Sentences with phrase «said world economic growth»

He said world economic growth is looking lower at a time when the Fed appears to be ready to raise interest rates while most other central banks are easing.

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In an interview last month from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Schwarzman said Trump's policies, including the new tax law, will provide a big boost to U.S. economicEconomic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Schwarzman said Trump's policies, including the new tax law, will provide a big boost to U.S. economiceconomic growth.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

«Contrary to what some people in the business world think, the 1990s were not that different from the 2000s for top - line economic performance results — GDP and employment growth,» says Finlayson.

Today its truck and minivan sales in the U.S. are still growing, and with expectations that revived world economic growth is on the horizon, it is also poised to sell more cars and SUVs in emerging markets such as China, says Oakmark's Bill Nygren.

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, among the world's biggest investors, said it was turning cautious and expected returns to slow over the next decade, given high valuations, uncertainty over monetary policy and modest economic growth.

The World Bank has revised China's 2017 economic growth upwards from 6.7 % to 6.8 % on the back of increased personal consumption and foreign trade, it said in its latest quarterly report released this week.

GDP growth gains Beijing said China's economic grow 6.9 % in 2017, the first uptick the world's second - largest economy has seen since 2010.

The banks says the long - oversupplied oil market is tightening up more quickly than expected as global economic growth fuels demand and output cuts by OPEC, Russia and several other producers eat into the world's crude stockpiles.

«With the right set of policies, this era of demographic change can be an engine of economic growth,» World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said in a release.

«The revision reflects increased global growth momentum and the expected impact of the recently approved U.S. tax policy changes,» the IMF said in its World Economic Outlook report, published Monday ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Poloz said his response to these executives was to tell them that a return of that size isn't so bad in a world where annual economic growth in Canada will be stuck below 2 %.

Despite the backdrop of political and economic uncertainty, OPEC said that it anticipated world oil demand growth in 2016 to increase by 1.23 million barrels a day (mb / d) after a marginal upward revision, mainly to reflect better - than - expected economic data for the first half of the year.

«We are proud to honor 20 Top Corporations for their world - class leadership in partnering with women's business enterprises to sustain innovation in this country and fuel our economic growth,» said Linda Denny, president and CEO of WBENC, the leading authority on and advocate for women's business enterprises (WBEs) as vendors and suppliers to the nation's leading corporations.

The Conservatives, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have said Canada is feeling the sting of economic problems around the world, including the crisis in Europe and slower - than - predicted growth in the United States.

Global growth for this year is seen at 3.4 percent, up from a 3.1 percent forecast for 2015, but 0.2 percent lower than previously forecast, the IMF's World Economic Outlook report said.

Slower but more sustainable, economic growth in China will benefit the world in the long - term, the head of the IMF said on Tuesday.

«Connecting people to the networks that power the modern world — like financial services — will unlock their economic potential and continue a cycle of equitable economic growth and poverty reduction,» said Shamina Singh, president of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Ggrowth and poverty reduction,» said Shamina Singh, president of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive GrowthGrowth.

I believe it's fair to say that as we look at a world where very few asset classes globally have produced positive nominal returns year - to - date, and a world where US corporate earnings and economic growth have been tepid at best, increasingly ascending US equity valuations connote incremental capital concentration.

«TPP withdrawal will slow U.S. [economic] growth, cost American jobs, & weaken U.S. standing in Asia / world,» said Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a tweet early Monday.

«The continued expansion of world demand, resulting from global population and economic growth and increasing preference for dairy products are expected to be the main drivers, fuelling EU exports and sustaining commodity prices,» said the EC report.

«These are impressive results, particularly in light of the challenges posed by global mega trends impacting our industry, from macroeconomic and political volatility, the continued rebalancing of the economic world, to shifting consumer preferences and increasing demand for healthier products, to the disruption of retail caused by the rapid growth of e-commerce and the blurring of channel lines,» Ms. Nooyi said.

Europe and the rest of the world were facing a «shared dilemma», they said - to ensure economic growth but safeguard sources of energy required for that growth.

