Sentences with phrase «for economic weakness»

While leading measures and our Recession Warning Composite do not currently provide enough evidence to anticipate an oncoming recession with confidence, they do suggest much greater prospects for economic weakness than the Wall Street consensus suggests.

Not exact matches

Look out for buying opportunities into weakness, but be prepared to sell into strength as the economic environment remains uncertain.

But for the last few days, global markets have been in a rout, based on economic weakness in emerging markets.

Once heralded as the voice for emerging markets, the BRICS group consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is now plagued by economic and political weaknesses.

Prices for credit assets tied to the Bank of Canada's target imply traders think there is a 60 % chance that Poloz will once again be moved to respond to persistent economic weakness.

Once heralded as the voice for emerging markets, the BRICS group is plagued by economic and political weaknesses.

Market analysts blamed the destabilizing influence of leverage in the market for the enduring weakness, aggravated by a lack of economic data to support a rally that had seen major indexes rise as much as 150 percent by early June.

November's solid jobs report gave the Fed a final piece of evidence, clearing the way for a December rate hike, but now the question is how fast can it raise rates given weakness in some other economic data.

At present, valuations are elevated, market action is relatively neutral with a deteriorating bias, and a variety of additional considerations suggest the potential for a combination of inflation, economic weakness and credit defaults.

The concerted weakening in commodity prices already suggests a global force to this economic downturn, while further weakness in the U.S. dollar would suggest that demand for U.S. goods and securities was softening even more sharply than internationally.

I suspect the Yellen Fed (correctly) has a much higher tolerance for stock market losses than Bernanke, and that interventions in the case of market losses and economic weakness will take a different form than quantitative easing.

He would look for weakness in cyclical names, which are more sensitive to better economic growth.

Admittedly, a more conventional approach might have seen the Board ease policy more slowly, waiting for more evidence of economic weakness and moderation of inflation.

It is highly unusual for both to occur together, so a simultaneous drop in both Treasury yields and the dollar would be a very powerful signal of impending economic weakness.

With the bear market that started in 2011 likely being over, further hints on economic weakness could cause a sustainable rally gold, even without a clear signal from the central banks that, in fact, interest rates will remain depressed for the foreseeable future.

From the perspective of the people pulling the monetary levers, it provides carte blanche for more money - conjuring in response to economic weakness.

Though the underlying reason for that Treasury price strength was concern about economic weakness and credit defaults, falling bond yields do allow us to take a more constructive stance once market internals show evidence of improvement.

Needless to say, unanticipated economic weakness could force a downward adjustment in expectations for future earnings and is inconsistent with highly valued financial assets.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Normally, the prospect of economic weakness would provide some support for a longer duration, but the evidence on inflation is not benign.

With China's increasing domestic demand for gold, economic growth trends and continued weakness in the Chinese stock market, some analysts expect gold prices to reach new highs.

The data released today by the BEA show pretty clearly that the arguments we make in House of Debt remain relevant for thinking about economic weakness today.

Still, my impression is that fresh economic weakness could prove to be a tipping point, and that both investors and the public should understand that they are likely to pay terribly for the current abundance of apparently free lunches.

The monetary authorities of the US and Japan have reiterated that monetary policy will remain accommodative for the foreseeable future as the excess capacity that has built up as a result of the earlier period of economic weakness is seen as limiting inflationary pressures for some time.

The Fed might have missed one of the last opportunities to move to a more hawkish stance, as if the weakness in «hard» economic numbers persists, the central bank will have no firepower to prop up the economy, making a possible downturn that much more risky for bulls.

Only if it is a practical or moral weakness for a human economic system to be based on selfishness.

Marxism needs to be evaluated for its strengths and weaknesses as does capitalism or any other economic system.

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much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

The author argues that the GCC governments, driven by economic weakness and future aspirations, started to invest in alternative sources to feed their economies, for example, partnerships with prestigious Western academic institutions.

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has blamed weaknesses in US economic power as a reason for the difficulties in the global economy.

The head of the state's Republican party, Ed Cox, jumped on Cuomo's perceived weakness, pointing out that the governor's job performance numbers have been «underwater» for months now, and predicting that the ongoing investigation of the Buffalo Billion and other high tech economic projects means that «dissatisfaction will grow.»

Kim called for a tax on political action committees, and said he would hire a economic development caseworker who would analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each community in the district.

The gap for next year is estimated to be around $ 2 billion dollars, and comes at a time of continued economic weakness in New York and the nation.

The head of the state's Republican party, Ed Cox, jumped on Cuomo's perceived weakness, pointing out that the governor's job performance numbers have been «under water» for months now, and predicting that the ongoing investigation of the Buffalo Billion and other high - tech economic projects means that «dissatisfaction will grow.»

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

The open innovation initiative in Lombardy is founded in the European Commission's Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3), which include reports on the region's strengths, weaknesses, and areas of opportunity from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

«However, the application of an economic modeling technique allowed us to attempt to control for some of these weaknesses.

«The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long - term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them,» said OECD education director Andreas Schleicher.

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Yet ignoring bearishness in asset prices around the world is particularly near - sighted, if for no other reason that global economic weakness is the biggest threat to the worldwide profits and the worldwide revenue of large U.S. - based corporations.

But more interesting is the relationship between the two asset classes in the 50/50 portfolio: «First, when a recession is imminent, there is a tendency for bonds to outperform stocks during the initial period of economic weakness (a «flight - to - safety» effect).

Temporary factors, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan, appear to account for only some of the recent weakness in economic activity.

Economic weakness did not significantly impact Crown Castle's recurring revenue, and demand for wireless services continued to grow.

It would be extremely easy for the Fed to use an excuse that economic weakness in Europe, Asia, Australia, Latin America — pretty much everywhere — requires that they tighten at a sloth's pace.

Rising Global Equity Markets Pressure Dollar Overnight Stronger global equity markets are contributing to the weakness in the Dollar as traders are once again increasing demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

Stronger global equity markets contributed to the weakness in the Dollar early in the trading session as traders once again increased demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.This morning, traders drove equities higher after taking a look at the U.S. em...

Stronger global equity markets contributed to the earlier weakness in the Dollar as traders once again increased demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

I haven't really talked about the issue of whether high oil prices portend economic strength or weakness for a good reason.