Sentences with phrase «of weaker activity»

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In addition to that, the euro area has (a) worsening problems of political instability (Italy without government, unfolding corruption scandals in recession - hit Spain and France), (b) dysfunctional banking systems (weak banks and their impaired lending activities despite ample liquidity supplied by the ECB) and (c) lingering uncertainties about the financial system's credibility (problems with depositor and investor protection).

European stocks, which had followed much of Wall St's rout on Monday, had less dramatic falls Tuesday, but failed to stabilize with any conviction after data showing service sector activity across the Eurozone and U.K. was weaker than originally thought in December.

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

«Overall, the tone of this report was disappointing as it points to a weak start to spending activity this year, despite the significant boost to disposable income from lower gasoline prices,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

Even though retail banking activity and loan growth are still weak at Wells Fargo, Sloan says, «In most of the cases, we're well ahead of where I thought we were going to do.»

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.

Recent work at the Bank of Canada and elsewhere shows that about half of the slowdown in trade growth among advanced economies in the post-crisis period can be explained by weak economic activity, especially sluggish business investment.

My impression is that much of the activity in new orders reflects inventory building rather than final demand, and weak retail sales are consistent with that.

In addition, economic activity will be constrained by lower levels of government spending than before and a weak banking system.

2016.06.10 Canadian economic activity erratic through 2016: RBC Economics As the Canadian economy contends with softer than expected exports, weak business investment and effects of the Alberta wildfires, real GDP growth in 2016 is forecast to be 1.4 per cent...

The devil in the details: how do you prevent normal business activity (eg: buying Christmas inventory) from taking the value of a weak company below the value of unfunded pension obligations?

While the positives include the unemployment rate falling to 42 - year lows, a weaker pound sterling is leading to a spike in consumer inflation; in the event of a negative outcome in the negotiations with the European Union, the UK currency could slide further, leading to a rise in consumer prices and leaving the Bank of England in a very precarious situation in which easing interest rates will be ruled out due to high inflation, and hiking rates will lead to a slowdown in economic activity.

Landstar Systems: After a period of weak trucking activity and weak load pricing, this truck brokerage business performed exceptionally well as both pricing and load volumes rebounded.

Activity in non-Japan Asia remained strong during the first half of 2000, though the pace of growth varied widely across countries; over the past year, growth has been strongest in Hong Kong, Korea and Malaysia and weakest in Indonesia (Table 1).

Despite a strong dollar and weak exports, manufacturing activity will benefit from improved domestic demand, and further gains in construction activity will aid the recovery of states such as California and Arizona.

As Bill Hester recently observed, the current level of economic activity has had a much higher probability of being recessionary in periods when the S&P 500 was also weak — for example, below its level of 6 months earlier, or below its 12 - month moving average.

Inflation has been high, spurred by the declines earlier increases in the prices of energy and some other commodities and the weaker prospects for economic activity, the.

CHINA: CEBM's review of January industrial activity shows that economic activity remains weak, but that further MoM weakening was not observed.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

According to Freddie Mac: «A market can fall outside its stable range by being too weak to generate enough demand for a well - balanced housing market or by overheating to an unsustainable level of activity.»

This points to weaker expansion in services business activity, another indication of weaker eurozone growth in the first quarter of 2018.

However, the sudden surge of US production in fall last year was, in part, due to prices remaining elevated but also the industry's reliance on massaged economic data that showed a stronger US economy on the surface, but weaker underlying activity.

The strong still exploit the weak, the important human values of freedom and privacy are effectively denied, and incentives for productive activity are undermined.

But these anarchic motives may be directed toward decent activities — marital procreation, protection of the weak, provision of material necessities.

Since it is God's gift food should not be used as a weapon either by Christians to destroy the weaker consciences of their fellow believers or by the state to compel Christians to engage in certain cultural activities deemed to be necessary for citizenship.

They are accused of making a disturbance, of risking violence; but their activities have been a relatively weak form of power, in intention nonviolent, against the institutionalized violence of the police system of many a community, against the pervasive intimidation that is the next thing to violence.

