Sentences with phrase «while slow on»

The problems are familiar by now: they include a planetary warming that, while slow on the scale of a human lifetime, is extremely rapid on a geologic time scale, the scientists said.

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Mobile e-commerce — shopping on a smartphone or tablet while on the go — is also expected to rise next year, although it may see somewhat slow growth in Canada.

While implementation of some of the ideas can be slow, surveys done by MBAs Across America suggest that 100 % of the entrepreneurs assisted so far plan on implementing at least one of the recommendations.

«While energy inflation should pick up again towards the middle of this year, it should start to slow towards year - end... And with wage growth still muted, a marked pick - up in service inflation is not on the cards,» said Marcel Thieliant, senior Japan economist at Capital Economics.

And, on Thursday, new factory activity data is expected to show that the manufacturing sector grew at a slow pace in September, while U.S. automakers are expected to report a 12 % increase in monthly sales year - over-year.

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

And while business travel in Western Europe has been on the slower side, as Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece have struggled with crippling debt, the GBTA says the worst is over and expects business travel in those regions to begin picking up.

While the timing wasn't ideal — cycling obviously slows down as the weather cools — a few weeks later, Bikes on Wheels sales clerk John Baker reported that they'd still only sold a few.

The new plan comes on the heels of other renewed and aggressive pushes into unlimited data from rival carriers, most notably T - Mobile, which has grown in recent months while Verizon's mobile division has slowed, and in August replaced all its existing mobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - Mobile One.

And while for restaurants it's traditionally a slower season, that's not true on West 56th Street, whose eateries usually do well thanks to the many tourists who flock to New York during the holiday season.

Instead, the FOMC focused on the improving labor market while brushing off concerns about slowing inflation.

While results on Tuesday will likely show slower Apple growth, this broader iPhone strategy could revive sales when the new devices come out toward the end of 2018.

«While much attention has focused on the role of China in slowing world trade growth, the trajectory of world trade growth from here depends more on the «old world» markets of the U.S. and Europe than standard trade data would suggest,» said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, in a report out last week.

«While overall price growth slowed, gains in core price measures remained firm, leaving the Bank of Canada on track to lift interest rates two more times this year,» Alicia Macdonald, the Conference Board of Canada's principal economist, said in a statement.

Brainard now believes the Fed should move slower on rate hikes and even allow inflation to run above the 2 percent target for a while.

«The Chinese government is caught in the dilemma of dealing with slower growth and yet higher inflation again,» Ren at IHS said, adding that the government had little real room to wiggle on the monetary policy front while stabilizing growth.

Pepsi has been struggling to balance supporting its newer on - trend drinks while not losing focus on its profit - making but slower - growing core carbonated drinks business, which includes Pepsi - Cola.

The old: Entrepreneurs will execute on strategies to boost market share, raise capital and attract top talent, while VCs will try to maintain their slow upward trajectory after more than a decade in the desert.

While scaling up, there may be many tasks on a daily or weekly basis that hold you back or slow you down.

While Barnes & Noble's business has stabilized as the growth of e-books has slowed, the retailer has pulled back on its Nook e-reader business and last year spun off its college bookstore division, putting fresh pressure on the company to prove it can make its core bookselling business grow again.

While the feds are trying to crack down on junk calls, technology can also help — here's a look at apps that can help slow the torrent

While 2011 was slower on the corporate side, it was busy for individuals in all categories — indictments, trials, sentences, dismissals, mistrials, and appeals.

However, Meyer acknowledged signs of a slow recovery in the housing market, which should add 0.2 % to GDP this year, while her colleague Priya Misra, head of U.S. rates strategy, said inflation is not a concern because the U.S. Treasury market is on a continued flattening trend.

While the UK economy has already shown signs of slowing and would probably feel the greater effect as businesses accelerate their contingency measures for such an outcome, the possible impact on the EU may be significant and remains somewhat underappreciated, in our view.

Japan's Nikkei share average edged lower on Friday morning as worries about slower smartphone demand hit technology shares, while financial stocks rallied thanks to higher U.S. yields.

On the one hand, it may be that postponing a rapid resolution protects us from the most damaging consequences of a crisis, when slower growth and a rising debt burden reinforce each other, while giving us time to rebalance less painfully — the Great depression in the US showed us how damaging the process can be.

