Sentences with phrase «overall economy by»

When a small business owner said the state's mandated increase in a minimum wage could hurt her operation, he said the higher pay should help the overall economy by giving people more spendable income.

«The payoff can be huge; with each additional dollar invested in the power sector boosting the overall economy by $ 15.»

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If revenues grew with the overall economy, costs remained flat, and BofA avoided the steep credit losses that plagued it in the past ---- specifically by sticking with those reliable customers, Moynihan claimed, it could become a money machine.

The most recent Global Green Economy Index (GGEI), produced by the US consulting firm Dual Citizen, looked at 60 countries and 70 cities and ranked them based on their overall green economic performance, which includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemistry.

By putting those on a common scale and combining them, we were able to get a picture of the overall state of each metro area's economy.

Such an outcome could prove to be a classic unintended consequence: Morneau's reforms — meant to reduce or contain the accumulated risk created by precipitously over-leveraged homebuyers — may unwittingly increase the overall systemic risk in the economy by driving red - lined borrowers to the sort of uninsured subprime mortgages that have proliferated in the shadow banking sector.

Manufacturing GDP declined by 14 % between 2000 and 2013, while the economy grew by 37 % overall, according to a recent study by the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management.

The Facts: The overall U.S. tax burden is actually one of the lowest among the 32 developed and large emerging - market economies tracked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Overall by the high frequency measures the economy improved in September vs. August.

Out of the 11 airlines surveyed, Southwest landed at the top of the ratings chart for overall satisfaction by passengers on economy flights.

Monetary policy can help the adjustment by keeping inflation under control and maintaining stability in the overall economy.

This means that as long as the PBoC intervenes in the currency, it can not provide debt relief to struggling borrowers, and to the economy overall, by lowering interest rates without setting off potentially destabilizing capital outflows as the interest rate differential narrows.

Consumer staples industries can be significantly affected by competitive pricing particularly with respect to the growth of low - cost emerging market production, government regulation, the performance of overall economy, interest rates, and consumer confidence.

While the economy has picked up from last year, overall spending is being crimped by stagnant wage growth and rising costs for healthcare and education, according to the consultant.

By the same token, while essentially all of us consume products made of steel and aluminum, these raw materials simply aren't a particularly significant share of the overall American economy.

In a press release announcing HQ2, Amazon said it «estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $ 38 billion to the city's economy — every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional 1.4 dollars for the city's economy overall.»

The Thomson Reuters / PayNet small business lending index is correlated to developments in the overall economy, with changes in the index preceding changes in the overall U.S. economy by two to five months.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

In other words, they follow market trends which is defined by the overall health of the economy.

Government has often played a role in promoting performance - enhancing work practices to enhance overall economy - wide outcomes from higher productivity and innovation, such as the long history of agricultural extension services (since 1887) to spread information on best practices in farming, and employer education on safety practices conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

While businesses run by women are usually small, employing up to five persons, their importance to the overall economy is growing.

Though California's overall economy is less dependent on exports than those of many states, the California counties most likely to be harmed by the potential emerging trade war with China include many that are already struggling economically.

Breaking the GDP report down, we see that in addition to overall modest strength in the economy (growth was still off from the fourth quarter's 2.9 %), the upturn was helped individually by positive contributions from nonresidential fixed investment, exports, private inventory investment, federal government spending, and state and local government spending.

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.

Global economies and markets have been supported in the last nine years by a succession of liquidity injections by global central banks, increasing overall access to financing and lowering investors» risk - aversion.

Much of the overall growth in the non-farm economy has been accounted for by the goods sector (Graph 26), largely because of continued strength in the construction industry.

Global economies and markets have been supported in the last nine years by a succession of liquidity injections by global central banks, increasing overall access to financing...

«(I) f Sonoma County does not create 8,143 new (housing) units by 2020... there will likely be drag in the overall economy leading to slower employment growth,» says a new county plan released Thursday for recovery from the fires.

