Sentences with phrase «tightened supplies of»

«Housing affordability is being negatively affected by a «perfect storm» scenario,» observed NAHB Chairman Rick Judson, a home builder from Charlotte, N.C. «With markets across the country recovering, home values are strengthening at the same time that the cost of building homes is rising due to tightened supplies of building materials, developable lots and labor.»

We can expect to see more gradual gains going forward as challenges related to increased demand kick in — including everything from tightened supplies of developable lots and skilled labor to the rising cost of building materials.

«With markets across the country recovering, home values are strengthening at the same time that the cost of building homes is rising due to tightened supplies of building materials, developable lots, and labor.»

Manufacturing issues have reportedly tightened supply of the iPhone X in its early run.

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There are some estimates that the impact of that is the equivalent of 1 percentage point rate hike, because it is a form of tightening — you're reducing the money supply.

The potential Chapter 11 filing could be a result of the company's suppliers tightening trade terms, including holding back on shipments unless the toy retailer is able to make cash payments on delivery, the newspaper reported.

That's due to the tightening of the supply glut we've been dealing with and the continued drawdown of inventories for commodities in the metals and energy space.

«We partnered with FourKites to gain a real - time view of our supply chain that would enable us to deliver outstanding customer service amid tightening delivery windows,» said Craig Weiss, vice president of supply chain at Conagra Brands.

Global crude prices are poised for an upswing through the end of 2017 as inventory levels tighten, but growing supply is likely to outstrip demand next year, leading to market surpluses, a panel of industry analysts said Wednesday the S&P Global Platts Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference.

That would likely result in a reduction of Tehran's oil exports, which would further tighten global supplies.

Rising U.S. debt supply and the pace of the U.S. Federal Reserve's tightening, the possibility the European Central Bank's quantitative easing program is heading towards the finish line, and concerns about the credit quality of riskier asset classes restrained investors.

Instead of increasing or reducing the availability of credit by adding to or subtracting from the supply of Fed deposit balances, the Fed now loosens or tightens credit by controlling financial institutions» demand for such balances using a pair of new monetary control devices.

A passive tightening of monetary policy occurs whenever the Fed allows total current dollar spending to fall, either through a endogenous fall in the money supply or through an unchecked decrease in money velocity.

The key takeaway from the report is that it continues to underscore a condition of tightening supply in the labor market.

3) Although its M2 money supply is still growing at close to 10 % / year, there has been a significant tightening of China's monetary conditions over the past 18 months.

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Oil supply has tightened, and demand is picking up, primarily out of China and India.

According to an article in the Journal of Commerce (JOC), the U.S. economy has been expanding at a rate greater than 3.5 percent for four of the last five quarters, creating enough freight demand to significantly boost trucking revenue while tightening supply to the point where carriers can gain considerable rate increases.

Furthermore, given that the global gold demand - supply balance indicates the existence of a small market surplus of less than 200 tonnes at present, the introduction of Islamic investors could dramatically tighten the market, resulting in a hugely bullish outcome for gold prices during the coming years.

The company is now tightening up its requirements for suppliers in the interest of food safety, and says it's uncertain whether or not current local suppliers will be able to meet its new guidelines.

They typically emphasized such measures as reducing the size of public sector employment, tightening money supplies to control inflation, and reducing trade barriers to stimulate cross-border competition.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Market News reported widespread concern in 2014 about tightening organic dairy supplies, with supermarkets in many parts of the United States posting signs about organic milk shortages by the end of the year.

«The lift over the two August auctions is the first verification of our view that rapidly tightening global supply will lift prices over 2016.

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Sugar supply business AB Sugar has performed steadily in the first half, according to the company, adding that although world prices remained low a tightening of EU and Chinese stock levels had strengthened domestic prices in those markets.

The global picture is one of rising prices and tightening supply.

A supportive bra may help comfort levels, but tightening a bra and not pumping to comfort will likely make the engorgement worse, with a high risk of mastitis (if that isn't already the problem) and a risk of reduced milk supply.

Due to CBN's fixation with fixing exchange rates at a subsidized rate, it had to tighten money supply leading to a high monetary policy rate of 14 % with other interest rates following from that high base.

The vote's impact on oil, despite sending global stocks and currencies spiralling, has so far been limited due to expectations of strong summer demand in Asia and the United States, and tightening supplies after a two - year rout.

Bill McKibben, co-founder of the nonprofit climate advocacy group 350.org, took particular issue with Exxon Mobil's assertion that it remained confident that the supply - and - demand equation for petroleum would remain in its favor, even in an era of generally tightening carbon regulation.

China controls 97 per cent of the world's supply and has been tightening its export quotas, sparking concerns that the rare earths could live up to their name.

And the Federal Reserve has shown time and time again that it is capable of tightening the money supply quickly just as an economic recovery begins.

The latest research reveals that the brain's blood supply is in fact chiefly controlled by the narrowing or widening of capillaries as pericytes tighten or loosen around them.

But as school budgets continue to tighten, that figure could escalate, says James Rosenberg, president and founder of Adopt - A-Classroom, which has raised $ 10 million for supplies for 20,000 classrooms in all 50 states during the past decade.

It's more than coincidence that the rate of new charters fell off the cliff just as the supply of federal funding tightened.

Alcoa, one of the largest aluminum suppliers in the country, expects its sales of aluminum sheet to triple by 2015, as automakers increase their use of the material amid ever - tightening fuel economy standards and consumer demand.

Cadillac continues to supply a long list of safety technologies for the Escalade, including a front center airbag system, adaptive cruise control with forward collision warning, front and rear automatic low - speed braking, lane departure and blind spot warning, rear cross-traffic alert, lane change alert, automatic seat belt tightening, and a safety alert seat that vibrates in response to potential threats.

We don't have a crystal ball to predict the future, but if the recent past is any indication, the supply of paper in the U.S. looks like it will continue to tighten into 2018 and, perhaps, beyond.

Look at the history of Amazon's behavior — tightening the screws on its weaker suppliers and, for example, delisting all of a major publisher's books (print and ebooks) when the publisher balked at some new business terms.

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For example, to tighten the money supply and decrease the amount of money available in the banking system, the Fed sells government securities.

As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged — a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.

While some firms have pledged to tighten their supply chain control, the mobile phone industry as a whole lacks sufficient measures to guarantee that phones and other electronics are free of conflict minerals.

Two economists made a similar argument in Issues, adding that other useful tax - related policies include an end to energy supply subsidies, a green tax swap, a tightening of the gas guzzler tax, and conservation incentive programs.

China has absorbed the harvest shortfall of the last two years by drawing down stocks, but there are signs that supplies are now tightening.

But responding to the tightening of food supplies today is a far more complex undertaking.

Can we reverse the trends that are tightening food supplies, or is the world moving toward a future of rising food prices and political unrest?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration knows about the widespread contamination of Chinese shrimp and other seafoods, and in 2006 it tightened the regulations surrounding imports from China; but then it became evident that Chinese suppliers were simply transferring their seafood to Malaysia in order to hide their true origin.

In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage.

The result is a new era of tightening food supplies, rising food prices, and political instability.