Sentences with phrase «tentative signs»

American manufacturing has been showing tentative signs of a comeback.

While exports have been weak for some time, there have been tentative signs of a recovery over recent months.

That trend towards higher inflation expectations continued into U.S. inflation expectations, indicating that the ECB QE announcement, and coincident with tentative signs of stabilization of oil prices, may mark the low point of deflationary fears driving global interest rates to new lows.

Data on Tuesday showed consumers did increase spending on domestic travel and furniture in October, offering tentative signs that spending overall is bottoming out.

Beyond a weak yen, there are tentative signs local inflation may be picking up, with the biggest month - on - month spike in headline inflation seen in 25 years in October.

Household credit has continued to grow at the very high rates recorded over the second half of 2003, with only tentative signs of easing emerging.

Recent tentative signs of improving growth could quickly fade away if the crisis deteriorates.»

In a recent note to clients, Madani wrote that housing investment may continue to assist GDP growth throughout the rest of 2013, «but there are still tentative signs that a day of reckoning lies around the corner, with housing likely to become a significant drag on growth next year.»

This week our Big Data Barometer, focusing on the mood around the French elections, shows a further decline although tentative signs of improvement can be seen.

Available indicators of rental rates and vacancies of residential property are volatile and vary considerably across capital cities but, in general, they provide tentative signs of a mild easing of growth in rents; vacancy rates have picked up a little in some cities, but they remain low.

Amid tentative signs of economic recovery, benchmark oil for August delivery rose $ 1.05 to $ 99.04 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

McBride identified two more and found tentative signs of three others (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 403, p 709).

Physicists celebrate even tentative signs of the Higgs (see «Still on the run «-RRB-.

Inventory to normalize in 2011: «The predicate is that we have seen what we think or what we call tentative signs of stabilization in demand for housing.

Beyond a weak yen, there are tentative signs local inflation may be picking up, with the biggest month - on - month spike in headline inflation seen in 25 years in October.

Labour will be alarmed that the two main parties are neck and neck despite the economy showing only tentative signs of starting to recover.

There have been some recent tentative signs of caution among the Justices.

Prior to the Cabinet reshuffle, FNB's Agent Survey revealed that demand from first - time buyers had strengthened in both the final quarter of 2016 and first quarter of 2017 in line with tentative signs of economic recovery.

Small black holes the size of stars and the supermassive variety are familiar, but until now there have only been tentative signs of intermediate - mass black holes.

A report earlier this month offered some tentative signs of success for Laurence, while still suggesting Rogers has a distance to go in regaining consumers» trust.

Japan «s unemployment rate held steady in October as the availability of jobs improved and household spending fell at a slower pace, a tentative sign that a robust labor market is lending support to domestic demand.

«Recent indicators have suggested somewhat firmer economic growth, and some tentative signs of stabilization have appeared in the housing market.

There were some tentative signs of improved confidence earlier in the year, but so far this has not translated into any significant pickup in growth.

While there are some tentative signs that credit and housing market conditions have firmed a little in recent months, the risks to the economy posed by the over-heating in housing and credit markets in the period up to late 2003 have eased.

There are also some tentative signs that conditions in the labour market are easing.

January: «Recent indicators have suggested somewhat firmer economic growth, and some tentative signs of stabilization have appeared in the housing markets.»

There are some tentative signs that the decline in loan approvals is starting to reduce credit growth, with the rate of growth of housing credit having eased modestly on a three - month - ended basis in recent months but not on the widely used twelve - month - ended basis (Graph 33).

A poor performance in Sicily by the governing center - left Democratic party added to tentative signs of a shift in sentiment among Italian voters.

The euro area economy appears to have all but stalled after showing some tentative signs of recovery earlier last year.

Nonetheless, given the tentative signs of easing in domestic demand pressures, the Board judged that there was a case to hold the cash rate steady for the time being, to allow further time to assess the strength of inflationary pressures.

In some countries, there are tentative signs that this initial period of rapid adjustment may have largely run its course.

Lending for housing remains strong, though there are some tentative signs of a slowing recently.

However, tentative signs are emerging that the worst of the direct effect on Australia of the contraction in demand in South Korea and the ASEAN countries may have already passed.

Along with the pick - up in activity, there are tentative signs that conditions are improving in labour markets across the region, with the unemployment rate declining slightly in a number of countries.

Despite these poor outcomes in the first half of the year, there are some tentative signs that a modest recovery in the euro area may be underway.

While the labour market remains weak, there are tentative signs that the stronger economic growth is beginning to have some impact.

The labour market has been disappointing to date, but there have been some tentative signs of improvement recently, with a gradual decline in new jobless claims and an increase in non-farm employment in September.

Tentative signs have emerged that prices could accelerate in coming months.

After years of watching the cancer relentlessly take her beloved devils, Jones has seen some tentative signs of a truce between the devils and the tumor.

There are tentative signs that Wikipedia can address some of these problems.

Of note, is that based on the numbers, there are tentative signs that the Calgary market if finally firming up.

Carney also mentioned that there are tentative signs that household spending may be cooling, even though household debt numbers continue to rise.

And even though outstandings are showing some tentative signs of growth, issuers are not aggressively chasing loan growth with aggressive interest rates and low underwriting standards.

There are some tentative signs that central banks are once again buying Treasury notes, at least short - dated ones.