Sentences with phrase «on economic weakness»

You can listen to facile comments from PIMCO; everyone is focused on economic weakness, and few are focused on rising inflation.

With the bear market that started in 2011 likely being over, further hints on economic weakness could cause a sustainable rally gold, even without a clear signal from the central banks that, in fact, interest rates will remain depressed for the foreseeable future.

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the past few weeks we have reported on the economic weakness in Europe.

But for the last few days, global markets have been in a rout, based on economic weakness in emerging markets.

Not exact matches

LONDON, Nov 1 - European shares rose on Thursday, bolstered by relatively robust earnings reports despite economic weakness, while the euro was flat as uncertainty over how the euro zone will handle crises in Spain and Greece dragged on.

What's surprising about the weakness on the West Coast is the absence of any change in economic fundamentals, such as a spike in unemployment, to explain it.

He said the central bank's rate rise talk could restart the negative feedback loop that took place this year, when a strong dollar leaned on emerging markets currencies, including the Chinese yuan, and commodities prices, creating tight financial conditions and economic weakness.

China's surprise devaluation of its currency is an admission of economic weakness and could delay the timing of the Federal Reserve's expected U.S. interest rate hike, strategist Boris Schlossberg told CNBC on Tuesday.

The initial thrust of this economic downturn occurred on the capital spending side, but consumer weakness has been relatively slow to emerge.

On the surface, you really can't argue it — economic growth contracted by more than the Bank anticipated in Q1, and that weakness (again, a 0.065 % monthly decline) stretched into the start of Q2.

The Bank of Canada (BoC) opted to leave interest rates unchanged during the first quarter, and we think it is likely to remain on hold unless economic weakness and an energy price swoon return.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Normally, the prospect of economic weakness would provide some support for a longer duration, but the evidence on inflation is not benign.

The rate hike will further tighten domestic liquidity, putting a strain on the domestic corporate sector and reinforcing economic weakness, Parpart noted.

Markets are spooked, interest rates are on the rise across the globe, and a manufacturing survey hinted at new economic weakness in China.

On the economic front, I believe that the most consistent interpretation of the data is that of an economy that is generally deteriorating, but where the weakness in leading indicators hasn't filtered through to the most lagging ones.

Even if China's debt and real estate bubbles don't pop, resulting in a global recession, slowing economic growth from China could have a detrimental effect on long - term energy prices and result in prolonged weakness in the entire energy sector, including oil services suppliers such as U.S. Silica.

The first is that while STORE's tenant base is largely immune from current industry challenges (the decline of brick - and - mortar retail), that doesn't mean its heavy focus on services isn't exposed to economic weakness, such as when consumer spending falls during a recession.

«Heightened global economic uncertainty and ongoing energy price weakness continues to weigh on the Canadian manufacturing sector, as indicated by October's record - low reading of 48.0,» said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC.

John McCain could be sharp and concise in many matters of foreign affairs, but when it came to articulating his views on economic issues, he could not cover his weaknesses.

Only if it is a practical or moral weakness for a human economic system to be based on selfishness.

Huckabee has an instinctive sense of the party's weakness on economic issues.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

This approach has a big weakness: critics will see in this outspoken attack on the Labour party a natural willingness of the Lib Dems to lean towards the credibility of their economic strategy over fairness.

It will focus on two points of weakness: the Labour leader's economic sums don't add up.

In a bid to capitalise on Labour's newfound economic weakness, Mr Cameron will today give a speech to the City of London.

The head of the state's Republican party, Ed Cox, jumped on Cuomo's perceived weakness, pointing out that the governor's job performance numbers have been «underwater» for months now, and predicting that the ongoing investigation of the Buffalo Billion and other high tech economic projects means that «dissatisfaction will grow.»

Kim called for a tax on political action committees, and said he would hire a economic development caseworker who would analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each community in the district.

The head of the state's Republican party, Ed Cox, jumped on Cuomo's perceived weakness, pointing out that the governor's job performance numbers have been «under water» for months now, and predicting that the ongoing investigation of the Buffalo Billion and other high - tech economic projects means that «dissatisfaction will grow.»

The open innovation initiative in Lombardy is founded in the European Commission's Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3), which include reports on the region's strengths, weaknesses, and areas of opportunity from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The pair, who accuse Rouhani of anemic economic progress and weakness in negotiations with the West, even campaigned together on Tuesday.

The end of the bipolar world with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 made to materialize the hegemonic situation exerted by the United States in the world that is threatened today by its economic weakness and the economic and military rise of China that has highlighted in the geopolitical world by great political influence, military and economic in the Asian and international scene thanks to the great extension of its territory (ranked third in territorial dimension on the planet), high number of inhabitants (about 1.3 billion, most populous in the world) and the dynamism of its economy (the economy is currently showing the highest growth rates on the planet).

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

Students will focus on weaknesses within the leadership, emerging ideas during that time, and an issue — economic, political, or social — that led to the revolution.

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On the other hand, investors fleeing value in anticipation of economic weakness would have missed value's outperformance during the recession of 1981 - 1982.

While an aggressive exposure in precious metals most likely will require a reversal of long - term interest rate trends and some amount of fresh economic weakness, our focus is not so much on the next Market Climate we may observe next but on the Climate we observe at present.

Temporary factors, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan, appear to account for only some of the recent weakness in economic activity.

Market commentators are continually thinking up new ones, based on recent market strength or weakness, historical market patterns, political or economic predictions, changes in tax policies — the list is endless.

These include how much debt it has, and the interest rate on that debt, how sensitive it is to economic cycles, its strengths and weaknesses in relation to competitors and so on.

On the way down, it was a sign of economic weakness.

On the other hand, in spite of the cyclicality of their earnings, most of the companies on the conservative list have consistent long - term records of paying a dividend without cutting it during economic weaknesOn the other hand, in spite of the cyclicality of their earnings, most of the companies on the conservative list have consistent long - term records of paying a dividend without cutting it during economic weakneson the conservative list have consistent long - term records of paying a dividend without cutting it during economic weakness.

Not surprisingly, economic weakness has taken its toll on stock assets.

Companies with a large share of global sales have outperformed other groups of stocks this year based on the uncertain prospects for the US economy, U.S. dollar weakness, and high hopes for a global economic recovery, spurred by developing economies.

On the other hand, the recent bounce in the oil price, sterling weakness / volatility, plus the upcoming UK referendum, are all head - winds which mitigate the positive impact of Ireland's ongoing economic recovery.

The author focuses on the weaknesses of US economic policy, but is less critical of bad economic policies being pursued around the world, with the poster children being Japan, China, and the EU.

But equity analyst Meyer Shields of Stifel Nicolaus slapped the dreaded sell on Warren Buffett's baby Thursday, citing economic weakness and the potential «double whammy» that the recent stock market correction might mean for Berkshire's equity portfolio and derivative positions.

For example, all estimates of government revenue and outgo depend on some sort of economic model, which superficially have the same weaknesses as climate models: validation issues, adjustable parameters, some key processes (convection, precipitation, human behavior) can't be reliably modeled.

Despite gas prices falling for 13 consecutive weeks, consumer confidence continues to stagnate on concerns about high unemployment, the European financial crisis economic weakness at home, as well as a shaky stock market.