Sentences with phrase «slowdown in the growth rate»

Using information on potential GDP and its components provided by the Congressional Budget Office indicates that the recent slowdown in the growth rate of potential GDP reflects deceleration in potential productivity.

In contrast to housing credit, the growth rate of personal credit has slowed somewhat over recent months, to an annualised rate of around 12 per cent over the six months to December, compared with 16 per cent over the six months to September; the slowdown in the growth rate of fixed - term and credit card lending was particularly marked.

OBOR will allow Chinese firms to seek new markets outside the country, the report says, «future - proofing» against any slowdown in the growth rate of the Chinese economy.

Dr. James Hansen — NASA GISS — 15 January 2013 «The 5 - year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing.»

The slowdown in the growth rate of GHG climate forcing from the peak in the 1980s is due mainly to the phase - out of CFC production.

In contrast, there was no slowdown in the growth rate for private pay AMR for skilled nursing in 2Q10.

Not exact matches

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

The worst case scenario is that the country will experience what economists call a «hard landing,» essentially a major slowdown in GDP growth, to less than 5 % or the approximate rate of inflation.

This ought to mean that unless there is a very severe slowdown in the world economy, the trade sector of the economy should still do pretty well, even if the growth rates are not quite as high as in the past year.

Looking forward, we expect broadly similar outcomes over the next year or so to that recorded in the December quarter, as the lagged effects of the slowdown in wage growth last year and the appreciation of the exchange rate work their way through.

The central bank acknowledged rising inflation but provided little indication that officials are worried about a sudden, rapid escalation in prices or an abrupt slowdown in economic growth that could alter its gradual pace of rate increases.

Against the backdrop of a slowdown in economic growth, the People's Bank of China cut its benchmark policy rates on 21 November after local markets had closed - the first such move since July 2012.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. job growth likely accelerated in April after a weather - related slowdown in the previous month, with the unemployment rate expected to drop to near a 17-1/2 - year low of 4.0 percent.

That marked a slowdown from the 10 % and 14 % growth rates posted in the second and first quarters, respectively.

While higher production of wheat, canola and sugar suggests higher export growth over the next year, the slowdown in slaughter rates for beef indicates some softening in meat exports.

«The slowdown in U.S. subscriber growth was particularly disappointing because one would expect that since Netflix just raised rates last week, this number would have been strong,» said Crockett.

The Fed's rate - setting committee also downplayed a recent slowdown in economic and job growth, saying that activity had been expanding at a moderate rate and job gains, on average, had been strong in recent months.

Now, as many investors worry about a global growth slowdown, rising rates and higher volatility in U.S. equity markets, dividend growers offer potential opportunities due to their healthy balance sheets, as well as better valuations, and lower volatility.

Another element not in the public understanding, since the Federal Reserve no longer produces this sort of monetary analysis, is a very sharp slowdown in the money supply's rate of growth, bank loans, and within important credit aggregates.

A moderate slowdown from the surprise 7 % growth rate of the last quarter is in fact welcome, in our view, as the country rebalances its economy and downshifts to a more sustainable pace of growth that is less reliant on credit.

Central bank policymakers also pointed to «solid rates» of growth in consumer spending and business investment, while eliminating a reference from their previous statement warning a global economic slowdown could sap U.S. economic strength.

The Federal Reserve left its influential interest rate unchanged at the conclusion of its two - day meeting in Washington today, citing a recent slowdown in growth that it said was likely «transitory.»

Most worrisome is the slowdown in growth; weakening global demand; rising inflation; restrictions in capital flows; rising debt levels; increased exchange rate volatility and depleting external reserves.»

Although the pharmaceutical industry, like the rest of the business world, has suffered a slowdown, the market research company Frost and Sullivan still expects spending on drug discovery to expand from US$ 19.6 billion in 2002 to US$ 25.6 billion by 2006, an annual growth rate of about 6 %.

Since you state that a decrease in net calcification could result from a decrease in gross calcification, an increase in dissolution rates, or both, you distinguish between these responses and get to the conclusion that the impact of ocean acidification on a creature's net calcification may be largely controlled by the status of its protective organic cover and that the net slowdown in skeletal growth under increased CO2 occurs not because these organisms are unable to calcify, but rather because their unprotected skeleton is dissolving faster.

