Sentences with phrase «unemployment continues falling»

Per above, the economy continues to improve, even if slowly, as unemployment continues falling and consumer confidence remains near pre recession highs.

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In particular, activity growth has picked up and unemployment rates have continued to fall.

Sentiment continues to benefit from falling unemployment, favorable housing market conditions, low gas prices, and high stock prices among other things.

«Overall, a report showing strong job growth, a falling unemployment rate, and steady wage gains should be mildly hawkish for markets and supportive of continued but gradual Fed rate hikes, keeping a June hike well priced above 90 per cent,» TD said.

There are objective reasons to be optimistic, including ongoing labor market improvements — underscored by falling unemployment and underemployment rates, as well as solid job growth — combined with the Federal Reserve's expectations that conditions will permit further interest rate hikes this year as it continues to move toward policy «normalization.»

Consumer confidence has been close to record levels, and the labour market continued to strengthen, with the unemployment rate falling in December to its lowest level since 1976.

Eurostat stated that eurozone unemployment was 10.9 % in July, the first time it fell below 11 % since February 2012, while a range of leading indicators (such as the Markit composite purchasing managers» index, the European Commission's Economic Sentiment Index and money supply data) suggest growth has continued apace in the third quarter.

Employment has registered further sizeable gains, continuing a run of generally strong figures since around the middle of last year, while the unemployment rate has fallen further.

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

Most tellingly, the US nonfarm payroll report for June showed that the US economy has continued to create plentiful jobs, which has led to a fall in the unemployment rate to 5.3 %.

Consumer spending in particular exerted a -0.5 % drag on GDP growth, and appears to have continued into the new year with a -0.2 % fall of consumer spending in January despite better employment growth (+1.4 % yoy) and lower unemployment (3.2 % in January).

The unemployment rate continued to fall in April, reaching another post-financial crisis low of 4.4 %, although this was partly offset by a marginal decline in the labor force participation rate.

While all states recorded falling unemployment rates over the year and an increase in the pace of year - ended employment growth in the March quarter, labour market performance continues to diverge.

While a majority of FOMC members appear to prefer the Fed to continue buying assets for the foreseeable future — or until the unemployment rate falls below 6.5 % — companies are rushing to issue bonds before interest rates start rising.

The U.S. economy is growing moderately, as are corporate earnings, and unemployment levels are slowly continuing to fall.

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

As falling GDP, rising unemployment, cuts in wages and pensions, increases in taxes, cuts in public services all continue to bite, the question may not be why are there so many protests in Greece but rather why there aren't more.

As New York's unemployment rate continues to fall — even surpassing the national average — Oswego County is being left behind.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.9 %, its lowest point since July 2008, but much of the drop in unemployment stemmed from a continuing decline in the labor force participation rate.

As the unemployment rate continues to drop (fell to 7.4 percent this month from 7.6 percent in July), coupled with the fact the Federal Reserve could end its cycle of quantitative easing (purchasing of mortgage securities keeping rates low), confidence in credit products will slowly start to expand, especially if the mortgage market as we know it ceases to exist with the exit of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Unemployment continues to fall.

In addition, for those members, recent experience suggested that wage growth could continue to be less responsive to falling unemployment than past experience would suggest.»

Consumer confidence fell as many folks continued to worry about unemployment and overall conditions in the economy.

However, some experts note that even if unemployment continues to fall from its somewhat elevated state, there must be a logical bottoming - out in charge offs and delinquencies.

They are at risk of continued homelessness, unemployment, unplanned pregnancies, and just falling through the cracks.

Employment is falling at its fastest rate since the recession and analysts expect the unemployment total to continue on rising in 2011.

Unemployment is continuing to fall across Exeter with only 1.8 % of Exeter's working - age population claiming Job Seekers Allowance.

These redevelopments have allowed businesses to expand and this expansion has helped in ensuring unemployment rates continue to fall in the town.

Millions of people continue to be hit by the lack of jobs, prolonged unemployment and a sharp fall on the real value of pay against the rate of inflation.

The COAG report shows childhood mortality rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are falling and the literacy gap is narrowing but that unemployment continues to rise.

Though the overall unemployment rate continues to fall, the labor participation rate has been stubborn.

Doll expects that to continue, as labor markets tighten, unemployment likely to fall below 5 percent, and rental rates increase.

Employment and consumer spending continue strong in 2017 but before the end of the year unemployment stops falling.

In this week's economic review, the unemployment rate dropped due to lack of participation in the labor market, home prices continue to rise at a strong pace, and mortgage rates fell to a 2017 low.

Despite gas prices falling for 13 consecutive weeks, consumer confidence continues to stagnate on concerns about high unemployment, the European financial crisis economic weakness at home, as well as a shaky stock market.