Dimensioning for Cyclical Downturns: ST's segment-focused approach and improvements in operating margins will improve the company's ability to manage cyclical downturns.
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That kind of talk, though, often comes before economic downturns.
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It typically rises during recessions and sometimes prior to downturns.
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However, Matthews noted: That was true even in economic downturns.
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Investing with a conscience can improve resilience during market downturns.
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And that means we need to invest in economic downturns.
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Forecasts of all sorts are especially bad at predicting downturns.
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Look at the two most recent recessions and market downturns.
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They're not wrong that enrollment ticks up slightly during downturns.
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What we're in now is different from other recent downturns.
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Similarly, the High Heels Index is supposed to predict downturns.
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Health care stocks have traditionally done well during market downturns.
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But peaks in 27 and 2800 were followed by downturns.
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These shutdowns can result in real downturns in economic activity.
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We need to adequately support public colleges during economic downturns.
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Foreign revenues help insulate firms from downturns in domestic markets.
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Productivity: Financial downturns require people to do more with less.
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In fact, experts say you should be prepared for market downturns.
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The need for human financial guidance becomes more acute in downturns.
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That rules out cuts of the magnitude used in past downturns.
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You don't have a lot of extreme downturns in your relationship.
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The aim is to make the company sustainable even during downturns.
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You can weather storms But, you say, what about market downturns?
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Fed officials also want to stockpile ammunition against future economic downturns.
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He has said WeWork has already survived downturns in other countries.
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The notion that surpluses could cause economic downturns flips conventional thinking.
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Both downturns were temporary, however, as policymakers backed off their positions.
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Instead endowments are hoarded during downturns while sacrifices are made elsewhere.
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Studies have found that suicide rates do increase during economic downturns.
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Sites in Italy are also seeing massive downturns in foot traffic.
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In downturns, revenue and cash levels always fall faster than expenses.
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Higher yields provide more cushion against falling prices during market downturns.
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Downturns are bad news for the presidents who preside over them.
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Europe's markets lean towards banks and carmakers, which suffer in downturns.
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Economic downturns, the opioid crises and gunmen can't take that away.
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Economic downturns, the opioid crises and gunmen can't take that away.
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Market downturns are simply part of the college saving experience, Kantrowitz said.
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Those downturns follow strong upticks that correlate closely to the 2016 election.
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That work, "Food for Free," remains in print, popular during economic downturns.
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Downturns may be contagious, even if they take some time to incubate.
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Too often public investment is cut during downturns to find budgetary savings.
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But they, like every other club in baseball, aren't immune to downturns.
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Dr. Warner points out that economic downturns affect depictions of conspicuous consumption.
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The yen benefits in moments of geopolitical uncertainty and during economic downturns.
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International companies help diversify America's economy, making it more resilient to downturns.
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Changing tastes and economic downturns can prove toxic to unlucky furniture retailers.
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State lotteries became widely popular in the long downturns of the 1970s.
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AT&T weathered past downturns thanks to the fairly steady wireless business.
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And the company disputed the notion that it hadn't weathered any downturns.
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That gives the Fed a lot more room to operate during downturns.
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I've seen five economic downturns, five healthcare issues, three supply chain issues.
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Downturns wash away prior excesses, setting the stage for longer-term growth.
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It also made chief executives' jobs more uncertain, vulnerable to market downturns.
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The measure has been previously used by prior administrations during economic downturns.
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Burrows isn't in the business of predicting the timing of global downturns.
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That's why the decade-long economic expansion has survived multiple factory downturns.
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Downturns in consumer sentiment don't always translate into cutbacks in actual spending.
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In severe downturns Keynesian fiscal policy may be more effective than monetary measures.
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Economists typically fail to predict downturns until they are imminent (see Graphic detail).
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Demand is growing faster than incomes and holds up well in economic downturns.
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So far, they have opted for more modest loosening than in past downturns.
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As in all deep downturns, the ones that survive will reap huge rewards.
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Its ability to forecast economic downturns has become legendary, and for good reason.
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"During this time markets experienced significant volatility, including several sharp downturns," Stone added.
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Downturns shake out the weaker companies, leaving more room for the healthier ones.
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Then Trump asserted that economic downturns could be fatal in their own right.
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Advertising, the lifeblood of Google and Facebook, tends to suffer during economic downturns.
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But before you panic, keep in mind that market downturns are fairly common.
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Chick sales go up during stock market downturns and in presidential election years.
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Satterfield and Helton are both trying to restore their programs after recent downturns.
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Emergence Capital, which focuses on enterprise investments, has endured two other major downturns.
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All substantial market corrections or bear downturns begin with some form of catalyst.
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But even in past downturns, health benefits have proved tricky to take away.
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Previous downturns such as the 2008-2009 financial crisis hit emerging assets, too.
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The historical correlation between stock market and economic downturns is patchy, at best.
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To be clear, not all of these downturns ended up in a bear market.
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Some companies have implemented similar covenants in previous downturns in sectors besides upstream oil.
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That, in turn, could set the stage for future downturns, Krishnamurthy and Lustig wrote.
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FED'S HARKER SAYS YIELD CURVE INVERSION IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE PREDICTOR OF ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS
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Economists have long speculated that downturns might damage the supply side of the economy.
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Divers are hit particularly hard in downturns because they tend to work as freelancers.
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Today, downturns in certain sectors of the economy have attracted the electorate to populism.
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Mobility normally drops during downturns, and that was the case during the Great Recession.
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Similarly in more recent downturns, broad cultural and social changes had big effects, too.
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"During all these oil industry downturns, those carbon wells keep people working," said Grassham.
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Japan and Europe have endured severe market and economic downturns after these market shocks.
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"Most carriers are ill-equipped to withstand cyclical downturns," CAPA said in the report.
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To be fair, the Fed has made precautionary rate cuts outside of downturns before.
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In parallel, we've driven unprecedented global prosperity and worked through some debilitating economic downturns.
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In fact, presidents of both parties often embrace deficit-enlarging policies to combat downturns.
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"Typically fiscal policy does pay a major role when there are downturns," he said.
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Inflation also gives the Fed more room to cut borrowing costs during economic downturns.
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By contrast, it's customary for the federal government to run larger deficits during downturns.
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As a remedy for downturns, expanding credit has two practical advantages over government spending.
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They&aposd successfully weathered many downturns before the US economy basically collapsed around them.
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Historically, Brazil's flat-steel producers export about a third of output during domestic downturns.
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"Downturns in the market are not going to be reflected in this," Gornall said.
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Good, long-term investors are trained to add market exposure on big downturns, right?
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It has provided a safety net for children in working families during economic downturns.
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A V-shaped recovery describes downturns that see a steep fall before recovering sharply.
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During past downturns, the Fed lowered rates by an average of five percentage points.
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The second is full of complicated ideas for temporarily embracing higher inflation during downturns.
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"She critically fears that markets, that asset prices are subject to downturns and in some cases significant downturns – not black swans, but maybe gray swans – and so she wants to move on a gradual basis and indicate that to the marketplace," he said.
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Automation is more quickly adopted during economic downturns when companies look to slash labor costs.
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Buffett famously says investors should take advantage of downturns to buy what others are selling.
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But Rolls has been badly buffeted by simultaneous downturns in many of its other businesses.
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Past PMI surveys have sometimes overestimated the scale of upturns and downturns in the economy.
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Millennials could also be playing a role in the more recent downturns, according to Frey.
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But unlike mortgage lending, there is a high risk of defaults during sharp economic downturns.
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The lack of diversification weakens cash flow quality and increases operation risk during industry downturns.
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So they have often struggled to offset downturns by easing either monetary or fiscal policy.
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For most firms, slim margins and the spectre of future downturns continue to restrain investment.
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Downturns became less frequent and less severe; inflation was low and stable; expansions became longer.
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Coverage expansions thus commit states to an economic policy that could harm them during downturns.
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During economic downturns, this can be a difficult balancing act, but nothing less is required.
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Temps also insulate permanent employees from downturns in the business cycle, thereby improving job stability.