The weakest part of «The Catholic Writer Today» is its assertion that we have fallen away from a high point of Catholic literary activity in the mid-twentieth century.

If capitalism is amoral in a neutral process of buying and selling, then it is not inherently unjust, and can, like all other societal activities, be guided within a framework of individual rights and rule of law to prevent the mighty from overtaking the weak.

By Thursday, I felt well enough to get out of bed and take a shower and by Friday I felt strong enough to go home, yet I was still very weak and any activity quickly drained me.

Every child will show signs of anxiety in different ways, but typical symptoms include changes in their activity level, sweaty palms, weak legs, stomach pain, headache, or behavioral cues such as crying, nail - biting, hair - pulling, or head - banging.

Former member of the National Assembly, Farouk Adamu Aliyu has described President Jonathan as a weak leader who is financing the activities of the Boko Haram sect.

Former member of the National Assembly, Farouk Adamu Aliyu has described President Jonathan as a weak leader who is financing the activities of the Boko Haram...

A former Deputy Minister for Interior, James Agalga, has said that the recent violent activities of New Patriotic Party - affiliated vigilante group, Delta Force, is an indication of weak leadership on the part of the government.

Your humanitarian and philanthropic activities have touched many lives, especially those of the poor and weak and are worthy of commendation and emulation.

He too alluded darkly toward «evidence of voter suppression,» and called for formal federal oversight of the final vote count — though was weak on the details of what nefarious activities transpired.

Heavy logging activity less than a half - mile from LIGO's main entrance creates vibration that engineers must nullify in order to detect the slight presence of far weaker gravitational waves.

All earbud wires have weak points where the wire meets the earbuds and the aux jack, but we recommend reinforcing these earbuds around those weak points for intense activities where the cord is in danger of being snagged or tugged around.

The projects were looking good, all except one, so I needed to focus most of my activity on that weak area.

In a bid to determine the regions of the brain concerned with these memorization difficulties, the researchers conducted magneto - encephalographs (a technique that allows very weak magnetic fields produced by neural activity to be measured at the surface of the head) on a group of amusics while they were performing a musical task.

All animals generate weak electric fields from the activity of their muscles and nerves.

Other factors analysed (including avoidance of activity, damage beliefs and catastrophizing) were weaker mediators of the effects on fatigue and physical function.

In the current study, researchers found to their surprise that most of the nerve cells in auditory cortex neurons that stimulate brain activity (excitatory) had signaled less (had «weaker» activity) when the mice expected and got a reward.

Based on years of scientific research into the root causes of the condition, the device uses precisely timed sounds and weak electrical pulses that activate touch - sensitive nerves, both aimed at steering damaged nerve cells back to normal activity.

The least invasive is a device placed on a person's head that can detect weak electrical signatures of brain activity.

This is because the activity of the vagus nerve — one of the main parasympathetic nerves — is weak in preterm infants compared to full - term babies.

The Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children Study (PANIC) carried out in the Institute of Biomedicine at the University of Eastern Finland shows that low levels of physical activity, weaker physical fitness and higher body fat content are linked to arterial stiffness already in 6 - 8 year - old cActivity and Nutrition in Children Study (PANIC) carried out in the Institute of Biomedicine at the University of Eastern Finland shows that low levels of physical activity, weaker physical fitness and higher body fat content are linked to arterial stiffness already in 6 - 8 year - old cactivity, weaker physical fitness and higher body fat content are linked to arterial stiffness already in 6 - 8 year - old children.

The study published now shows measurable adverse changes in the arteries of children with less physical activity, weaker physical fitness and higher body fat content.

Furthermore, the study showed that children with weak physical fitness combined with a high body fat percentage or low levels of physical activity also had the stiffest arteries.

In 2007, an international panel of 12 experts split evenly over whether the coming cycle of activity, dubbed Cycle 24, would be stronger or weaker than average.

Where the input is weak, the master map may dial back the activity of the neurons.