Sentences with phrase «run a surplus on»

The IMF added that if growth was lower than expected or if the Greek government failed to meet targets for running a surplus on its budget excluding interest payments, there would be «significant increases in debt and gross financing needs».

His commitment to run a surplus on capital and current spending in the next parliament was challenged by Labour, who said Osborne had failed to meet his two fiscal targets in this parliament.

Not exact matches

Last year, on Trump's watch, they ran a combined $ 595.4 billion surplus on their American trades — a 5.8 percent increase from 2016.

He has focused on trade relationships where other countries run large surpluses with the U.S., meaning they sell more to U.S. consumers than they buy from American companies.

On the other hand, Canada's statisticians say it's Canada that runs the surplus — although Canada also counts goods passing through, such as Chinese imports that are then exported to the U.S., as its own exports.

But the cruel irony is that any improvement in demand and output conditions in these three countries will partly leak out and benefit the euro area countries with large trade surpluses because their economies are running on exports rather than domestic demand.

No one on the European side is seriously taking about a free trade agreement with China, which runs a sizable surplus with most EU nations.

This is what I wrote about in the Financial Times yesterday: the U.S. refusal to cooperate with other countries, above all its double standard insisting that other countries must turn their foreign - exchange surpluses over to the U.S. Treasury to promote U.S. financial markets at their expense — and the demand that any country running a trade surplus with America spend the money on U.S. arms — is so abhorrent that other countries are proceeding to create an alternative global financial system of settling trade and balance - of - payments transactions without the United States.

The 2018 White House Economic Report of the President says the U.S. ran a trade surplus of $ 2.6 billion with Canada on a balance - of - payments basis.

Clearly lots of confusion here, on the flip side Germany thinks all other EU nations can also run trade surpluses and save as much as they do.

And he pledged to lower U.S. trade deficits by raising tariffs on goods from countries that run large trade surpluses with the U.S.

Although India runs a merchandise trade deficit (2 1/2 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), it has a modest surplus on the current account (0.8 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), owing to sizeable inward current transfers and a surplus for net services.

This rise partly reversed earlier declines, which had reflected a number of factors: the expected negative impact of the Asian situation on the local economy, associated concerns about the possibility of global deflation, and the projected fall in the stock of bonds on issue reflecting the expected run of Budget surpluses and the proposed sale of the remainder of Telstra.

Even if the government ran a balanced budget or a budget surplus, the Fed would still be able to inflate the money supply (therefore, Mr. Hussman, with whom we agree on nearly everything else in his highly readable weekly comments, is in error on this particular point).

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

(*) Working with the rest of the world to change WTO rules making it mandatory that countries running a trade deficit more than 1 % of their GDP must impose a 10 % surcharge on imports; while a country running a surplus more than 1 % of GDP must impose a 10 % surcharge on export prices.

The Togolese striker is surplus to requirements at White Hart Lane after failing to break in manager Mauricio Pochettino's plans for large parts of last season and it appears the club are desperate to get him off the wage bill this summer despite the player only having one more year left to run on his current deal.

With just one week to get something over the line, I would suggest we may have run out of targets, I believe AW is now waiting for one of the big boys (Real, Barca or Bayern) to go splash the cash on a new star so Wenger can pick up their surplus, It worked well with Ozil and Sanchez, but we aren't the only side looking to buy more players, we are not the only side who need an injection of quality.

Chairman Daniel Levy has slapped a # 10m price tag on Lennon, despite him being surplus to requirements at White Heart Lane and having just a year left to run on his current deal.

It suggested that his plans to run a surplus this year relied heavily on his decision to sell off our assets.

Although he didn't draw attention to it, Osborne's plans to run a surplus this year rely on his decision to sell off our assets.

There is reason to be skeptical that New York will run a multi-billion dollar surpluses in the coming fiscal years, according to a preliminary report on the 2014 - 15 state budget released on Monday by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

Even though the state is running a multi-billion dollar surplus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top budget aide is calling on state agency chiefs to submit spending proposals that assume zero growth next year.

Taxpayers may look with favor on administrations that run regular surpluses rather than deficits or borrowing heavily for recurring expenses.

On Saturday we were told that the Labour Party would be voting for George Osborne's surplus law — that the UK should from 2019 onwards run a permanent overall surplus including capital investment.

In 2006, the county was operating on a $ 155 million surplus, he said; last year, the county ran up a $ 154 million deficit.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «Since the city continues to run a multi-billion dollar surplus, New Yorkers should wonder why the mayor insists on laying off teachers.»

The focus of all the anger, a U-turn over voting with the Government on George Osborne's plan to run a budget surplus by 2019.

If you're overweight and out of shape, you're probably already running a calorie surplus — you just need to start lifting and make smarter decisions on what you eat!

So, in the vast majority of cases, any calorie surplus you run will be autonomically regulated by eating less later on when the initial surplus is a fat surplus, but not when it is a sugar surplus.

The boots on the ground multiplayer is second to none, but the vehicular action which was always the focus of Battlefield has moved to the wayside, replaced by run and gun action and a surplus of snipers picking people off.

In February, Northumberland Council launched a seven - week consultation which set out plans to completely overhaul the education system in the west of the county, where there is a 30 - per - cent surplus of places, and many schools still run on a three - tier system.

That's about 4 miles below the budgeted range — possibly due to a few stoplight zero - to - 60 test runs I did just before testing — but balances out with the 3 - mile surplus of the previous trip to land me pretty spot - on with Kia's estimate.

He also has an Aston Martin DB6 volante, and an Aston Martin V8 converted to run on biofuel made from surplus local white wine.

The city generally runs a surplus, unlike some cities, and has significant cash and investments on hand.

We would need to run surpluses of around 8 % of GDP, if I understand the charts on page 5 right.

California has so much surplus electricity that existing power plants run, on average, at slightly less than one - third of capacity.

Mr. Pirani's accountant, relying heavily on data of historical trends in the rental market, produced a report showing that the property ran at a surplus.