Sentences with phrase «for running a surplus»

The IMF added that if growth was lower than expected or if the Greek government failed to meet targets for running a surplus on its budget excluding interest payments, there would be «significant increases in debt and gross financing needs».

Not exact matches

Keep the budget balanced or run a small surplus, then have a «rainy day» fund for emergencies.

That is an interesting negotiating posture for a country that ran a $ 375 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year.

According to Trump's own trade representatives, the answer is no — the U.S. does run a deficit with Canada when it comes to goods, but its surplus in services far outweighs that, leaving an overall surplus of $ 12.5 billion for 2016.

Since the U.S. runs a large surplus in its exports of services to China, $ 33.3 billion in 2015, Beijing would be highly tempted to single out this sector for retaliation as well.

In normal circumstances he believed in a balanced budget and maybe a bit of a surplus for bad times but what he believed was fatal to a nation was running deficit trade imbalances.

For much of the nineteenth century, the United States also ran trade deficits and capital account surpluses, but while there were already capital flows driven by investors making independent decisions about where to park their money, roughly 90 percent of the international business done by London banks consisted of trade finance.

U.S. investment exceeds U.S. savings, and the United States runs a trade deficit that is by definition equal to the gap between investment and savings.1 It also runs a capital account surplus equal to the gap because this is the amount of net foreign capital inflow that bridges the gap, and the trade account and the capital account for any country must always balance to zero.

Capital markets in the U.S. are deep, flexible and completely open, making it easy for countries that aim to run trade surpluses to park their excess savings there.

China, however, is already challenging Europe as running the highest current account surplus in history, and in a world in which demand is likely to remain weak for many years, the external sector is unlikely to provide sufficient additional demand.

China can run a current account surplus with Mexico, for example, and use the proceeds the buy Treasuries.

This prompted Chinese officials to counter U.S. attempts to blame it for running a trade surplus by retorting that U.S. financial aggression «risked bringing mutual destruction upon the great economic powers.»

If China runs a current account surplus with the United States, for example, the assumption is that Chinese manufacturers have a fundamental cost advantage over American manufacturers, the result of which is that American households and businesses find it cheaper to import Chinese goods than to buy American goods, and Chinese households and businesses find it cheaper to buy Chinese goods than to import American goods.

If the US were to run a positive current account balance with all of the other 9 largest economies in the world, the chance of the US running large, persistent current account deficits with the entire world would be tiny cuz that'd assume huge surpluses by countries that account for ~ 1 / 3rd of world GDP.

If British textile manufacturers could produce and ship textiles to France at a much lower cost than French producers could manage, for example, England would run a trade surplus in textiles with France, and bankers would finance the trade imbalances.

Although India runs a merchandise trade deficit (2 1/2 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), it has a modest surplus on the current account (0.8 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), owing to sizeable inward current transfers and a surplus for net services.

It seemed logical that technology would increase the economic surplus and hence make it less necessary for families, companies or governments to run up debt to rentiers even more rapidly than the tangible surplus was growing.

Finance Minister Charles Sousa — who finally balanced the books last year when he promised surpluses for the foreseeable future — said Wednesday that Queen's Park will run a $ 6.7 billion deficit in 2018 - 19.

The Togolese striker is surplus to requirements at White Hart Lane after failing to break in manager Mauricio Pochettino's plans for large parts of last season and it appears the club are desperate to get him off the wage bill this summer despite the player only having one more year left to run on his current deal.

With just one week to get something over the line, I would suggest we may have run out of targets, I believe AW is now waiting for one of the big boys (Real, Barca or Bayern) to go splash the cash on a new star so Wenger can pick up their surplus, It worked well with Ozil and Sanchez, but we aren't the only side looking to buy more players, we are not the only side who need an injection of quality.

Paddy Lowe has been promoted from the boardroom to invigorate the side, but with new signings like Sergey Sirotkin, the team are pushing their luck running at a surplus rather than going in for experienced playmakers.

It had run a budget surplus for years and its debt to GDP ratio was well below 60 % in 2008 (compare that to Italy's 120 %).

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

The UK is now running a surplus of # 3.8 bn in its current budget - the money borrowed to fund day - to - day spending rather than long - term investment - according to the Office for National Statistics figures.

Taxpayers may look with favor on administrations that run regular surpluses rather than deficits or borrowing heavily for recurring expenses.

On Saturday we were told that the Labour Party would be voting for George Osborne's surplus law — that the UK should from 2019 onwards run a permanent overall surplus including capital investment.

County Comptroller George Maragos, a Republican also running for re-election, reported recently he expects Nassau to end this year with a $ 5.6 million cash surplus.

(It was only Al Gore's tie - breaking vote that saved the Clinton budget, which ended up being a major reason for the surpluses the country was running by the end of the decade.)

The speaker called for patience from residents in allowing NYCHA to implement the plan, which projects for the authority to go from running hundred million dollar deficits to equally large surpluses inside of a decade.

In «Global wheat: The risks behind the records,» a report published by AHDB in February 2018, Kaur Purewal and colleagues suggest that, despite an unprecedented run of surplus global wheat production in the last four years, there is a relatively small cushion for large - scale importers to fall back upon, if imports become harder to obtain.

In either case, if you don't know exactly how many calories you're utilizing for fuel, upkeep, reconstruction, etc., you're better off running a surplus of fat calories than of sugar calories: As you mentioned, calorie surplus will go into the fatty tissue.

She lives in the North of England with her family and, in her spare time, runs a charity that digs wells for schools in The Gambia, enabling the children to grow food to eat while at school, with any surplus sold by the schools to buy supplies.

A Country which has a positive trade flow (more exports than imports) runs surpluses that serve to increase their currency while the opposite is true for the net importer.

Massachusetts in particular is a magnet and a distribution center for relocated surplus pets and strays, but other states with empty shelter runs are picking up the cause as well.

We believe that the sector as a whole will slowly become more forward - looking to adequately prepare for the time when its surplus of allowances will run dry.

A Co-operative Society is a membership organisation run for the mutual benefit of its members — serving their interests primarily by trading with them or otherwise providing them with goods, services and facilities — with any surplus usually being ploughed back into the organisation, although profits can be distributed to members.

It would not be run for profit - if there is a surplus, I will simply reduce the subscription / charge in the next year, or put it towards a Christmas meal for the members, or donate it to charity.

Keep cigarette smoke, surplus moisture and chemicals out of your home and be sure to air out your space by opening a window or running exhaust fans in the bathroom and kitchen if only for a few minutes each day.