Sentences with phrase «of eurozone economies»

A 2013 study by NERA Economic Consulting revealed that the U.S. has the highest liability costs as a percentage of GDP of the countries surveyed, with liability costs at 2.6 times the average level of the Eurozone economies.

-LRB-...) The strength of demand for eurozone «periphery» debt reflected increased investor appetite for higher - yielding government bonds as well as rising confidence in the creditworthiness of eurozone economies.

«I've heard stories of companies hedging their bets with some of the eurozone economies,» Langrish says, explaining that some have set up accounts to pay their employees in euros should their home country exit the eurozone and reintroduce its old currency.

The uncertain state of the eurozone economy may become clearer on Wednesday when the European Union statistics office releases an estimate of its economic growth in the first quarter.

That Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy are calling the shots in the attempted salvaging of the eurozone economy — with Merkel the dominant of the duo — is not new news.

Not exact matches

The Commission, meanwhile, said Britain will continue to lag the eurozone over the coming years, forecasting growth of only 1.5 percent this year and 1.2 percent next, with the economy hobbled by Brexit uncertainty.

Italy is the eurozone's third largest economy, and its debt - to - GDP ratio of 133 % is the second largest in the currency union, after Greece.

The eurozone's recovery from the sovereign debt crisis has been about improving situations in the economic bloc's peripheral economies like Italy and Portugal, and this new batch of uncertainty in Portugal's financial sector is not sitting well with investors.

Some of that is for good reason — the eurozone's recovery is still extremely modest, China's growth is slowing (along with most other emerging markets) and investors are uncertain over the ability of the halfway - recovered US and UK economies to sustain higher central bank interest rates.

But unlike the 2011 rout, sparked by the eurozone debt crisis, the sudden collapse of global equities markets that began last week is all about China — which makes it all the more unnerving since few have a good grasp on how the world's most important emerging economy actually works.

Speaking to an Economic Club of Canada audience in Toronto on June 29, the Nobel laureate admitted that the outcome of the current situation involving a sluggish U.S. economy and a wobbly Eurozone was difficult to foresee, save for Greece.

The most widespread opinion is that the European Central Bank is going to announce a new round of bond - buying next week to try to stimulate the Eurozone economy, which will further depress the value of the euro and make the franc yet more attractive.

Despite the backlash, the SNB will face from those who are nursing potential losses that could run into billions, many analysts thought the decision was inevitable in light of next week's expected announcement by the ECB to break new ground in its efforts to inject life into the ailing 19 - country eurozone economy.

It was growth in Germany and France in the second quarter of the year that propelled the eurozone above the zero - growth mark, and German and French consumers, in turn, gave their respective economies a considerable lift.

German sovereign paper is seen a proxy for the eurozone's economy and the viability of the economic bloc.

The so - called policies of fiscal stabilization dictated by the Bundestag will only make the situation in the eurozone's fourth - largest economy worse, not better.

«Our decision to upgrade Europe at the end of last year was driven by our belief that we would see a solid upturn in the eurozone economy, earnings and investment flows into a region that was unloved and underowned,» says Sheets.

His comments, made to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, came on the same day as a «raft of dismal economic news from around the world, with manufacturing output falling in Britain and Europe, unemployment jumping in the eurozone and America, and fast - emerging economies such as Brazil and China showing signs of running out of steam.»

Goldberg says bold moves by the European Central Bank have mitigated the threat of a cascade of major bank failures, but an anemic Eurozone economy would be bad news for American export - driven companies.

The step represented a significant escalation of the E.C.B.'s efforts to get banks to lend more money, apply a jolt to the eurozone economy and head off the threat of a destructive decline in prices known as deflation.

Programs of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve in the United States and by the Bank of England in Britain have helped the economies of those two countries recover from the global financial crisis more successfully than the eurozone has been able to.

Together, those drags on the economy of the 19 - country eurozone are a reason the bloc's unemployment rate is more than double that of the United States, and why eurozone growth has lagged the American rebound in recent years.

The European Central Bank sometimes appears to be the sole eurozone institution seeking to restore the economy, in the absence of government spending stimulus.

Fresh purchasing manager's index (PMI) readings for the month of March were also released, showing continued manufacturing sector expansion in the world's largest economies, including the U.S., China and the eurozone.

Looking forward, it is a given that a lot needs to go right in the eurozone, the United States, China, and Japan, which account for nearly two - thirds of the world's $ 72 trillion economy.

