Sentences with phrase «of the global recession of»

Five years after the onset of the global recession of 2008 — 2009, the sluggish pace of recovery and worries over employment and financial security continue to weigh heavily on consumer sentiment in developed economies.

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News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

Lane talked of Canada's need to restore its place in global supply chains after the Great Recession and how a stronger currency «battered» exporters after the financial crisis.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

The global economy is set for one of its best years since the financial crisis, but recession risks are increasing, said UBS Chairman Axel Weber.

This dynamic shielded us from the brunt of the global recession.

In the face of a global recession, China's GDP rocketed 8.9 % in 2009.

But in the wake of the global recession, prices in most other countries have fallen back to earth.

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.

Singapore downgraded its forecasts on economic growth and exports for 2016 after confirming a contraction in output in the third quarter, raising the risk of a recession amid fresh uncertainty around global trade under U.S. President - elect Donald Trump.

Well, here's a fact that may change your mind: Apple had the most profitable year ever during what we call the biggest global recession of all times.

In addition to covering the full range of investment opportunities, the book features new material on the Great Recession and the global credit crisis as well as an increased focus on the long - term potential of emerging markets.

For the sake of comparison, consider this: During the first quarter of Obama's second term in 2013, foreign travel to the U.S. increased 6.4 % and in the first three months of 2009, at the beginning of his first term and the global recession, it was down 14.3 %.

In the period leading up to the 2008 global recession, KingFisher established a war chest that allowed it not only to ride out the downturn but also finance its subsequent purchase of two Washington - based manufacturers: Renaissance Marine Group and Hells Canyon Marine (KingFisher also employs approximately 200 people at its U.S. facility).

On the whole, business leaders say that, given the global scope of the recession, the Conservatives have so far met the challenges of improving the economy and managing the deficit as wellas can be expected.

Carney, who is leaving to take over the top job at the Bank of England, won respect across the global financial community for his leadership and deft handling of the challenges wrought by the recession.

«Trade wars, a recession, any notion of any weakness in global economies are going to cut into,» oil prices, Kloza said.

Over the course of 2001, as global markets fell and the world headed into recession, Apple launched the iTunes music software (in January), the Mac OS X operating system (March), the first Apple retail stores (May), and the first iPod (November), a 5 GB model that Apple bragged would hold 1,000 songs.

Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall of 2008 amid the global financial crisis and Great Recession.

Global demand has increased as economies in Europe and North America lift out of recession.

As one of the largest advertising and marketing companies in the world, IPG was slammed by the global recession.

But while 2016 is likely to be another year of slow global growth, I don't foresee a global recession.

In fairness, McDonald had the misfortune of taking over during the punishing global recession that followed the financial crisis.

Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate economist who now spends most of his time sharing his opinions with the readers of the New York Times, predicts a global recession.

Russian markets, in recovery mode following a deep recession after the global oil price collapse in 2015, have been ravaged since Friday over fears of U.S. sanctions.

Despite the recession, more than 90 % of interactive marketers plan this year to maintain or increase spending on reaching consumers through Facebook, Twitter and the like, according to a global survey by Forrester Research.

To create jobs and prevent a double - dip global recession, this group of die - hard Keynesians wants to see emergency stimulus spending maintained and maybe even increased to support economic growth.

If the most recent batch of confidence surveys are any indication, consumers have just figured out the global economy may be headed for recession.

It is hard to imagine Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty actually coming out and stating that he thinks the risk of another global recession is growing daily.

«The combination of a disorderly Brexit and a severe global recession and stressed misconduct costs could result in more severe conditions than in the stress test,» the bank said.

«The 2017 stress test shows the UK banking system is resilient to deep simultaneous recessions in the UK and global economies, large falls in asset prices and a separate stress of misconduct costs,» the BoE said.

With headaches like natural disasters, rising wages in China, and a financial domino effect gripping economies around the world — not to mention recession - induced protectionism like U.S. President Barack Obama's jobs bills with their Buy American clauses — have we reached the limits of the global integration that has propelled the world economy since the end of the Cold War?

The head of the World Trade Organization warned of a real risk of triggering an escalation of global trade barriers and a deep recession, even as financial markets and many economists started to discount the risk of a global crisis.

«Our government has been consistently clear that we must remain focused as our economy emerges from the effects of the great global recession,» Sousa said in a statement.

Matthew Strauss, vice-president of portfolio management with Toronto's Signature Global Advisors, adds that, since the recession, the focus has changed from buying export - focused companies to businesses that sell to the domestic consumer.

He earned these accolades by guiding the country through the worst of the recession, building a reputation as an expert on complex financial reform, and snagging the top spot at the Financial Stability Board, an international body crafting new policies for global finance.

If all you were looking at was the effect of the global meltdown of world trade on Canada's net exports, you'd have a very hard time explaining just how Canada went into recession last quarter.

That said, while I believe global growth will remain below trend, the evidence suggests that the global economy is not on the cusp of another recession.

While the latest census figures confirm that Canada fared well during the global recession, the picture of household financial health is far from complete

If the short run concern of those gathered in Davos is how the world will deal with the next recession when it comes, the long run one has to be the declining appeal of democratic global values.

Canadian energy company shares are trading at levels not seen since the depths of the 2008 crisis, levels that can only be justified if the global economy falls into another recession and oil prices drop by half.

The WEO concludes «that there is now a 1 in 6 chance of global growth falling below 2 percent, which would be consistent with a recession in advanced economies, and low growth in emerging market and developing economies.»

Figuring out ways to regulate trading by sophisticated investors in derivatives, which go by exotic names such as «currency forwards» and «credit default swaps,» is a hot topic in international policy circles, largely because failures on this murky side of the market are blamed for the 2008 global credit meltdown and the recession that followed.

Is the trade slowdown a warning of another global recession?

This is a substantial increase in the probabilities of a global recession since July.

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The fact is the global economy has never recovered from the 2008 - 2009 recession and, as predicted by the IMF, is now entering a period of «mediocre» or «stagnant» growth.

Global economic forces — the sharp movement of commodity prices; the Great Recession and the lacklustre global economy in its aftermath; and, for much of the past decade, a strong Canadian dollar — battered many of our export industries and splintered their supply cGlobal economic forces — the sharp movement of commodity prices; the Great Recession and the lacklustre global economy in its aftermath; and, for much of the past decade, a strong Canadian dollar — battered many of our export industries and splintered their supply cglobal economy in its aftermath; and, for much of the past decade, a strong Canadian dollar — battered many of our export industries and splintered their supply chains.

At the same time, some two out of three asset managers reckon a Chinese recession is the number one «tail risk» to global markets.

Edwards added that he believes the recession is now here (hence his «ultimate» adjective), «just as it was in the fall of 2011 until global coordinated easing injected trillions and masked its impact, and will manifest itself unless the global central banks step up far more aggressively and tune out reality once again.»