Sentences with phrase «rate of economic recovery»

Job creation continues to be sluggish as employers remain leery of the rate of economic recovery and are, as a result, reticent to hire to full capacity.

Concerns about the slow rate of economic recovery from the recession, which has seen GDP growth broadly stagnate in the last three quarters, are unlikely to disappear soon.

Over the last four years, the UK has experienced the slowest rate of economic recovery outside the aftermath of major wars since the 1830s.

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The OECD, in a 2007 economic outlook assessment, singled out the U.S. as having an especially sluggish rate of business investment, even several years into the post-dot-com-bust recovery.

In contrast, we are acquiring Treasury securities on the open market and only on a temporary basis, with the goal of supporting the economic recovery through lower interest rates.

If, in contrast, the Fed were to raise rates now, before the economic recovery is fully entrenched, house prices might resume declines, the values of businesses large and small would drop, and, critically, unemployment would likely start to rise again.

Raise interest rates in the U.S. and you could kill the recovery and exacerbate the problem of long - term unemployment, with lasting effects of labour productivity, economic growth and, yes, even government revenues.

The former Treasury Secretary and Obama Administration economic advisor has come out forcefully on his blog and in interviews against the Fed's apparent plan to raise rates, arguing that the risks of raising them too soon — like smothering the economy recovery — far outweigh the risks of excessive inflation that may be the result of waiting too long.

But unlike Krueger, Rosenberg told CNBC Wednesday that he believes the Fed is «behind the curve» on interest rates are relative to the progress of the economic recovery, and markets are on edge about it.

«This makes the Fed look nuts» for continuing to raise interest rates this year, Blanchflower said, particularly since officials have chronically undershot their 2 % inflation target for the bulk of the economic recovery.

At this point, pretty much any economic data report is of interest to U.S. markets, with the Federal Reserve watching closely for evidence of a sustained economic recovery before it finally implements its long - awaited interest rate hike.

Many of them may relate to an optimistic scenario — one in which the economic recovery accelerates, causing the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy and interest rates to rise.

NEW YORK, Oct 3 (Reuters)- U.S. overnight lending rates dipped on Wednesday, but remained near recent highs as investors looked ahead to key U.S. payrolls data due on Friday for direction as to the strength of the economic recovery.

OTTAWA, Oct 19 (Reuters)- The Bank of Canada cut its growth forecast on Wednesday and said it actively discussed adding more monetary stimulus to speed up the nation's economic recovery, surprising financial markets by shifting tone dramatically after its initial rate decision.

During the economic recovery, the natural rate was kept low by weak demand due to a larger propensity to save in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

Young people lag behind in Canada's economic recovery, with rates of unemployment and underemployment still significantly above pre-recession levels.

We expect the Fed to raise rates just once this year — likely in December — and to proceed cautiously given the unevenness of the domestic economic recovery, as highlighted by weak retail sales data released last week, and global growth uncertainties.

Moreover, to support a stronger economic recovery, the FOMC is purchasing long - term Treasury securities at a rate of $ 45 billion per month and agency mortgage - backed securities (MBS) at a rate of $ 40 billion per month, and will continue purchasing assets until it sees substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market, conditional on ongoing assessment of benefits and costs.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

The narrative underpinning the Trump rally is slowly unraveling with rate - hike jitters threatening the sustainability of the global economic recovery.

Nonetheless, forecasting a significant rise in long - term interest rates has become a controversial call — mainly because it hasn't happened, despite years of economic recovery.

This lends itself to a simple strategy of buying growth stocks after the market has crashed and for several years into a recovery, then shifting to value stocks as interest rates rise and the economic cycle ages.

In Europe and Japan, markets do not expect the monetary authorities to tighten in the foreseeable future; in fact in Europe there is still talk of an interest rate cut as the economic recovery has continued to lag the rest of the world.

With the global economic recovery consolidating over the past three months, the main focus of markets has been on the likely timing of the first increase in the US federal funds rate from its 45 - year low of 1 per cent.

The Government's recent economic package, together with earlier reductions in interest rates, will help to sustain a gradual recovery throughout 1992 — its gradualness being mainly a consequence of a slack world economy.

