Sentences with phrase «result of the slowing economy»

Today, U.S. natural gas is trading at under $ 3 per million British thermal units, a rock - bottom price that's partly the result of a slower economy and the abundant new supply of shale gas.

States are increasingly failing to reach their revenue targets as a result of the slowing economy.

Analysts say this is the first time Beijing has put a ban on the opening of new mines: the move has been prompted both by falling demand for coal as a result of a slowing economy and by increasing public concern about hazardous levels of pollution, which have blanketed many cities across the country over recent months.

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Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

He was not only breaking with Republican orthodoxy, but was also inviting a trade war that would threaten the livelihood of the working class that he had based his campaign on; it was altogether likely that price increases as a result of his tariffs would wipe out the small income gains that his tax cut bill had brought and slow the healthy economy.

«You're definitely seeing the impact of the currency headwinds in the first quarter results, and also the European economies have slowed relative to last year,» said Will Hamlyn, investment analyst at Manulife Asset Management.

Investing in higher - yielding, lower - rated, floating - rate loans and debt securities involves greater risk of default, which could result in loss of principal — a risk that may be heightened in a slowing economy.

Negative conditions in the general economy both in the United States and abroad, including conditions resulting from financial and credit market fluctuations and terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe or elsewhere, could cause a decrease in corporate spending on enterprise software in general and slow down the rate of growth of our business.

Commenting on Mr. Greenspan's remarks, David Hale of Kemper / Zurich International pointed out that as a result of Europe's more «rigid» (that is, unionized) labor markets, «If France or Germany had enjoyed America's success in reducing unemployment, their trade union movements would be pushing up wages aggressively and setting the stage for a monetary tightening to slow down the economy's growth rate.»

And if the economy is not entering a recession, then most certainly it is entering an extended period of slow economic growth, as a result of both external and internal economic developments.

High - yield corporate bonds are rated below investment grade and are subject to greater risk of default, which could result in loss of principal — a risk that may be heightened in a slowing economy.

Canada's economy is being held back by a lack of demand for exports, the result of a recession in Europe and slower - than - expected growth in China and other big emerging markets.

Are we witnessing a slow fracturing in this alignment as a result of both a perception in the United States of the growing irrelevance of Europe, as well as Europe's increased interest in being associated with China as it progresses towards becoming the world's largest economy?

The result was not only a dramatic dip in the value of the average home, but individuals all over the country losing their job as the economy began to slow down and a number of families who found themselves underwater when it came to their mortgage steadily on the rise.

As a result of a slow U.S. economy, many consumers have a bad credit score.

These trends will continue, as clean energy deployment speeds up and power demand growth slows as a result of structural change and slower growth in the economy.

The result of the government's action, on net, is a slower economy and lost jobs.

It will result in a slowing down of the rate of growth of CO2 concentrations in the air and begin the inevitable shift of the world's economy away from furious burning of fossil fuels.

But the dollar investment in renewables fell by 14 percent from 2012, matching a decline in investment for all types of new electricity generating plants, perhaps as a result of slowing economic growth in some major economies.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

No nation can afford to be neutral about the substantial impact that such dislocation imposes on the well - being of future generations and the resulting effects of spurring the growth of government and slowing the economy.

Given that the OSFI didn't achieve its intended objective in 2016, it's taking another kick at the can using a policy that is intended to slow down the housing markets of Toronto and Vancouver but may, as a result, slow down the entire economy and in turn run the risk of dampening consumer spending confidence.

Landlords and tenants in South Africa are effectively placed between a knowledge - intensive economy, which permits development of the smart city and the shadow or sharing economy, which is a direct result of slower economic growth and a response to neoliberal economic globalization.

And third, economic growth could slow, the result of the hit on homeownership, which is still recovering from the economic downturn several years ago and which plays a key multiplier effect on the economy as buyers spend money on new furniture and remodeling projects, among other effects.

OSFI is taking another kick at the can using a policy that is intended to slow down the housing markets of Toronto and Vancouver but may, as a result, slow down the entire economy.

«The latest survey results, combined with data that indicates the real estate market is improving in many regions, paint a positive picture for a sector of the economy that has been slow to join the recovery,» says Dr. Andrew Jennings, chief analytics officer at FICO and head of FICO Labs.

In New Brunswick, rising mortgage carrying costs, a slower economy and more choice in the resale market will result in lower levels of new home construction.

In New Brunswick, rising mortgage carrying costs, a slower economy and more choice in the resale market will result in lower levels of new home construction, it says.