Sentences with phrase «of economic signals»

, Talberg said it's unclear what kind of economic signals the new program will send, or whether it will stifle Michigan's rooftop solar industry.

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Typically, inflation of one per cent signals economic weakness because there is too little demand to force prices higher.

But the Bank of Canada is beginning to believe that the signal being sent by this year's run of strong economic data is real.

Even prior to the Trump win, a victory that signaled higher economic growth, rising interest rates, and likely less regulation, all good for financial services, Buffett had secured paper profits over 5 1/2 years of $ 6.9 billion on his preferred.

This week, Federal Reserve officials signaled further interest rate increases in 2018 based on evidence of steady U.S. growth, while the heads of the ECB and the Bank of England seemed in no rush to push rates higher in the wake of disappointing economic data out of Britain and Europe.

Carpenter noted that this county - level data provides a strong signal about a bigger macroeconomic phenomenon: «Using the four maps in succession identifies both the timing of the economic ups and downs in the energy sector and the regions where that stress was occurring.

«Recently, signals of China's economic slowdown have triggered widespread concern and, I believe, overreaction around the world,» wrote Ma.

Perhaps reflecting the mixed signals being sent by an economy where equity markets are hot but other economic activity remains tepid, 30 % of respondents to a recent COMPAS poll say additional stimulus spending should «probably not» be made.

Ongoing economic trouble in Europe, including a «bank jog» on Greek banks, this week could signal a third round of quantitative easing on this side of the Atlantic.

If Trump were to pick someone like Navarro, it would signal an embrace of the more restrictionist positions at the core of the president's economic beliefs.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

The yield curve - the plot of all of the yields on Treasury securities of maturities from four weeks to 30 years - is used as a signal of economic health of the economy.

Just five months later, the company raised another $ 16 million in a Series A funding round, which included Highland Capital Partners, Fontinalis Partners — the VC firm co-founded by Bill Ford — Signal Ventures, EDBI, the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, and Samsung Ventures.

Commentary: «Despite signals of slower economic growth, we expect positive organic growth to continue the rest of this year and into 2012... These repositioning tailwinds, combined with our great positions in good industries, execution track record, and disciplined playbook, will be keys to our continued outperformance.»

Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.

That in turn helped euro zone stocks rise 4.4 percent in April, outperforming Wall Street for the second straight month, and shrug off slower earnings growth and weeks of disappointing data that signaled slowing economic growth.

While that was seen as a sign of health of Europe's economic recovery and signaled growing foreign investor appetite for the region's equities, it curbed the value of overseas earnings and hurt competitiveness.

But a variety of signs and signals indicate that this malaise, while relatively inconsequential in the near term, could hamper Canada's mid to long - term economic competitiveness.

It's often the case in reading economic data that we get conflicting signals that make it hard to judge the overall pace of the economy.

Beijing watchers are growing concerned over the economic and political signals coming out of the world's second - largest economy

Not only did we see smoking demand for oil, the preponderance of economic data is signaling even stronger U.S. and global energy demand.

WASHINGTON — United States officials have effectively killed a Chinese company's $ 1.2 billion plan to buy MoneyGram, the money transfer company, signaling the Trump administration's growing skepticism of Chinese purchases of American companies and of broader business ties between the two economic powers.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

«It stands to reason that the decline that we've seen over recent weeks is a reasonable signal that the pace of economic activity has flipped,» said Nick Chamie, global head of emerging markets research at RBC Dominion Securities Inc..

As I noted last week, a strong decline in Treasury yields would actually be a bad omen here, because it would signal a rush to quality in the face of rising default risks and possibly fresh economic weakness.

To some extent, stock market action also implies expectations for slower economic growth, though interest rate signals, such as a flat yield curve, are more suggestive of slow growth than stock market action is, and we've yet to see a substantial widening of credit spreads that would suggest imminent recession.

It is highly unusual for both to occur together, so a simultaneous drop in both Treasury yields and the dollar would be a very powerful signal of impending economic weakness.

Copper also responds fairly directly to the level of economic activity, and it too signals a sluggish global economy.

Investors who look at a rally in stocks as a signal of impending economic rebound are engaging not in analysis, but in wishful thinking and superstition.

So an economic recovery, in and of itself, is not a bullish signal.

Fears of a sharp slowdown in China receded somewhat and the country's new leadership signaled a more assertive posture on economic and financial reform.

The Harper government's response to the humanitarian disaster in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, and the announcement on November 22nd of the Canada - United States Asia Pacific Defence Policy Cooperation Framework, signal that its policy towards Asia is developing a greater security dimension to accompany its single - minded emphasis to date on economic objectives.

The S&P 500 had its biggest weekly gain since April in the period ended Friday after the Federal Reserve signaled it won't be raising rates quickly as officials hold out for more decisive evidence of an economic rebound.

The Bundesbank, the most hawkish of central banks, has signalled it would accept higher inflation in Germany as part of an economic rebalancing in the eurozone that would boost the international competitiveness of countries worst - hit by the region's debt crisis.

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 with Fed funds, reverse repo rates, Interest on excess reserves, and LIBOR, the price of gold pings an important signal as to risk, the cost of capital, the state of the financial markets, and economic well - being in general.

The US credit markets are flashing a rare warning of economic trouble ahead, signalling that the Federal Reserve risks blundering into another recession without a deft change of course.

The Bank of England governor might have sent mixed signals on rate rises, but the global economic forecast is so harsh that we can't really b...

The results offer generally good news, as stocks have mostly interpreted rising interest rates as a signal of better economic growth rather than harmful inflation.

While the movement of interest rates is a critical signal of future economic strength, we believe drawing overarching conclusions, at this time, is premature.

This inability to adapt to economic reality is a signal of the impossibility, in the United States, of pragmatic, sensible tax reform.

-- It is important to note, we see the initial tightening as a signal of self - sustainability, not the end of economic expansion.

The Ninth Circuit took a similar approach in Berson v. Applied Signal Technology, Inc., and ultimately fashioned a standard for loss causation in Nuveen v. City of Alameda when it held that a plaintiff can establish loss causation «by showing that the defendant misrepresented or omitted the very facts that were a substantial factor in causing the plaintiff's economic loss.»

Key monetary indicators in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China are flashing signals of an economic slowdown later this year, raising fears of a global recession in 2019 and a stock market slump without a shift in policy.

The GBP USD is up nearly 1 % at themid - session after a stronger - than - expected economic report signaled growth.This news reduced the prospects for further easing by the Bank of England, therefore,

Generally speaking, joint market action in Treasury yields, credit spreads, commodities, and market internals provide the earliest signal of potential economic strains, followed by the new orders and production components of regional purchasing managers indices and Fed surveys, followed by real sales, followed by real production, followed by real income, followed by new claims for unemployment, and confirmed much later by payroll employment.

In light of this expectation and their assessment of the risks to the economic outlook, several expressed the view that a cautious approach to raising rates would be prudent or noted their concern that raising the target range as soon as April would signal a sense of urgency they did not think appropriate.»

«At a time when protectionism and inward - looking policies are proliferating, concluding the CPTPP would send a strong signal to the world about the benefits of multilateral economic cooperation.»

Investors began to focus once more on the positive domestic economic backdrop, along with the increasingly encouraging signals coming from many other parts of the global economy.