The GIC, a group of seasoned investment professionals who meet regularly to review the economic and political environment and asset allocation models for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management clients, expects the economy — as measured by gross domestic product, or GDP — to grow, but at below the rate to which we have become accustomed, based on prior second - stage recoveries; stock and bond returns will likely follow suit.

In April 2011, JPMC agreed to settle claims that the bank over-charged active or recently active military service members on their mortgages by paying $ 27 million in cash to approximately 6,000 military personnel, by lowering interest rates and fees in excess of that permitted by the Service Members Civil Relief Act («SCRA») and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 («HERA») on soldiers» home loans, and by improperly foreclosing upon homes owned by borrowers protected by SCRA and HERA.

The Committee's sizable and still - increasing holdings of longer - term securities should maintain downward pressure on longer - term interest rates, support mortgage markets, and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative, which in turn should promote a stronger economic recovery and help to ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with the Committee's dual mandate.

This is year ten of an economic recovery with rising inflation risks and a Fed determined to normalize interest rates.

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

Those who run the Fed are despondent that despite implementing for eight YEARS an interest rate policy specifically designed to enable Obama to create a totally false illusion of economic «recovery» by massively increasing government spending with trillions of phony, deficit, zero - interest - rate «dollars,» the people saw through the economic lie and defeated the Fed's next intended puppet, Clinton.

That now leaves room for the market / economy to determine the proper rate of interest; and, he notes, given the patchy economic recovery, the fragile level of confidence and the low levels of inflation, Citi questions whether asset prices belong where they are today.

The Fed is buying $ 85 billion of U.S. government bonds and other securities with the aim of keeping interest rates low to support economic recovery.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

Gross expects the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates by another three - quarters of a point, increasing the odds of a modest economic recovery by year - end — and boosting the bond market.

Product protection, the renewability of our raw materials, and our outstanding 91 percent recovery rate, along with other health, environmental, and economic advantages, make corrugated boxes the right choice for food packaging.

A recovery in the value of dairy products, New Zealand's biggest export, may bolster the nation's economic growth and make the central bank wary of cutting interest rates much further to boost weak inflation.

Since the three main Westminster political parties all endorse the conclusions of Sir Ian Wood's recent review on how to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks andrecovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks andRecovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks and Amazon.

Completely unsurprisingly the factor that was rated most important to Tory election prospects was «signs of an economic recovery».

It also shows how desperate Dan Malloy is to bring in people he thinks can help him save his campaign, which has been plagued by his record - breaking tax increase in 2011 and his failed polices, which have stalled economic growth, resulting in Connecticut having one of the worst job recovery rates in the nation.»

He claims the rate of deficit reduction must be assessed on a day - to - day basis dependent on the strength and speed of Britain's economic recovery.

Mr Osborne was at the centre of a political row last night after claiming that leaked Treasury figures showed a # 14.8 bn rise in expected revenues in 2011/12 - the equivalent of a 3p rise in the income tax rate - which could not be explained by a predicted economic recovery.

All this would be testing enough against a background of falling inflation, lower interest rates, and economic recovery.

However, because the gains which have been made in reducing health care spending are largely attributable to price dynamics (such as reduced or no growth in physician reimbursement rates, and high use of cheaper generic drugs), the authors warn that any future economic recovery might reverse the progress that has been made in recent years.

Although mortality rates dropped or hit a plateau in recessionary years and climbed in years of economic recovery for all groups, the changes in life span were more pronounced for males, people of middle to old age and infants under one.

America urgently needs to elevate the quality of K - 12 schooling and boost college graduation rates, not simply to propel the economic recovery but also because students need stronger skills to compete in a global economy.

Not surprisingly, in the environment of low interest rates and modest economic recovery, the short - biased funds had the worst and the fixed income funds had the best performance in the past five years.

To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with its dual mandate, the Committee will continue purchasing additional agency mortgage - backed securities at a pace of $ 40 billion per month and longer - term Treasury securities at a pace of $ 45 billion per month.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is maintaining its key interest rate at one per cent, where it's been for more than three years during a weak economic recovery from the last recession.