Sentences with phrase «weakening growth of»

At the same time, macro-economic factors such as slowing commodity prices, weakening growth of emerging markets and concerning geopolitical pressures, have also hit the banks hard.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

Home Depot is contending with sky - high expectations, along with concerns that a robust U.S. housing market — the source of its growth streak — may weaken.

Despite the strong overall report card on the health of the economy, financial markets have weakened modestly in the wake of the GDP release, perhaps reflecting disappointment that the GDP growth rate was not even quicker.

Because it could then weaken demand for production coming out of Canada,» said Ferley, adding that it will also have implications for potash prices, which in turn impacts income growth in Canada and Saskatchewan's fiscal situation.

Despite the better than expected data, Zhengsheng Zhong, director of macroeconomic analysis at CEBM Group, said the growth of new business moderated for the second straight month, reflecting weakening demand across the manufacturing sector.

Exports are likely to weaken further after a survey of U.S. manufacturers published on Monday showed a decline in a gauge of export order growth.

The company's financial performance in the year to date has been mixed after its decision to raise the prices of its products weakened its market share and forced it to trim its sales growth forecast for the full year.

«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.»

The recent increase in oil prices in 2015 corresponds to weakening of the dollar that may reflect disappointingly weak first quarter 2015 U.S. GDP growth.

The phase change occurred also because of a profoundly weakened global economy and lower demand growth for oil.

In fact, I've long argued that we're likely to see a weakening in employment growth in the second half of the year, as reduced earnings tend to translate into lower payrolls with a roughly six - month lag.

«In our view, China's structural growth deceleration is only half - way through and under the weight of debt and excess capacity, weakening investment demand will remain the main culprit.»

This self - reinforcing process could just as easily reverse itself, with slow growth encouraging officials to restrict labor mobility, weakening the transmission of monetary policy and slowing growth even further.

A survey of U.S. manufacturers published on Monday showed a decline in a gauge of export order growth, suggesting exports will weaken further.

Consumer and retail stocks are weakening considerably of late, and if you look at the breadth of the largest growth stocks, it has been persistently weak.

While the liberalizing reforms usually undermine the ability of the elite to capture a disproportionate share of growth, in other words, because the reforms often seem to encourage massive foreign capital inflows, and these push up the price of assets largely controlled by the elite, political opposition to the reforms is weakened.

That said, coastal city real estate prices are finally starting to weaken after 8 years of explosive growth.

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 gGrowth 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 growthgrowth.

Though China is facing slowing growth and weakening of over-capacity industries, its emerging industries are flourishing.

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.

Burberry showed signs it is beginning to feel the effects of the weakening economy as it posted a significant slowdown in sales growth.

Retail sales weakened markedly, with growth slowing to 10.6 per cent from 2014's full - year expansion of 12 per cent, threatening to undercut official efforts to nurture a consumer - driven economy.

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.

The first undeniable factor is weakening demand for oil, the engine of global economic growth.

The Fed is acting now because hiring has weakened; GDP growth expectations have come down; and the economy, under pressure from the evolving recession encompassing much of the euro zone, is just too fragile for the status quo.

The government is now confronted with the possibility of a significant weakening in economic growth and job creation not just in the short term, but also in the medium and longer term as well.

Given also the need for an austerity budget to comply with European rules, growth is likely to weaken, meaning the protest parties will continue to strengthen and may well be strong enough to take over in a couple of years.

In addition to underappreciating the growth potential of more profitable segments, the bear case is further weakened by analyzing PEP's valuation.

The key drivers of the Savings Glut, however, have weakened or reversed: China's growth is rebalancing toward domestic consumption, and its stock of foreign exchange (FX) reserves has declined; other Asian emerging markets have already accumulated sufficient FX reserves and no longer need to accumulate assets; and the plunge in oil prices is forcing a number of oil exporters to reduce savings to delay or smooth the adjustment in expenditures.

A major contributor to the weakening has been a drop - off in the pace of household spending, as wages growth and the rate of increase in housing prices have both slowed.

Has the seven - year bull run in equities left you feeling nervy in the face of a potential rate hike in the U.S. and weakening growth in China?

As supply remains strong, demand growth is expected to weaken alongside a decline in the economy of China, the world's No. 2 oil consumer.

The observed weakening in export growth reflected both the direct effect of weakness in demand from the Asian region and the effect of lower farm production.

The New York Times — As Bad as It May Be in the U.S., It's Worse in Europe THE pace of job growth fell sharply in the United States this spring, according to the Labor Department, and consumer spending weakened.

Net exports have also weakened, with growth in exports slowing while import growth has remained firm, stimulated by the appreciation of the pound.

This relationship broke down in the early part of this decade, when strong global growth coincided with an unexpected weakening in the Australian dollar, but seems to have reasserted itself lately.

A major factor behind the slowing seems to have been the weakening of growth in the east Asian economies, the effect of which has showed up most clearly in resource and manufactured exports to those countries.

Argentina's central bank has also pushed up rates in recent days, and in South Africa, which faces a similar mix of weakening growth and high inflation, rate setters were under pressure to follow suit at their meeting Wednesday.

Finally, we believe that adding fiscal stimulus this late in the business cycle warrants concern, because any sign of weakening growth likely will need to be addressed through more aggressive monetary policy in the future, at least in the short term.

Global economic conditions have been quite strong, and the weakening of the U.S. dollar could be a tailwind to growth for Mastercard well into the future.

I think the plan should have a modest impact on the ECB's goals of weakening the euro exchange rate and making it easier for businesses and consumers to borrow money, which, in turn, may stimulate growth.

Asian stocks were muted Wednesday as a weakening yen and hopes of more steps to prop up China's growth were offset by pessimism over Europe's debt crisis.

«TPP withdrawal will slow U.S. [economic] growth, cost American jobs, & weaken U.S. standing in Asia / world,» said Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a tweet early Monday.

But social dynamism requires the pillars of social decency; economic growth will not long survive if families are weakened in the process.

By the same token, the unprecedented economic growth that began after World War II steadily weakened the identification of the rest of society with the poor.