Sentences with phrase «weakened economic»

This weakened economic outlook will no doubt put downward pressure on the local property market and result in interest rate hikes from around Q1 of next year.

And the boom in domestic shale oil production has also greatly weakened the economic arguments of American lawmakers who were Keystone defenders.

«Against a weakened economic outlook and a slow adjustment cycle, we expect the Bank of Canada to reduce its policy rate to 0.25 % at its January 20 meeting,» states TD Economist Brian DePratto.

Consumers, as well as the government, are borrowing more amid weakened economic conditions.

Two weeks ago, he argued that a US recession could be closer than anyone expects, citing a surprising pace of weakening economic data.

Deal value suffered from a troublesome combination of weakening economic conditions, stubbornly high asset prices and volatile public - offering markets, which discouraged pre-IPO deals.

Consumer confidence and discretionary spending, fear of terrorism or war, weakening economic conditions, fare initiatives, labor actions, weather and other factors have resulted in significant fluctuations in revenues and results of operations in the past.

Dublin's campaign to ratify the eurozone fiscal discipline pact is failing to build momentum against a backdrop of weakening economic growth and a wider European debate about austerity, with almost one - in - five Irish voters still undecided.

The head of the European Central Bank says recent signs of weakening economic growth are grounds for caution but not worrisome enough yet to consider changing the bank's stimulus and interest rate policy.

Whether Sanders» and Clinton's huge tax increases would weaken economic growth will surely be debated.

Data from the Institute for Supply Management, along with other statistics, suggest the US economy continues to be driven by the services sector, whereas growth in manufacturing (outside the buoyant auto sector) showed signs of slowing in August, possibly due to dollar strength and weakening economic prospects outside the United States.

He has indicated he favours a severe austerity programme; ending the indexation of salaries and benefits to inflation, cutting health and education spending and privatising state assets — policies would further weaken the economic situation.

The US may want to weaken the economic situation with players in the Middle East and Russia.

He added that the national assembly was intent on weakening the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Should investors ignore wavering home sale trends, declining consumer sentiment, faltering retail developments, floundering total business sales, weakening economic growth on the domestic front as well as economic stagnation on the world stage?

Yet even if Cuadrilla's bounty is smaller than it hopes, the earth is riddled with shale rock; its exploitation may check the upward pressure on prices, weakening the economic case for reducing dependence on hydrocarbons.

A record 188 Peers were lined up to speak in the debate, which began as government analysis, leaked to Buzzfeed News, predicted weakening economic growth by 8 % in the event of «no deal», 5 % if a free trade agreement is reached and 2 % with continued single market membership.

Several factors in our region coalesced to support this level of activity and provide an offset to our area's weakening economic environment.

Not exact matches

The fourth quarter of 2015 saw a steep slowdown in initial public offerings, following on the news of economic weakening globally, a commodities rout, a perhaps too - strong dollar, and rising interest rates.

While the effects of a possible trade war are still just in the realm of possibilities and analysts are waiting for all the rhetoric dust to settle, if trade and economic growth were to weaken, they could affect the pace of oil demand growth.

So, no, the PMI will not tell the Fed that real GDP is growing at X.X %, but it will tell the Fed whether economic conditions are strengthening or weakening.

Negative yields are quite rare and the race to negative yields, or low yields in the case of the United States, is traditionally a sign of economic weakening, not strengthening.

A loss of market access likely would hurt Canada's economic potential, which would weaken its ability to absorb faster economic growth without triggering inflation.

This would go against all economic logic, however, as the government should be putting additional money into a weakening economy, not taking it out.

Abe's radical new economic policies, referred to as «Abenomics,» and expectations of a bold monetary policy have weakened the yen 21 percent against the dollar since mid-November, while Japanese shares have surged almost 31 percent.

... [But] Japanese exporters... face weakening demand from the impact of the Euro - zone crisis, concerns about the economic health of China [and] the persistent strength of the yen... as investors seek a safe haven.»

Other unfavourable factors include weakening market demand amid the economic downturn, administrative inefficiency, non-transparent legal systems, foreign exchange controls, high tax rates and high labour costs, the report said.

While the outcome probably forestalled an early reckoning between the have and have - not provinces, it did highlight the worsening economic conflict between the increasingly powerful West and a weakening Eastern Canada that's stagnating under a mountain of debt.

But the worsening economic crisis has weakened the foundation upon which this agreement rests.

«But let's face it, at the end of the day, with weak economic growth they all want their currencies to weaken and not all of them can do that.»

That's the thesis of a new report from Moody's Investors Service, entitled «Preeminent Financial, Economic Position Offsets Weakening Government Finances.»

Canada's economic context at the time of Election 2011 is one of «precarious recovery», and overall demand conditions are weakened by a few major factors.

Although volatility can go both ways, «market volatility» is usually code for «market declines,» which can erode consumer and business confidence and cause a weakening in economic fundamentals.

While my own view is that the economy is likely to weaken much more sharply than the FOMC believes, I also believe that further interest rate cuts will be largely ineffective in stimulating loan growth or economic activity.

It would have been even worse had the U.S. dollar weakened as well, but given some very poor economic news from overseas, the dollar held fairly steady.

The concerted weakening in commodity prices already suggests a global force to this economic downturn, while further weakness in the U.S. dollar would suggest that demand for U.S. goods and securities was softening even more sharply than internationally.

Slowing economic growth is adding to expectations that the renminbi will weaken, prompting Beijing to clamp down on persistent capital outflows.

Moreover, with China's economic profile weakening and likely to keep waning due to demographic issues, it is not likely that the country is going to become a big coal importer from the U.S. in the future.

Concerns are already high that slowing economic growth and persistent capital outflows are putting pressure on Beijing to let its currency weaken.

Russia's economic problems since 2014 have accelerated its weakening position in the region.

Minister Flaherty should have delivered a budget that recognized these economic realities and introduced measures that would have helped strengthen a weakening economy.

Markets remain volatile, global economic weakness continues to persist and, of course, China has shown great signs of a weakening economy over the past several months.

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's efforts to weaken the yen in a bid to stimulate economic growth and inflation in the world's third - biggest economy are likely to be relentless and successful, macro investment manager Mark Yusko told attendees today at ETF.com's second annual

Growth has been extraordinarily sluggish in the recovery from the Great Recession and has weakened in advanced countries over a longer period, leading some analysts to believe that we have entered a new economic era of small to modest growth.

It has been over two decades since the popping of Japan's economic bubble and the country is still actively battling with deflationary forces that are so powerful that near - zero interest rates (zero - interest rate policy or ZIRP), repeated bouts of quantitative easing (some call it «money printing») and constant Yen - weakening currency interventions have barely made a dent.

Immediately following the Brexit vote, central banks tried to extend that game as global economic conditions weakened.

The dollar has weakened and the economic data over the past three months has not been at all encouraging.

Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, in a speech to the American Economic Association in January, said that «excessively tight near - term fiscal policies have likely been counterproductive» by weakening the recovery, especially when monetary policy has less room to maneuver.

In an article published on its website last Friday, the century - old think tank cautioned that «there exists a very real danger that the petro will not only fail to cure Venezuela's economic woes but will also weaken the integrity of cryptocurrencies writ - large.»

A major catalyst, especially in emerging markets, was the conviction that the Fed was not going to hike base rates in the immediate future against a backdrop of low inflation, weakening job gains and global economic uncertainties.