Sentences with phrase «growth at low pressure»

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Vanguard says investors should pay more attention to low unemployment rates than GDP growth at this stage of the cycle for prospects of either higher spending for capital expenditures or wage pressures.

Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).

Explaining the rate hike, BoE Governor Mark Carney cited a record low level of unemployment, inflation above the BoE's target of 2 % and the UK economy's reduced growth capacity, which policymakers believe has lowered the threshold at which it can expand without creating pricing pressures.

Upward pressures such as lower prices and sales are being countered by lower employment and income growth, leaving the market at a safe, sustainable level which Porter describes as «something closer to normalcy.»