Sentences with phrase «of economic softness»
HGIC faces risk of economic softness, weather risk, portfolio risk, and interest rate risk.
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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.
The softness of European economic activity has stirred the complacency of recent buyers of EUROs and caused some unwinding of the EUR / YEN and EUR / GBP cross rates.
Couple this economic softness with the fact that just about any commodity you can think of from iron ore, to orange juice, to silver, to coffee, to copper is at or near a five year low and it becomes increasingly difficult to find any significant inflationary pressure and hence the imminent need for a (small) rate increase.