Sentences with phrase «of weak global demand»

In today's environment of weak global demand, there has been little appetite among any major economies for the excess production and savings of these major surplus nations, but the absence of capital controls has made the United States the default adjustment for global capital imbalances.

Not exact matches

In the days to come the Fed will have to prove that a new set of tools for managing interest rates will work as expected; see how higher U.S. rates affect domestic and global financial conditions; and hope that weak world demand and commodity prices do not lead to an overall bout of deflation and force the Fed to reverse course.

Through all of this silly labeling, Poloz simply has counseled patience, saying the combination of a weaker currency, low borrowing costs and sounder global demand would stir Canada's economy back to life.

Poloz said they can explain about half the miss through the combination of weaker U.S. demand and the general slowing of global trade since the financial crisis.

Riding a string of disappointing quarters amid weak global demand, Potash Corp. needs to increase its sales in growth markets, particularly India and China.

He warned that the global economy, despite or because of years of QE, ZIRP, and NIRP, is dogged by a «weak global outlook» and «sluggishness of global demand»:

The export bounce is, at face value, a sign that China's modest economic revival is intact and suggestive of global demand being on the mend, but imports were surprisingly weak, falling 15.2 percent from a year earlier to 13 - month lows and highlighting vulnerability lurking in the domestic economy.

Recent data suggests weak global demand for Chinese - made goods, declining levels of factory activity and a slip in the amount of freight being carried by the China's rail network.

«In the presence of uncertainty and the absence of accelerating inflationary pressures, it would be unwise for policy to foreclose on the possibility of making further gains in the labor market,» she said, adding that «disinflation pressure and weak demand from abroad will likely weigh on the U.S. outlook for some time, and fragility in global markets could again pose risks here at home.»

Last week I had drinks with one of my former Peking University students and we discussed some of the ways the global economy might react to a world adjusting from a global crisis with weak demand and excess liquidity.

Because China begins the process with the highest investment level in history, the extent of the transformation must exceed that of any other case, and it must occur at a time when weak Chinese demand is compounded by weak global demand, thereby reducing productive investment opportunities for the private sector.

Although manufacturing overcapacity is certainly a problem, much of it is in areas in which global demand has simply collapsed, and isn't coming back, and so a cheaper currency would have little impact beyond temporarily reducing excess inventory, which is not enough of a benefit to justify the many costs of a weaker currency.

Historically whenever global demand is weak, and unemployment high, countries will try to gain a larger share of that demand by reducing wages or otherwise taxing households to subsidize production (devaluing the currency is just a way to tax the consumption of imports and to subsidize exporters).

In terms of specific food items, total seafood prices for fiscal 2013 are expected to be lower than fiscal 2012 because of additional supply, particularly shrimp and crab, and weaker global demand, in particular for lobster.

-- 4 reasons why «gold has entered a new bull market» — Schroders — Market complacency is key to gold bull market say Schroders — Investors are currently pricing in the most benign risk environment in history as seen in the VIX — History shows gold has the potential to perform very well in periods of stock market weakness (see chart)-- You should buy insurance when insurers don't believe that the «risk event» will happen — Very high Chinese gold demand, negative global interest rates and a weak dollar should push gold higher

The combined effects of falling commodity prices, weak global demand for exports and soft internal demand have led to year - over-year (YOY) declines in the gross domestic products (GDPs) of the largest Asian economies.

Global dairy prices have fallen around 60 per cent since early 2014, mainly because of weaker demand from China after it stockpiled milk powder, and most analysts expect milk prices to stay low for some time.

In its Australian 2018 Beef Cattle Seasonal Outlook, agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank said a combination of increased supply, reduced producer demand and weaker global prices will see domestic cattle prices ease from the highs of 2017 to stabilise at just above five - year averages.

But a raft of mine expansions during the boom years and weak demand caused by the global economic slowdown pushed prices to a 3 - year low near $ 80 a metric ton in October 2012, and they have stayed below $ 100 since.

Crude Oil prices have been rising, amid the relaxation of exports in the US, and weak global demand.

The industry's plan B, to export production to assumed perennial growth markets in Asia, has also floundered amid a global market awash with supply from other countries and weak demand; Chinese coal consumption fell nearly 3 % in 2014 while India, the world's third largest buyer, says it may stop imports of thermal coal in the next three years With domestic markets collapsing and no lifeline from abroad, 264 [1] US mines were closed between 2011 and 2013.

Retail gasoline prices fell after crude oil prices dropped for the fourth straight week — a product of weaker - than - expected global demand and increasing production, which EIA says will save American households $ 550 next year, Bloomberg News reports.

From the article:... U.S. crude oil fell on Friday, on track for its fourth daily decline on continued concerns about ample supply at a time of weak global economic data and fragile demand.

The supplier of the camera module, LG Innotek apparently suffered an operating loss of $ 30.98 million in the second quarter of 2016 due to a weak demand for components resulting from a global slowdown of smartphones sales.

Samsung Electronics (KRX: 005935) turned in a lackluster quarter as competiton from mid - and low - end smarphone manfacturers hurt sales of the Galaxy s5, and tablet sales suffered from weaker global demand.