Sentences with phrase «from weak economies»

The continent's carriers in general suffer from weak economies and stiff competition on international markets.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies however may see demand from weaker economies with little investment opportunity, according to Barclays.

The 1 % who profit from a weaker economy, giving up some sales to retain dominance over pliant labor market, and 20 % share of national income, laugh all the way to the Fed Bank

Critics of the current system argue that if Europeans get this right, Europe could become a more attractive research environment than the United States, which is suffering from a weak economy and deep cuts in federally funded research.

Credit card APRs rise for third straight week — Borrowing money on a new credit card continues to become increasingly expensive, as banks work to protect themselves from a weak economy.

The «down side,» Mr. Bower said, is that as law firms turn leaner, they will need fewer lawyers; in the wake of vast numbers of layoffs that have already resulted from a weak economy, even more associates may be finding themselves out of jobs.

Not exact matches

While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.

Officials from the U.S. Federal Reserve meet for two days this week, starting Tuesday, to discuss fiscal policy and the trajectory of the U.S. economy in the wake of a weak employment report for the month of May.

The split decision reflects dissent from the MPC's «doves» who fear that the economy is still too weak for a rate hike.

In the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S. growth; higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted households.

Wall Street stock futures are lower this morning over renewed fears for the global economy after some weak Japanese economic data and some routine gloom from the Bank of England, which is worried, among other things, by the potential impact of the U.K.'s vote on whether to leave the E.U..

The export bounce is, at face value, a sign that China's modest economic revival is intact and suggestive of global demand being on the mend, but imports were surprisingly weak, falling 15.2 percent from a year earlier to 13 - month lows and highlighting vulnerability lurking in the domestic economy.

A Federal Reserve working paper from last year found that at least three - quarters of the decline in new charters is attributable to the weak economy and low interest rates.

He said there were few signs of the economy's long - awaited turnaround, a pickup many expected would receive boosts from a weaker dollar, cheaper pump prices and low interest rates.

Last week I had drinks with one of my former Peking University students and we discussed some of the ways the global economy might react to a world adjusting from a global crisis with weak demand and excess liquidity.

From my perspective, that look would tell them several things: 1) the U.S. economy is in recession, 2) the combination of weak producer prices and rising wage and benefits costs means that profit margins continue to be under pressure.

Thus the wage gains are from a one time energy glut brought about by increased supply from fracking, lower demand from a weak global economy, and some producers increasing production to make up for lower prices (not entirely self defeating as consumer nations expand inventories while prices are low).

With a weak economy, Russia has little leverage to pressure China to meet its commitments, other than seeking investments from other Asian neighbors; Japan and South Korea, however, are even more reluctant investors than China, given their desire to maintain a united front with the United States on sanctions.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government reined in new spending in a wait - and - see budget that touts support for ordinary Canadians but hedged its bets in the face of a still weak global economy and unpredictable fallout from the Donald Trump administration.

Because Thor is selling discretionary products like recreational vehicles, many fear that a weak economy would send THO reeling from its current price.

If anything should be clear from the bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when prices are depressed, the economy is weak, and investors are frightened, but rather when prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook for technology, or housing, or global growth, or private equity, or emerging markets, or commodities seems all but certain.

Thus, the period where the Australian economy was experiencing a contractionary impact from abroad and where the outlook was for weaker growth and sub-2 per cent inflation has now well and truly passed.

One way or another, in economies like the United States that do not suffer from weak access to capital, a reduction in foreign capital inflows automatically increases domestic savings.

The Euro is trading at its lowest versus the Dollar since January and is weak against its major counterparts after first quarter data showed a significant slowdown in the economy from the final three months of 2017.

Nevertheless I do worry that the fall in exports from a strong dollar is a bit stronger than the rise in exports from a weak dollar: I suspect because there is a hysteresis effect: Once a factory is shut down, it stays shut down — and if firms don't continuously invest to stay at the cutting edge of technology, it can be hard for a high - wage advanced economy to stay globally competitive.

The fact that there are asymmetric payoffs from an economy that is weaker than expected versus one that is stronger than expected, given that we are at the zero lower bound reinforces this conclusion.

Harlan Levy: From the most recent data, including robust retail sales, slightly declining consumer confidence, and weak manufacturing, what is keeping the U.S. economy recovering at its subpar pace?

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

«China could be forced to devalue the yuan even more, should its economy falter, and the equity markets are dealing with the prospect of a weaker yuan amplifying the negative impact from a sluggish Chinese economy,» said Eiji Kinouchi, chief technical analyst at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo.

These include the economy's lack of diversification away from the non-oil sector and high operating costs as a result of bureaucracy and a lack of competition, as well as low productivity due to relatively weak infrastructure and poor human capital development.

China posted surprisingly weak foreign trade growth in April, signaling that the world's second largest economy continues to face strong head winds, both from abroad and at home

The electronics chain, like a lot of retailers, has been slammed by a still - weak economy and the ongoing migration of consumers from brick - and - mortar stores to shopping online.

«The distinction amongst the sturdy pound and the weakening euro and rising marketplace currencies — with each other with weak point in these economies — assist to drive profit warnings from the internationally - uncovered FTSE one hundred to a document high.»

What's going on here is the very weak jobs data is adding fuel to the fire that the economy is weak and therefore deserving of another fix from the Fed.

A plausible argument can be made that the Fed should now deviate from its rule book, but the argument isn't that the economy is too weak to cope with tighter monetary policy.

One risk would be the negative demographics of an aging population, which signals weak consumption, however the economy is heavily geared towards exports, which benefit from «synchronized global growth».

But the eurozone economy is still weak overall and recovering only slowly from years of financial crises and recessions.

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Over time, the stock market has reached new records, powered by economic and earnings growth.2 We expect both to continue: The domestic economy is picking up a little speed, helped by improving growth in the rest of the world, and company earnings have benefited from better sales, the weaker dollar and still - low interest rates.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

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.

The euro plunged from near two - year highs to a six - week low against the dollar in early November, after weak inflation figures stoked fears about demand in the 17 - member economy, according to Nawaz Ali, UK market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Consolidation and the weak economy have taken their toll on smaller companies in the area, and as a result Pioneer faces stiffer competition from large - scale operations, Milligan says.

Senior members of the party want Mr Cameron to announce a number of new policy proposals in the new year as a way of taking the electorate's focus away from the economy, over which he has appeared weak when compared to Gordon Brown in recent polls.

They would never opt to endorse a BUSINESSMAN from the place with the weakest economy in the state.

Niagara County lawmakers received the first segment of a two - part annual briefing on the state of the county's economy and economic development efforts from the men tasked with leading the herculean effort to keep Niagara County's economy growing against the backdrop of a weak national economy Tuesday night.

He assured that the weak economy inherited from the Mahama government was improving and soon Ghanaians will see more projects and improvement in the living conditions.

Writing in the journal Applied Economics, Steve Cook and Duncan Watson (both from the University of Wales Swansea) and Louise Parker (from the University of East Anglia) take a closer look at two ways that unemployment impacts on crime: the «opportunity» effect (a strong economy means more goods worth stealing, and fewer people sat at home to guard them) and the «motivation» effect (a weak economy widens perceived differences between lifestyles and can tempt some into crime).