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A report this month from the Institute of International Finance stated that it expects a sharp increase in capital inflows to Saudi Arabia in 2019 based at least partially on the index moves.

While gasoline is relatively inelastic, a sharp increase in prices can cause quite a stir on the home front.

And Trump's policies to date — a combination of deep tax cuts and sharp spending increases — are shortening the fuse on that fiscal time bomb, by dramatically widening the already unsustainable gap between revenues and outlays.

In the commodities space, oil prices are headed for their eighth consecutive week of falls on Friday, the longest losing streak since 1986, according to Reuters, after the news of a sharp drop in Chinese manufacturing increased worries over the health of the world's biggest energy consumer.

When that happens, there will be a sharp increase of businesses on the market.

Explaining the sharp increase in electronic searches, a department spokesperson told NBC News: «CBP has adapted and adjusted to align with current threat information, which is based on intelligence.»

While retaining its ratings on the financial institutions S&P noted «the risk of a sharp correction in property prices has further increased.»

[T] he dramatic increase in leveraged bond positions by both US hedge funds and mundane money managers set in motion self - reinforcing liquidations once uncertainty over emerging markets including Turkey, Venezuela, Mexico, and Malaysia - all of which experienced sharp capital flow volatility - put pressure on speculative positions.

«If you were to look at the possibility of increased defaults, you'd have to see something to precipitate that, something that we're not seeing on the horizon: For example a sharp rise in the unemployment rate,» said Jo Horton, a senior economist at St George Bank.

Over time, the failure to achieve first - mover status becomes evident and valuations adjust to reflect this, or lock - up provisions on Internet stocks expire, leading to a large increase in supply that leads to a sharp fall in prices.7

For an economy like the U.S., which is overwhelmingly reliant on consumer spending, any sharp increase in oil prices wreaks havoc.

And, as the BlackRock Investment Institute's Jean Boivin noted recently, a range of secular factors is likely to keep a lid on a sharp increase in rates for some time to come.

A sharp increase of 6 percent from the year prior, a 20 percent mortgage down payment on a home of that value would mean saving nearly $ 42,000, a price tag unattainable for most first - time home buyers.

A dynamic is put in place in which debt keeps labor down — not only by eating up its wages in debt service, but in making workers suffer sharp increases in the interest rates they have to pay or even risk losing their homes if they miss a payment by going on strike or being fired.

Figure 1 shows how EBITDA gives the misleading impression that gas station operators CST Brands (CST) is increasing profits when its true profitability as measured by return on invested capital (ROIC) is in sharp decline.

My column this week on the positive aspects of the CRTC's usage based billing decision has generated some sharp disagreement, with some arguing that the pricing set by the Commission is faulty and virtually guaranteed to increase consumer prices (Search Engine covers the issue and arrives at the same conclusion, Peter Nowak does as well).

That was followed by a sell - off which nearly halved bitcoin's price to what might be a bottom of around $ 1,800 on July 16th, with a sharp price increase soon after to $ 2,300, a segwit bull - run to $ 2,700, a Bitcoin Cash crash back to $ 2,300 and now the recent bull run to an all - time high.

For iron ore and coal, substantial increases in contract prices are set to take effect later this year, building on the already sharp increases of last year.

The Ft reports on the sharp increase in the number of wealthy Chinese acquiring UK «golden visas» that give residency in return for investing # 2m or more in assets (they can apply to settle permanently after a period of three years if they invest # 5m and after two years if they invest # 10m).

These small businesses continue to provide six of ten jobs in B.C., and unexpected and / or sharp increases to the minimum wage can have a very real impact on their ability to do so.

However, the official planning permissions data have shown a sharp rise since the middle of last year, indicating that things may be starting to improve on this front, which should help to reduce the increase in house prices over time.

On the other hand, the sharp increase in interest rates is likely to serve as a serious headwind to Russia's already declining economy.

I reported some 14 months ago that there would be sharp increases in the number of muslim suits in the employment, and student sectors, based on the year I spent undercover in a local seattle mosque.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen — three key countries involved in the multi-nation civilian uprising — experienced a particularly sharp increase in restrictions on religious freedom between 2009 and 2010, precipitating the riots.

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

The rising Asian middle - class is predicted to drive a sharp increase in spending on high - end F&A products, with higher disposable incomes leading to more discretionary spending.

This was a sharp increase over the average of 14 % which we highlighted below, showing there's slightly more importance on Game 2 than Game 1.

While the current data shows that sharp and public bettors are lining up on different sides, there's still plenty of time for that to change, especially if this line gets to Philadelphia +3 and inspires buyback as limits continue to increase.

One - sided public betting caused the total to increase from 213.5 to 214 on two separate occasions, but sharp bettors immediately pounded the under both times.

I'm really curious to see how the public and sharps bet this game throughout Friday, and wouldn't be surprised to see odds increase on USA up to -200.

This revelation was fascinating for two reasons: not only did their handle increase during the postseason, but sharp bettors are less prone to wager on games that are nationally televised.

Sharp money has taken the home side on the short spread, and now that the line has increased we should see even more public action on Kentucky.

We still haven't seen sharp money pick a side on the total, so it will be interesting to monitor this total throughout the week — especially when the limits are increased closer to kick off.

Two days ago, New York Times national education correspondent Sam Dillon had a front page story on the sharp increase in the number of formerly middle class households now taking advantage of free or reduced price school lunches for their children, a stark indicator of the nation's current economic woes.

The report, which reviewed the 340,000 names Bounty's members gave to their babies in recent months, found that as well as more common place character names increasing in popularity, there's been a sharp rise in unique names featured on shows this year.

The role and selection of school governors is now on the agenda as accountability issues come into sharper focus because of increasing school autonomy.

Dealers started to add the drug to heroin to increase profits and potency, but the drug requires a much smaller amount to overdose on and officials blamed it for the sharp rise in overdose deaths in the past two years.

The media focus is sure to increase on the former lawyer given the sharp focus on the UK's constitutional future.

Figures released by the ONS just last week, showed a sharp increase in the number of people with long term illnesses and disabilities dropping out of the labour market altogether.

During the first «Pricing window» for the month of June 2016, Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) increased their prices by an average of 2 % which IES contested, resulting in a sharp response by Goil of some 0.79 % drop on a litre of petrol.

The Trump campaign spent more than $ 1.1 million on legal fees over the last three months — a sharp increase that coincided with the escalation of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

She attacked the mayor for the sharp increase in spending on his watch and says he has not done enough to help senior citizens.

The recent spate of reporting on the increase of self harm and suicides in prison has brought this into sharp relief.

«A sharp, permanent increase in taxes on a small group of highly mobile taxpayers, who enjoy a great deal of discretion over the timing and nature of their income, will inevitably cause some of them to either shift income away from this jurisdiction, or earn less, or collect the income in forms that will not be taxed,» said E.J. McMahon on the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute.

The announcement on reform came on the day Brown received some good news as the first increase in industrial output in more than a year signalled the economy was recovering from the sharpest slump since the second world war.

Benbrook, who was not on the NRC panel, says that sharp increases in the price of biotech seeds, which started in 2007, could eat away at farmer's economic gains.

Although the authors» network model simplifies matters by treating bones as «balls» and muscles as «springs,» it can nevertheless provide sharper insight into how an injury in one part of the body can lead to increased strain on another.

Depending on how climate impacts unequally affect the rich or poor within every region, the optimal policy may involve a lenient or sharp increase in the price of carbon over the next decades (lenient when impacts are proportional to income, sharp when impacts are concentrated on the poor).