Sentences with phrase «persistent economic weakness»

Prices for credit assets tied to the Bank of Canada's target imply traders think there is a 60 % chance that Poloz will once again be moved to respond to persistent economic weakness.

The banks demonstrated that their personal and commercial loans businesses are still solid, even as expectations point to consumer lending growth slowing in the coming quarters amid persistent economic weakness.

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Other possible factors that officials said could negatively affect the economic outlook included «persistent weakness in the housing sector, a continued slow rise in household income, or spillovers from developments in the Middle East and Ukraine.»

The Great British Pound is showing some relative strength finally, as the bullish Employment Report helped the currency, despite the persistent Brexit worries and the recent weakness in economic numbers.

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.

Even if we do observe economic weakness, it's not likely in my view that the Fed will have much leeway to cut rates, due to persistent inflation pressures (which have historically been associated with profligate government spending of precisely the sort that has been revived in the past few years).