Japan's Nikkei share average was flat in choppy trade on Friday morning as worries about slower smartphone demand hit technology shares, while financial stocks rallied helped by higher U.S. yields.

WestJet charges between $ 20 and $ 23 for a second bag on most routes, while Air Canada charges economy - class flyers $ 20 for a second bag within Canada and $ 25 for a single piece of checked luggage on flights to the U.S. Not surprisingly, the aisles of many flights now resemble a war zone as frantic passengers search for an overhead bin into which they stuff their bulging carry - ons, slowing down boarding times.

(In fact, we've temporarily cut back on some of our marketing efforts in order to slow down our sales while we staff up our Customer Loyalty Team.)

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

Tableau Software saw its stock cut in half on Friday after the company provided disappointing guidance, while LinkedIn suffered a similar fate after its guidance called for slowing growth.

While the crowdfunding market is growing, it's «noticeably smaller» compared to the U.S. and the U.K. and expanding at a slower rate, says the inaugural industry report being released on Tuesday by the National Crowdfunding Association of Canada (NCFA).

While slow demand for the iPhone 5c has been a drag on Jabil's performance, the product pipeline of Apple could once again provide a boost to the DMS business.

While it has not given details on timing, in the last couple of Fed Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings, the Fed has indicated its intent to slow down new purchases of Treasuries and agency securities as current holdings mature.

While Vancouver's empty home tax and restrictions on home - sharing services like Airbnb have helped slow detached home sales, demand for less - expensive condos has become frenzied, prompting some experts to question whether any new policy will be effective.

The Chinese economy is slowing (worryingly, opinion differs as to how much), maintaining downward pressure on commodity prices, while Chinese stock prices continued to tumble in August in spite of huge intervention by the authorities.

While this indicates a slowing in the pace of growth during 2004, as a share of GDP investment is estimated to have risen to around 45 per cent in 2004, which is the highest level on record and about as high an investment share as has been seen anywhere in the world.

Also in 2015, divergence in monetary policies unsettled developed currency markets: the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan continued quantitative easing programs while the Federal Reserve rhetorically led markets on a long, slow walk to the first increase in the fed funds rate since the global financial crisis.

While the media focused on China, everyone already knew that China's growth was slowing.

The pound fell 1 % after the announcement while yields on United Kingdom government bonds declined, aided in part by concerns expressed by the MPC that the uncertainty surrounding Brexit will continue to weigh on domestic activity, which has slowed even as global growth has accelerated.

Recently, increases in competition and price have begun to force prospective homeowners to find affordable real estate outside of the Greater Toronto Area, while others are opting to wait on the sidelines for price increases to slow — choosing to rent or renovate — further fuelling inventory shortages across the region.

See Appendix 5 for details on how TRV grew invested capital while slower than revenue and also raised its invested capital turns from.72 x to.74 x. Appendix 7 (in the ROIC section) shows how the company's increase in NOPAT margin and invested capital turns result in an increase in ROIC (from 8.4 % % to 11.0 %) and economic earnings, which rose by $ 827 mm.

Data on Tuesday indicated that while U.S. factory activity slowed slightly in April inflationary pressures are building.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Euro zone economic growth will slow this year and next from a peak expansion in 2017, the European Commission forecast on Thursday, underlining the need to quickly implement euro zone reforms while the expansion is still strong.

I mentioned above that the IMF released its World Economic Outlook and has downgraded growth expectations based on Japan, the Euro Zone, and most Emerging Markets slowing while the pace of growth in the United States is generally positive, but questionable as Quantitative Easing is set to end.

While strengthening demand in these markets may help lessen the negative impact that this additional foreclosure inventory has on home prices, at the very least the influx of distressed inventory for sale will likely act to slow the rate of home price appreciation seen in recent months.

While improving your credit score can be a slow process, it's a good thing to do so that later on down the road, you have an easier time getting financing with more favorable interest rates and loan terms.

An image of the jar was projected on the screens while we listened to Radiohead's «The Tourist,» with the lyric, «Hey man, slow down,» projected over the image of the jar.

While the fundamentalist experience on this question has been quite slow in allowing the ministry of women, lagging far behind the churches of the mainstream, the Wesleyan churches have often been the pioneers of this practice, especially in the nineteenth century when the conservative Wesleyan churches were far in advance of the more established denominations.