Sentences with phrase «sharp economic slowdown»

Many of the country's real estate and construction companies - their finances already squeezed by a sharp economic slowdown - are diverting funds from housing and other projects to election campaign contributions.

But the Brics, as well as many other emerging - market economies — have recently experienced a sharp economic slowdown.

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Fed forecasts in March pointed to two rate rises in 2016, but a sharp slowdown in U.S. job gains in May and the prospect that Britain could vote next week to leave the EU have added to doubts about the economic outlook.

An example that we discussed in our most recent Statement was the potential for financial instability in China to lead to a sharp slowdown in economic activity there and in the Asian region more broadly.

Fears of a sharp slowdown in China receded somewhat and the country's new leadership signaled a more assertive posture on economic and financial reform.

By the second quarter of 1952, the price increases had petered out as it became clear that the Korean War would not spread into a worldwide conflict and with the sharp slowdown in economic growth recorded in that year.

IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin commented: «As evidence has gathered of a sharp slowdown in UK economic growth over the last few months, the one bright spot has been the labour market.

This video explains why a sharp slowdown in Chinese credit growth and economic growth is inevitable.

In the short - term, Japan's economic slowdown had resulted in a sharp downturn in capital spending by utilities, which has delayed several new power plant projects.

India's insurance business was full of promise when it was thrown open to competition in 2000, but instead has been battered by losses, regulatory change, uncertainty and a sharp slowdown in economic growth.