Sentences with phrase «of real consumer spending»

New York — According to locally based Moody's Investors Service, the latest news on retail sales suggests the quarter - to - quarter annualized growth rate of real consumer spending will drop from Q1 2001's 2.9 % to 1.6 %...

As I note here, I find this to be a useful forecaster of real consumer spending.

Not exact matches

Real personal consumption expenditures rose 0.1 % in December, positive but something of a disappointment compared with the big YoY increase evident in Gallup's consumer spending measure:

Hike it up in Canada and you'd hurt exports, one of the things that are supposed to help keep the economy growing as real estate and consumer spending slow.

We look at economic growth, job creation, consumer spending and the health of the residential real estate market.

Results from First Data Corp. and Visa showed a surge in consumer spending since the tax overhaul; the regional banks showed improving loan growth; and numbers from the real estate investment trusts told a story of rising demand and favorable deregulation, the «Mad Money» host said.

Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward - looking statements contained in this release because of a variety of factors, including conditions to, or changes in the timing of, proposed real estate and other transactions, prevailing interest rates and non-recurring charges, store closings, competitive pressures from specialty stores, general merchandise stores, off - price and discount stores, manufacturers» outlets, the Internet, mail - order catalogs and television shopping and general consumer spending levels, including the impact of the availability and level of consumer debt, the effect of weather and other factors identified in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Real consumer spending increased at a 2.25 percent annual rate over the second half of 2009 and looks to be growing at about that rate in the first quarter of 2010.

For example, in the first year of recovery following the deep recessions of 1973 - 1975 and 1981 - 1982, real consumer spending increased an average of 6.5 percent and residential investment rose an average of 38 percent.

We did see some real strong numbers towards the end of last year, consumer spending was growing at around a half a percent each month, which was very strong.

This is not unusual for the U.S. economy, of course, since consumer spending accounts for roughly two - thirds of real GDP.

There is typically a bit of a lag between falling energy prices and their effect on consumer spending, but by Q3 12, declining energy prices should be supporting real consumer spending; we look for 2.5 % consumer spending growth in H2 12.

In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.

Retail sales (consumer spending), real estate and exports continue to be the key drivers of our provincial economy.

The poor consumer spending in Q1 could be a harbinger of more economic weakness, not only because the consumer is almost 70 % of the U.S. economy, but because average real personal consumption expenditures grew at a faster rate than real GDP over the last three years, 2.9 % to 2.2 %.

Building «tribes» of two dozen or more consumers in the target market and then spending over 100 real time hours with them, Odysseus Arms is able to vet their likes, dislikes and responses to inform message strategy and creative.

«The loss of these vital deductions would harm our real estate market, lower consumer spending, reduce sales tax revenue that funds critical services, and threaten our local economy.»

An economic slowdown is widely expected by city officials, economists, and budget watchdogs, and the Council's budget response notes the consequences it could have on consumer spending, tax revenue, real estate prices, and cost of living.

This data, ranging from the obvious things like titles purchased to the more obscure data on how long consumers read certain passages, how much time was spent interacting with different sections of books, and how much of a book was finished, can be used for very real world information gathering.

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The higher consumer and investment spending results in real GDP being $ 9.6 billion higher by the end of the forecast period than it would be without the ORPP.

Frankel's claim to fame is the Real Housewives of New York City where she spent time catfighting with Kelly Killoren Bensimon, dropping hilarious one - liners, and figuring out how to get her SkinnyGirl Margarita off the ground and into consumer's homes.

That's okay for adult consumers who can afford to spend more money make purchasing decisions as individuals, but for school districts with tight budgets and poor students, that lack of flexibility is a real deterrent.

A real estate company that had spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars to create and manage their websites was losing consumer traffic to the much larger RealtyLink and mls.ca sites.

Led by a rebound in consumer spending, business inventory restocking, and a resurgence of U.S. trade volume and manufacturing production since 2010, the industrial real estate sector has benefited from recovering fundamentals and, we believe, is poised to continue its improvement.