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Historically, when investors think that short-term bonds are riskier, economic downturns nearly always follow.
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China's $28500 trillion of foreign exchange reserves enables it to prevent and minimize economic downturns.
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Housing, auto, airline and semiconductor stocks – to name a few groups – were in steep downturns.
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That failed merger left the wider EU steel sector fragmented and vulnerable to economic downturns.
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That's because the stock market has always rebounded beyond its previous levels after past downturns.
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These types of allocations and equivalents allow individuals to ride out the markets during downturns.
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However, US stocks fell significantly more during the last two downturns as corporate earnings cratered.
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Volatility, corrections, and even downturns or recessions are all normal parts of the investment experience.
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We have experienced significant downturns that today feel like distant memories but could certainly return.
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Economic upswings — New York's current one is approaching a decade — can quickly shift to downturns.
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There have been several market downturns since curbside recycling took off in the late 1980s.
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At this stage, as I wrote recently, it seems wise to be prepared for downturns.
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That would increase the Fed's ability to respond to future downturns by reducing interest rates.
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The funding shortfall is due to trucking deregulation and economic downturns, according to the trustees.
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Brex writes that even in downturns, entrepreneurs will start companies and attempt to raise money.
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This cushions FEHT's credit profile against weakening earnings in its hospitality assets during economic downturns.
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Economic downturns caused some newly constructed airports and amusement parks to close in the 2000s.
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"We just recovered from one of the most protracted downturns we ever encountered," Dudley said.
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The collapsed merger leaves the wider EU steel sector fragmented and vulnerable to economic downturns.
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However, he's urging investors to stay in the stock market through sharp downturns like this one.
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At least, in the last couple of downturns, VCs kind of nursed their own portfolio companies.
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And beauty sales have proven to resist economic downturns (some even call the industry "recession-proof").
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Normally in response to incipient downturns central banks lower rates by 400 basis points or more.
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The overall decline is almost entirely because of downturns in three of the five biggest markets.
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Another issue is that house prices rise more during economic booms but can fall in downturns.
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BEING CAREFUL Some companies have implemented similar covenants in previous downturns in sectors besides upstream oil.
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The region's manufacturing-related concentration and strong export orientation leave the economy sensitive to external downturns.
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Capital-heavy approaches to construction bring high fixed costs that are difficult to cut in downturns.
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Also, when economic downturns happen, one of the first places state governments cut is school funding.
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Research shows that cohorts that have lived through economic downturns have lower appetites for financial risk.
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Some locations are still feeling the hangover of one of the worst housing downturns in decades.
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Previous research has shown that suicide rates typically rise during economic downturns and fall during expansions.
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Plus, the company has already experienced — and survived — downturns in Brazil, Argentina, and China, he said.
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Still, the area's reliance on tourism "will always leave it exposed to economic downturns," he wrote.
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Demand for these types of properties is more cyclical during economic downturns than for residential properties.
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The Sahm Rule Recession Indicator, which predicts downturns based on sudden moves in unemployment, is flat.
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The U.S. economy has recovered fairly continuously since 2010, but both Europe and Japan saw downturns.
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I think the big takeaway here is that downturns drive more, not less, dislocation through automation.
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Finally, there's fairly strong evidence of hysteresis — temporary downturns permanently or semi-permanently depress future output.
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That makes it vulnerable to economic downturns and shocks in the real estate market, he said.
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Market downturns can gather steam even without strong evidence that economic and corporate fundamentals are weakening.
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Modest, unpredictable incidents can cause economic downturns if they lead businesses or consumers to freak out.
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But he said it fared worse during past market downturns before outperforming when each recovery began.
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And G.M. and Ford are still burdened by their history of financial problems during economic downturns.
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Maintaining flexibility to respond to economic downturns is the principal reason the Fed seeks higher inflation.
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GB: Broadly speaking, single-family rentals have historically been a strong investment option during economic downturns.
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Unverzagt, having survived more financial downturns and life transitions, can help broaden Pyne's perspective, she added.
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National legislatures also play a role in fighting downturns by enacting (or not) fiscal stimulus programs.
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Then the recession, as well as downturns in the oil and gas industry, hit Oklahoma hard.
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He worries that economists favour reforms that would free central banks to court higher inflation during downturns.
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However, the changes will also help banks withstand sharp downturns and improve clarity and transparency for investors.
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The tests are meant to ensure banks have enough capital in sharp downturns to meet regulatory requirements.
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The credible promise to resist downturns gives markets confidence that the economy will keep up its strength.
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Profits have been hit by the Taubman guarantee and by downturns across a range of collecting sectors.
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It's also worth noting that recessions and market downturns are part of a normal, healthy market cycle.
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Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.
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The stability and downside protection during market downturns, in addition to growing income streams, is her focus.
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But, as with any union, cooperation means weathering downturns together — and that hasn't always been so easy.
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But he noted current labor market conditions and consumer trends do not historically lead to economic downturns.
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The longer the time horizon, the more opportunity investors have to recover from the inevitable market downturns.
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Darrell said these categories were benefiting from long-term trends and were resistant to macro-economic downturns.
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But other hedge funds investing in cryptocurrencies have managed to sidestep bitcoin downturns by using different strategies.
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Downturns would be tempered by an expectation of protracted stimulus later on to make up lost ground.
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Consumer demand is a critical driver of the U.S. economy and historically consumer confidence wanes during downturns.
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Many of these countries see increased trade with China as helping them to reverse their economic downturns.
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This is especially the case with these new methods because they haven't been tested during economic downturns.
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The S&P 500 avoided a bear market during those other two downturns for small cap stocks.
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Unlike previous downturns, however, the central bank has been reluctant to cut benchmark interest rates so far.
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History records how, in economic downturns, as people's lives begin to feel unstable, anti-minority backlashes rise.
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If I had held on through the downturns, I made back what I lost and then some.
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I think that we're going to see much more automation than we have even in recent downturns.
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They are generous philanthropists and tend to have more stable employment, so they help cities weather downturns.
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Deciding in advance how the government fights downturns could make them less severe and avoid political gridlock.
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"Good investors will be speaking daily with founders to provide support, guidance and insights from previous downturns."
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So beefing up net operating losses has long been one of lawmakers' go-to moves during downturns.
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Remember those stimulus checks that went out in 2001 and 2008 to help stave off economic downturns?
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Though the euro zone has narrowly avoided a breakup, it needs a better way to manage downturns.
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And despite occasional bursts of market-driven angst, the downturns so far in 2480.91 have been paltry.
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First, small-cap stocks tend to be more highly leveraged and therefore more susceptible to economic downturns.
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Automakers and dealers are accustomed to dangling hefty incentives that they sweeten during downturns and the holidays.
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A rare calm has settled over the stock market, which has been prospering with barely any downturns.
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Sales in 190 countries make the firm less vulnerable to local downturns than it once was, he argues.
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"Financial-cycle downturns could weaken demand and growth, not least by dampening consumption and investment," the report said.
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Recent FOMC meetings have featured discussions about how the Fed will handle the next downturns that come along.
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It was a decisive moment in oil market history that sparked one of the worst downturns on record.
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The auto sector, which contributes more than 7% of India's GDP, is facing one of its worst downturns.
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The auto sector, which contributes more than 153% of India's GDP, is facing one of its worst downturns.
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But avoid base metals like copper and zinc, as they are a popular short trade for cyclical downturns.
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Smaller, private firms are considered higher credit risks than state-backed firms and more vulnerable to cyclical downturns.
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Not high enough to dampen interest, however: health care is loved by investors for its resilience in downturns.
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But it might include targeted investment spending, say, or shared unemployment insurance, to shield against deep economic downturns.
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The performance of automated asset allocation and investment strategies under market downturns and severe volatility also remain untested.
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BIS HEAD CARSTENS - IMPORTANT FOR MAJOR CENTRAL BANKS TO PRESERVE SOME ROOM FOR MANOEUVRE FOR MORE SERIOUS DOWNTURNS
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In particular, I will focus on whether our existing tools are adequate to respond to future economic downturns.
