Sentences with phrase «for economic contraction»

In other words, the gold / GYX ratio (gold relative to the Industrial Metals Index) tends to fall during the booms, which are periods when economic confidence rises while mal - investment sets the stage for an economic contraction, and rise during the busts, which are periods when the mistakes of the past come to the fore.

Not exact matches

Singapore downgraded its forecasts on economic growth and exports for 2016 after confirming a contraction in output in the third quarter, raising the risk of a recession amid fresh uncertainty around global trade under U.S. President - elect Donald Trump.

He noted that the baseline scenario for tests in 2015 — which projected an economic contraction of 2.3 percent for that year — was more dramatic than the 1.3 percent contraction used in the most conservative scenario in the current tests.

But as the global fi nancial crisis spread, Ireland became one of its worst victims, with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink by 13.5 % by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime economic contractions ever seen.

I'm hopeful that the global economic contraction that is occurring will put a kibosh on the plans to expand the oilsands, for the sake of our children and grandchildren whose world is being poisoned and raped for a few more years of fossil fuel - based «growth».

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receEconomic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receeconomic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

Economists and investors troll the data for indications of future economic growth or contraction.

During economic contractions, for example, gold's correlation to stocks actually decreased, according to data between 1987 and 2015.

Still, we see the economic and earnings backdrop as positive for equities, with fuller valuations a potential drag, especially in the U.S. Equities in Japan, the only major region to see multiple contraction in 2017, look well positioned.

The catch is that it still won't even come close to making up for the red ink splashed everywhere else around this fiscal update, most plainly in Notley government's insistence on spending its way through the severest two - year economic contraction ever recorded in the province.

This has now been negative since May, portraying a pace of economic activity that is well below potential and therefore continues to be consistent with both (a) a continuing ultimately deflationary economic Supercycle Bear Market Period, or Winter, and (b) our working model for after - shock, double double - dip business cycle contractions over the next four years.

Companies in the benchmark gauge for American equities trade at 10.2 times 2012 forecast earnings, compared with the average in economic contractions since 1957 of 13.7, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

While we are a strong advocate for spending constraint, we note with concern that while most major spending categories are subject to limited spending reductions, the Executive Budget proposes a significant contraction in the state's economic development resources.

Britain's economy has begun a contraction which will push it into recession by the end of March, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Mike Bloomberg built upon his predecessor's public - safety reforms; shepherded the city through two grave economic crises, the post-9 / 11 local contraction and the 2008 recession; and laid the groundwork for significant public - education reform.

Gary Gibbon: No one does gloom quite like Vince Channel 4 News's political editor blogs from the business secretary's speech: Vince Cable has spelt out a grim economic background — «the worst in living memory» — and said «I just wonder how many people» in the room «are prepared for the economic... contraction».

The CTA has been relentless in pushing for higher salaries during a time of economic contraction in California.

For example, there is evidence to suggest that when consumer discretionary stock outperformance over consumer staples is two standard deviations above the historical average, economic contraction is likely to begin within a year's time.

For example, there is growing evidence that factors like low per capita incomes, economic contraction, and inconsistent state institutions are associated with the incidence of civil wars, and also seem to be sensitive to climate change.

Public tolerance for voluntary economic contraction in the name of climate mitigation will be extremely limited at best.

So is voluntary economic contraction a key lever for climate mitigation?

Any real - world scenario that resembles Roberts» proposal for «voluntary economic contraction» in the developed world is likely to have far more modest outcomes and will certainly lack the perfectly equal distribution of global wealth in this example.

It will require a great deal of economic contraction for the assertion of «eighty percent» to be realized.

Richard Douthwaite argues that a similarly flawed judgement is evident in the assumption that the economy will recover, and advises on how to prepare for a future of global economic contraction.

There are thousands of initiatives around the world starting their journey to answer this crucial question: «for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly rebuild resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil and economic contraction) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?»

Times are rough for everyone, but law students are still feeling the brunt of the economic contraction as there are less and less jobs.