Sentences with phrase «of slower activity»

Simply put, HIIT training involves short bouts of intense exercise interspersed with longer periods of slower activity as recovery time.

But the depressed forecasts have extended to all banks with big fixed income trading operations, after several warnings of slow activity throughout the last three months.

This additional toxicity occurs because of the slowed activity and a bacteria in our gut called beta - glucoronidase.

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Data on Tuesday showed that U.S. factory activity slowed for a second straight month in April, weighed down by shortages of skilled workers and rising capacity constraints.

WASHINGTON, May 1 - U.S. factory activity slowed for a second straight month in April, with manufacturers complaining about rising commodity prices in the wake of the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

I often do research in the late afternoon (my slowest time of the day) because the activity can progress at a mellower pace.

Having been accused of initially dismissing the significance of Russian activity, then slow - walking the investigation into it and repeatedly understating its effects, Zuckerberg used the opening minutes of Facebook's third - quarter earnings call to signal a new sense of purpose.

If you're constantly reading, trying new activities or taking courses to learn new skills, you'll have a wealth of «newness» at your fingertips to help you slow down time.

It also suggested that consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, was accelerating in the fourth quarter after slowing in the July - September period.

The video here shows 10 seconds of trading in BlackBerry shares yesterday, slowed down more than 20-fold to show one flurry of activity down to the thousandth of a second.

Growth in consumer spending, representing two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, slid to 1.1 percent rate in the first quarter, the slowest pace since the second quarter of 2013 and following the fourth quarter's robust 4.0 percent growth rate.

Companies hoarding cash and cutting costs is a sign of slowing economic activity which will later become evident in the U.S. economy.

Though RE / MAX says the luxury market's record - breaking pace from last year has slowed, it is still expecting plenty of activity this year.

Off - balance sheets activities have also slowed, with a recent Moody's report showing shadow banking «barely grew» from 64.4 trillion yuan in the first half of 2016 to 64.7 trillion yuan in the first six months of 2017.

«The lackluster economy combined with significant long - term concerns have caused many owners of small - to medium - sized businesses to slow their growth activities,» Insperity chairman and chief executive officer Paul J. Sarvadi said in a statement.

However, readings on the U.S. services sector and mid-Atlantic factory activity indicated a slower pace of growth.

The risk is that the economy needs monetary policy tightened to cool prices before industrial activity and retail sales regain momentum lost last year as the Chinese economy delivered its slowest full year of growth since 1999, at 7.8 percent.

HFT has been criticized for affecting the trading of stocks by sending in numerous trade quotes that slow quote activity - without filling the trades when shares fall.

A series of government reports to be released this week will give the latest snapshot showing whether activity is slowing down.

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 1.1 percent annualized rate in the January - March period, the slowest in nearly five years, after surging at a 4.0 percent pace in the fourth quarter.

«All year this reading has been in focus as activity in the US manufacturing sector, particularly driven by a decline in oil - related activity and the strengthening of the US dollar, has slowed,» Business Insider markets editor Myles Udland reports.

One of its oilsands projects called Kirby North is being deferred and drilling activity in Western Canada is going to be slowed substantially.

«The sustainability of the resumed trend in price convergence is yet to be confirmed by the usually slower moving volumes of cross-border activity.»

«Signs of cooling resale activity have emerged in Vancouver and more tentatively in Toronto and we believe the blistering pace of property appreciation in both markets may slow by year end,» said Craig Wright, RBC chief economist.

Some of that drop was weather - related, as construction activity halted, but it also represented a slowing of housing gains as mortgage interest rates rose and the sector's postrecession rebound cooled.

For example, slower growth in the cost of health care will be a boon for the government and businesses, but will actually subtract from reported economic activity.

Last week, new government data showed the economy ground to a near halt in the first half of the year, and on Monday, a factory activity survey showed U.S. manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in two years in July.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

This is the headline for this morning's release of the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, and here is the opening paragraph from the report: «Led by slower growth in production - and employment - related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) declined to +0.10 in March from +0.98 in February.»

«Establishing a chronology of recessions necessarily implies discarding periods of slow or even negative growth in aggregate economic activity.

Without a doubt, this is the busiest we have ever been, and this surge in activity shows no sign of slowing down.

«Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that growth in economic activity has picked up recently, after having slowed sharply during the winter in part because of adverse weather conditions,» the FOMC statement read.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

The slowing in activity has been largely concentrated in the business and external sectors, consistent with the moderation of the global ITC cycle and the easing in demand seen in other countries.

The main uncertainties in the global environment concern the United States, where some slowing in activity is widely expected, and Japan, where the strength and durability of the economic recovery remain uncertain.

The survey's headline business activity index moved down five points to 11.2, pointing to a somewhat slower pace of growth than in February.

Economies across Asia, including China, showed slowing growth or contraction in manufacturing activity, signaling the region isn't yet feeling the benefits of renewed strength in the West

Texas service sector activity «continued to increase in April, albeit at a slower pace than last month,» according to business executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas» Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey, as the revenue index decreased to 14.7 from 20.0.

In addition, concerns of slowing economic activity in China have come to the forefront with industry behemoth Alcoa (AA — Free Alcoa Stock Report), the International Monetary Fund, and mining giant Rio Tinto Group (RIO) tempering growth expectations for the world's biggest aluminum user.

Market characteristics have melded to create a perfect storm where prospective homeowners are unable to find adequate affordable property due to an extreme lack of supply, and have thus refrained from putting their own homes on the market, causing sales activity to slow further and price rises to lower.

The first order impact of a «territorial system» that renounces a US tax claim to corporations» overseas income will be to encourage the relocation of productive activity from America to tax - haven jurisdictions, and so to slow US growth.

Meanwhile, a measure of activity in the increasingly important nonmanufacturing sector remained above the 50 level but its expansion rate slowed to 53.4 from 53.7 in March.

The pace of economic activity appears to have slowed markedly, owing importantly to a decline in consumer expenditures.

With auto sales strong, the housing industry showing signs of a true rebound, and consumer confidence on the rise, we expect to continue seeing steady but slower activity.»

It may be the heart of the summer and the Texas heat is going strong, but that doesn't mean technology activity has slowed down in Austin.

The pace of activity in the United Kingdom has slowed since mid 2004 as the housing sector responds to the earlier tightening of monetary policy.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- U.S. factories were slightly less busy in November, as production and hiring slowed, though the level of activity remained strong.

In February, we observed evidence of an abrupt slowing in economic activity.

Grief is a challenge, and though confronting it is slow and painstaking, doing so is among the most creative of human activities.

Although YHVH's sovereignty in every field of life was proclaimed at the time of the Covenant, it was only by a long and slow process that men came to recognize God and His activity in the spheres which seemed necessarily foreign to Him.