Sentences with phrase «including high consumer confidence»

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Solid fundamentals, including strong employment gains, high consumer confidence and very strong investment outside the energy sector should see U.S. growth return to close to 2 1/2 per cent this year.

Other evidence included a European Commission survey of economic sentiment among eurozone businesses and consumers, which climbed to its highest level since 2000, and a measure of French business confidence, which registered a 10 - year high.

Growth has been underpinned by a number of factors, including a high level of consumer confidence, a decline in the unemployment rate, favourable financial conditions and increases in wealth, fostered by rising housing prices.

«When you look at the broader economy, including a strong job market, rising wages, low inflation and low interest rates, and couple them to low fuel prices and strong consumer confidence, you have everything you need for auto sales to weather headwinds and remain at or near historic highs,» said Mustafa Mohatarem, GM chief economist.

Then there are the indirect costs which often have larger implications and include reduced productivity, higher insurance costs and a limit to consumer and investor confidence.

Phil Soper, president and CEO of Royal LePage, told the forum that «Fuelled by solid economic conditions including moderate interest rates, high employment and strong consumer confidence, Canada's housing market was quick out of the gate this year.

«Canada's housing market in 2008 should continue to thrive on a balanced diet of strong economic fundamentals, including high levels of employment, resilient consumer confidence, modest levels of inflation and the relatively low cost of borrowing money,» says Phil Soper, president and chief executive of Royal LePage Real Estate Services.