Sentences with phrase «strong pace of»

Big picture: Builders seem to be in a sweet spot: The economy is supporting a strong pace of home sales, and the tax overhaul that seems likely to become law should boost profits.

Inflation had remained stubbornly low over the past year, due largely to temporary factors like low cell plan phone prices, which stymied officials who expected the very strong pace of hiring would pressure wages and push prices higher.

STORE's Dividend Growth Store has one of the fastest dividend growth rates over its short life, courtesy of its very strong pace of new property acquisition, which has translated into impressive growth in AFFO per share.

Over the past year, the strong pace of debt accumulation has outstripped the growth in the household sector's assets, despite further significant gains in housing wealth (Table 9).

Given the lags between loan approvals and the increase in credit outstanding, the strong pace of credit growth can be expected to continue, at least in the near term.

This likely reflects a number of positive factors, including: strong demand for workers that derives from a strong pace of sales for goods and services; employers» reluctance to lose employees, given the difficulty they would face in hiring replacement workers; and the fact that potential employees who lose or switch jobs are able to find new employment without suffering a spell of unemployment.

The strong pace of apartment construction in the last five years has mitigated some of the supply problem, but most of the new apartments are in luxury buildings.

If Barcelona or Catalonia lost the presence of large anchor companies, that would have an impact on the startup ecosystem, since large companies are customers and sources of talent and future founders,» he wrote, but the strong pace of acquisitions seems to point in the opposite direction.

That beat expectations for a 5.6 percent rise, and marked the strongest pace of quarterly growth in eight years.

«While price growth still teetered near or above unhealthy levels in some markets, the good news is that there was some moderation despite the stronger pace of sales.»

To promote a stronger pace of economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its mandate, the Committee decided today to continue expanding its holdings of securities as announced in November.

This was the strongest pace of single - family housing production since July 2008.

However, Yun cites rising mortgage rates, home prices that still outpace wage growth, and a fragile global economy as the main challenges that could hold back a stronger pace of sales this year.

Canada's economy grew at a stronger pace of 1.4 percent in 2016, up from less than one percent in 2015.

Not exact matches

«After a strong rebound in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, the pace of activity in the emerging markets has faded,» says Stephen King, HSBC's chief economist in the report.

While he's predicting a strong expansion in China, Schultz isn't planning to speed up the pace of store openings.

We look forward to taking an already very strong brand and accelerating its pace of growth and opening new restaurants in the U.S. and around the world.»

Nike is aiming to address all of those elements: the company is trying to offer more services like personalized shopping, quickening the pace of innovation to get new product on store shelves faster, and also working with stronger retail partners like Foot Locker (fl) and Dick's Sporting Goods (dks) to better present Nike goods.

But a stronger euro is not always welcomed by the ECB as it might reduce the pace of European exports.

In the second quarter, though, these drags on growth were offset by strong consumer spending, resulting in a solid pace of PDFP growth.

-- The pace of job growth over the past 3, 6, and 12 months is around 190,000 - 200,000, a strong trend that should put downward pressure on the jobless rate.

The Commerce Department reported on Thursday that the economy grew by 3.2 percent in the final quarter of 2013, echoing the even stronger 4.1 percent pace of expansion in the summer months and providing the White House with a rare bit of good news despite dismal public approval ratings.

Quebec's economy grew 3.1 per cent in 2017, the strongest pace for that province since 2000 and twice its rate of growth in 2016.

Recent data suggest that growth of household spending moderated from its strong fourth - quarter pace, while business fixed investment continued to grow strongly.

If unemployment continues to move down and job additions remain at anything close to the strong pace we have seen over the past couple of years, we think it should translate into wage inflation moving up.

«Looking ahead, while the industry faces headwinds and an accelerating pace of change, we believe we are well positioned to deliver long - term shareholder value by leveraging innovation, our values - based culture which supports strong client relationships, and prudent capital and risk management.»

That was less than the third quarter's 4.1 % pace, but overall the final six months of the year delivered the strongest second half since 2003, when the economy was thriving.

The growth of domestic demand, though still strong, is likely to ease from the unusually rapid pace seen in the past couple of years.

An expected continuation of positive labour market conditions and strong growth in household income, coupled with falling petrol prices and further scheduled tax cuts in July, also point to the pace of consumption growth remaining firm.

He said it could be that the exceptionally strong growth of last year is returning to a more normal pace and that the bank would have to study incoming data more.

Overall, most observers expect growth of the world economy, though not as strong as last year, to continue in 2005 at an above - average pace for the third successive year.

A moderate recovery of car sales in the second half of the year gathered pace in December, according to the ACEA data, but wasn't strong enough to pull the industry into positive territory for the year.

While the growth of underlying intermediate imports has moderated from the exceptionally strong growth observed in the latter half of 1999, it continues to grow in line with the pace of growth of the domestic economy.

Activity in non-Japan Asia remained strong during the first half of 2000, though the pace of growth varied widely across countries; over the past year, growth has been strongest in Hong Kong, Korea and Malaysia and weakest in Indonesia (Table 1).

National accounts data show that growth in real household consumption in the second half of 2003 was 7 per cent on an annualised basis, the strongest pace in over 20 years.

Even if the economy were to immediately begin producing 600,000 jobs a month — more than double the pace of the mid-to-late 1990s, when job growth was strong — it would take roughly two years to dig ourselves out of the hole we're in.

But a stronger euro could slow the pace of earnings growth among European companies, and other risks include politicians not delivering on reforms, the European Central Bank (ECB) winding back its stimulus too soon and renewed political instability in Italy.

Economic activity in the US has been rising at a moderate pace in spite of a strong labour market and record unemployment rate.

The strong export numbers at Dampier give hope that Rio may yet achieve its full - year iron ore export guidance for 2017, despite being behind the pace required after the first nine months of the year.

In east Asia, China continues to record strong growth, although elsewhere the pace of growth has generally slowed.

As Beijing's campaign to control content gathers pace, gaming giant Tencent, which delivered another set of strong quarterly results, is an easy target for censors.

The growth of domestic demand is now in the process of slowing from its recent rapid pace, and in the short term this is unlikely to be offset by stronger external conditions.

«We are predicting increased sales over the next couple of years as the housing market continues a steady pace of growth, and of course we still have [a] strong oil industry here and construction is picking up,» he said.

The strong data, along with upward revisions to prior months, have prompted Fed watchers to begin to forecast a faster pace of tightening by the US Federal Reserve.

This is evident in the strong growth in personal credit over the six months to September and the rapid pace of growth in revolving credit secured against residential mortgages.

However, if the recovery in the global private - investment cycle, particularly in the U.S., proves stronger than we currently expect, it would support productivity growth, lift neutral real rates and encourage the Fed to take up an even faster pace of rate hikes than we currently pencil into our base case.

In light of these trends and the more promising global outlook, the prospects are that the Australian economy will continue to grow at a strong pace during 2004.

Therefore he will continue hiking rates at a measured pace for as long as economic numbers are relatively strong regardless of financial market movements.

After the strong pick - up seen in the second half of 1997, business credit is now growing at a more moderate pace.

The gathering pace of economic expansion is one reason that European markets have been least affected by Asia, with share markets in particular remaining stronger than elsewhere.