Sentences with phrase «slow the economy at»

Yet policymakers are wary of acting too aggressively to slow the economy at a time when wage growth has been tepid.
BERLIN (AP)-- Industrial production in Germany dropped strongly in July, feeding worries of a slowing economy at the start of the third quarter.

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But company executives acknowledge that the economy will at one point slow down, so Menear is betting the investments will prepare it to win business when the tide is no longer rising to lift all boats.
Canada's economy was due to slow from its torrid pace at the start of the year, and that's what is happening.
If the economy slows because of anticipated or real higher interest rates, we won't see unemployment moving under 7 %, and then the Fed is likely to reconsider and not «taper» at all!
If the economy were to slow, and the interest rates were still at zero, the Fed wouldn't have its main tool to stimulate the economy.
Brent Schutte, chief investment strategist at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management, agrees the economy is continuing to do well but said there is a fear that it is actually slowing down.
The true cause of this situation is the fact that the global economy is growing at a slow pace, and there is more money chasing safe investing opportunities than there are those opportunities.
The government forecasts the economy will grow 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.
The government forecasts growth of 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, putting Malaysia in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.
Lamborghini's SUV provides a window into what's happening at several industries relying on China for growth even as its economy slows.
(Now that the economy has slowed, some of the companies that initially scoffed at Quartet's small volume are calling Rourke back, saying, «We'll take that $ 1,000 a month.»
«Markets are able to cope with a small rise in inflation, while any softness would be reinforce expectations that the economy has slowed,» said Peter Chatwell, head of rates at Mizuho in London.
China's economy grew at its slowest pace since the global financial crisis in the third quarter, reviving expectations of further stimulus to avert a stalling of the world's growth engine.
Hiring of permanent staff via British recruitment firms increased at the slowest pace in six months in March, with employers perturbed by Britain's approaching European Union referendum and the global economy, a survey showed on Friday.
Tom Porcelli, Chief U.S. Economist at RBC Capital Markets, talks about how slowing luxury spending could be sending a warning sign for the rest of the economy.
Said Yelena Shulyatyeva, a U.S. economist at BNP Paribas in New York: «The growth potential for the economy has slowed significantly.»
«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.
StatsCan found that although the underground economy has grown since the last estimates in 1992, it did so at a slower pace than the overall economy.
You should take a good look at your accounts receivables aging report to determine whether customers are becoming slower in their payments as the economy falters.
They are the latest symptoms of the slow - burning non-performing loan crisis that Italy will have to tackle,» Erik Jones, professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University, told CNBC via email.
He also argues that millennial - driven innovation is wringing inflation out of the economy, causing it to move higher, but at a much slower pace than we've historically seen.
The risk is that the economy needs monetary policy tightened to cool prices before industrial activity and retail sales regain momentum lost last year as the Chinese economy delivered its slowest full year of growth since 1999, at 7.8 percent.
Though all measures of inflation were coming down as summer turned to fall and the economy clearly was slowing following a July brush with $ 4 - a-gallon gasoline, the FOMC decided to hold the fed funds rate at 2 %, concluding that «the downside risks to growth and the upside risks to inflation are both of significant concern to the committee.»
«We're in a slow - growth economy with high unemployment and low inflation,» said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com.
Global market volatility persisted this week, as investors remained nervous on China's slowing economy along with a possible interest rate increase at the U.S. Federal Reserve's mid-September meeting.
This renewed crisis in the Eurozone comes at a time when the European economies appear to be slowing down after a strong first quarter, and despite this, policy interest rate increases by the ECB are expected in the coming months.
At some point, trade would reach a new balance point in the global economy where firms had built optimal supply chains that crossed international borders, slowing the integration process, at least for the presenAt some point, trade would reach a new balance point in the global economy where firms had built optimal supply chains that crossed international borders, slowing the integration process, at least for the presenat least for the present.
These banks are under intense pressure from provincial political bosses to keep lending and help sustain big employers like state - owned enterprises, at a time when the entire country's economy is slowing.
The government put China's official growth at 6.7 percent in the last two quarters, but some economists question whether the economy is slowing more quickly.
At the same time, low mortgage rates can indicate that an economy is slow.
«You're definitely seeing the impact of the currency headwinds in the first quarter results, and also the European economies have slowed relative to last year,» said Will Hamlyn, investment analyst at Manulife Asset Management.
«The volatility can actually slow investment behaviour, and when you do that, you begin to slow the pace at which the economy can potentially grow,» says Kenneth Medlock, a fellow in energy studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
If labor and indeed government must demand some recompense for the four decade's long downward tilting teeter - totter of wealth creation, and if GDP growth itself is slowing significantly due to deleveraging in a New Normal economy, then how can stocks appreciate at 6.6 % real?
The economy grew at a 2.3 percent annualized pace in the first quarter, slowing from the October - December period's 2.9 percent rate.
Last week, new government data showed the economy ground to a near halt in the first half of the year, and on Monday, a factory activity survey showed U.S. manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in two years in July.
Data showed that the U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter as consumer spending grew at its weakest pace in nearly five years.
At a time of slowing economic growth, the world can ill - afford watching the largest economies turn inward.»
At the time, the troika was credited with saving the world's financial markets from collapse and slowing the spread of the «Asian Contagion,» a wave of financial market panic that began with the rapid devaluation of Thailand's currency and spread to other parts of Asia, Russia and Latin America, soon affecting the real economy as well.
But at the same time, we know there are a number of things which slowed economies down which have been decidedly temporary, but temporary in a longer sense than normal.
But at the same time they do not want to tighten when the economy may be slowing or create financial turmoil.
There's clearly been a slowing of the Chinese economy with the latest 1Q13 GDP reading coming in at 7.7 % vs. 8 % expected, and the HSBC PMI index coming in at 50 vs. expectations of 52.
«By the time 10 - year and 2 - year Treasuries reach parity, as is almost the case now, the economy is typically slowing and the Fed is at or near the end of its tightening cycle.»
Capital has been fleeing China, for example, since 2012, at first mainly in reaction to the anti-corruption campaign, but later these outflows were exacerbated by worries about the slowing economy.
A few months after this particular conference I was back in Sydney to speak at another conference, and after I spoke, Gerard Minack, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley Australia, gave his own presentation on the world economy and, more specifically, on the slow - turning battleship of expansion in the production of hard commodities.
China — the world's second - largest economy — grew at its slowest annual pace in approximately a quarter - century in 2015, with China's stock market volatility spiking, and the renminbi sharply depreciating versus the U.S. dollar.
Among them: a currency that was dragged higher by a strengthening U.S. dollar at a time when the economy is slowing.
The move is aimed at boosting Southeast Asia's largest economy by GDP which has been growing at its slowest pace in six years because of falling commodity prices and cooling growth in major trading partner China.
The New York economy continues to expand at a slower pace, while prices continued creeping higher.
Stock prices are up and valuations are at extreme levels despite faltering earnings, Fed rate hikes and a slowing economy.
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