Sentences with phrase «weak a trend in»

Though the second - quarter bounce back is dampening wage pressure for now, the weak trend in productivity suggests the economy's growth potential could be lower than the 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent pace that economists have been estimating.

The Michigan Wolverines will be looking to turn around a weak trend in bowl games when they face the Florida State Seminoles in the Orange Bowl this week.

Why 2 - sigma instead of only 1 - sigma for the uncertainty of the models, are there realizations of the models that show as weak a trend in the lower troposphere as models - 2sigma in the last plot?

Not exact matches

Its weak because the left shoulder is a consolidation rather than a clear change in trend.

U.S. retailers posted weaker than expected sales in December, the Monster job index declined from last month's highs and unemployment claims continued their steady trend lower.

The disappointing trends of the Great Recession and its aftermath come on the heels of the weak labor market from 2000 - 2007, during which the median income of non-elderly households fell significantly from $ 68,941 to $ 66,575, the first time in the post-war period that incomes failed to grow over a business cycle.

Poloz insisted the trend he anticipated in 2013 — a steady increase in non-commodity exports buttressed by stronger demand in the U.S. and a weaker dollar — was now entrenched.

The emerging markets trend has been gaining steam throughout 2014: After a weak start to 2014, when a combined $ 10.8 billion left the Lipper Emerging Markets ETF category in January and February, each month since then has witnessed positive net flows that have totaled $ 13 billion.

«The rolling three - year relative performance trend was extremely weak heading into 2017,» the Credit Suisse analyst Craig Siegenthaler wrote in a client note.

And despite HP's sales of PCs remaining flat its third quarter, Weisler was hesitant to say that the same trend would continue while cautioning that he agrees with major analyst firms that predict PC sales will be weaker in the second half of 2016 compared to the first half.

Suki Cooper of Standard Chartered says gold prices could see gains after the Fed's meeting in June as the U.S. dollar is expected to trend weaker in the second half of the year.

However, the longer - term trend in productivity remains weak, increasing just 0.7 percent from a year ago.

As noted by Camilla Sutton, a Scotia Capital currency strategist, the dollar is likely to resume a depreciatory trend because «its fiscal position is weak and, worse, there is only a limited plan in place to improve it.»

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- New orders for U.S. factory goods recorded their biggest increase in eight months in March, boosted by demand for transportation equipment, but the underlying trend remained weak against the backdrop of a strong dollar.

The weak economic performance in the first half of this year means that Canada has more excess capacity, which is increasing the downward pressure on the underlying trend in inflation.

Weak internals in an overvalued market signal trouble, particularly when yield trends are hostile.

But the trend in productivity remains weak.

This is partly a result of slowing U.S. payrolls growth, a clear trend in April's weaker - than - expected jobs data.

These are the weakest two - year growth rates in over three years, additional evidence that the industry has not reversed the downward trend that began in early 2015.

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Although this implies that a short - term recovery is in play, price action remains extremely weak, with the 2o - day and 50 - day simple moving averages trending firmly lower.

«The basic elements are 1) the market is in a rising trend, defined as the NYSE Composite being above its 10 - week average, 2) both daily new highs and new lows exceed 2.2 % of issues traded, and 3) the McClellan Oscillator is negative — meaning that market breadth as measured by advances and declines is relatively weak (there's some dispute, which I will not join, as to whether the Oscillator has to be negative that day or turn negative later).

Similar trends are seen in pending home sales which are +1.1 % YoY in the West, the weakest of all regions, while PHS are strongest (+22.2 % YoY) in the Midwest.

U.S. producer prices unexpectedly rose in November as the cost of services increased, but the underlying trend continued to point to weak inflation pressures.

So, we try to continue to use what has failed, and while we get transitory improvement in economic activity, the longer - term trend is to weaker and weaker economic performance.»

Citing weak external demand and the prospect of below - trend growth, the Bank of England cut official interest rates by 25 basis points in July.

While this has been associated with a boost to domestic spending which was welcome in a weak international environment, such trends carry increasing risk if they persist over long periods.

