decision by the Eurozone to force bank depositors in Cyprus to contribute towards a bailout, a first in the Eurozone debt crisis, could hurt other peripheral nations, the Euro and the global stock market rally, analysts warned.

For the first time since the global financial crisis, investors can earn positive after - inflation returns from these bonds.

Even though the first fund started in 1969, it wasn't until after the global financial crisis of 2007 - 2008 that unconstrained bond funds started gaining traction among investors.

Unlike the first question regarding global warming, millennials left no doubt that they think the student loan crisis is a bigger threat to the U.S. than is North Korea.

The level of assets in Exchange - Traded Funds has now surpassed those held by hedge funds for the first time, highlighting how their explosive growth has upended the global fund management industry since the financial crisis.

Fairmont The Palm, is one of four major projects being developed by IFA Hotels & Resorts (IFA HR) on the Palm Jumeirah, and made headlines in December 2010 as the first hotel construction project in Dubai to secure millions in foreign financing following the global economic crisis.

Drawing applause on the first day of the event — staged for the 45th time this year — Rifai said: «The first decade of the 21st century was a decade of extraordinary tourism growth, but also of severe shocks: a decade that began with September 11th and ended with global economic crisis.

To celebrate World Humanitarian Day, Ai Weiwei debuts the first trailer from his forthcoming documentary on the global refugee crisis

Developing countries that were once reluctant to join in the first phases of a global response to the climate crisis have themselves now become leaders in demanding action and in taking bold steps on their own initiatives.

Set in an America of the almost - now, Fifty Degrees Below (and the first volume of the trilogy, Forty Signs of Rain) tells the story of the efforts of a loosely - connected group of scientists, campaigners and politicians to provoke a national response to the crisis of global warming.

In 1989, in response to the first global elephant poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, the international trade in ivory was banned.

The first life might well find it convenient to feed on the still - high CO2 level, eventually creating a global - cooling crisis by consuming most of it, the opposite of the global - warming crisis we're creating by producing lots of CO2.

Such actions should not even be contemplated without first acknowledging the fact that none of the catastrophic consequences of rising global temperatures have yet been conclusively documented, as well as the much greater likelihood of the horrendous global food crisis that would follow such actions.

The WEO is considered to be the annual reference point for the global energy industry, and has been since the IEA was first created in the 1970s in response to the global oil crisis.

«Without first - class science graduates, how will we understand and deal with the crises caused by global warming?»

To take stock: First the cold shower that was the Copenhagen climate summit, and then the global financial crisis, and then the austerity panic.

Mark Lynas's Six Degrees * is first, a graceful yet massive synthesis of a very large selection of scientific research papers; second, an eloquent and honest plea for action on the «slow - motion crisis» that is climate change; and third, a coherent account of how global warming would affect humans and their world, if allowed to proceed.