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The yen is a safe-haven asset which benefits in moments of geopolitical uncertainty and during economic downturns.
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Downturns in the years immediately before and after retirement can increase the odds you'll run out of money.
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We expect the divestment to bolster the bank's resilience to downturns, but it will not affect its ratings.
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"We've been through two or three of the worst economic downturns," said Lamoncha, reflecting on his company's history.
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In past economic downturns, he noted, airline deliveries tended not to suffer as much as other industrial products.
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This lack of assets means that Black families can be hit harder and more lastingly by economic downturns.
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The suit also tackles the rules by which teachers are laid off strictly by seniority during financial downturns.
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He said value stocks righted the ship and outperformed the rest of the market during the subsequent downturns.
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Even if a recession appears, automakers have ridden out downturns for a century and generally seen sales recover.
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These booksellers underwent downturns that don't all follow the same playbook, but, in the end, they all closed.
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While it has grown it has also suffered downturns in the region, particularly after the global financial crisis.
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Both approaches, he said, would give the Fed more scope to lower interest rates in response to downturns.
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Reliance on wholesale funding and liquidity is tight, as with peers, making CIL potentially vulnerable to economic downturns.
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In response to these risks, CalSTRS created a risk mitigation strategy to be more resilient to market downturns.
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"Going forward, we believe that we are well positioned to navigate through further economic downturns," the company said.
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State support for Medicaid is not robust, especially in economic downturns, even with the "incentive" of federal matching.
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I have been through a whole number of crashes and downturns and this and that, nothing like this.
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It involves decisions made by both parties and forces beyond their control, like economic downturns and foreign affairs.
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In fact, they tend to survive economic downturns and use them as excuses to turn even more repressive.
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You have time to ride this out, and historically, downturns don't last more than a couple of years.
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I've got a long way to go before I need to start worrying about market downturns in retirement.
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There have been many, many big downturns over the years, from the Great Depression to the Great Recession.
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And stress tests were designed by regulators to assess how resilient bank balance sheets will be during downturns.
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In downturns either governments or central banks will need to administer a prompt, powerful but limited fiscal stimulus.
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This means they reserve premiums collected during favorable economic times so they can pay increased claims during downturns.
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In the present scenario, that would be the early 2000s, when the stock market saw two severe downturns.
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That would "result in more acute financial pressure on the states in economic downturns," according to the analysis.
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During downturns, colleges traditionally act as economic shock absorbers: As the supply of jobs shrinks, college enrollments expand.
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This kind of diversification leads to lower volatility and milder losses during downturns without hurting long-term results.
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Asset managers have seen performance fees and new fund collections plummet in light of the recent market downturns.
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Having a portion of your portfolio dedicated to cash will help you weather market downturns, according to Cox.
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But ECRI's analysis — based on our forward-looking indicators — predicts that those downturns will persist into next year.
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During economic downturns, businesses are often reluctant to cut wages, delaying necessary economic adjustments, because workers hate wage cuts.
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Real estate has been used by Beijing to stimulate growth during previous downturns, including one just three years ago.
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But the benchmark index has gained more than 15% during earnings recessions that were not accompanied by economic downturns.
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This kind of widespread weakness in the housing sector has historically signaled "some really severe economic downturns," Cramer warned.
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The past three U.S. downturns were preceded by periods when the yield curve inverted 12 to 18 months earlier.
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Instead, he said, it would be a move that would build credibility and help the Fed fight future downturns.
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Mishra noted that there are now a number of ETFs that use innovative hedging strategies to address market downturns.
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But such a design, which accords with German nervousness about fiscal transfers, might not be enough in deep downturns.
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In many past downturns the jobs market overheated, causing inflation and leading the Federal Reserve to hit the brakes.
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"Downturns are normal and usually short-lived," said Melissa Ridolfi, vice president of retirement and college leadership at Fidelity.
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Of the last four downturns, only the recovery that began in 2001 saw a slower pace of job creation.
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The firm looked at four previous market downturns — 1972 to 1974, 1987, 2000 to 2002 and 2007 to 2009.
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Existing tools may not be enough "to deal with deep and prolonged economic downturns," Yellen said in Jackson Hole.
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Deficits are driven by broader economic factors, and lower trade deficits coincide with economic downturns, not periods of growth.
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That's a boon for a shipping industry that is struggling to recover from on of its worst-ever downturns.
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Fitch is concerned with HRS' exposure to shocks and downturns in U.S. military spending or shifts in spending mix.
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Allowing inflation expectations to slip gives the Fed less leeway to fight future downturns with rate cuts, he said.
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CONSUMER CONFIDENCE Consumer demand is a critical driver of the U.S. economy and historically consumer confidence wanes during downturns.
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Ford has enough cash to ride out a couple of Great Recessions and numerous run-of-the-mill downturns.
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And though diversification will make market downturns easier to stomach, it can also limit upside in a rallying market.
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Borrowing money to stimulate the economy is standard practice during downturns, but is unusual for periods of strong growth.
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Even during stock market downturns, he didn't get scared, stop contributing or pull his money out of the market.
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While current data suggests that modest growth continues in the United States, economists are notoriously bad at forecasting downturns.
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But they do not expect it to cut its benchmark lending rate, as it repeatedly did in past downturns.
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The lack of diversification results in Hydoo's weaker cash flow quality and increases its operation risk amid industry downturns.
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That silver lining is a "flight to quality" that typically occurs during periods of multiple compression and financing downturns.
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John Chambers, the former CEO of Cisco, has been through several downturns and global health crises in his career.
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"We would stress that it is important to preserve some room for maneuver for more serious downturns," he said.
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The seven biggest American depressions or downturns going back 200 years, she said, were all preceded by government surpluses.
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One of the ways that investors can weather market downturns well is by being well positioned, according to Hyzy.
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The Fed would welcome such a development, because it would preserve more room to reduce rates in future downturns.
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If you're worried about your job security, learn from career experts who've survived and coached others through previous downturns.
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Serious and lengthy downturns — like the Great Depression — are associated with shorter lives, even as smaller ones lengthen them.
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Although the semiconductor market has experienced one of its worst downturns, "a turnaround is appearing" in 2020, it said.
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Market downturns can cause panic among investors but on average the S&P 500 returns about 6% a year.
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This shows that retirement accounts are more vulnerable to downturns compared to pensions, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
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MMT proponents argue these restrictions prevented Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain from spending enough to mitigate their economic downturns.
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It argued that the euro zone already had well developed welfare policies which worked as stabilizers during economic downturns.
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Economic downturns in Europe and Asia also cut into global demand for U.S. goods, driving a decline in hiring.
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ING economist James Smith said the business surveys which have pointed to a recovery sometimes overstated upturns and downturns.
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For state governments strapped for money, public health funds are often the first to be cut during economic downturns.
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Federal Medicaid funding functions "as a fiscal stabilizer for state finances," because that federal money increases during economic downturns.
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That would help banks to issue new loans at a time when lending typically dries up, aggravating economic downturns.
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The typically high-rising shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet have all taken downturns in recent weeks.
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"High leverage has historically been linked to elevated financial distress and retrenchment by businesses in economic downturns," the report said.
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The buffer can be unwound during downturns, enabling banks to continue lending and hence soften the impact of a recession.
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Instead they hire lots of temporary staff, and respond to downturns by cutting their wages or not renewing their contracts.
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That's a form of automatic stimulus that is vital in helping counteract downturns and helping families cope in the meantime.
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The recurring cash flow generated by these properties provides BSD's creditors with more protection during cyclical downturns than property sales.
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Tax cuts can help ease the impact of economic downturns, and now, there's a lot less room to use them.
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This may be a reward for business-cycle risk: asset-heavy firms suffer in downturns, when those assets lie idle.
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In the past, after significant downturns, Tesla was able to reverse course, regain its old highs, and then push higher.
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In economic downturns, tax revenues fall and states are forced to tighten their belts by slashing spending and raising taxes.
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Beyond the initial transition, we expect provisioning to fall more sharply during cyclical upswings and rise more quickly during downturns.
