Sentences with phrase «saying infrastructure spending»

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Generally, infrastructure spending is good for the economy, and when the economy is doing well, the market performs better, says Norman Raschkowan, executive vice-president of investments at Mackenzie Financial.

We're going to support spending on infrastructure and supporting private sector development and supporting citizens but within the ceilings that we've announced,» he said.

State Sen. Dave Lewis, a former Montana budget director who now leads the Finance Committee, said he would use his influence to make sure the windfall is used for one - time spending, such as on buildings and infrastructure.

Juerg Kiener of Swiss Asia Capital says miners should continue to see strong demand if planned infrastructure projects in Asia get underway, but could also face higher capital spending to boost output.

«I think that the problem of what they're really asking is do you wan na support a massive FDR - style infrastructure project so we can raise spending, raise taxes, and steal land from Republicans in Texas — no I don't,» Petersen said, referring to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastruInfrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructureinfrastructure program.

«You have to be creative, and if you can outsource or you can partner with someone that has that infrastructure and then slowly replace the company, you don't have to spend the money,» he says.

«Even if they did, or if Mr. Trump were able to pass a major infrastructure spending package, they would prove inflationary, causing the Federal Reserve to respond with a faster pace of monetary tightening that would offset the positive effect on growth,» the Economist Intelligence Unit report says.

Research firm IDC says worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is on track to reach $ 277 billion in 2021, up from $ 160 billion in 2018.

Republicans were also considering inserting Keystone into other critical legislation dealing with energy, spending or infrastructure that Obama would be less likely to veto, said Hoeven.

«Since Sir John A. Macdonald laid a railway across a continent, infrastructure has been both an immediate response to an urgent need and a hopeful act of nation building,» Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said, casting deficit spending as a proud part of Canada's heritage.

The CEO of Gabelli Asset Management says strong corporate profits, tax reform, and new infrastructure and defense spending will buoy markets

Conservative infrastructure critic Michael Chong said the report reflected a pattern of mismanagement on the infrastructure file, with money not being spent or allocated on time.

'' [Trump's] first objective is not to mollify protesters who will never be happy even after they benefit from his rollback of regulations, his tax relief package, his infrastructure [spending], and his making health care more affordable,» she said.

«If the next president does the right things around immigration, corporate and individual tax reform, [and] infrastructure spending,» the banker said, «America would be booming.»

Twitter executives say they spent much of 2010 investing in infrastructure to make the service more reliable.

I'd say earlier this year we were thinking that this second half of calendar 2012 would be a little bit more robust for enterprise infrastructure customers, just because the spending levels have been so low.

Stephen Poloz says Ottawa's recent spending on programs, such as enhanced child benefits and infrastructure, have lifted the economy and pushed interest rates to a level higher than they would have been without government stimulus.

The report praised Clinton's plan to increased spending on infrastructure, which Trump has also said he would do.

Some said it would be from tax cuts (unlikely to pass this year), others said it would be from infrastructure spending (also unlikely), and then there were those like Buiter who saw a trade war as the biggest threat.

Republican businessman - turned - politician Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, has promised tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending that he says will boost economic growth.

One of the former employees disputed this characterization of slow innovation, saying that the last couple of years had been spent building infrastructure features, which aren't as visible to the outside world.

A $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure spending plan outlined by President Trump bears watching for the markets, says James Cheo of the Bank of Singapore.

«There's been much buying on the promise of tax reform, regulatory relief and infrastructure spending, yet the details and the timing remain unclear,» Dietze said in a note to clients last week.

«The market was expecting Trump to be stimulating the economy through tax cuts and infrastructure spending,» said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at the investment research firm CFRA Research.

Overall, this budget adds new details about how Ottawa will spend some of the $ 93 billion in new money the Liberals had already set out for infrastructure — $ 11.2 billion will go to affordable housing over the next 11 years, less than the $ 12.6 billion over eight years the Federation of Canadian Municipalities says was needed.

The IRS overpaid nearly $ 3.5 billion in Obamacare tax credits last year that it can not recoup because of constraints built into the program, frustrating Republicans who have failed to repeal the health care law but say that money could have been spent on programs for veterans or infrastructure.

Companies spending tens of billions of dollars in remote office networking infrastructure demand a solution that addresses the emerging hybrid models,» says Enrique Salem, managing director at Bain Capital Ventures.

But the same can be said for other policies designed to improve economic outcomes for the bulk of citizens — increasing the minimum wage, increased spending on infrastructure, establishing a guaranteed minimum base income, regulatory reforms, increased spending on R&D, cuts in corporate taxes, whatever your favorites may be.

Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from water, energy.

But some provinces and municipalities, already struggling with large debt loads, have said they can not afford to spend billions more on infrastructure.

China could allow local government to issue more special bonds to support government spending on urban redevelopment and infrastructure investment to shore up domestic demand, said Xing from Morgan Stanley.

«If Brexit forces customers to set up alternative infrastructure outside of the U.K., it requires them to spend on infrastructure and technology, which essentially helps us,» said Nadeem Syed during an interview in Toronto in July.

Clement says the incident was a «mistake» and had nothing to do with recent controversies over his role in G8 infrastructure spending.

That said, a new leaf seems to have been turned this year with hedge funds returning to positive flows in the first quarter of 2017.1 Renewed interest has been spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which some industry experts are predicting should bring meaningful tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending that we think could prove a boon to hedge strategies.

Business investment has also improved over the year, and Ottawa's long - delayed infrastructure spending program began to show results in third quarter data, the BoC said.

«Part of this spending is designed to support still - fragile private sector confidence, but the overarching aim is to improve and expand civil infrastructure, investment in which lagged for much of the 1980s and 1990s,» he says.

That being said, perhaps if we did a better job of spending our taxes on effective education for our kids, effective welfare that does not encourage dependence, and improvement of the infrastructure of our country, we would see a decrease in people getting their hands on guns and killing others.

However Ms Holgate said Australia Post, which returned to a $ 95 million profit this year after a $ 222 million loss in 2015, don't want to spend too much on infrastructure for Amazon's benefit and be left with legacy infrastructure.

Prudent spending cuts would allow the government to focus on policies to lift productivity, including STEM training, large infrastructure projects, additional revenue for the emissions reduction fund and ongoing defence investment, the group said.

The IMF says Australia should boost infrastructure spending by about $ 6 billion a year.

«We particularly welcome the new emphasis on capital spending, and the measures to leverage private sector investment on infrastructure for roads and energy,» director - general John Cridland said.

A Ranking Member of Parliament's Finance Committee and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Legislator for Old Tafo, Anthony Osei Akoto, also said the unhealthy fall in spending for infrastructure was bad.

«Thanks to George Osborne's spending cuts, Britain has enormous infrastructure needs and it is hard - hit industrial regions that can benefit the most from European Investment Bank funding,» he said.

He said in areas like exports, employment regulations, manufacturing and infrastructure spending progress was being made, however.

Saying that the nation's infrastructure has been neglected for too long, while the U.S. has spent billions fixing roads and bridges in overseas locations including Iraq and Afghanistan, Congressman Brian Higgins has introduced a trillion - dollar proposal to fix domestic roads, bridges and waterways over the next five years.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

«I think the SWAP plan is a great idea, it does not make sense to spend money on paving a road if the underground infrastructure is in disrepair,» said Halfmoon Highway Superintendent John Pingelski.

«I know that there are plans to unveil spending proposals for the Second Avenue subway and upgrades to JFK, but I want to see a commitment to invest in Upstate infrastructure,» Wallace said.

Ben Bradshaw (Lab, poor man's James Bond) says the UK needs to spend more on the resilience of transport infrastructure.