Sentences with phrase «months of economic indicators»

The next few months of economic indicators will have a big effect on the campaign — and not just the Canadian ones

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Last month, my fellow columnist Mike Moffatt published a list of the Canadian economic indicators that will influence the election campaign.

«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

The latest economic indicator showed that the Greek economy shrank by 0.4 % in the last three months of 2016.

PMI surveys are the first indicators of economic conditions published each month and are therefore available well ahead of comparable data produced by government bodies.

The red dots show the indicator itself, which is quite noisy, and the 3 - month moving average, which is more useful as an indicator of coincident economic activity.

Strong economic growth from diverse sectors, rising consumption and income growth are strengthening macroeconomic indicators such as exports, which now make up 17.3 % of GDP; remittances, which constitute 8.6 % of GDP; and foreign reserves, which cover over six months of imports.

The BlackRock GPS — which combines traditional economic indicators with big data signals such as web searches and text mining of corporate conference calls — suggests a higher growth rate over the coming 12 months than currently reflected in consensus estimates.

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.

The private sector economists are surveyed for only a selective number of aggregate economic and financial indicators: real gross domestic product (GDP) growth; GDP inflation, nominal GDP;, the 3 - month treasury bill rate;, the 10 - year government bond rate;, the unemployment rate; the, consumer price index; the exchange rate (US cents / Cdn $); and finally, and U.S. real GDP growth.

The Index of Lagging Economic Indicators ticked 0.1 % higher (2.4 % y / y) last month following a 0.3 % October rise, revised from 0.2 %.

The indicator reflects the difference between analysts who are optimistic about forthcoming economic development of Germany within six months and those who are pessimistic.

Something I think has been somewhat overlooked in general euphoria over the strength of economic indicators, is the that commercial and industrial loans for all of the banks in the United States are now only up one - tenth of one percent in the last 12 months.

Our assessment across a variety of economic indicators suggests that the risk of recession in the United States is approximately 10 % over the next twelve months.

Following the vote, the country's Purchasing Managers» Index — a measure of manufacturing output and a key economic indicator — suffered its largest one - month drop since 2009, when the global recession was at its worst.

In fact, the state's existing composite business cycle index — also known as the Index of Coincident Economic Indicators, based on language identical to what's laid out in Cuomo's proposed infrastructure fund — actually did decline for three consecutive months at the end of 2014, as illustrated in the chart below.

Trend continues for Americans with disabilities as economic indicators improve for seventh consecutive month, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment — Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability (UNH - IOD).

Americans with disabilities reached a milestone this month, as the major economic indicators showed increases for the 24th consecutive month, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment — Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability (UNH - IOD).

ShareThe thing about economic indicators is that you need consistency over a period of months to show a trend.

Bellwether auctions next month in New York — where big ticket offerings include Alberto Giacometti's chariot sculpture valued at more than $ 100 million at Sotheby's — will be a better indicator of whether art prices are peaking or if economic uncertainty is trickling down to the art market, they said.

Cement production — a strong indicator of economic activity, but also an emitting activity — was much lower than the previous year, more than 5 % down in each of the first four months of 2017.

«The SARB Leading Indicator has been pointing upwards for some months, and the Barclays Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index, a useful high frequency indicator of economic direction has also moved back into «expansionary» territory in recent months.

Says Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board: «Despite this month's improvement in confidence, the overall Index remains at historically low levels.

Lynn Franco, the Conference Board's director of economic indicators, said the improvement in November came because more people expressed optimism about the direction of the economy in the next six months.

A metropolitan area makes the list if three elementary indicators of economic and housing health improve for at least six months: single - family housing permits, employment and home prices.

A metropolitan area makes the IMI list if three indicators of economic and housing health improve for at least six months: single - family housing permits, employment and home prices.

While recent economic reports suggest that home building took a pause at the beginning of 2013, leading indicators point to more growth for housing in the months ahead.