Sentences with phrase «not economic indicators»

Wind and solar project cash flows depend primarily on the availability of wind and sunshine, not economic indicators or central bank policies.

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

In terms of net new jobs, an indicator of economic expansion since they are jobs that had not previously existed, it's really startups that have the biggest impact, according to Kauffman research.

Analysts said they weren't reading too much into what they described as a «backward - looking indicator» and were hopeful about the economic prospects given an upturn in recent indicators such as confidence and machinery orders, not to mention efforts by Japan's new government to revive growth.

A recent study titled «The Role of Money Arguments in Marriage,» published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, found that money arguments are an important indicator of relationship satisfaction — but not divorce!

The larger point Wolfers seems to be making with his response to Trump is that looking at the number of record - high closes in a narrow period is not a particularly good indicator of economic performance — particularly for a president who inherited a stock market that was already relatively high in value.

Despite many economic indicators improving since the start of the recession, Canada has a significant long - term unemployment problem that is not improving.

Leading economic indicators from the Conference Board point to minor stress in the U.S. economy, but not another recession.

These indicators have not surpassed their highs from the last economic expansion, Sonders said, and recessions happen when there are excesses in the economy, such as high inflation or surplus inventories.

And we are not talking just about the recent rise in lipstick sales at Estée Lauder, which is considered by some to be a hot - red indicator of economic trouble (at least on slow news days) on the horizon because consumers tend to turn to less expensive indulgences when losing confidence in the future.

The ECB chief said Monday: «while the exchange rate was not a policy target it was important to growth,» adding that economic indicators signaled further weakness in the euro zone.

But if this economic cycle indeed has another extended leg in — as plenty of indicators suggest — and companies can keep the profit machine running along with stock buybacks and mergers, there's no saying the market as a whole can't work its way a good deal higher before it reaches its ultimate peak.

The paper finds that junk bonds are, in fact, a very good indicator for forecasting economic peaks if not troughs, effectively warning ahead of eight of the last ten peaks in the business cycle.

While junk bonds may not represent a systemic risk as credit derivatives did during the financial crisis, they can be one of the more effective leading economic indicators.

See Finance 101 and Economic Versus Accounting Profits for more detail on why accounting profits are not reliable indicators of corporate profitability or value creation.

It's important to understand that the USCI isn't a random concoction of data, but rather the gold standard for measuring current economic growth, as it summarizes the key coincident economic indicators used to determine the official start and end dates of U.S. recessions; namely, the broad measures of output, employment, income and sales.

Needless to say, the rise in the «leading indicators» is not a valid indication of an upturn in my view, apart from the fact that statistically, the leading indicators are fairly poor predictors of economic turns anyway.

Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday said China can meet the major economic goals this year and policymakers will not be distracted by short - term fluctuations of individual indicators.

But the main ingredient in our forecast is the federal infrastructure program, which is well under way but not yet evident in the economic indicators we are tracking.

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.

On the economic front, I believe that the most consistent interpretation of the data is that of an economy that is generally deteriorating, but where the weakness in leading indicators hasn't filtered through to the most lagging ones.

First, they do not identify economic activity solely with real GDP and real GDI, but use a range of other indicators.

Just an analytical sidenote while we're on the subject: when evaluating economic risk, it isn't enough to show that some indicator has a high correlation with GDP growth.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ceaseless uncertainty in Washington and mixed signals from economic indicators have not dampened the outlook of new business owners, who express rising confidence in their prospects in the third - quarter 2013 Kauffman / LegalZoom Startup Confidence Index.

In reviewing their work it is hard not to conclude that their major interest was justifying the continuing use of GNP as an adequate indicator of economic improvement.

Note that this isn't some metric I'm making up out of whole cloth; I think back in 2007 or so the New York Times ran a series of articles on class differences in modern America, and they said that one of the best indicators of someone's economic class is whether they have goods and services that took a lot of labor to make, or whether their daily life doesn't command a lot of human resources.

Here he faced an obvious problem — he had no economic indicators to suggest that the strategy was working (least of all, the deficit itself, which is rising not falling.)

However, Mrs Amegashie has told an Accra based radio station that; «We use the previous year's (2016) average salary and other economic indicators to fix the amount so if in using average salary and other economic indicators and they were not monumental then obviously you don't expect a monumental increase,» she said.

An industrialist is concerned that Ghana's current good economic indicators as announced by President Nana Akufo - Addo are not reflecting on...

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And stock markets — a leading indicator of future economic prospects — are recovering to levels not seen since 2008.

If you look at the capital market for instance, that is the best indicator... markets, investors, economic activities are now beginning to take a pessimistic view, because they don't have a cabinet or policies... it is the same thing in the forex market.»

An industrialist is concerned that Ghana's current good economic indicators as announced by President Nana Akufo - Addo are not reflecting on the prices of raw materials.

«I am not challenging the fact that the economic indicators are wrong, but as a practical engineer, what I want to see is that the prices of the raw materials we buy and use them for our machines should go down,» he added.

GPI and other indicators like it might not be perfect, but they can help policy - makers do a better job of balancing the costs and benefits of economic development, says McGlade.

New York City does not appear until number 17, despite being ranked number 1 by economic indicators and other ranking schemes.

The University of Washington's John Bransford and Andreas Schleicher, head of the Indicators and Analysis Division at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), maker of the PISA exam, believe students need dynamic problems to solve, ones that require real - world research and allow them to learn on the spot, not just apply prior knowledge.

If a country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various policies and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be about the alleviation of these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then urgent and important not to fall in such a trap, which only comes to add to the financial and economic indebtedness of the society, and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the system of inequality and impoverishment as it basically exist..

That study, «Education and Economic Growth: It's not just going to school, but learning something while there that matters,» discussed problems with using average years of schooling as an indicator of a country's human capital and analyzed the role of both school attainment and cognitive skills in economicEconomic Growth: It's not just going to school, but learning something while there that matters,» discussed problems with using average years of schooling as an indicator of a country's human capital and analyzed the role of both school attainment and cognitive skills in economiceconomic growth.

As colleagues and I have documented on numerous occasions, rankings on international tests do not relate to international indicators of economic strength, global competitiveness, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, or any other economic indicators that reflect a strong economy (e.g., Tienken, 2008; Tienken & Mullen, 2014).

Differences between high and low boundary participation neighborhoods in terms of demographic characteristics, indicators of economic opportunity, and neighborhood characteristics are not significant at middle and high school levels.

The study is a unique analysis, which for the first time compares K - 12 education internationally on an array of social and economic indicators, not just test scores.

The technical indicator of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP), although the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) does not necessarily need to see this occur to call a recessioneconomic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP), although the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) does not necessarily need to see this occur to call a recessionEconomic Research (NBER) does not necessarily need to see this occur to call a recession.»

Credit rating is important too, but with the current economic realities, even lenders understand that a rating is not a fully accurate indicator.

First, many economic «indicators» don't really affect the company or the stock.

The financial system is working on creating a shock - proof economic structure that will not be highly dependent on global economic indicators.

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As one of the most important industrial and building materials in the world, copper's market price is seen as an important fundamental economic indicator for not only the health of the U.S. economy, but also for the robustness of the world's economy as a whole.

The indicator is not a perfect measure of credibility because it includes the real yield, which will vary with economic conditions.

My first issue is that, in my opinion, a broad economic indicator such as a jobs report doesn't tell a specific - enough picture to warrant trading on.