Sentences with phrase «increasing business confidence»

«The rise in domestic business - travel spending is a positive sign of increasing business confidence and bodes well for future employment growth,» says Michael W. McCormick, executive director and chief operating officer of GBTA.

Increased business confidence has been unmistakable this past year.

Even though some of the things the Trump administration is doing are giving it a bad name, the basic impulse that increased business confidence that raises the propensity to invest is a good thing.

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Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

Outside the energy sector, we are beginning to see the anticipated sequence of increased foreign demand, stronger exports, improved business confidence and investment, and employment growth.

Sanctions, the bank noted, «negatively affected business confidence, limited the ability of companies and banks to access international debt markets and contributed to an increase in private capital outflow.»

Contrary to what one might believe, Harp's data showed that when entrepreneurs shared both positive and negative aspects of the business on a regular basis, the other spouse's trust and confidence in the entrepreneur actually increased.

The tepid confidence level is somewhat at odds with how business owners view their current financial situations — 67 percent gave their situation a rating of good, the same as the prior quarter and an increase of two percentage points compared with the second quarter of 2015.

One more thing a good business plan does for a startup, it helps to increase confidence of the other stakeholders — whether that be conventional banks or private capital, or even key executives you want to early bring on board.

Meanwhile, business owners in the South Atlantic (64 percent) and West South Central (62 percent) said they expected revenue to increase in the next year, the highest level of sales confidence among owners in all U.S. regions.

While our earnings were not immune to the sharp downward trajectory of global markets, our limited partner investors affirmed their confidence in our world - leading businesses and increased their share of funds with us.»

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

The chargeback process is designed to increase consumer confidence — it's very easy for credit card users to dispute charges, while businesses and banks have to do all of the legwork to figure out whether or not a transaction is legitimate.

«The elephant in the room they can't discuss is [the election], and if the elephant could stop the Fed, for no political reasons, but because the election increases volatility in the market and hurts business confidence,» said Harris.

Participants gain practical insights on business culture, hiring practices, leadership and career goal - setting to increase confidence and resiliency.

In the Conference Board's Index of Business Confidence survey, business leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not inBusiness Confidence survey, business leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not inbusiness leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not investing.

«The strong return of banks in small business lending indicates three things: overall improving economy, entrepreneur confidence that they will be able to borrow for expansion and repay the loans, and the increasing ease and popularity of SBA lending,» explained Biz2Credit CEO Rohit Arora, who oversaw the research.

Through Wellsfargoworks.com, we offer useful guidance on topics such as writing a business plan, marketing your business, managing cash flow, and building credit to help business owners increase their knowledge and confidence.

Thus, John Maynard Keynes, writing in a similar situation during the late 1930s, rightly emphasized the need for policy approaches that both promoted business confidence — the cheapest form of stimulus — and increased labor compensation.

The eurozone's cyclical recovery should continue, in our view, with increasing confidence among consumers and businesses in the region boosting spending, and a further lift from a healthy global economic environment.

Stephen Poloz said he expects business investment to increase as confidence grows in that recovery.

«Small business optimism and overall confidence in the economy remains high, largely due to an increase in sales and revenues, which suggest demand is strong,» said Mark Vitner, Wells Fargo managing director and senior economist.

Yesterday in a letter to Minister Morneau, John Manley, President and CEO of the Business Council, urged the government to take decisive action now to bolster private - sector confidence in the Canadian economy, discourage capital flight and increase incentives for new business invBusiness Council, urged the government to take decisive action now to bolster private - sector confidence in the Canadian economy, discourage capital flight and increase incentives for new business invbusiness investment.

Labour markets are showing increasing evidence of an easing in wage pressures, and recent declines in business confidence may prompt a tougher stance by businesses in wage negotiations.

According to a range of surveys, business confidence has now risen to levels consistent with well - above - average growth of the economy, with profits, sales and employment all reported to have increased strongly in the past few months.