Latvia's Road to Serfdom By Prof. Michael Hudson and and Prof. Jeff Sommers While most of the world's press focuses on Greece (and also Spain, Ireland and Portugal) as the most troubled euro - areas, the much more severe, more devastating and downright deadly crisis in the post-Soviet economies scheduled to join the Eurozone somehow has escaped widespread notice.

Implementing (another nascent trend) better economic policy in key emerging economies (China, India) as well as key developed economies (eurozone, Japan) with at least the possibility of future breakthroughs in U.S. economic policy (immigration, oil exports, trade promotion authority).

Over the past five years, the economy has been through a number of shocks, including the eurozone crisis, the fiscal cliff, China's surprise currency devaluation in the summer of 2015, and the shale oil bust.

Of the eurozone's four large national economies, only Italy bucked the trend, recording a 1.1 % rise in output, while Germany and France recorded declines of a similar magnitude and Spain was flaOf the eurozone's four large national economies, only Italy bucked the trend, recording a 1.1 % rise in output, while Germany and France recorded declines of a similar magnitude and Spain was flaof a similar magnitude and Spain was flat.

Whether that benefit will be enough to drive the ECB's overarching goal of firming up the eurozone's flaccid economy is another question.

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the eurozone economy still needs abundant stimulus to raise inflation to more normal levels even in the midst of a strengthening recovery.

It is no coincidence that the two main areas which are experiencing negative interest rates, sub-par growth and near - deflation — i.e. Japan and the Eurozone (plus the three euro - linked economies of Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland)-- are also the economies where the major central banks have implemented flawed versions of QE.

By contrast, the Eurozone and Japan are still in the midst of extended programmes of quantitative easing (QE) intended mainly to keep interest rates low along the length of the yield curve (rather than directly to boost the rates of growth of money and purchasing power), and hence to stimulate the two economies.

Positives touched most aspects of the economy, including some powerful improvements to America's competitiveness which probably explain why the U.S. has done pretty well in 2012 in spite of the Eurozone mess, China's slowdown and the fiscal cliff episode.

These are the primary explanations for sub-par growth, near - deflationary conditions, and, most recently, negative interest rates in Japan and the Eurozone (together with the euro - linked economies of Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland).

Earlier this week, it was reported that the 19 - member eurozone economy expanded by 2.5 % in 2017, the fastest rate since 2007, and ahead of the 2.3 % expansion the U.S. saw last year.

The bloc faces risks from Trump's protectionist trade policies and U.S. economy overheating, official says

BRUSSELS — The European Union unveiled an upbeat economic outlook for the eurozone Thursday, but warned of rising risks from President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies and of the U.S....

Its movements are determined by the economy of the Uk and that of the Eurozone.

Draghi has long insisted the bank would continue to take what it feels is appropriate action to get the eurozone economy on track, and he reinforced that message most recently in August at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - sponsored economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The data released on Thursday showed that the Eurozone's largest economy is beginning to feel the strain of the debt crisis.

In turn, this has allowed the Portuguese economy to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the eurozone's robust recovery, with the IMF forecasting 2017 could be the country's best year of growth in more than 20 years.

On Monday, finance ministers in the Eurozone also talked about the possibility of giving Greece a further two years to fix the economy.

I think that we can expect that to continue in the absence of any major policy change, so I think the Eurozone in aggregate will continue to be a 2 % growth economy.

In our view, the ECB needs to consider its approach to QE, not least because of the increasing similarities between the trajectories of the eurozone and US economies.

In terms of the actual economy in the Eurozone, in aggregate, I think that the Eurozone is roughly a 1.5 % growth economy, but again that's in aggregate so it masks the big divisions between the core countries like Germany and the weaker countries like Greece and Portugal, and Italy as well.

Nevertheless, we think the ECB is likely to wait for far more compelling evidence that the eurozone economy is generating appropriate and sustainable levels of price increases before contemplating a change of stance.

Nevertheless, with the ECB's own inflation forecast for 2019 still only at 1.7 %, our sense is that ECB President Draghi is likely to wait for far more compelling evidence that the eurozone economy is generating appropriate and sustainable levels of price increases before contemplating a change of stance.

I think what shook markets across the globe was not the size of Greece's economy or financial system, but more the prospect of a Greek exit from the eurozone, which would have put a big question mark over the irreversibility of the entire euro system.

The central bank has launched a series of stimulus measures to help the economy of the 19 - nation eurozone and bring inflation to a healthier level.

In our view, a favorable combination of four factors should help drive the eurozone economy much higher: