Sentences with phrase «of economic figures»

Because of the important roles business and consumer confidence play in fostering economic growth, central bank officials often find themselves taking too - rosy a view of the economic figures.

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GDP figures are calculated and released every business quarter by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is part of the Department of Commerce.

According to The Future of Business survey conducted by Facebook in collaboration with the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 42 percent of businesses polled said that learning from one other is one of the main ways they figure out how to run a business in a mobile - first economy — second only to Googling it.

Using figures provided by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Canada's embassy in Washington provides detailed state - by - state data on the number of U.S. jobs that depend on Canada-U.S. trade.

And as a small business owner, you're likely concerned about a looming Congressional impasse, which could knock the wind out of the economy's momentum — shaving the country's economic output and your sales figures in the process.

However, to maintain high GDP figures and create the impression of economic strength post-crisis, China spent more than $ 4 trillion on a stimulus program.

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

If real GDP were to increase at 10.3 % instead of 2.5 % in 2015, then the government should receive, at a minimum, an extra $ 6.6 billion in tax revenue thanks to economic growth (this calculation assumes that nominal GDP grows at the same proportion as real GDP; it is more likely that nominal GDP would rise even higher as such quick economic growth would be inflationary, pushing that $ 6.6 billion figure even higher).

The problem is, Paul Volcker is an influential figure in the U.S. (he chaired the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama, after all), and he has fought back hard against the criticism of his namesake bill.

Bosa has reported from events including the World Economic Forum in Davos and CeBIT in Germany and interviewed some of the world's key business figures including Richard Branson, James Gorman, Arianna Huffington, Bob Diamond and Bill McDermott.

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

But while the raw economic benefits are clear — 74 % of Indian households earn less than US$ 2,000 per year, while the average outsourcing worker makes double that figure — Nadeem questions the deeper impact of the «emotional labour» that service work involves.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

A study last year by the C.D. Howe Institute suggested that one out of every 10 mortgage - indebted households in Canada was «extremely vulnerable» to an economic or financial shock — a figure that's likely only increased since.

To figure out the economic cost of a decade of extreme methane release — say from 2015 to 2025 — the researchers added the extra methane and temperature increases to the climate models through to 2200 — that's how they got the $ 60 trillion cost globally from just the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.

Economic impact figures for earlier tournaments have been hotly disputed, given the difficulty of separating the World Cup from other economic Economic impact figures for earlier tournaments have been hotly disputed, given the difficulty of separating the World Cup from other economic economic factors.

At least one pair of thinkers has recently offered a 25 - to 50 - year, future - shock outlook that could get anybody's juices flowing, provided only that the would - be company builders can figure out how to translate a grand vision of economic change into down - to - earth business opportunities.

Instead of the usual economic forecasts, look at sales figures at key retailers and public - opinion polls.

Let's work a little harder to eliminate the noise in figures so we can grasp the fact that the economic road in front of us will remain long and hard.

After years of economic expansion, the Turkish economy is set to continue struggling in 2017 on the back of growing terrorist acts, lack of structural reforms, falling tourism figures and increased political uncertainty.

The economic confidence index jumped to 107.8 in December from a revised figure of 106.6 in November.

It was this period where the larger firms were trying to figure out what to do in this kind of economic climate.

Skeptics feel that these figures are mostly repercussions of a combination of the ECB's quantitative easing program and cheap oil, but positive indicators like rebounding business and consumer confidence show clear signs of economic improvement.

Debt has grown 30 % since the end of 2010 alone, after a huge government stimulus package had already boosted the figure, as officials struggled to meet economic growth targets in 2014 and 2015.

Still, China's economy has picked up for now: Capital Economics approximates China's real economic growth instead of relying on the government's quarterly figures, which are widely thought to be manipulated.

China's growth is on track, but the reports are always tempered by warnings of doom, or suspect economic figures.

We weighted the categories based on how frequently each is cited in state economic development marketing materials (We figure the states have a pretty good idea of what the businesses they court are looking for).

