Sentences with phrase «for anemic growth»

Many economists blame tightening mortgage - approval standards after the housing collapse for the anemic growth of single - family construction, still less than half of 2006 levels.

We have really benefited from the fact that our strategy was well - positioned for anemic growth environments.

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Raising the currently anemic level of public investment could pay for itself if these initiatives kick - start growth.

«Building the nation's infrastructure is a key to helping jump - start an economy that's been in some anemic growth pattern for the past several years.»

After years of anemic growth and brain drain, Puerto Rico has been left with a 12 % unemployment rate and stagnant wages, leading Padilla to come clean and ask investors for mercy.

In the last two months, the economic news coming out of China was both depressing and worrying: a spectacular stock market crash, a sudden currency devaluation, and anemic economic activities suggesting that the economy will miss the official target of 7 % annual growth for 2015.

Meanwhile, on Friday, the Commerce Department reports on revised gross domestic product data for the first quarter after initially pegging growth at an anemic.2 %.

While these figures are undoubtedly good news for the private sector battered by high unemployment and anemic growth, it's far too early to celebrate, says Russell Investments» chief economist Mike Dueker, who adds that recent unemployment figures are in part the result of people no longer looking for work.

Overall, margin expansion and earnings growth have continued to be anemic, and multiple expansion has been the more significant driver of performance for the past several years.

2014.10.23 RBC Investor & Treasury Services quarterly survey: Canadian pension assets inch higher in Q3 Pension assets rose for a fifth successive quarter despite concerns over anemic economic growth in the Eurozone and escalating global issues during the three months ending September, according to the latest survey from RBC Investor & Treasury Services...

On top of the existing internal problems of «lowflation,» shorthand for ultra-low inflation, weak demand and anemic credit growth, the deterioration in the external backdrop over much of 2014 — rising geopolitical tensions with Russia, and the slowdown of the Chinese economy and many other emerging markets — has made a rapid return to meaningful growth across the eurozone unlikely, in our view, despite some positive signs, including the stabilization of many peripheral economies and the boost in competitiveness from the weaker euro.

Euro - Denominated Funds In spite of a slight improvement in the last quarter of the year, growth in Europe for the other quarters of 2014 was generally anemic.

For example, if the stock market tanks or delivers a string of anemic returns, especially early in retirement, the combination losses or low principal growth and withdrawals could so deplete your nest egg's value that you might run out of dough sooner than anticipated.

That is obviously why the growth prospects for Coca - Cola and PepsiCo are so anemic.

While, many may applaud the near anemic growth rates, as a sign that the world's population growth will slow, for economists this growth level is ominous.

Not only has economic growth been anemic, but what growth we've gotten has not been inclusive, which means the top earners continue to receive an outsized share of the income gains as they have for the past 35 years.

Couche - Tard, which is grappling with slowing same - store merchandise sales, has blamed «anemic» real - wage growth for the struggles of its lower - income customers, while also citing fewer visits by Hispanics.

I have said that since the recovery from the last recession was so protracted and growth so slow and, for the most part, rather anemic — nowhere approaching a boom — we may very well see a longer period of continued, if not tepid, growth.

In contrast, the pace of price growth in the retail sector for most of 2014 had been fairly anemic, only 1.6 percent quarterly on average.