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Consumers have been slow to spend, in part, because their paychecks have been rising more slowly than in past downturns.
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Overall, automotive manufacturers are used to managing downturns and generally have a solid track record of adapting to challenging conditions.
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Like a jobs guarantee, the UBI would offer Americans a baseline of financial security and protect families during economic downturns.
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In each of the last three downturns the Fed responded by cutting its policy rate at least 500 basis points.
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America has been experiencing major economic downturns at irregular intervals at least since the 1870s, for a variety of reasons.
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All economic expansions end in recessions, by definition, but the downturns don't emerge out of the ether, for no reason.
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Workers—the ones who had survived the economic downturns, offshoring, and technological changes—had an easier time than ever before.
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If the Nasdaq does slide into a bear market, it would join a growing list of downturns in risky assets.
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And many others maintain their overall asset allocations, but buy and sell specific securities depending on market conditions, including downturns.
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And neophyte investors, cannabis execs say, don't have the stomach to weather any significant downturns, causing significant volatility for companies.
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Shares of technology and healthcare companies, whose profits are more resistant to economic downturns, have led this year's market rally.
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But the ISM index is bad at predicting downturns in the economy and typically overstates weakness in the manufacturing sector.
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Historically, Argentina has had a "boom and bust economy" with some strong growth periods followed by downturns, Mr. Faigenbaum said.
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For most of the 20th century, the nation bounced back quickly from downturns, with displaced workers quickly finding new jobs.
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But -- and this is very important -- the challenge posed by the coronavirus is unlike any of these past economic downturns.
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Treasury bonds, for example, have soared in value during past stock market downturns, but that generally hasn't happened this time.
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The company, which is yet to make a profit, in its IPO pitch also highlighted the industry's resilience during downturns.
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Turns out, most aren't very worried for themselves, and it's because they planned for their early retirement anticipating economic downturns.
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The letter also warned they could have a harder time fundraising, similar to the market downturns of 2001 and 2009.
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Compensation for workers on short hours is the government's main tool to prevent layoffs at times of sharp economic downturns.
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The first rumblings of downturns usually appear in areas in which growth depends heavily on the availability of affordable credit.
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Ford is sitting a giant pile of cash — almost $40 billion — enough to ride out several routine business-cycle downturns.
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With fewer competitors, prolonged downturns are less of a worry, though, and supply cuts hint at an unusually quick recovery.
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Established automakers, for example, can rely on the seemingly forgetting nature of credit-versus-commodity markets to deal with downturns.
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Assets are a more durable measure of inequality than income, providing a buffer against economic downturns, both personal and societal.
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In 2019 alone, Roku's stock shifted at least 10% on 12 different occasions — and half of those occurrences were downturns.
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The U.S. travel industry is no stranger to downturns, but this one is occurring at a time of economic growth.
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A variety of investments can help secure guaranteed income and growth while lowering the risk of losses during market downturns.
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For small businesses, the downturns end up being even tougher than for the larger businesses, who have a balance sheet.
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The rule will also hamper states' ability to respond to economic downturns because it requires states use historical unemployment data.
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In short, a high-yield savings account is great for emergency funds, short-term savings goals and during economic downturns.
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The fear of a recession this year supercharged defensive stocks that are favored for their ability to thrive during downturns.
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The FPC is meant to raise the CCyB during credit booms to discourage reckless lending, then cut it during downturns.
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"Evonik is one of the more complicated commodities-exposed borrowers and is exposed to cyclical downturns," a senior banker said.
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Before each of the last three American downturns the Fed continued to raise rates even as bond markets priced in cuts.
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Previous downturns were often accompanied by sovereign debt crises, capital flight and hyperinflation, none of which happened during the current slump.
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The industry's cyclicality means that investing in labour-saving machinery is risky because it results in higher fixed costs during downturns.
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This index shows a long, steady upward ascent driven by women's increasing participation in the workforce, punctuated by downturns during recessions.
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Economists generally agree that it's smart to pump government money into the economy—either through spending or tax cuts—during downturns.
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The industry usually thrives in times of strong growth, while plunging in downturns as consumers cut down on non-essential spending.
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In Sweden it tries to steer clear of lending to industries exposed to private consumption, which tends to suffer in downturns.
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And in our experience, these stocks have substantially less volatility than the broader market, helping to protect capital during market downturns.
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Even if the economy is doing well, there's no guarantee that will persist: History teaches us that downturns are rarely expected.
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Glencore differs from other mining groups by having a large and growing marketing division which is more resilient during commodity downturns.
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But when major downturns do come, Frederick says, investors don't have to be all that patient to see positive returns again.
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That level of volatility highlights the amount of fortitude necessary to ride out downturns when you hold only a few stocks.
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For example, the Fed lowered interest rates by more than 5 percentage points during each of the past seven economic downturns.
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A job posting shows JPMorgan's consumer bank is assembling a 'recession readiness' team and drawing up a playbook to navigate downturns
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Some officials remain nervous about fragile growth, and there are questions about how the Fed could combat downturns in the future.
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Premier Li Keqiang reiterated on Wednesday that China will not resort to "flood-like" stimulus like that unleashed in past downturns.
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Banks subject to this year's stress tests were graded on their ability to respond to three levels of hypothetical economic downturns.
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The scale of the event is largely going to multiply or compound the overall tendency for automation to surge during downturns.
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In recent years, investors who jumped on downturns as chances to buy shares at bargain prices have profited from the move.
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Buffett also said that it doesn't particularly matter who the president is, and there will always be downturns in the economy.
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Part of the issue with economic and market downturns is that the panic around them can result in self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world founded by Ray Dalio, has navigated several market downturns with great success.
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Indeed, ad spending has started to dip, as tends to happen during economic downturns, the execs at Vizio and Pluto confirmed.
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Another explanation for 2019&aposs challenges is the cyclical nature of the trucking industry — big upticks are typically followed by downturns.
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This was the largest borrowing spree ever in the emerging world, and binges that size had always led to major downturns.
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"I have had the misfortune or fortune, depending how you look at it, of living through two massive downturns," Viswanathan said.
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But Daiwa and others stressed that authorities in Asia are ready to step in with stimulus to avoid any major downturns.
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It can help to insulate their residents from economic downturns like the Great Recession, still fresh in many of their minds.
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It lowers rates to zero but that amounts to only a fraction of the stimulus it has provided in past downturns.
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" • "The most recent recession, from 2007 to 2009, offered one of the more exaggerated examples of housing's guiding role in downturns.
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He recommended doing a scenario analysis to see how you respond to different events to ensure future downturns don't "blindside" you.
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The most recent recession, from 2007 to 2009, offered one of the more exaggerated examples of housing's guiding role in downturns.
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And events soon confirmed Macroeconomics 101: America didn't turn into Greece, and countries that imposed harsh austerity suffered severe economic downturns.
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Brandt, for instance, requires retired clients to maintain a pot of cash for near-term needs and to ride out market downturns.
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Often seen as resilient during downturns, the industry is struggling with declining electricity consumption and the highest borrowing costs in nine years.
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Here are just a few examples: On the other hand: The companies whose products are painkillers are more likely to weather downturns.
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Over the past century, as governments assumed responsibility for preventing downturns, economic expansions grew longer and recessions became milder and less frequent.
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" He added, "One of the biggest factors to be mindful of during downturns in the economy is the ability to minimize risk.
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High-end art has proved time and time again over the years that it holds up its value even in financial downturns.
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On the one hand, regulators are pushing banks to build up a bigger financial cushion to help them weather future economic downturns.
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The same can be said for economists who failed to anticipate the dozens of downturns around the world in 2008 and 2009.
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And when the next recession comes, policymakers have less fiscal and monetary ammunition to fight it than they had in previous downturns.
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Downturns come often enough to be a serious irritant, but not often enough to give economists sufficient data for rigorous statistical analysis.
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Wealthier districts can depend on local property taxes to fund schools during economic downturns, but poorer districts mostly rely on state funds.
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During the frequent downturns that afflict the industry, any firm that invests in capital, and thereby raises its fixed costs, is vulnerable.
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Over the course of history, when we think about progress, it's not a straight line — there have been downturns along the way.
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"Moreover, with dual export and property market downturns, we struggle to see how real demand for credit will increase meaningfully," it said.
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On Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang reiterated that China would not resort to "flood-like" stimulus such as it unleashed in past downturns.
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He noted financial intermediaries will need to factor in the possibility of lower rates, particularly during economic downturns, and flatter yield curves.
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However, there are certain spots around the country where residents feel the bite of economic downturns like the Great Recession less severely.
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In times of better economic standing, the demand is more influenced by preference, and in downturns, demand is the result of necessity.
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"There is also support to explore the possibility of reducing member states' co-financing rates in case of severe downturns," he said.
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At the same time, Invesco is well-positioned in part because of its history of buying weaker players during downturns, Barron's said.
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As Alex Mittal of FundersClub noted in his recent blog post, great companies get founded in downturns as well as bull markets.
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It is structured to respond effectively to need as a result of national or local economic downturns, natural disasters and other causes.
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That means the Fed will not be able to match the scale of the rate cuts it used to combat previous downturns.
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"Going forward, we believe that we are well positioned to navigate through further economic downturns," the company said in its IPO paperwork.
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If interest rates are not raised as much as during other periods of growth, they cannot be cut as much during downturns.
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The industry isn't immune to market pullbacks, but downturns will be less severe and shorter lived than for other industries, he says.
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So the promise of alternative investments to mitigate risk and protect against market downturns has been powerful, even if they haven't delivered.
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And, according to CFRA Research, since 1946, health care has outperformed the overall market 75 percent of the time during similar downturns.
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Bonds are often a source of solace during stock downturns, and active bond funds have done relatively well compared with index funds.
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To sit on the sidelines during each of these downturns would mean missing out on some of the most profound price rebounds.
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The coronavirus-driven economic uncertainty is nothing like other downturns the venture capital community has weathered before, several investors told Business Insider.
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The United States, like other countries, is facing economic Armageddon, with analysts predicting huge downturns in economic activity in the second quarter.
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A vigorous, expanding economy meant jobs, reliably filled tax coffers, real recovery from downturns and continual improvement in the quality of life.
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One idea is to sharpen the so-called automatic stabilisers, such as unemployment benefits, which ensure a mini fiscal stimulus during downturns.
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After downturns, the market has always recovered, said David Karp, co-founder of PagnatoKarp, though some recoveries have taken longer than others.
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But Latin America's economy overall remains highly dependent on natural resources exports, which make it vulnerable to downturns in the commodities cycle.
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Usually, big budget deficits widen during economic downturns -- but the US economy is expanding and unemployment is at a 20163-year low.
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Mossavar-Rahmani said three historical drivers of economic downturns — the Federal Reserve, economic imbalances, and exogenous shocks — were not cause for concern.
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Big budget deficits typically grow during economic downturns -- but the US economy is expanding and unemployment is at a 50-year low.
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Both brought with them nasty 15-20% equity downturns, new lows in Treasury yields and forced central banks to become more accommodative.
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Here, conservatives attribute much of the strain to downturns in the agriculture and energy industries, both central elements in the Kansas economy.
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Taken at face value, the currently available data shows both GDP growth and payroll jobs growth to be in decisive cyclical downturns.
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"Minnesota has shown significant financial resilience through downturns and a strong commitment to bolstering its financial position as conditions improve," Fitch said.
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Given this goal — to avert systemic crises and downturns — the credit crunch and the Great Recession were, for macroeconomics, an intellectual disaster.
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In 2018, 75 percent of the world's economies were experiencing upswings; now, 90 percent of the world's economies are now experiencing downturns.
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In previous downturns, the less serious entrepreneurs disappeared, leaving the most committed ones, said David Pakman, a partner at venture firm Venrock.
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Sustained drops in confidence often signal dampened consumer spending in the months ahead, and can be the precursor to broader economic downturns.
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"We think a strong balance sheet is essential to navigate potential downturns that occur in commodities and cyclical businesses like this," Linehan said.
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The Federal Reserve is also hearing more from concerned parties about the leveraged loan market and how it could complicate future economic downturns.
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The recreational vehicle industry usually thrives in times of strong growth, while plunging in downturns as consumers cut down on non-essential spending.
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Last year saw the lowest job creation in the past six years, although economies tend to speed up after downturns and slow eventually.
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So Ellevest investment forecasting takes into account hundreds of market scenarios, historic downturns, and the impact of taxes and fees when building portfolios.
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Central banks have created an environment where both major downturns as well as expansions are almost impossible, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said Tuesday.
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Policy stimulus thus far has also been more restrained by Chinese standards than in past downturns, which could mean a more gradual recovery.
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Keynes thought these projects should be timed to offset downturns in private spending, when men and materials would anyway be easier to find.
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In upswings, they deter overspending; in downturns, they permit government revenues to fall of their own accord, without requiring demand-sapping tax hikes.
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One reason is that the profits of firms with tangible assets suffer in economic downturns, when costly plant and buildings cannot be redeployed.
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Stable Cash Flow Generation The company has shown consistent growth over the past 13 years, with solid EBITDA generation even during economic downturns.
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Our final pick, Mr Sufi, is, like Ms Nakamura, exploiting voluminous data unavailable to scholars of previous downturns to understand the Great Recession.
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They are struggling, as are many in the industry, as precipitous downturns in print advertising are not being made up by digital revenue.
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Fitch considers the remaining five banks' capitalisation more vulnerable to cyclical downturns due to their modest internal capital generation or higher credit concentration.
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"Every generation is interested in achieving better investment outcomes over time and limiting losses in market downturns, combined with low fees," Lord said.
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"In market downturns such as this one, we've made some of our best investments," said David Rubenstein, co-chief executive officer at Carlyle.
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Owners and employees spend more locally, pay more tax locally and generally contribute to creating communities that are more resilient during economic downturns.
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Wald finds that in similar, non-recessionary downturns, the S&P 2740 has tended to drop 14.53 percent over an eight-month period.
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Such companies not only outperform on risk-adjusted basis over the longer term but also provide stability to the portfolio during market downturns.
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Moreover, as the rule named after University of Chicago economist Victor Zarnowitz suggests, when downturns are short and sharp, recoveries are usually healthier.
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Orders in the business fell by 2% during the quarter, with an increase in the Americas offset by downturns in Asia and Europe.
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While one should not fixate on budget deficits, particularly in downturns, running such a large budget deficit in good economic times is dangerous.
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I covered the car business during and after the financial crisis, but I was also around for a few recessions/business-cycle downturns.
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His projections about the timing of a market sell-off and recession are based on historic averages of what happened before previous downturns.
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Career downturns happen to everyone and we must remember to treat them as opportunities to change how we work or try something new.
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Agreed raises during times of economic downturns were still being debated as part of the agreement, Labour Minister Magdalena Valerio said on Wednesday.
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He argued that trade talks were "a work in progress," saying investors should buy on trade-related downturns rather than fret about them.
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In fact, Buffett leaned on his old adage and said that in economic downturns, Berkshire Hathaway is likely to come out on top.
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That means the curve accurately predicted even largely unforeseen downturns like the dot-com bubble of 2001 and the Great Recession in 2007.
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Alternative approaches fall into two broad categories: Permanently replace the Fed's 2 percent target, or set it aside in the aftermath of downturns.
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The longer you are invested, the longer your money can compound in value and the longer you have to rebound from any downturns.
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Of course there are real grounds for concern when adolescents are miserable day after day and cannot bounce back from their emotional downturns.
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As the former chief executive of both Pepsi and Apple, John Sculley has a fair amount of experience in guiding companies through downturns.
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Having lived through past downturns, many of these VCs shared practical tips as well as strategic wisdom to help businesses manage the crisis.
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Housing and construction, the very businesses on which the Hendrickses' fortune had been built, suffered through one of the worst downturns in decades.
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The inversion is not a coincident indicator but rather one that points to downturns six to 18 months or so in the future.
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Participating pension plans would be required to maintain 120 percent funding levels, creating a cushion or "rainy day fund" for inevitable economic downturns.
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" documented its finding that "the growth rate of conceptions declines prior to economic downturns and the decline occurs several quarters before recessions begin.
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Usually, big budget deficits typically widen during economic downturns -- but the US economy is expanding and unemployment is at a 50-year low.
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Although Buffett's pick fared reasonably well overall, the adventure goes to show that no one is safe from extreme downturns in the market.
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Office towers in New York and San Francisco — centers of political resistance — are offsetting revenue downturns in the president's glitzier Trump-branded hotels.
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In the past two downturns American firms cut their wage bill by 6%; if they had not, profits would have been 24% lower.
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IBI is a fixed-rate tax levied on the registered value of properties, an asset base that demonstrates fairly low volatility during downturns.
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Emma Bewley, head of fund investment at Connection Capital, points out that all strategies suffer periodic downturns, and expects quant allocations to continue.
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Largely because his rule has coincided with rising living standards and sharp downturns in the mafia-driven violence that dominated the early 1990s.
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The art market has been rocked by financial volatility elsewhere, as it mostly involves the ultrarich, whose sentiment and wealth decline in equity downturns.
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Unlike past downturns, Beijing has so far refrained from massive stimulus programs to jumpstart the slowing economy, possibly due to concerns about rising debt.
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But the long-term trend of falling rates gave the Fed plenty of room to cut rates to head off economic or financial downturns.
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Inversions have preceded economic downturns in the past, though there is debate over which portion of the curve is the most important to monitor.
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Some of the worst performers have held up in the face of sharp downturns, though, according to Bill Baruch, president of Blue Line Futures.
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With 2016 beginning with a bang, Sass explained how investors can actually benefit from any potential downturns and position their portfolios for outsized returns.
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That's what downturns do; they purge, something the targets of activist hedge funds over the years can now tell their once-and-future hunters.
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One index tracking world trade uncertainty has spiked recently, driving up overall global uncertainty that in the past has set the stage for downturns.
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Fitch believes cyclicality is partially offset by Arrow's ability to convert working capital investments in accounts receivables and inventory into liquidity during prior downturns.
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To satisfy critics they built more mathematical models, which aimed to show how decisions by rational, forward-looking people could, in aggregate, cause downturns.
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The comments come amid discussions about how the central bank can react to future downturns with its experience from the financial crisis in mind.
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In all other downturns since the Great Recession, the Fed was on the side of investors and did not want to hurt a recovery.
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Further, the funds that have raised to date have strong market positions, track records and, in many cases, realized returns and experience weathering downturns.
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Hamilton (population: roughly 20183,000 people) was built with steel and smoke, and recent downturns in manufacturing have hit the once-booming steel town hard.
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Limited project diversification renders the developer's cash flows more vulnerable to economic downturns than for township developers with large and low-cost land banks.
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Hamilton (population: roughly 500,000 people) was built with steel and smoke, and recent downturns in manufacturing have hit the once-booming steel town hard.
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Some investors are pointing to the recent downturns in crude oil as well as autos and housing as early warnings of potential trouble ahead.
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INDB's 'BBB' rating is supported by its consistent performance evidenced by low level of credit losses and relatively stable earnings through various credit downturns.
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It should also improve triggers, based on job market conditions, that turn additional weeks of benefits "on" during downturns and "off" again during recoveries.
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"The country is finally entering a new cycle after dragging along for a while with one of the worst downturns on record," Trabuco said.
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Oil major BP beat analyst expectations Tuesday, highlighting the improving fortunes of an industry that's withstood one of the deepest downturns in a generation.
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This is important to the Fed because in economic downturns, it lowers interest rates to entice capital expenditures and give the economy a boost.
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Often seen as resilient during downturns, the renewable electricity industry is struggling with declining electricity consumption and the highest borrowing costs in a decade.
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Traffic declined 3% from peak to trough through the 2007 and 13 economic downturns compared to double-digit percentage declines in other European countries.
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"Nobody can predict how it's going to play out," he said, adding that those in the commodity business needed to be prepared for downturns.
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Oftentimes, downturns provide unique opportunities for entrepreneurs to succeed because it's harder for competitors to raise capital, and talent is usually cheaper to hire.
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This implies that if the outbreak of a novel form of coronavirus spurs a recession, it will look quite different from some previous downturns.
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But central bankers say that the closer they get to zero, the more reason there is to act decisively to head off bad downturns.
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But sudden downturns in demand are challenging for dairy farmers, whose means of production need to be fed and milked on a daily basis.
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Ana Mari Cauce, the president of the University of Washington, told The Seattle Times that the funding would provide a cushion for financial downturns.
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With limited prospects for growth, one of the iron laws of economic downturns is that advertising is among the first budgets to be cut.
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And he has endorsed greater transparency regarding the Fed's annual "stress tests" of large banks, aimed at assessing their ability to weather economic downturns.
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During economic downturns, library patronage surges, as millions more people are drawn by free and low-cost resources, job-seeking programs chief among them.
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Ms. Yellen said a safe retreat was a crucial step in establishing that similar measures could be used to respond to future economic downturns.
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For investors who feel they have to do something during downturns, TD Ameritrade chief market strategist JJ Kinahan advises to make only small moves.
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This is known as the dollar-cost averaging strategy (as opposed to lump-sum investing), and it means ignoring downturns as much as upticks.
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Even with the recent downturns, U.S. yields remain above most of their global counterparts, indicating there could well be further room to the downside.
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The Federal Reserve should consider negative interest rates as a potential weapon to fight future economic downturns, former central bank Chairman Ben Bernanke said.
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Many researchers expect the Federal Reserve to quickly — and possibly deeply — cut interest rates in the face of worsening coronavirus news and market downturns.
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In real-world downturns, however, many people desperately want to sell stocks, or suddenly realize that they must sell, because they need the cash.
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Trump often ties the success of his economic agenda to the rise of the stock market while blaming the Fed for even minor downturns.
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Chou has seen his share of corrections and downturns, including the tech dot-com bust in 2000 and the great recession a decade ago.
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The approval of fiscal austerity reforms in Congress would support the incipient recovery and shield the South American nation from global downturns, Meirelles said.
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A series of unprecedented economic crashes, downturns in key industries, and the unfavorable demographics facing public and private pension plans have compounded these problems.
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Still, the sector is attractive to private equity firms because it is less affected by economic downturns and appeals to consumers of all ages.
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Four counties whose economies have historically foreshadowed economic downturns nationwide are signaling a dip but aren't showing signs of tanking, the Washington Post reports.
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But at the same time we want to prevent the severe downturns that choke the industry, cause bankruptcies, jobs being lost across the world.
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The Fed last year held a series of public hearings to discuss policy options in the future, in particular how to handle economic downturns.
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The lender warned that public debt, which limits the government's room to counteract possible future downturns, had to be reduced from current high levels.
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It is rising household debt which economists have most convincingly linked to finance-sector-driven downturns, particularly when it is accompanied by a consumption boom.
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"We do see increases in suicide associated with economic downturns, and it can take a long time for the recovery to kick in," Schuchat said.
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The index's ABC stocks — Apple, Boeing and Caterpillar — have each been in dizzying downturns since the trade war escalated at the beginning of last week.
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Naimi has always tried to use Saudi financial muscle and oil supply scale to drive out higher-cost producers or rivals during oil market downturns.
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But economists, bankers and analysts who study the numbers believe that the bureau smooths data, underestimating growth during economic booms and overestimating it during downturns.
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Collective-bargaining agreements for permanent staff can be inflexible—in Portugal, for example, they cannot include wage cuts, making it hard to cope with downturns.
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During New York's downturns, as I pointed out when the Amazon deal was first announced, gentrification and congestion were the furthest concern from people's minds.
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While they still have other options, most companies will usually decide to make sacrifices to maintain their dividend for signaling purposes, even in severe downturns.
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Friday's stock market rally is a good example of why it's never a good idea to follow crowds on Wall Street, especially during sharp downturns.
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Chinese leaders, with an eye on a mountain of debt, have vowed they will not resort to massive stimulus like that deployed in past downturns.