In our asset management business, net sales of our long - term mutual funds continued to increase through 2009, demonstrating the power of our distribution network, rising financial markets, and the confidence that clients have in our fund management expertise, as well as the benefits of our acquisition of PH&N, which was named fund company of the year by Lipper.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Created to help increase sales and demand for dairy products, DMI and its related organizations work to increase demand for dairy through research, education and innovation, and to maintain confidence in dairy foods, farms and businesses.

«We believe increasing the underlying farmgate returns by $ 1 per kilogram of milk solids by financial year 2017 will deliver the level of return Murray Goulburn supplier / shareholders require to have confidence to invest in their farm businesses and grow milk production,» he said.

Executive Summit: Increase Confidence in Making Smart Business Decisions, sponsored by Yale Material Handling and Duke University.

With the retail sector reporting difficulties, an increase in consumer confidence would help local shops and small businesses.

Adeosun explained that the policy was expected to «Increase exposure of financial or financial related crimes; support the fight against financial crimes and corruption; improved level of public confidence in public entities; enhance transparency and accountability in the management of public funds; improve Nigeria's Open Government Ranking and Ease of Doing Business Indicators; and recover public funds that can be deployed to finance Nigeria's infrastructure deficit.»

So a restoration of confi dence in the ability of political leaders among business leaders has coincided with an improvement in trust by the public - albeit that the huge improvement among business leaders in confidence for Gordon Brown has been far more pronounced than his modest increase in electoral support.

Speaking in response to the Queen's speech, Business Secretary Vince Cable said increased penalties and regulation were needed in order to restore public confidence in the immigration system.

Speaking in response to the Queen's speech, Business Secretary Vince Cable said increased penalties and regulation were needed to restore public confidence in the immigration system.

Entrepreneurs in the Classroom: M.Y.O.B. Spells Success The Small Business Administration reports that students who participate in entrepreneurship programs demonstrate increased initiative and self - confidence.

This increases your self - efficacy, confidence, and motivation to keep learning, and the snowball of returns in the form of business and personal transformation just keeps getting bigger.

«What's more, the increase in education vacancies suggests that business confidence is growing, offering plenty of exciting opportunities for job hunters in the sector.»

The Kalamazoo Promise was funded by anonymous donors who, according to the school district, had three primary goals: 1) to promote local economic and community development, in part by attracting parents and businesses to the Kalamazoo area; 2) to boost educational achievement and attainment; and 3) to increase confidence in KPS.

«Car - buying fundamentals like employment and energy prices are in good shape, consumer confidence has reached a post-recession high and business investment is increasing.»

Our research efforts enable us to know the quality businesses behind the stocks we hold very well and this gives us the confidence to maintain, and even increase, our shares in these stable companies when the market drops.

If the economy deteriorates sufficiently, demand probably increases overall, in terms of the number of distressed consumers — but this is likely overwhelmed by the decline in confidence (to borrow) & the ability to repay (which will prompt write - downs on the current book of business).

We pair this evaluation with information about any significant or increasing stock ownership among a company's officers and directors because meaningful insider ownership can signal management's personal confidence in the business.

Share purchases by senior executives typically indicate increased confidence in the business.

A Paris treaty along these lines would send a clear signal to business: it will indicate the direction of travel, it will show political buy - in; it will deliver clarity and a level playing field, and increase confidence in the future direction of policy.

Companies like Eneco are choosing to lead the way in this transition because they are already seeing the benefits to their business including increased innovation, reduced regulatory uncertainty, strengthened investor confidence and improved profitability and competitiveness.»

Adopting this commitment will give important stakeholders confidence that the company understands the risks, is taking effective action, and increasing business resilience.

Though there has been little sign of improvement in our certainty as to its precise value, there has been greatly increased confidence in the limits of that range: pretty much everyone in the business accepts that the number (to the extent it is well - defined, which I question) is in that range.

The more you can do to increase their understanding of and confidence in your law firm business, the better your chances of being found by legal consumers.

With HR 993, which would amend the state constitution to create a statewide court specializing in business - to - business cases, Georgia legislators would directly address that lack of confidence by improving judgment predictability, increasing speed, and prioritizing judicial expertise in complex commercial litigation.