Sentences with phrase «of economic drag»

And inaction bears the risk of economic drag.

Municipal bonds from oil states such as New Mexico and North Dakota remain in positive return territory but are beginning to show the impact of the economic drag low priced oil has created.

Not exact matches

A number of Facebook watchers including one of its Silicon Valley investors said the company has no real economic incentive to admit it is a media outlet, because it would drag the social network into a legislative morass.

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

«The theory is that if new industries that are not competitive are subsidized they will eventually mature and be able to function on their own,» said University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox at a conference last June, citing studies suggesting clean energy policies in Denmark, Germany and Spain are a drag on economic growth.

Additionally, any imposition of trade barriers or labeling China a currency manipulator may lead to a trade war or, at the least, be a drag on economic growth, as noted by Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.

In an economy where consumer spending drives about 70 % of economic activity, suppressed wages will continue to drag on America's post-crisis recovery.

Bad debts have been a drag on economic activity ever since the financial crisis of 2008, but in recent months, the threat posed by an overhang of bad loans appears to be rising.

With regard to the economy, The Economist has an excellent set of articles regarding the potential drag that debt is likely to have on any economic rebound (click here).

After a long period of being a drag on the economy, the housing market is now providing lift to economic activity, with upward trends evident in housing starts, home sales, and home prices.

With huge numbers of people who are barely out of poverty, it now needs to prevent near - paupers from falling back, while also dragging the poorest out of destitution faster than economic growth alone could do the job.

China's Stocks Decline From Two - Week High as Stimulus Speculation Eases China's stocks fell, dragging the Shanghai Composite Index from a two - week high, as the government damped speculation of a large - scale stimulus program to revive economic growth.

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

Last year, when banks balked at financing deals and private equity firms worried the economic crisis would drag on, the number of deals — and prices paid — fell sharply.

Unlike early 2016, when investors fretted over the potential of China dragging down the global economy, most recent economic indicators point to stability.

My thesis going into May is that the SPOOS are struggling in spite of enhanced earnings as short - term interest rates in the U.S. are perceived to be a drag on future earnings and possibly economic growth.

Investment, which accounts for about half of China's economic output, was a major drag on growth in the fourth quarter, a result of monetary authorities making credit more expensive.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that expiration of the tax cuts and implementation of automatic spending cuts would «represent an additional drag on the weak economic expansion.»

What is concerning is that all of these single aging women going into there 60's and 70's are going to create a huge economic drag on our economy and already bankrupt government.

While Nwaoboshi was dragged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged money laundering and conspiracy, two counts of money laundering and conspiracy before Mohammed Idris, a judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.

They changed their mind because they concluded that the impact of tax rises and spending cuts on economic growth — the fabled «fiscal multipliers» — has turned out to be a much bigger drag on growth than they, the Government or the OBR originally thought.

Representatives of infamous Financial Engineer Alfred Agbesi Woyome who is currently dragged before the Supreme Court to explain why he has still not paid the GHc51.2 million he illegally took from the government of Ghana have pitched camp at the precincts of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) brandishing some documents demanding that the Trust forks out a whopping $ 6billion representing its 24 % shares in the phantom Green Township which has metamorphosed into a Special Economic Zone project (SEZ).

«In this plan, Mr. Blay has, through a facility, acquired 275 buses for the 275 constituencies of the NPP in the country», the statement clarified, in response to moves by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) to drag the former First and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament to the Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) for allegedly seeking to buy votes with the bus move.

«We're the economic problem that's dragging this state down and where I think if you go and you talk to various mayors of these villages they will tell you, «look, we're operating at peak efficiency here, why are you throwing up more roadblocks in our way?

The sheer weight of Ed Milband as a drag anchor on Labour was unveiled and was quite startling - as was the disastrous failure of Labour to even come close to regaining any semblance of economic credibility.

Bala as he is popularly called was dragged to Court on Wednesday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegations bordering on abuse of office while he served as FCT Minister.

