One area of brightness in the fourth quarter was retail sales, which grew 13.6 % on - year in December, almost
the same pace of growth as November.
Not exact matches
At the
same time, most economists don't think the
pace of job
growth is enough to cause the Federal Reserve to speed up its timetable for raising interest rates.
In our view, some
of the upward surprises come from factors that are unlikely to keep adding to economic
growth at the
same pace.
The refinance boom dropped off last year around the
same time lenders were adjusting to the QM rule, which made the rate
of growth in origination slower when compared to the
pace of 2013.
Instead
of trying to pump up
growth with highly speculative and potentially hazardous monetary experiments, the Fed needs to recognize that our economies just can't grow at the
same pace they once did.
For example, after including the latest figures for
growth on Thursday, the economy has expanded at annual rate
of 1.8 percent under President Obama, half the
pace of growth in the first five years
of the Clinton administration, and below the 2.5 percent annual
growth rate for President Bush between December 2000 and December 2005 in the
same years.
At the
same time, it has become clearer that precautionary behaviour by households and some firms is exerting restraint on the
pace of growth in demand, and that the higher exchange rate is diverting more demand abroad.
A Reuters analysis shows that many companies are barreling down the
same road, spending on share repurchases at a far faster
pace than they are investing in long - term
growth through research and development and other forms
of capital spending.
Third - quarter GDP figures were revised up to show annualized
growth of 2.5 %, broadly the
same pace as seen in the previous quarter.
But many other groups maintained the
same pace of academic
growth - or even slowed down - compared with the 1990s.
Canada's economy expanded at a 1.8 per cent annual
pace during the last quarter, the
same growth seen at the start
of the year and slightly better than what economists were expecting.
«Based on the findings
of the study, it appears that most
of Bangladesh?s coastline, notably the Meghnaestuary, which is one
of the largest in the world, would rise at the
same pace as the sea level
growth,» he said.
During this period, the size
of the natural sinks has grown almost at the
same pace as the
growth in emissions, although year - to - year variability is large.
By 2022, BNEF estimates electric vehicles will cost the
same as their internal combustion counterparts, and if
growth continues at the current
pace, oil displacement by electric cars will reach 2 million barrels per day by 2023 — the size
of the current oil glut and enough to drive global oil prices to record lows.
Yes, the country's phenomenal
growth of the previous two decades has slowed, but this point was inevitable; the economy, once it had reached such a size and its working age population had peaked, as it did in 2012,
growth couldn't continue at the
same pace.
The estimations are likely accurate — App Annie said at the beginning
of the year that if China's rapid App Store revenue
growth continued at the
same pace, it would overtake the U.S. by year's end.
Despite a slowdown in the
pace of growth, Nordhagen pointed out that
growth for the industry remains about 10 percent ahead
of the historical average for revenue and
same store net operating income (NOI)
growth.
With the rate
of spending
growth keeping
pace with income gains, Americans saved the
same share
of their disposable income.
Instead, look for actual evidence that the
pace of new construction is keeping up with
growth in demand: evidence such as increasing employment, household formation, and retail trade volumes, rising occupancy rates, positive rent
growth, and
growth in
same - property NOI.