Sentences with phrase «weak investment»

So when economic growth slows because of weak investment, trade slows disproportionately.

Simply put, with weaker investment returns anticipated for the foreseeable future, workers will have to save more, potentially much more, to meet their long - term goals.

In a context of continued weak investment at the global level, any additional uncertainty has the potential to keep businesses on the sidelines longer.

And the longer weak investment persists, the more important this risk becomes.

And how do you adjust withdrawals in reaction to strong or weak investment results?

LONDON, May 2 - Gold steadied on Wednesday near 4 - month lows as the dollar's uptrend paused, but prices of the precious metal are expected to remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.

The New York - based insurer reported a 21 percent decline in first - quarter profit on Wednesday, due to higher catastrophe and bad weather claims, as well as weaker investment income.

Over time, weaker investment growth would reduce capital deepening and lower potential output growth.

While insurance sector M&A has cooled off after a bumper 2015 due to what many players see as over-inflated valuations, soft insurance markets, increasing competition, higher claims and weak investment yields are putting profitability under pressure, meaning that M&A remains a possible source of growth according to Credit Suisse.

«Overall growth in China is evolving broadly as envisaged, but with a faster - than - expected slowdown in imports and exports, in part reflecting weaker investment and manufacturing activity,» the IMF said.

Since weak investment has been identified as a potential drag on productivity growth since the global financial crisis, this shift in incentives could have strong and long - lived benefits.»

Consistent with other indicators, the survey suggests a relatively weak investment outlook in manufacturing, with a strong outlook in mining, finance and recreation (Graph 4).

«Especially in an era of low interest rates, low yields, sometimes weaker investment performance, it's really important that a client is getting value for the cost they are paying,» he said.

Insurers with intelligent capital allocation policies and excellent investment managers will be much more profitable than insurers with weak investment skill.

They have even less financial firepower than Walmart Troy @ Market History recently posted... High valuations don't guarantee weak investment returns

Slowdown, inflation, weak investment sentiment and changed regulations for unit - linked insurance plans (ULIPs) since September 2010 have led to the first contraction in over 10 years in the premium collected by the life insurance industry.

AIG's profit fell 21 percent due to higher catastrophe claims and weaker investment income, while Prudential got a profit boost from its annuities business.

Research done at the Bank of Canada and elsewhere, including conversations with business leaders, suggests that the main cause of weak investment is the high level of uncertainty that companies are facing, particularly about future demand prospects.

(New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments; adds second byline and NEW YORK) NEW YORK / LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- Gold prices hovered near four - month lows on Wednesday as the dollar advanced, and were expected to remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.

Gold prices extended their gains on Wednesday after the US Federal Reserve's dovish remarks weakened the US dollar against a basket of currencies, yet bullion remained vulnerable to a possible rising greenback and weak investment demand.

You can see from the Staff Analytical Note that we published today that this is mainly due to weak investment.

-- Weak investment: Both public and private investment has been subpar in recent years, with the latter feeding back negatively into productivity growth, as Larry Mishel shows — quite dramatically — here.

So, for example, I would argue that in the early stages of reform, especially in countries that have suffered many years of terrible economies and weak investment, crony capitalism can be consistent with high levels of growth because the kinds of programs that lead to growth — mostly massive investment programs in countries in which capital stock is excessively low — benefit the elites directly.

Credit Suisse was one of the worst performers for the quarter due to a weaker investment banking environment and because of negative comments about Credit Suisse in the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) recent annual Financial Stability report.

He backed Giuliani in 2008 but departed the campaign when it became clear the former New York City mayor was a weak investment.

Mental accounting is biased toward selling the winner even though selling the loser is the rational decision in most cases due to tax loss benefits as well as the fact that the losing stock is a weaker investment.

Struggling through the weakest investment sales and leasing environment in recent memory, commercial real estate brokerages are capitalizing on the one commodity that's in high supply: distress...