Sentences with phrase «overall the economy remains»

Job grow is steady but slow, and overall the economy remains fragile.

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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.

Overall, the economy was doing pretty well at the end of Barack Obama's presidency, and it has remained strong into the beginning of President Trump's first term.

Given the off - the - cliff behavior of the economy in late September and October, the November and December «improvements» in the ISM surveys are difficult to take at face value, especially because many of these readings remain below 50, indicating continued overall deterioration in conditions.

While investment in the energy sector now appears to be stabilizing after a painful adjustment to the decline in oil and other commodity prices that began in 2014, overall business investment in the economy remains weak.

The overall strength in demand for credit, combined with the fact that interest rates remain slightly lower than the average of recent years, continues to suggest that the current policy setting is not inhibiting the growth of the economy.

Overall, while Europe has avoided «Grexit» (meaning a Greek exit of the currency bloc) in the immediate term, the Greek economy remains in intensive care.

Serious questions also remain about the state of the overall Chinese economy and of commodity - dependent economies in Asia and throughout the emerging - market universe.

Overall, however, the real growth rate of the UK economy remains subdued, with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasting 2.0 % for 2016 (compared with my forecast of 2.2 %) and 2.2 % for 2017.

Present indications are that overall growth of the economy is likely to remain strong, with the mix between domestic and external sources of growth shifting to a more sustainable position over time.

Things within the industry may change as a result — a shakeout of weaker players, perhaps, and a renewed focus on the most profitable customers — but overall the credit card industry remains a major player in the U.S. economy.

«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.

Inflation in the non-traded sector of the economy remains relatively high, at over 4 per cent, reflecting the overall strength of the domestic economy, strong demand conditions in the housing sector and continuing cost pressures in some service industries.

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.

While we expect many of the first quarter's headwinds to be transitory, our focus remains on diversifying our portfolio across different end markets, macroeconomic influences and company - specific factors that we believe can contribute to long - term performance regardless of the overall direction of the US economy.

Though the coalition remains more trusted than Labour to manage the economy overall, people are if anything less optimistic about economic prospects than they were at the end of last year.

And that improving economy led to somewhat better job prospects for scientists in industry but not so much as to change the complexion of hiring overall: It remained an employer's market, with many job - seekers taking what they could get and being happy to have it.

But the overall economy may continue to struggle and gas prices, although now mitigating, remain a wild card.

The two - mode hybrid system provides assistance from electric motors allowing the HEMI V - 8 to remain in four - cylinder mode more often than without a hybrid powertrain, improving overall fuel economy.

The Bank of Canada, however, says even with these red flags the economy is continuing to show signs of a broadening recovery and its overall assessment of the country's financial stability remains roughly unchanged since June.

The gist of it is that the RBNZ's remained optimistic on the New Zealand economy and even assessed the new government's policies as positive overall.

And second, if you include holdings which have been (re --RRB- allocated elsewhere in my portfolio, my overall Ireland allocation is still a substantial % of my entire portfolio & obviously remains a massively overweight bet when you consider the Irish economy's a merely fractional share of world GDP.

«This month's trends showed some slowing in spending growth but overall, spending remains healthy, reflecting the recovering economy and consumer willingness to spend,» said First Data's Mantripragada in the release.

Over the course of the past three years, overall CO2 emissions from the production of fossil fuels have remained flat while the economy has grown, on average, at a rate of 3.1 percent.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

Paying this premium ensures that the policy will remain in force, notwithstanding what occurs in the market, or even in the economy overall.

The online gambling sector was an early adopter of Bitcoin technology and remains a major driver of the overall Bitcoin economy.

While the overall economy is improving, there remain certain sectors and some companies that are still on shaky ground.

«This demonstrates a desire for companies to remain and grown in properties owned and managed by a hands - on, Class A owner and is also another indicator of firms taking advantage of an improving overall economy.»

Class - A logistics space will remain in strong demand in the future, as its primary driver, international trade, continues to grow at a multiple of the overall economy, according to new research from brokerage firm Grubb & Ellis.

«These extremely frustrating conditions continue to be most apparent at the lower end of the market, which is why the overall share of first - time buyers remains well below where it should be given the strength of the job market and economy.»

«The commercial construction industry remains strong, reflecting the needs and continued growth of the overall economy, and this sustained period of national economic growth does not appear to be weakening,» says Raday.

Americans» outlook on housing and the economy has fluctuated somewhat during the past few months, but the trend for most indicators remains positive overall, according to Fannie Mae's February 2014 National Housing Survey results.