The December quarter national accounts continued the pattern of previous quarters, showing weak growth in GDP alongside above - trend growth in domestic demand.

Sluggish trend in pulses and pulse seeds continued on weak demand and slack buying support from the millers...

In any event, a careful reading of the text suggests that the counterculture thesis is only the best of a variety of rather weak statistically grounded «explanations» of the trends.

This terrible away trend has come about through their weak forward line, one which has managed just five away goals all season, failing to score in five out of eight away outings.

«But if you plot the same information as a function of the sample size, the datasets, in fact agree, and display the same general trend — the larger the indentation in the material tested, the weaker the olivine becomes.»

Although weak relationships are often a disappointment in disease research, he says, this trend was illuminating «because that tells us that we're getting at a different part of the puzzle» — to which «there are so many pieces,» he notes.

If the trend continues, the fields may be too weak to birth new sunspots for the following cycle in 2022, they say.

For Japan, the results are again mixed with similar proportions of sites showing significant positive and negative trends for SOMO35 and AVGMDA8, but more significant negative trends for 3MMDA1 (~ 30 %), in addition to a large fraction of sites showing weak or no indication of change for both site types.

Mean annual minimum relative humidity showed a weak but significant trend of − 0.127 % per decade but showed no significant changes in affected area.

In addition, a weak trend is suggested for a correlation of disc sizes and an anticorrelation of disc temperatures with the stellar age.

After adjustment for potential confounders, there was weak evidence for positive associations between maternal free sugar intake in pregnancy and childhood doctor - diagnosed asthma and childhood wheeze (OR comparing highest versus lowest quintile 1.31, 95 % CI 0.98 — 1.75; per quintile p - trend = 0.09 and 1.42, 95 % CI 1.05 — 1.92; per quintile p - trend = 0.08, respectively), and stronger evidence for a positive association with atopy at age 7 years (OR 1.38, 95 % CI 1.06 — 1.78; per quintile p - trend = 0.006)(table 2).

-- Black is always in trend, this magic color can make you look weak in almost any situation.

It's important for policymakers to know that graduate school enrollment is exacerbating the black - white debt gap, but there is at best a weak case for calling out for - profit schools in that trend.

Obviously there can be a lot more contributing to the drop in sales — a weaker economy means less consumers taking farther - reaching vacations, for example — but if the trend that came about with the enhanced ebooks is solid, could this mean that people who buy books about business or technology embrace e-reading while readers who purchase travel guides or cookbooks are less apt to choose digital over print?

Another indicator that the publishing / book industry has become one that relies too much on «trend» buying and not in building a solid customer core by expanding their mid-list offerings, etc., is that BN knew the quarter would be weak «in part because sales of coloring books and other art supplies have slumped.

«Our February checks indicated weak sell - through trends for RIM's BlackBerry 7 smartphones, with poor sales trends for the Bold 9900 and Curve 9360 in many markets,» Walkley wrote.

«Channel fill could turn up another decent shipment number this year in the 500,000 — 700,000 unit range but we believe sell - through has been weak enough that that number will trend down over the year and RIM will likely send the PlayBook into the same graveyard as the HP TouchPad.»

«Our January checks indicated weak sell - through trends for the new BlackBerry 7 smartphones despite increased marketing efforts,» Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley wrote in a research note to investors late Wednesday night.

The future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) remains highly uncertain at this juncture in the Trump presidency and the combination of oil prices stalling around US $ 50 / barrel and a declining trend in U.S. car sales points to a weaker contribution from trade in the second quarter.

One of our customers who we often mention, the well - known «Pitbull» (Marty Schwartz), has been repeating that weak trends rally early in the day and early in the week and fail late in the day and late in the week.

The process by which the fast trend followers profit from the slow trend followers also alters the distribution of returns experienced by the latter group: returns during times of positive, negative and weak trends are different; in ways that we observe in real markets.

Their charts suggested that it would take some work for the SPY and QQQ which looked weak in the short term and flat intermediate, while the IWM trended higher.