Sentences with phrase «overall confidence in»

And while an increase in rates reflects overall confidence in the national economy, this trend seems to represent a closing window on the historically low interest rate environment.

«The current economic environment does not appear to have dampened Canadians» overall confidence in the housing market,» says Karen Leggett, head of home equity financing for RBC Royal Bank.

According to First American's index, overall confidence in transaction volume growth decreased 0.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017, but increased 4.1 percent compared with a year ago.

overall confidence in transaction volume growth decreased 0.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017, but increased 4.1 percent compared with a year ago.

Any near - term improvement in the city's office market has less to do with the energy sector than growth in other industries and overall confidence in the economy.

While respondents showed overall confidence in the market, compared with last year, they expressed greater concern about how an increase in the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate may affect their ability to buy a home.

The Fannie Mae First - Quarter 2011 National Housing Survey polled homeowners and renters to assess their attitudes toward owning and renting a home, confidence in homeownership as an investment, the current state of their household finances, views on the U.S. housing finance system, and overall confidence in the economy.

Houston's economic recovery is happening at a slow pace, but any near - term improvement in its office market has less to do with the energy sector than growth in other industries and overall confidence in the economy, according Kevin Roberts, president of Southwest operations with real estate services firm Transwestern.

Accelerate document drafting and proofreading, improve accuracy from the outset, and increase overall confidence in the quality of documents produced.

«These new guidelines will go a long way toward giving consumers the greater protections they deserve and will help increase their overall confidence in the integrity of the claims process.»

These external reviews expressed overall confidence in the Bureau's practices and found its data and analysis methods to be among the best in the world.

But since evaluators must assign a score, teaching is distilled to numbers, ratings, and rankings, conveying a reductive nature to educators» professional worth and undermining their overall confidence in the system.

Progress in the simulation of important modes of climate variability has increased the overall confidence in the models» representation of important climate processes.

Overall confidence in the economic future is strong, but less in New York than the country as a whole.

, and an overall confidence in my nursing and our diaper - changing and swaddling and humming skills.

Of 36 residents who attended at least 1 session and completed the postintervention questionnaire, 14 reported «a little increase» in overall confidence in talking to breastfeeding mothers, and 20 reported that their «confidence increased a lot.»

Despite the reinforcement of optimism about overcoming poverty that many seem to derive from casual views of China, overall confidence in present policy is declining.

«Small business optimism and overall confidence in the economy remains high, largely due to an increase in sales and revenues, which suggest demand is strong,» said Mark Vitner, Wells Fargo managing director and senior economist.

If customers have a sense of being baited and switched, their overall confidence in the merchant gets undermined.

Not exact matches

Overall, the bank's small business confidence index stood at 70 this fall, compared with 63 in the fall of 2012 and 59 last spring.

(The Oracle of Omaha traded his 52 million P&G shares for the battery business, a seeming vote of no confidence in P&G's overall prospects.)

Overall numbers were flat, but the questions relating to confidence in business - unit leaders had fallen six percentage points.

Data firms and analysts agree that while the long weekend was a bust, the overall season should still be in line with original forecasts, what with lower gas prices, rising consumer confidence and a slowly but surely improving job market.

While overall consumer confidence increased in August, the number of consumers anticipating higher incomes fell to 15.5 % in August versus 17.7 % in the month prior.

While consumer sentiment and Americans» confidence in their own financial situation has trended up for the past seven years, people are less confident in the US economy, overall, despite the US economy reaching unprecedented heights.

Overall, the changes could boost confidence in Facebook's platform and the social network itself, which has struggled in the past with a reputation for spotty privacy.

While Facebook is still rated as the most effective platform overall, confidence in the platform slightly dropped (4 percentage points from last year.)

Still, consumer confidence in the economy overall has been rising, despite a setback in September, likely due to the hurricanes.

Overall, we are pleased with current market conditions, but would like to start seeing more powerful breakouts emerging in mass quantities in order to give us the confidence to start aggressively buying leading stocks and ETFs again.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The rebound in overall workloads should boost business confidence within the manufacturing sector during the second half of the year.»

«The strong return of banks in small business lending indicates three things: overall improving economy, entrepreneur confidence that they will be able to borrow for expansion and repay the loans, and the increasing ease and popularity of SBA lending,» explained Biz2Credit CEO Rohit Arora, who oversaw the research.

Even though there are very serious problems with consumer confidence and unemployment, easy year - over-year earnings comparisons in the coming months should help the overall stock market, especially if there are positive economic headlines.

Conference Board economist Lynn Franco said that the improvements in consumers» confidence and expectations about the future indicate that the recent strengthening in overall economic growth should continue in the second half of the year.

We began to step up marketing programs in March which, coupled with overall expense controls, solid channel management and second half new product launches, gives us confidence for a successful 2018 for GoPro.»

In particular, indicators of business confidence remain above long - run levels, overall profitability remains strong, and business investment is expected to continue to grow, albeit more slowly than in the past two yearIn particular, indicators of business confidence remain above long - run levels, overall profitability remains strong, and business investment is expected to continue to grow, albeit more slowly than in the past two yearin the past two years.

Extended uncertainty regarding the timing of Brexit and its overall impact on Europe could reduce corporate hiring, investments, and consumer confidence in the U.S..

The consumer discretionary industries can be significantly affected by the performance of the overall economy, interest rates, competition, consumer confidence and spending, and changes in demographics and consumer tastes.

While consumer confidence has also been rising over this period, it remains considerably below average in most countries and there has yet to be an improvement in retail sales overall.

In the third quarter, there were fewer foreclosures, increased credit - card and auto lending (indicators of rising consumer confidence), and an overall drop in our collective debt load, led by decreasing mortgage debIn the third quarter, there were fewer foreclosures, increased credit - card and auto lending (indicators of rising consumer confidence), and an overall drop in our collective debt load, led by decreasing mortgage debin our collective debt load, led by decreasing mortgage debt.

Alt placed little confidence in the overall storyline of the Bible from Genesis through Joshua, including Abraham and family's emigration from Mesopotamia to Canaan, the sojourn in Egypt, the exodus from Egypt and the conquest of Canaan.

Assuming that Dawkins has equal confidence in all parts of his book, I shall simply challenge him at representative points, and let readers draw their own conclusions about the overall reliability of his evidence and judgement» (p. xii).

Seppeltsfield tell me that the purchase price for Ryecroft and Quelltaler is commercial in confidence — as is the total value of the overall business.

We have confidence in John as a key leader in the overall integration and growth of the company,» said Hendrik J. Hartong III, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brynwood Partners.

We included prospective studies that provided hazard ratios (HRs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) for at least three categories (including the reference group) of milk consumption in relation to mortality from all causes, overall cardiovascular disease, or overall cancer, We omitted studies that only reported results for total milk products or combined non-fermented and fermented milk because non-fermented and fermented milk may have different associations with mortality.

As the overall winner and several prizes in the festival in past years, she has reasons for her confidence.

And overall increase in his own confidence and ability.

Overall, it was a game that emphasised how much more confidence Arsenal compared to earlier in the season.

Overall, I have confidence in my body's ability to deliver the baby naturally.

Fast forward 8 months and our family moved from NJ to CA and the responsibility I instilled in them last spring has allowed them (and me) to be comfortable walking to school, playing in the school yard after school and having an overall sense of confidence in a very new environment.