Sentences with phrase «moderate expansion in»

In his first press conference following the FOMC meeting, the Fed chairman said that gradual adjustments in interest rates will lead to further job creation and a strong labour market with moderate expansion in economic activity.

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Growth in that range would leave economic expansion for all of 2016 at around 1.7 or 1.8 percent — «a moderate pace,» for sure.

As President in 2004, Summers introduced the most ambitious expansion to date of financial aid, specifically targeting those families of low and moderate incomes.

Meantime, the current estimates for first - quarter GDP growth in the US point to a continuation of the moderate expansion that prevailed in the final three months of 2017.

Meanwhile, the growth of the service sector and a modest expansion in exports should continue to support moderate investment growth in other sectors in 2017 and 2018.

However, investment in additional infrastructure is occurring, with the planned expansions likely to support strong growth in iron ore exports, while growth in coal exports is expected to be more moderate.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Even if market volatility picks up, this long but moderate economic expansion that began in June 2009 has fuel to go further, which is good news for investors.

Impacts of thermal expansion and melting mountain glaciers can be predicted with moderate confidence, but more uncertainty remains in the potential behavior of polar ice sheets.

Rather, it is a set of Lochner - like expansions (in my judgment) of the Founders» understanding of natural rights (which itself may be the correct understanding of Locke, or not, and which, to necessarily complicate things even more, itself was usually moderated in practice by most Founders holding elements of the communitarian - classical view) that is the real ground of my distinction between the natural rights conception of liberty and the economic autonomy conception.

Thousands of records were submitted every year tracing the northward expansion of these three species, ostensibly in response to the moderating winters.

And on the opposite side of the planet, on March 3 sea ice around Antarctica hit its lowest extent ever recorded by satellites at the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, a surprising turn of events after decades of moderate sea ice expansion.

Winter temperature likely plays the most important role in arresting its further range expansion northward [19]--[22] with winter precipitation serving as a possible moderating factor [23].

As announced in the State of the Union Address, the president is seeking $ 75 billion over the next 10 years for a major expansion of preschool programs for low - and moderate - income 4 - year - olds.

Meanwhile, negative stock selection in Industrials was a modest headwind as this sector was negatively impacted by moderating Global Purchasing Managers» Index (PMI) data that is signaling continued expansion but cooling from the red - hot pace seen in late 2017.

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After the decision, the Law Society's response was more moderate, but still chilly, deciding «that although it had to accept the existence of independent paralegal services, it would take no part in their regulation and would continue to oppose their expansion.»

The Fed's post-meeting announcement cited progress in job restoration, wage growth and moderate economic expansion as evidence that the economy no longer needed as much help from ultra-low borrowing rates.

This moderating pattern suggests a broad based decline in the late spring following an equally broad - based expansion in the late spring / summer of 2011 and early spring of this year

For much of the economic expansion, wage increases have been moderate, about 3 percent annually, helping keep inflation in check, says Sheehan.

Earlier work demonstrated that the expansion in non-revolving credit card outstanding accounts for the growth in consumer credit while growth in revolving credit remains moderate.