And that's enough of a difference in the annual growth rate to have publishers talking about an e-book «slowdown,» even as digital books remain the fastest - growing part of the market.

USA Today noted the e-book numbers showed «enough of a difference in the annual growth rate to have publishers talking about an e-book «slowdown,» even as digital books remain the fastest - growing part of the market.»

The Bookseller's editor Philip Jones attributed the decline to «a natural slowing down of growth and adoption rates» in digital, along with a slowdown in sales of Kindles.

You could even take a few minutes to review instances in recent years (Brexit, the Greek debt crisis, fears of a slowdown in China's growth rate) when many investors were convinced a market drop would lead to a major selloff but stocks recovered.

Now, as many investors worry about a global growth slowdown, rising rates and higher volatility in U.S. equity markets, dividend growers offer potential opportunities due to their healthy balance sheets, as well as better valuations, and lower volatility.

«While the increase in spending and borrowing will help support economic growth, households are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to a potential interest rate shock or slowdown in the housing market.»

Depressed prices of commodities, continuing slowdown in China and falling interest rates are likely to contribute to the growth of small and mid-cap mutual funds at least for the next two or three years.

I've become far too wrapped up in the past in stocks with high growth rates, and low PEG ratios, and then suffered an earnings slowdown... and a P / E multiple de-rating.

«The slowdown in mortgage growth has been evident since the middle of last year, reflecting the impact of prior policy measures, as well as three interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada,» DBRS Ltd. said in a March 19 note.

After a slowdown that began in the second half of last year, most economists are anticipating growth will return to an above 2 - per cent pace in coming months and continue to put pressure on Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz to raise interest rates.

The continent's population growth is due to persistent high levels of fertility and the recent slowdown in the rate of fertility decline, notes a statement on the report.

Early evidence suggests that globally, the rate of water loss from soil and plants (called «evapotranspiration») has declined, a finding reinforced by a global slowdown in plant growth.

However, even if per capita fossil fuel based energy were to increase by 50 % by 2100, the overall CO2 concentration would still not grow at a higher rate than 0.5 % we now see, due to the slowdown in population growth rate.

I'd question the realism of this «high side» estimate by IPCC, since it assumes that the exponential rate of increase in CO2 concentration will jump from the current rate of 0.5 % per year to 0.74 % per year, despite a projected major slowdown in human population growth rate.

We conclude that background global warming is continuing, consistent with the known planetary energy imbalance, even though it is likely that the slowdown in climate forcing growth rate contributed to the recent apparent standstill in global temperature.

Let's be even more pessimistic than you were and say that CO2 levels continue to increase at the same CAGR we have seen since 1960, despite the slowdown in population growth rate.

And even in the very unlikely case that we saw CO2 continuing to grow at the same exponential rate as in the past, despite a major slowdown in population growth, we would see a maximum warming by 2100 of 1.8 °C.

We're at about 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year — and notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, probably poised to rise 2 % per year (the exact future growth rate is quite hard to project because it depends so much on what China does and how quickly peak oil kicks in).

This is a notable slowdown in emission growth, compared to an average rate of 3.5 % in the 2000s and 1.8 % over the most recent decade, 2006 - 2015.

The slowdown in Flash Briefing skills is a big contributing factor to the slowdown in the overall Alexa skill growth rate over the past quarter.

By Herschel Jawitz, CEO, Jawitz Properties The gradual slowdown in the rate of growth in property prices across the country has left home owners, buyers...

But over the past year, rising vacancy rates and a slowdown of economic growth in some of the hardest hit areas prompted Fannie Mae to loosen the reins on underwriting policy and give lenders more delegation authority.

While this represents a slight slowdown from the prior quarter's growth rate of 0.8 percent for both asking and effective rents, it is well above the quarterly average of about 0.4 percent since rents began rising consistently in the fourth quarter of 2010.

«While the increase in rates by the Fed has been well anticipated given the progress seen in unemployment, low inflation and wage growth are still a concern, and we anticipate they will move forward cautiously in the second half of the year given the asymmetric nature of policy available to counteract an economic slowdown versus a nascent acceleration in inflation.»

Green Street researchers attribute the slowdown in price growth to rising cap rates, which are offsetting growing rental incomes.