Pro-Russian insurgent leaders try to instill optimism by rattling off figures about the economic importance of the Donbas area.

The proliferation of data and advances in economic modelling and computing power prompted some economists to wonder if they really needed to wait on statistics agencies to calculate headline figures such as GDP and employment.

The share of the nonelderly population that was uninsured hovered around 16 % between 1998 and 2007, then peaked during the ensuing economic recession (Figure 1).

Official figures show that economic growth across the 19 - country eurozone slowed down in the first three months of the year

According to figures from the Financial Conduct Authority, released by the House of Commons» Treasury Select Committee in September, 5,476 UK firms have at least one passport that allows them to do business in other EU and European Economic Area nations.

The 2014 - 2015 oil price collapse may be understood then as a supply surplus that occurred at a time of a strengthening U.S. economy (low economic uncertainty) and relatively low geopolitical risk (Figure 15).

In the United States, March retail sales, industrial production and housing figures all disappointed, and the persistent softness in U.S. economic data means the United States will struggle to hit the 3 % annual growth rate that investors had expected at the beginning of the year.

Buried in the federal government's recent Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections are figures showing the Harper government is set to squeeze federal government's role to the smallest it has been in seventy years.

The latest sales figures underscore Kentucky bourbon's emergence as a «global force» and one of the state's «most prized economic engines», said Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers» Association.

Still, investors continued the habit of confusing lagging and coincident indicators for leading ones, so the positive GDP figure was taken as evidence that an oncoming economic downturn was «off the table.»

Figure 1 shows this value - destroying behavior in action for GE (GE) by comparing between the amount of money spent buying back shares and the price to economic book value (PEBV), a measure of the growth expectations embedded in the stock price.

OTTAWA — Government House Leader Peter Van Loan is using the return of Parliament to boast about the Conservatives» economic track record — but OECD figures cast a small doubt over his claim that Canada tops the G7 in job creation.

Figure 1 shows that the difference between return on invested capital (ROIC) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC), also known as the economic earnings margin, explains 67 % of the changes in valuations between stocks in the S&P 500 [1].

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

«If those are my choices, I'd sort of, you know, I'd be really trying to figure out where we go,» the chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group told CNBC's «Squawk Box» at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Still, during this prolonged stretch of anxiety over when the next recession might hit, a figure who embodies sophisticated economic leadership is an invaluable political commodity.

In the run - up to the vote, influential and internationally respected publications like the New York Times, the Economist, and the World Economic Forum, as well as figures and organizations including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and former Bank of Canada and current Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, all warned about the disastrous social and economic consequences of a LeEconomic Forum, as well as figures and organizations including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and former Bank of Canada and current Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, all warned about the disastrous social and economic consequences of a Leeconomic consequences of a Leave win.

Figure 1 shows how, until 2009, Wal - Mart's stock price was well above its economic book value, which equals the value of Wal - Mart's existing cash flows.

I can't figure out the next step, though — I'm guessing this simply forces the global imbalances onto the commodity - exporting countries, which would presumably experience a temporary economic boom eve while the rest of the world enters recession?

Suffice it to say that while there remain some bright spots in market action, such as the overall profile of market breadth (as measured by the simple NYSE advance - decline line), as well as bright spots in economic figures, such as Friday's upbeat jobs number and the reasonable behavior of credit spreads to - date, the weight of the evidence is increasingly cautious.

Mr Rittenberg, Mao's former interpreter, says that promoting a single popular figure may have been a deliberate strategy of the party elite, in the hope that such a politician could more effectively carry out the difficult economic and social reforms which Mr Xi says are needed.

One of the longest running jokes amongst economists who follow China is that China can manufacture any economic figure they want.

Economic data through the Asian session this morning was on the lighter side, but certainly not lacking influence, with key stats including April's private sector PMI figures out of China, business confidence numbers out of New Zealand and new home sales and private sector credit figures out of Australia.