Until then (or when the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup, whichever comes first) ORE will continue to turn out mostly turkeys ready to be stuffed possessing real estate sales person licenses with expense - money to spend trying to fulfill / buy the image of a «professional» via slick websites and canned objection - handling lines designed to put those damned nay - saying skeptical consumers in their place (ready to sign right here, right now!).

Langlois says: «Consumers are spending an average of 11 months in their home search process, predominantly online, and Zoocasa wants to support these consumers and allow them to conveniently connect with real estate professionals across the entire process including Realtors, mortgage lenders or other such expertConsumers are spending an average of 11 months in their home search process, predominantly online, and Zoocasa wants to support these consumers and allow them to conveniently connect with real estate professionals across the entire process including Realtors, mortgage lenders or other such expertconsumers and allow them to conveniently connect with real estate professionals across the entire process including Realtors, mortgage lenders or other such experts.»

Consumer spending has held up well, sparing retail real estate the kind of damage that this jobless recovery has dealt to office, multifamily and hotel sectors.

Organized real estate should be looking inwardly to find solutions for to substantially improve the quality of service and expertise of Realtors before spending resources encouraging consumers to use Realtor services that aren't up to the public's expected standards.

Our users spend more than 65,000 hours on the site each month and we are now reaching the majority of real estate consumers across Nova Scotia.

The various Regulatory Authorities from Province to Province, have spent a considerable amount of time and energy on the subject of Agency Representation, with the ultimate goal of what is in the best interests of real estate consumers.

The real estate industry has spent many years creating and structuring an environment / system that goes to the very heart of championing «consumer protection».

«As America's digital marketing leader in the homeownership space, we spend hundreds of millions of dollars to connect with home - buying consumers each year, and increasingly, these home shoppers are not yet working with a real estate agent,» Hsieh says.

If organized real estate wants to make a better consumer experience then it should raise the bar and eliminate the Realtors who can't spell or write a simple intelligent clause in a contract — except organized real estate is rewarded for having more members, so it will spend its budget defending the reputation of Realtors.

Now, researchers at the American University in Washington, D.C., and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro have quantified the tremendous boost real estate equity gains give to consumer spending versus comparable gains in financial assets.

The two companies» combined revenue currently represents less than 4 % of the estimated $ 12 billion real estate professionals spend on marketing their services to consumers each year.

Modest job growth, rising business confidence and higher levels of consumer spending have resulted in a marked increased in commercial real estate activity.

For example, the two companies» combined revenue currently represents less than 4 percent of the estimated $ 12 billion i real estate professionals spend on marketing their services to consumers each year.

Form Simplicity not only gives agents more time to do their real jobs — spend more time to help consumers and less time stuck at their desks — it also eliminates an enormous amount of paperwork for the broker.

Store bought: The continued healthy pace of consumer spending is being reflected in new strength for retail real estate.

Because retail real estate statistics tend to lag behind general economic indicators, retail center owners have so far avoided feeling the brunt of the pain from the massive drop - off in consumer spending, according to Joel Bloomer, an analyst with Morningstar.

In the real estate industry, we spend hours upon hours evaluating properties, and consumers spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on appraisals.

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.

The lawyers involved need to consider the actual, real - life likely outcomes of «all» of the potential scenarios that «can» be produced by a tribunal's decision, and decide which «one» would realistically provide the best outcome for the consuming real estate public, and not just for a particular dissaffected former Realtor claiming to be acting as a reasonable facsimile of a modern day Robin Hood (my interpretation of Dale's apparent claim to have spent years studying ways and means to provide real estate services equal to or superior to current standards via CREA's operations at much less cost to consumers), all the while projecting profits of hundreds of millions of dollars (it's 50/50 that «Robin Hood» is a myth).

This positive news, along with rising consumer spending and confidence data, has prompted a variety of private equity firms and real estate investment trusts (REIT) to begin focusing «down the food chain» towards class B or second - tier malls.