Sentences with phrase «likely remain low»

There is strong consumer confidence, interest rates will likely remain low and our province is a very desirable place to live.

But the demographic profile of 50 years ago isn't coming back, which means inflation and growth will likely remain low for some time.

As a result, Canadian interest rates will most likely remain lower than U.S. rates.

Not exact matches

Yet even if the Britain loses access to the European Union's single market, many firms have lowered their estimates for job losses in London, meaning the city will likely remain Europe's financial center.

However this will be a gradual process and prices are likely to remain in the lower end of the range in place over the past decade.

«With gasoline prices remaining low (providing a huge windfall to U.S. consumers), confidence sky - high and the buoyancy in labor market activity likely to bolster household income, we expect consumer spending activity to rebound strongly in the coming months,» Mulraine said.

Limited fiscal headroom means the government is likely to cut remaining fuel subsidies but analysts expect authorities to soften the blow by targeting spending to low - income households.

The continuing highlighting of household imbalances, despite noting that the risks have in fact lessened somewhat in the past six months, suggests the central bank remains worried that with interest rates likely to continue at near emergency low levels, the dangers of something going off the rails intensifies.

Given that U.S. short - term interest rates are stuck at zero, and are likely to remain unusually low for some time even if the Federal Reserve starts to raise rates later this year, return for cash this year is almost certain to be negative.

Obviously, it matters a great deal whether productivity growth is likely to remain low or recover as the world economy gains traction, and that depends on how you explain slowing productivity growth.

With inflation likely to remain low and Treasuries continuing to be a haven for domestic and foreign investors, financing the expanding federal debt should continue without major problems.

Income will remain a hot commodity in 2016, as interest rates are likely to stay low even as the Fed hikes and other income sources also face hurdles.

If inflation is likely to remain too low, the cash rate would typically be lowered.

The $ 330 - billion spending plan says while several economic indicators such as employment numbers and tax revenues are up, and this year's deficit will likely be lower than expected — there are risks ahead: oil prices are expected to remain low; Canadian exports may remain flat; and «possible U.S. policy actions affecting trade could restrain exports to the U.S. even further,» the budget says.

«Absent material equity valuation improvements for Ares and KKR, we expect further conversions of Fitch - rated alternative investment managers to be decreasingly likely, given that the remaining managers generally have more incentive income which would not benefit from the lower tax rate,» said Meghan Neenan, head of North American Non-Bank Financial Institutions at Fitch.

Carney, who became governor on July 1, issued forward guidance on interest rates during his previous job as head of the Bank of Canada — the idea being that people would be more likely to borrow if they knew rates were going to remain low.

Lately, we seem to have done better: markets now seem to understand that policy rates will likely remain exceptionally low for a considerable period of time even after tapering is completed.

Generally lower mining demand is also likely to remain a headwind.

«However, historically high levels of household debt and low wage growth will offset some of the positive impact of recent strong employment data, so consumers are likely to remain cautious.»

As long as Group of Seven nation bond yields remain generally lower than similar - maturity Treasuries, it's just one more reason why yields on U.S. bonds are likely to stay lower for even longer.

To some extent, at least as far as stock options go, if the stock price remains depressed for a long period of time, some stock options will expire, but that's usually cold comfort as management is likely to issue itself new stock options at the lower price.

«Given a property inventory overhang of two to five years in lower - tier cities and China NBS reporting the number of unsold new homes nationwide increased 14 % to 437 million square metres as at 31 October, inventories are likely to remain a problem for China's property sector,» says Dhar.

That's especially likely to be a developing problem this autumn, if oil prices remain low and many firms will see their price hedges starting to roll off in large quantities.

While volatility is still expected to remain high, today's low is likely the final bottom of the correction and investors could already add to their holdings.

Global bond yields remain relatively low, reflecting expectations that global interest rates are still likely to remain low for some time, notwithstanding upward revisions to those expectations in the past couple of months.

Unless the argument is that interest rates and inflation are likely to remain low for the indefinite future, it's absurd to argue that present levels of inflation and interest rates are relevant to setting the valuations of stocks.

Rate and yield increases will likely remain within the context of still generally low - yield levels.

However, wool prices remain weak and ongoing low returns from wool are likely to see farmers reduce sheep numbers further.

However, further regional policy divergence, slow emerging markets growth and global liquidity risks are likely to keep market volatility higher, meaning effectively navigating a low - return world will remain a challenge.

Other factors driving rates lower — low nominal global growth, an older population, lower fixed income supply and the disinflationary pressure of technology — will likely remain in place.

The reality is that, by historical standards, rates are extremely low and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

But even if the Federal Reserve (Fed) begins raising rates this September, rates are likely to remain low for long.

Noting that inflation has remained persistently low, «Additional gradual rate hikes would likely be appropriate over the next few years to sustain the economic expansion,» Yellen testified.

Jury is still out on secular stagnation — «At present, it looks likely that the equilibrium interest rate will remain low for the policy - relevant future, but there have in the past been both long swings and short - term changes in what can be thought of as equilibrium real rates»

«We believe the worst result for ESPR would be success of the remaining CETP inhibitor anacetrapib, as this would be a significant competitor, could set the bar higher for outcomes results, and make the FDA even more likely to require outcomes data for bempedoic acid in our view, because there would be lower unmet need,» the analyst wrote.

In the short - term, however, we think low inflation trends in the eurozone mean the ECB is likely to remain accommodative for quite some time.

The bottom line: Given the significant levels of debt that remain on household and government balance sheets, inflation is likely to remain lower than what we experienced in periods leading up to the financial crisis.

Given the low level of interest rates, spending on alterations and additions seems likely to remain strong.

While lower real returns are likely for cash going forward, when compared to the post-1980 period, their importance as the benchmark for the risk - free return is likely to remain intact.

-- the current price at 12,35 EUR is ~ 1/3 lower than the expired take - over offer from Deutsche Annington 6 weeks ago — although the share will be delisted by the end of the year, I do believe that a squeeze - out under Luxembourg law is very likely within the next 12 - 18 months close to the initial offer price (~ 50 % upside from current price)-- the downside is that following November, the stock will be unlisted and hard to sell and that for some reason the Acquirer Deutsche Annington will not squeeze out the remaining minorities

But the bank is likely to clarify its forward guidance to announce that it will no longer link the continuation of QE with inflation, which has remained stubbornly low.

The relatively low 3.5 % down payment that draws people to this program will likely remain in effect throughout 2018.

Looking forward, inflation is likely to remain low for a variety of reasons, including the modest recovery, constrained wages and the fact that the recent rally in oil may not have much further to go.

If these conditions take hold, interest rates would likely remain at low levels for a long time, despite the Fed's likely increase in rates later this year.

Gold will likely be pushed lower in its correction, but the long - term uptrend should remain intact.

Gazidis is also looking at some big names such as Thomas Tuchel, Joachim Low, Carlo Ancelotti and Diego Simeone and interest is likely to be huge — but it remains to be seen which avenue they go down.

For example, if your child had a hard time getting enough nutrition in his early months because of illness or postbirth complications, he's more likely to remain on a lower growth curve.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

Good news that property taxes will remain low, but bad news in that quality of life services, such as police protection and road maintenance, are likely to see cuts in the coming year,» said Stephen Acquario, the NYSAC executive director.

[128] As with other smaller parties, their proportion of MPs remained likely to be considerably lower than that of total, national votes cast.