Sentences with phrase «led economy by»

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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.

However, the Bank is projecting a return to growth in the second half of 2015, led by the non-energy sectors of the economy: «Outside the energy - producing regions, consumer confidence remains high and labour markets continue to improve.

The fact is that new technologies, led by an intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and Internet of Things (IoT), are replacing humans in the mainstream economy at an alarming rate.

Led by Tien Tzuo, the California - based company offers a commerce platform solution for businesses in the subscription economy.

While the rich economies produce more innovation, if total innovation output is divided by input, the list of leading innovative countries looks very different.

The explosion of data produced by the digital economy has led to a surging need for specialists able to pull business insights out of terabyte - sized databases.

A UBS team led by economist Seth Carpenter analyzed year - over-year changes in US county - level unemployment rates and saw that they illustrated some bigger patterns in the national and global economies.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

In his commentary on the economy, his assessments have been nuanced, acknowledging that the better - than - expected data is positive, while pointing out that growth led by highly indebted households is unsustainable.

At its heart, the central question of this election, as conveyed by all leading parties, is: Who are the best stewards of our country's economy and its Parliament?

U.S. gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 0.7 % in the fourth quarter, a rather feeble expression of strength by the economy that is supposed to lead the world out of this latest phase of post-crisis malaise.

A softer yen has been encouraged by Japan's new government, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has pledged to end an era of deflation and revive the economy.

Sears, once a giant of America's consumer - led economy, was run into the ground by hedge - fund king Eddie Lampert.

As the global economy deteriorated in 2008, the collapse in virtually all asset prices led to the unwinding of the yen carry trade, leading to it surging as much as 29 percent against the yen in 2008, and 19 percent versus the US dollar by February 2009.

A move by the Chinese government to devalue the yuan on Tuesday has raised questions about a tangible slowdown in the country's economy that could lead to impacted earnings for companies like Aliababa.

«Canada appears content to become a second - tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second - rate status, led by a second - world strongman appropriately suited for the task.»

Left unchecked, these events had the potential to lead to a widespread retreat from risk - taking by investors, damaging the recovery in the world economy.

Although the focus on the yield curve has led to fewer bond purchases, the Bank of Japan may have little choice but to continue to inject significant amounts of liquidity into an economy that remains beset by demographic challenges.

She noted the U.S. economy continues to expand, «led by solid growth in household spending.»

While growth to date has been led mainly by the United States and China, there have been encouraging signs over the past year that growth is becoming very broadly based, with conditions improving in Japan as well as in a number of other economies.

First, because they represented a transfer from net savers to net borrowers, they helped to exacerbate the split between the growth in household income (households are net savers) and the growth in GDP (which is generated by net borrowers), and so led directly to the extraordinary imbalance in the Chinese economy in which consumption, as a share of GDP, has declined to perhaps the lowest level ever recorded in history.

The investment outlook may also depend on how much progress China can make in its efforts to enact fiscal reforms as it works through its historic shift from export - led growth to an economy led by domestic consumption.

Inflation expectations have begun to reset to the upside, led by global growth, including China's resilient economy.

However, by September 2013, the IMF had done a 360 - degree turn and had the U.S leading a global recovery (albeit not very strongly) and the emerging market economies struggling with rising interest rates, capital flight and falling exchange rates, resulting from the possibility of a tapering of Federal Reserve Board monetary stimulus.

Despite the home sharing boom led by Airbnb in the overseas market, the trend didn't catch up in China until recent years thanks to the popularity of sharing economy concept in China.

Swiss did not follow the lead of many other international carriers by introducing a new premium economy class.

It's true that demographic forces are leading to slower growth in the labour force, which reduces the neutral interest rate in the economy and increases the chances that monetary policy will be constrained by the lower bound on interest rates.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The Bank expects growth to resume in the third quarter and begin to exceed potential again in the fourth quarter, led by the non-resource sectors of Canada's economy.

Healthy demand growth for fuel not only in emerging economies led by China and India, but also in Europe, is helping global inventories to draw down faster now, keeping the oil market on the right track towards rebalancing, according to industry executives who spoke at a conference on Tuesday.

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The selling has raged on in the days since, fueled partly by fear that higher inflation would lead the Fed to accelerate its interest rates hikes and weaken the economy and the stock market.

Spending on autos was a key element of growth for the economy in 2016, with sales reaching record levels, but the latest figures again fell short of market expectations, despite rising inventories leading to heavy discounting by manufacturers.

That's why this new initiative led by Mayor Michael Tubbs is so important: we need to start exploring now how to prepare Americans for the economy of the future.

The size of Canada's economy was around $ 2 trillion dollars at the end of 2016, and according to the latest GDP numbers released by Statistics Canada, the Canadian economy expanded at 0.6 percent in May 2017 compared to the previous month, largely led by advances in the oil, gas and mining industries, which accounted for around two - thirds of the country's GDP growth.

Aluminium, lead and copper prices all fell, dragged down by concerns that the US economy is slowing.

After a strong year in 2004 the world economy retains momentum, with growth continuing to be led by the United States and China.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is jointly owned by the world's leading central banks, noted in November that bitcoin could disrupt the ability of central banks to exert control over the economy, as well as issue money.

Specifically, the report, which will be used as a guide by the Fed in formulating economic policy for its next FOMC meeting on October 31st and November 1st, intoned that the nation's economy was moving along at a modest to moderate pace in all 12 of the lead bank's Districts.

The sanctions imposed on the Russian economy have led to a rise in investment in Cypriot real estate by Russian buyers, says a leading developer.

In China, we expect a moderation of growth accompanied by a number of policy reforms that we believe could lead to sustainable levels of growth as the economy increasingly relies on rising consumption.

Strong productivity growth, combined with moderating wage growth and ample spare capacity in the economy, led to unit labour costs falling by 1.7 per cent over the year to the December quarter.

Stocks dropped an average of about 8 % leading up to the start of each recession so it does appear that investors were prescient by selling before the economy slowed.

A bifurcated economy led by credit - sensitive industries is one with less resilience to negative economic shock.

The Charlotte Chamber is a membership, volunteer - led organization that creates competitive advantage by growing the economy, advocating pro-business public policies and delivering innovative programs and services.

This is especially true for big bank CEO's where reckless risk - taking — encouraged by stock - based compensation schemes — lead to financial busts that exact a heavy price from the economy, workers and all taxpayers, repeatedly.

Too much cheap borrowing by individuals and businesses can lead to an economy «flooded» with cash and demand, two ingredients for runaway inflation.

Led by the meteoric rise of China, the region's growth is the bright spot in an otherwise uncertain global economy.

Led by the Fed, major central banks have inundated their economies with $ 10 trillion of cheap cash since the crisis, Deutsche Bank AG said.