Sentences with phrase «soft data»

While measures of positive economic surprises have risen sharply, most of the improvement is from soft data.

Unlike soft data, hard data is generally backed by quantitative figures and can be proven.

While measures of positive economic surprises have risen sharply, most of the improvement is from soft data.

Worried about the state of the U.S. economy after a string of soft data?

However, worldwide GDP is expected to have slowed in 2013, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), partly owing to somewhat softer data in the United States, plus a less robust rate of expansion in emerging markets, notably China.

As a result, millennials appear far more predisposed toward weighing hard data with objective scrutiny, and placing more relevance on these figures than on soft data findings.

Soft data released from Japan and slowed corporate earnings indicate that a recession could be possible.

I'm not talking about facts and information here, but about the somewhat more elusive soft data, the expressions that tell us who we are and who we have been, that are the record of individuals living in different epochs — that are, in effect, the cumulative speculations of the species.

Worried about the state of the U.S. economy after a string of soft data?

«The U.S. has a lot of optimism and hope and a lot of the soft data looks good, but the hard data has been getting weaker,» Duran said.

«The low market - implied odds, softer data, and uncertainty about the monetary transmission mechanism lead us to believe that a June hike is now rather unlikely,» Goldman economist Daan Struyven said in a note to clients.

By now most have noticed the divergence between the «hard» data, which measures actual U.S. economic activity, and the «soft data,» which mostly tracks surveys.

I have viewed those soft data as likely to be transitory, reflecting sharp temporary changes in relative prices — such as modifications in wireless service pricing by U.S. mobile carriers last spring.

As a result, even though a tightening labor market and recently supportive levels of business, consumer, and investor confidence may bode well for the near - term outlook, the hard data currently seems considerably less encouraging than the soft data.

If the «hard data» and «soft data» remain disconnected, increased market volatility is a possibility and worth discussing with clients.

As the unprecedented economic and political landscape continues to unfold in 2017, we believe that investors would be wise to carefully monitor whether the hard data begins to find a convergence point with the soft data.

The year - over-year change in the PCE index remains somewhat below the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target, as some of the soft data from last spring have lowered this 12 - month change.

These confidence measures reflect survey - based findings, and are often described as «soft data.»

February saw another relatively weak reading for consumer spending, in the wake of January's soft data, and was followed in March by a drop in auto sales, marking a third consecutive monthly fall.

The economists» bearish lurch this week reflects the fact that soft data and anecdotal evidence suggest the cash shortage is beginning to take a toll, a challenge that will weigh on the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday when it meets to decide its crunch - fighting strategy.

By now most have noticed the divergence between the «hard» data, which measures actual economic activity, and the «soft data,» which mostly tracks surveys.

The soft data has reduced expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again soon — a potential boon for stocks.

The most important conclusion to emerge from this «queer mixture of hard data, soft data, thought experiments, and speculations» is that social policy can not afford to ignore what Edmund Burke called «the little platoon we belong to in society.»

Some interviewees reported that even when restructured local banks are familiar with individuals» «soft data» — such as credit history and reputation — they are far more interested in lending to companies that will bring in large manufacturing.

I think this is the best «soft data» that we can collect.

Are your colleagues «assessment literate» as that relates to soft data?

By now most have noticed the divergence between the «hard» data, which measures actual economic activity, and the «soft data,» which mostly tracks surveys.

By now most have noticed the divergence between the «hard» data, which measures actual U.S. economic activity, and the «soft data,» which mostly tracks surveys.

Good ability to write shows that you can evaluate the softer data that is often more important than the raw numbers.

Her work is informed by poetry, conceptual art, comics and cartography and employs symbols of hard data - text, geologic forms, geographic borders, signs / markers, coastlines, tide schedules - to frame the soft data of the ephemeral.

Frequently using the visual language of cartography, Dahlia's paintings employ symbols of hard data - geologic forms, borders, markers, coastlines — to frame the soft data of the ephemeral, adapting a quantitative schema to the qualitative.