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Despite the eye-catching road and rail spending, economists at Nomura believe Beijing is so far proceeding more cautiously with stimulus than in past downturns.
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Few doubt that China has grown enormously, but many believe that the bureau smooths the data, underestimating growth during booms and overestimating it during downturns.
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The iShares Silver Trust, VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF and Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF also showed strong resilience in market downturns in the past.
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The agency alleges he bought shares and profited when the stock popped after positive earnings reports, and sold to avoid downturns that followed poor results.
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Countries that see big depreciations while deleveraging, as many Asian ones did in 1997-98, typically suffer sharp but short downturns before reverting to growth.
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Not only do older savers have less time to recover from any market downturns, they also have less of a chance to benefit from compounding.
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Fitch expects the acquisition to lower Marriott's business risk profile and improve profitability, which should enhance the company's ability to navigate future lodging cycle downturns.
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The former category comprises 'cyclicals' - carmakers and retailers for instance - while downturns are often preceded by demand for 'defensives', which include utilities and consumer staples.
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And then there is the toll on pilots' families from long absences and the constant threat of furloughs resulting from economic downturns, or terrorist attacks.
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Whereas previous downturns have been cyclical, the effect of slowing growth in China indicates a fundamental change that will heighten credit risk for mining companies.
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In downturns, the bezzle shrinks, as Galbraith explained, because the financial tide goes out and makes problems more obvious even as investors exert more scrutiny.
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S ESOPs have a track record of success, returning more annually to employee-owners than the S&P 500, and experiencing growth during economic downturns.
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In particular, economic downturns increase future public debt by reducing revenues and increasing spending on need-based programs such as unemployment insurance and food assistance.
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Now that it's harder for card issuers to raise rates in response to economic downturns, they've raised the rates on new accounts across the board.
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The Commission suggested protection of public investment from economic downturns and an unemployment insurance scheme in cases of a sudden rise of the unemployment level.
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By increasing demand in the economy when times are bad, such measures will play a critical role reducing the depth and duration of future downturns.
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New Zealand has already adopted some of these rules, which force banks to hold more and different types of capital to insulate themselves during downturns.
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The economy has seen 3 percent unemployment in the 1990s and briefly in the 1960s and 1950s, which were all followed by downturns, Zandi said.
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But as Bruenig observes, a moderately competent fund could time its purchases for economic downturns when both interest rates and share prices are abnormally low.
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And he sees promise in work-sharing programs like those that have been used to help keep unemployment low in Germany even during economic downturns.
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The most obvious one plays into our base instincts: Spend less during market downturns and spend a bit more when the market is doing well.
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"This is unusual in that it may prove faster acting than past downturns," said Jay Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.
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And, as he told Ben Pimentel in an interview, the 2000 bust was just one of the five downturns Chambers has experienced in his career.
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We know from past experience that economic downturns are accompanied by substantial increases in unemployment, as workers are laid off and employers reduce their hiring.
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The World Health Organization has recently declared the outbreak a pandemic, prompting continued downturns in the financial markets and increased infection fears throughout the country.
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Once the situation has stabilised, the consultancy said it expected a rapid recovery since travel demand has been resilient in bouncing back in previous downturns.
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Some of the areas now most severely affected by vector-borne diseases, including Brazil, Venezuela, and Southern European nations, have recently experienced marked economic downturns.
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That's bad enough for global markets, but what's worse is that many of the world's other top economies may also be headed for troubling downturns.
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Some Fed officials also want to raise rates to discourage speculation in financial markets, and to increase the Fed's ability to respond to economic downturns.
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"This economy and particularly the stock market that saw some downturns this week, it'll come back," Pence said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
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Based on the work that you've done, why do you think that different working-class communities deal with political and cultural and societal downturns differently?
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"I didn't just become a CEO last year, I've ridden through a few recessions, I've been through economic downturns, I've had tough moments," he said.
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In particular, its leadership in China's fast-growing, margin-rich sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment has provided it with a sufficient buffer in market downturns.
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Recent trends are not necessarily cause for alarm among Democratic leaders, particularly as it remains to be seen whether recent downturns last or are fleeting.
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P3 payment obligation risks can also stress the credit profile of procuring governments, especially in economic downturns or for governments with poor creditworthiness, Moody's said.
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The unemployment rate tends to be a leading indicator ahead of economic downturns, but the series is also a lagging indicator ahead of economic recoveries.
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That's a result of a variety of factors, Foreign Policy's Christopher Sabatini and Anar Bata write, including economic downturns and frustrations over political promises collapsing.
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Ms. Bonniwell was publisher from 1988 to 1991, a period marked by high magazine readership but also by advertising downturns and shifts in consumer interest.
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The Fed is also considering providing more information about the scenarios it creates for each year's tests, and how it devises those hypothetical economic downturns.
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Some of history's great economic thinkers have theorized that downturns are as essential to the workings of the economy as the seasons are to agriculture.
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Borio, Mathias Drehmann and Dora Xia said their study had found that since the early-980s, downturns typically followed financial booms rather than significant monetary tightening.
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In the past they might have been cyclical stocks, those that do well when the world economy is picking up steam, but which suffer in downturns.
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Improving Financial Flexibility: ST has a conservative financial policy and maintains a net cash position that has supported its rating through historical restructuring and cyclical downturns.
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Strong Development Record: CKP has displayed resilience through several industry downturns during its long operating history, showing strong cash-flow management and maintaining broad funding diversity.
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Some analysts believe the PBOC has less room to ease monetary policy this year after it cut RRRs and interest rates aggressively in past economic downturns.
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Fed officials worry that waiting too long to increase rates could cause financial imbalances like those that have led to previous bubbles and subsequent economic downturns.
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By contrast, during downturns, a JG would work as an automatic stabilizer, putting spending money in the pockets of laid-off workers and helping mitigate recessions.
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That said, these tools are not a panacea, and future policymakers could find that they are not adequate to deal with deep and prolonged economic downturns.
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New policy tools, which helped the Federal Reserve respond to the financial crisis and Great Recession, are likely to remain useful in dealing with future downturns.
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However, Medicaid advocates say a block grant would limit states' ability to respond to economic downturns and expensive new drugs, forcing them to trim their programs.
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And then again, it's kind of known that in recession or economic downturns, a category like snacking is usually not that much affected as other categories.
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Stash made sure to stay in touch with its users, reassuring them that markets can experience downturns but investing should be done for the long run.
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But naval resources have since tightened due to other crises, while shipping companies - struggling with one of the worst sector downturns - have tried to cut costs.
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But recent global market volatility involving sharp downturns in equities and commodities has tempered U.S. rate hike expectations, enhancing the appeal of the safe-haven yen.
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The ECB has often been criticized for implementing too many measures to help the euro area, which some say could limit its options in future downturns.
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Borio, Mathias Drehmann and Dora Xia said their study had found that since the early-1980s, downturns typically followed financial booms rather than significant monetary tightening.
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Nevertheless, if market downturns weigh heavily on you, it's time to consider adjusting your exposure to stocks and, therefore, the amount of risk you're taking on.
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Quick take: Spence tells Axios that while "macroeconomic conditions can certainly impact consumer demand through business cycles," the 16-year-old company has survived economic downturns.
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He contended at the time that trade talks were "a work in progress," saying investors should buy on trade-related downturns rather than fret about them.
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If you just entered the job market as a 20-something, you can take on more risk because you have time to recover from market downturns.
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One of the most successful is the Swiss WIR franc, launched in 1934 for use by businesses, which still helps them obtain cheap credit during downturns.
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Sales of second-hand ships reached a 10-year high on cautious optimism that one of the shipping industry's worst ever downturns is nearing an end.
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Without flexible exchange rates to serve as shock absorbers, countries would have to cope with economic downturns using more painful measures like wage cuts and layoffs.
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"The scope and breadth of this crisis – and the underlying social fear that is at its root – is what differentiates the current situation from previous downturns."
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That's a problem given that, in the last four downturns, the Fed has cut rates by an average of 5.5 percentage points to stimulate renewed growth.