Dudafa, and other were dragged to the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), facing 23 - counts of concealment and retention of proceeds of crime to the tune of over N1, 667,162,800.00 (One billion, six hundred and sixty seven million, one hundred and sixty two thousand, eight hundred Naira).

According to the APC Chieftain, «Divisions, hatred, back - biting, grinding economic conditions, hopelessness and insecurity among Nigerians has hit the limit and therefore it would not be fair on the part of Nigerians to continue to drag them along this part of draconic torture.

Though not accused of any wrongdoing, Cuomo will have to react to two trials that will now drag on over at least the first half of 2018 and involve either close former advisers or major upstate economic development projects that he spearheaded.

The Federal Government has been dragged to the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja by the Registered Trustees of the Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project...

Embattled erswhile National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki stepped up his effort to challenge his continued detention without trial since December 2015 by dragging the Federal Government before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice.

Poor sanitation can demand high environmental cleanup costs, and are a major drag on economic growth, notes Jaehyang So, manager of the Water and Sanitation Program at the World Bank.

Some of these countries are now even challenging the emissions trading scheme in court because they claim its demands constitute a drag on economic growth.

Poorly educated men and women, on the other hand, are left out of the growth, and also drag down economic growth even for those who are better - educated, because they must subsist in order to survive.

TORONTO — The chief economists of some of Canada's biggest banks say the country is headed for a rocky year as low oil prices continue to drag on economic performance.

What the almost 10 - year bull market teaches us is that our behavioral shortcomings can be a drag on performance and stock values, but the economic laws of supply and demand can play an even more significant role in the direction of the stock market.

Student loan debt is a persistent drag on the economic lives of many Americans — only mortgage debt ranks higher on the list of largest categories of consumer debt.

It added that «the site has a policy of not getting dragged into the political or economic aspects of science, but it's fairly easy to guess which side it's on.»

Eugenics, by definition, advocates taking on certain costs — whether the economic price tag or the unpleasant moral implications of sterilizing hundreds of thousands of human beings — in the pursuit of racial purity, public health, reduced economic drag over the long term, etc..

This fails the «follow the money» test on so many levels: not only is politically unpalatable to tax something so ephemeral that governments are being dragged kicking and screaming to it, and not only is the economic incentive more of a disincentive, but the opposing interests have billions of dollars staked in it not happening at all.

There is also ample scope for reforming tax systems to deal much more effectively with broader environmental and related problems that can be a significant drag on economic growth, such as the health and productivity impacts of poor air quality, and severe congestion of major urban centers.

Any economic progress that comes out of GDP numbers is attributed to financial markets and the profits of oil companies as the price of oil goes up and drags other prices along with it.

The larger the base of existing economic activity, the less likely these conditions are to prevail in equivalent proportion to overall economic activity, and the more likely the negative drag of complexity.

(Conversely if net economic impact had a substantial first order term, change would tend not to be a problem in and of itself, one direction of change would be net bad and the other would be net good, and we'd be highly motivated to artificially drag the earth's temperature at least some amount in whatever the net good direction was.)

That is the present regime, Wouldn't a policy which penalizes continuing with low probability of success cases create incentives to settlement at rational values, and decrease the economic drag on defendants?

Economic parity — Apple starts with the larger players; some of the larger players have held out e.g. Sony dragging its feet, unwilling to move into the market place.

The strong jobs report and the rebound in consumer confidence in February suggested that businesses and consumers set aside their worries about fiscal drag ahead of the looming sequestration deadline, according to Fannie Mae's Economic & Strategic Research Group.

However, economic growth will remain constrained by various headwinds, such as a potential spike in oil prices due to tension in the Middle East; an expected decline in net exports from the global slowdown; and an expected increase in fiscal drag, including the fading of federal spending from the stimulus and a decline in defense spending for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.»

Governmental fiscal drag has turned into fiscal stimulus, lower energy costs support consumer spending and business investment, further easing of credit conditions for business and real estate lending support commerce and development, and more upbeat consumer and business confidence, all of which portend faster economic growth in 2015.