The world is fast approaching a «catastrophic tipping point» on climate change that could have a major impact on economic growth and security, Tony Blair has said.

She said the over 15,000 people in Ghana's prisons was a good human resource that could be utilized for economic growth and development of the country and so they needed to be equipped with the appropriate vocational skills, saying that would also help to reduce inmates» risk of reoffending, by teaching them useful skills that prepare them for the world outside prison.

While the United States still is the largest economic powerhouse in the world, McCaughey said that other nations have better recent records of growth, including Ireland at 8 percent, India at 7 percent, and Sweden at 4 percent.

In its world economic outlook, published ahead of its spring conference in Washington, the IMF said steady growth in the US and the recent sharp turnaround in the UK's fortunes would benefit the global economy.

The State of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate effects of climate change, although the longer - term influence of population growth on climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.

A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.

«Mitigation does not mean the world has to sacrifice economic growth,» says Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who co-chaired the report.

Some leading climate scientists and economists say this decoupling of emissions and economic growth has been in progress in the developed world for quite some time.

Appropriate Management of Natural Resources at Centre of Solutions to Climate Change, Says International Resource Panel Decoupling economic growth from escalating resource use should be an integral part of climate policy, according to a group of the world's most renowned natural resources scientists.

Those folks will say valuation is irrelevant when interest rates are low, when economic growth is modest and when central banks around the world implement / maintain stimulative monetary policies.

Caroline Bremner, Euromonitor International Head of Travel and Tourism Research, said: «Hotels are expected to experience positive growth in 2013, outperforming other travel accommodation, driven by rising disposable incomes, despite the world's economic woes.»

For those of us in the youth and student tourism industry, we see how vital young people are to the tourism sector, and how vital tourism is to young people,» said WYSE Travel Confederation Director General Espen Falkenhaug, «Tourism is one of the world's most promising drivers of economic growth, and considering the numbers, youth tourism is even more so.

When the Heartland Institute held its gathering in New York City last year celebrating climate skepticism, Exxon Mobil made a point of saying it had stopped contributing money to that group, explaining that it did not want to support groups «whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

The World Resources Institute has announced an initiative that it says will focus on business and finance models for sustainable, low - carbon economic growth in major markets like the U.S., China, Mexico, India and Brazil.

We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.

«We have shown that the world can have safe, robust renewable energy, that we can achieve the efficiencies needed and we can do all of this while enjoying global economic growth,» he said.

Brown said it would be an enormous challenge to shift the world away from the fossil fuels that have been the source of so much economic growth.

Having said that, we still do need to do a reality check, and use our calculators to work out that economic growth of 3 % between now and the end of the century will mean the world's economy will grow by a factor of 16.

The president of the World Bank says it's crucial to de-couple carbon emissions and economic growth.

Economic growth in developing countries was much more important than countering global warming, Mr Howard said, and the West had no right to deny economic development to the rest of the world in the name of climateEconomic growth in developing countries was much more important than countering global warming, Mr Howard said, and the West had no right to deny economic development to the rest of the world in the name of climateeconomic development to the rest of the world in the name of climate change.

Those actions will take a small part of the world's economic growth and will be substantially less than the costs of doing nothing, the report says.

He said energy use per person was on track to rise sixfold by 2050, which had dire implications for temperatures when combined with economic growth of 3.9 % a year (the six - decade average) and a world population of 9 billion.

Further, renewable energy sources, especially if paired with needed energy storage technologies, tend to have a lower (some say much lower) EROEI than fossil fuels offered during the glory days of world economic growth after World Waworld economic growth after World WaWorld War II.

This will, of course, choke economic growth in developed nations, but they deserve that fate as they «have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community,» he said.

«The continued economic troubles in the developed world have led to reduced emissions, but this is more than compensated by strong emissions growth in fast - growing economies such as China,» he said.

Wall Street Journal — Low oil prices and economic growth have helped drive up consumer demand for energy across the world in 2015, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, a phenomenon seen from U.S. gasoline stations to Chinese auto dealerships.

«Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well - being and economic growth throughout the world,» the report says, «and these problems are poised to accelerate.»