The total quantity of money invested by startups is small compared to the overall economy, but the success or failure of startups in bringing new technologies to market is very important for the long - term prospects of the economy.

Microsoft Ventures works actively in the community to empower and enable entrepreneurs to thrive by offering resources to help launch successful businesses and, by extension, to help grow the Canadian economy overall.

Overall, the growth of the economy has been driven by well - above - average growth in domestic spending, while the main factors that were holding back growth, particularly in the period up to around mid 2003, were the drought and the unfavourable international environment.

While economists can agree that trade liberalization benefits economies at the macro level, at the micro level there are always those who see welfare gains, and those whose immediate welfare is reduced as a result of the (necessary) changes in the economy brought about by greater overall efficiencies.

For example, while China might be the most efficient producer of solar panels, and Canadian consumers and the overall Canadian economy will benefit by purchasing the most cost - effective product, companies producing solar panels in Canada may be hurt.

While we are encouraged by the recent progress on public transit expansion and improvement, we remain concerned that the strength of our families, businesses, and overall economy will be negatively impacted should dedication to meaningful, timely transit and transportation investments waver.

The overall outlook expected by the IMF is for firmer growth in the world economy, but for the distribution of growth to change across countries, with the United States economy slowing back towards trend but greater strength in some of the other major economies.

If you think that inflation is being minimized by organic forces in the economy like technology you would be quite right even though such impact has not been showing up in the overall US productivity.

He said the government's efforts to boost spending by public sector companies - which still dominate large areas of the Indian economy - could help lift overall growth.

More than this, such spending, by increasing the economy's overall productive capacity, will give it room to expand more dramatically over the long haul.

«IDFA's members are committed to ensuring that members of Congress understand the importance of these provisions to the nearly 3 million Americans in jobs supported by the dairy industry and to the overall health of the U.S. economy.»

By leveraging economies of scale, Towne Park reduced the hotel's overall costs.

Speaking on the economy, Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau said that the Federal Government was already putting policies in place to encourage and facilitate Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to promote made in Nigeria goods, adding that same was part of his administration's overall national economic policy.

Questioned about yesterday's «market rout» by Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pointed out that, as of this morning, the Dow industrial average was up, and argued that the overall state of the economy is solid.

It would damage the overall European economy for the same reason, and by the reason of the own industrial and scientific capacity of Catalonia, the most developed region in Spain in many indicators.

Analysis from the Social Security Administration finds that the Senate immigration bill «would strengthen the Social Security trust fund by adding millions of workers to tax rolls and provide a boost to the overall economy.»

The GDP data is unambiguous that our recovery is almost entirely due to the oil sector - in Q2 2017, when we exited recession, oil sector growth was 3.5 % while the non-oil economy grew a puny 0.45 %; in Q3 the non-oil economy went back into contraction with negative -0.76 % growth, but the overall economy was lifted by oil sector growth of 25.89 %; and in Q4 the oil sector grew by 8.38 %, while non-oil expanded by 1.45 %.

That is almost twice as much as the average # 650 spent by other visitors, which may explain why — in spite of the total fall in overall visitor numbers — the economy may not have suffered as much as previously thought.

«However, the nation's overall economy, which took a downturn under the Peoples Democratic Party - led Goodluck Jonathan administration, took its toll on Oyo State but Ajimobi weathered the storm by bringing to bear his wealth of experience, doggedness and patriotic zeal.»

Iran's housing sector shrank 13 % in the year to March 2017, while the country's overall economy grew by almost 6.6 %, estimates International Monetary Fund.

The GOC, who noted that the Army Division would continue to maintain operational tempo to consolidate on the gains it achieved during the exercise, reiterated the resolve to defeat «any attempt at brazen attacks on national critical infrastructure, oil and gas resources and overall strangulation of the socio - economy of law abiding citizenry by any group of militants or criminals».

Nonetheless, global oil demand is still expected to grow, overall, driven by China and other developing nations as the world economy recovers.