While the Fed has affected the real yield, the bigger impact has come from
the marked slowdown in the economy's potential growth.
Not exact matches
November
marked the 10th straight month that job growth has exceeded 200,000, the longest stretch since 1994 and further confirmation the
economy is weathering
slowdowns in China and the euro zone, as well as a recession
in Japan.
The jobs report on Friday comes, too, as the second quarter is showing a
marked slowdown all across the G - 7 universe, and the U.S. is no exception, even as the
economy is solidly
in expansion.
Population aging under way across most advanced
economies has led to a
marked slowdown in labour force growth, and this has been a strong headwind to investment.
It
marked the 10th straight month that job growth has exceeded 200,000, the longest stretch since 1994 and further confirmation the
economy is weathering
slowdowns in China and the euro zone, as well as a recession
in Japan.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said the officials with the biggest influence over the short - term fate of the
economy are
in Europe, struggling with a debt crisis and
in China, struggling with a
slowdown.
And Brexit - related constraints on investment and labour supply appeared to have been reinforcing the
marked slowdown that had been increasingly evident
in recent years
in the rate at which the
economy could grow without generating inflationary pressures.»