Sentences with phrase «macroeconomic challenge»

British people have too much debt, not enough savings, their incomes are in decline, and that is creating «a real macroeconomic challenge,» Moody's said.

The Canadian economy continues to face serious macroeconomic challenges, the most important of which is addressing the burden of a slow - growth recovery, according to a report from the C.D. Howe...

In general, despite persistent macroeconomic challenges, the environment for corporate profitability has been reasonable, allowing business profitability to move forward, albeit at a less than robust pace.

The BlackRock fund's other top holdings include telecom companies like T - Mobile and Sprint and technology giant Cisco Systems, which also don't have obvious macroeconomic challenges.

Commenting on the results, Kennedy Uzoka, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer expressed satisfaction at the resilience of the Bank, despite the macroeconomic challenges in a number of countries where UBA operates.

Coke shareholders clearly faced many points over the years where it would have been easy to succumb to Macro Distraction Syndrome and sell their shares in response to the political and macroeconomic challenges of the day.

In line with its mandate and expertise, the IMF focuses on the fiscal, financial, and macroeconomic challenges.

Fluctuating currencies in Motorola's key markets of Brazil and Latin America and «macroeconomic challenges» severely disrupted Motorola's profitability.

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He said to expect some headwinds including macroeconomic issues and challenging guest counts in the U.S., Germany, and France.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

Over the last 18 months, the deterioration in the global financial markets and continually challenging condition of the macroeconomic environment has negatively impacted consumer spending and we believe has adversely affected the sales of our Tesla Roadster.

«In the near term, however, the company is facing a number of challenges beyond general macroeconomic conditions that are likely to linger for the next few quarters,»

The Conditions at Sea: Worldwide Circumstances Distracting Investors Since the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009, investors have been obsessed with macroeconomic themes and distracted by various worldwide circumstances, including deflation in Japan; the state of global banks; financial instability in Greece, Cyprus and the European Union; and the challenges facing the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

I have dwelt today on challenges facing macroeconomic policies and particularly monetary policies, both abroad and at home.

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Macroeconomic headwinds still persist and the uncertain global macro factors pose several challenges.

We are connecting more deeply and more meaningfully with more customers across all day parts than ever before, and we are delivering quarter after quarter of record - breaking financial results, despite the accelerating shift in consumer behavior away from traditional bricks - and - mortar retailing, and despite difficult macroeconomic retail and consumer headwinds that continue to challenge traditional retailers.»

«While Pensions overall continued to have solid returns against a backdrop of challenging macroeconomic factors, the decline in long - term interest rates has likely increased plan liabilities,» said Scott MacDonald, managing director, Pensions, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

Amid Hungary's challenging macroeconomic background — GDP contracted by 1.7 % year - on - year — and a difficult regulatory environment, OTP strengthened its capital base to meet the European Banking Authority's 9 % core Tier 1 requirement.

«These are impressive results, particularly in light of the challenges posed by global mega trends impacting our industry, from macroeconomic and political volatility, the continued rebalancing of the economic world, to shifting consumer preferences and increasing demand for healthier products, to the disruption of retail caused by the rapid growth of e-commerce and the blurring of channel lines,» Ms. Nooyi said.

The Deputy Head of Macroeconomic Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft - Johnson who spoke on the governments short to medium - term development programme said it was aimed at providing opportunities for growth and job creation through the private sector, and had developed concrete reform actions to tackle key challenges to private investment such as ensuring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-riskingMacroeconomic Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft - Johnson who spoke on the governments short to medium - term development programme said it was aimed at providing opportunities for growth and job creation through the private sector, and had developed concrete reform actions to tackle key challenges to private investment such as ensuring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-riskingmacroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-risking instruments.

Vice President Bawumia noted that macroeconomic stability in the sub-region remained a challenge with inflationary rate averaging 8.2 per cent in 2014, rose to 13 per cent in 2017, and projected to reduce to about 11 per cent this year and 2019.

At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.

This resource could be used as a full lesson and includes attached activities, challenging and thoughtful questions, learning objectives and embedded URL links where appropriate and tasks / information for students to use to learn about issues relating to macroeconomics and microeconomics These resources work well with other popular Economics Resources such as: Microeconomics Exam Paper Price Determination of Ticket Prices The UK Housing Market The Price Mechanism Cross Elasticity of Demand (XED) Demand Activities Price Elasticity of Supply (PES) Economics Essay Feedback Proforma Demand Minimum Pricing

It's impossible for most people to quantify all the potential challenges that could cause a stock to fall — new competition, regulatory changes, and macroeconomic trends, to name a few.

In addition, we believe that the more challenging macroeconomic environment could provide unique M&A opportunities, for which we are well - positioned with our balance sheet, our more predictable cash flow outlook resulting from Blizzard subscription business model, and the backing of Vivendi as a shareholder.

«The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World,» by Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha, in Twenty - First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge (Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin eds), Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008

The Fund has a role to play in helping its members address those challenges of climate change for which fiscal and macroeconomic policies are an important component of the appropriate policy response.

Though Nigeria has technically come out of a recession, the macroeconomic environment in Nigeria still continues to remain challenging with no certainty as to how long oil prices will remain above $ 50.00 per barrel, continued reliance of the country on the oil export sector for foreign currency earnings and the early hints of political (election) discourse within the polity.

While bitcoin prices may need macroeconomic events to rise in value, both ether (ETH) and ether classic (ETC) suffered price declines this week amid continued technical challenges.

The breadth of our expertise by contract type, geography and specialism positions us well to withstand various stages of the macroeconomic cycle and best serve our clients around the world, regardless of the challenges they face.

By looking at a comprehensive and detailed set of macroeconomic and labour market indicators across 30 countries, the Hays Global Skills Index puts into context the challenges employers will face as they compete for the most sought after skills.

However, these regions have their own macroeconomic and political challenges.