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Europe needs a common welfare and tax system so that countries facing particularly severe downturns — like Greece and Spain — can get extra help from the center.
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He cited a recent academic study that showed standard models for forecasting equity returns were eight times as predictive during downturns as they were during expansions.
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Unlike in previous downturns, the chip industry is facing "a supply and demand shock at the same time yielding many uncertainties for management teams," Arcuri wrote.
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To see how the latest cycle compares with past downturns, CNBC looked at a variety of economic measures over the last seven economic cycles since 22008.
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The only periods where the proportion of white poverty was accurately represented were economic downturns, when there is more sympathy for the poor, said Professor Gilens.
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"Minimum wages laws may also help keep wages higher during economic downturns so that workers can help unemployed friends and family members," Gertner said by email.
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In the earlier days after the outbreak, many economists had predicted a V-shaped recovery, which describes downturns that see a steep fall before recovering sharply.
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Grantham predicted the market downturns in 2007 and 2000, and now expects stocks will see their final leg higher in the next six to 24 months.
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And even with such a disaster scenario, Protégé might still lose if the funds they selected didn't hedge away most or all of the market downturns.
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Under the composite model, participating plans would be required to maintain 120 percent funding levels, creating a cushion or "rainy day fund" for inevitable economic downturns.
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Multiplied throughout the economy, that could mean slightly slower economic growth — but also greater financial stability, since households with less leverage fare better during economic downturns.
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And because the FAANG stocks have won for so long and become famous highfliers, they were hammered when the market suffered its big downturns in 2018.
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My mom in particular has long suffered from the economic downturns that have made it harder and harder to earn a living wage in this country.
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Downturns in international enrollment can disrupt universities' budgets, many of which rely on tuition from foreign students who typically pay higher tuition rates than U.S. students.
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LESLIE PICKER: How hard is it to devoid that capital right now, especially since Apollo is known for traversing in downturns, as Leon Black once said?
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LESLIE PICKER: How hard is it to devoid that capital right now, especially since Apollo is known for traversing in downturns, as Leon Black once said?
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Moreover, the combination of low inflation and modest growth has left the Fed with very little room to respond to future downturns by reducing interest rates.
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If we consider the downturns in tech that I have discussed, we should note that they often go hand in hand with broader financial market challenges.
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Beijing also has leaned more heavily on fiscal stimulus than in past downturns, possibly due to high levels of debt left over from past credit sprees.
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He said that because it will take time to figure out which approach will work best when faced with future downturns, the Fed needs to get cracking.
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The investment is nevertheless dwarfed by the joint annual spending of the member companies, even as they battle one of the longest downturns in the sector's history.
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Interestingly, individual investor responses to the survey are "significantly associated" with negative media coverage of the financial markets during downturns, but not with positive coverage during "booms".
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The analysis, from accounting firm KPMG, said the growing prominence of zombie companies could limit the U.K.'s productivity and worsen the impact of future economic downturns.
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If liberal governments do not fight downturns, voters will turn to illiberal governments that do, jeopardising the very freedoms the government's pious inaction was meant to respect.
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Consumer and business confidence arguably have a similar-sized impact on the economy and household sentiment can act as a major accelerator of cycle upturns and downturns.
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Large social safety nets already provide some automatic support during downturns: deficits grow as tax revenues decline and payments for unemployment benefits and other emergency outlays increase.
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A fractured Europe has often sought help from the U.S., and in recent economic downturns this has meant looking for the American consumer to carry the load.
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It is aimed at making euro zone economies more competitive and getting them more in sync with each other, rather than at stabilising them during economic downturns.
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He's conscious that without a college degree he has challenges, but hopeful that his on-the-job experience and practical training will help him weather future downturns.
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"The deceleration in real GDP in the second quarter reflected downturns in inventory investment, exports, and nonresidential fixed investment," the Commerce Department said in a press release.
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The commission urges big increases (albeit from a low base) to research and education, and a small fund to protect investment in the euro zone during downturns.
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One new clue comes from a new report by Claudia Sahm, an economist at the Federal Reserve, who has developed a new method for predicting economic downturns.
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Tesla has a history of riding a roller coaster when it comes to its stock price, and sharp downturns have frequently been followed by equally aggressive surges.
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Fast-food chains tend to benefit from economic downturns because consumers look for cheaper options, according to Aaron Allen, owner of global restaurant consultancy Aaron Allen & Associates.
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During Jackson's 20 years at the helm, he helped transform a small collection of dealerships into the country's largest automotive retailing chain, weathering downturns in the process.
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But a number of retailers are exemplifying the risk of too much borrowing, as unexpected downturns can imperial their ability to invest or even pay their bills.
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The group was credited with calling previous serious downturns for California in the early 23.6s as well as being the first to declare the recession of 24.2.
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Fund managers also say many emerging economies have bolstered their financial markets, making them more resilient during cyclical downturns and thus less risky than in the past.
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Another study, conducted at the University of Toronto, found that companies with high levels of excess cash have tended to deliver lower market returns during market downturns.
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Lagarde told a German audience that closer economic integration in the eurozone was an essential step in order to protect the bloc from future global downturns. bit.
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These allow his clients to be less dependent on good stock- and bond-market performance and to potentially have better downside protection during market downturns, he said.
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A paper published this month by researchers at the International Monetary Fund found that forecasters typically have a hard time predicting serious downturns until they're well underway.
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One sign Gundlach pointed to is bitcoin — the cryptocurrency had peaked in 2017 along with stock prices, while its slumps this year have preceded downturns in stocks.
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Moreover, S ESOPs have historically been more resilient in the face of economic downturns, outperforming other private employers in the U.S. during and after the 85033 recession.
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However, despite the worsening trade outlook, China watchers appear divided over whether the central bank will cut benchmark interest rates, as it repeatedly did in past downturns.
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Correlation to Economic Cycles The ratings incorporate the industry's high correlation to economic cycles, which negatively affects operating trends in downturns and increases volatility of operating results.
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Subramanian wrote that those companies are at risk for large downturns, as they could go through more volatility than those with more ownership that's more evenly distributed.
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It is aimed at making euro zone economies more competitive and getting them more in sync with each other, rather than at stabilizing them during economic downturns.
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Loescher says his more aggressive approach takes advantage of inevitable downturns in the market, while his second method ensures that investors with specific goals can meet them.
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Markets are "very oversold," with a lot of "forced selling" going on, says a Fidelity analyst, who compared the recent volatility to extreme downturns in the past.
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Chambers, who led Cisco for 30 years through multiple downturns, says that tech companies, especially startups, should brace themselves for a crisis that could last a year.
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"We think that the actual resistance to the retail downturns is much higher than what the stocks are pricing in," Miller told CNBC's "Closing Bell " on Friday.
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The Federal Reserve should consider capping the level of interest rates the next time it is confronted with future economic downturns, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said Tuesday.
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During periods of robust market growth, rather than build reserves for market downturns, plans were forced to increase benefits to avoid tax penalties imposed by the IRS.
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This is a unique feature and can be a benefit in times of immense market downturns or if investors are seeking a safe haven for their money.
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That kind of advice relies on the fact that young investors can afford more risk than older ones since they have more time to recover from downturns.
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Economic downturns, corruption convictions, and lawsuits between the city and developers seemed to hobble large-scale plans, which often razed buildings but put nothing up in their place.
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Experienced exporters like 65-year-old Jimmy McGee, owner of the Athlone Extrusions manufacturing firm, have been through enough downturns to know that difficult times may lie ahead.
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Williams used his prepared remarks to stump for central banks to review their goals and strategies to better prepare for future downturns, as the Fed is currently doing.
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Market downturns "offer extraordinary opportunities to those who are not handicapped by debt," he says, which brings up another important investing lesson: Never borrow money to buy stocks.
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With today's low interest rates, fiscal policy must play a bigger role in combating future downturns; monetary policy should not bear the full burden of stabilising our economy.
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But policymakers have repeatedly vowed not to open the credit floodgates in an economy saddled with piles of debt - a legacy of massive stimulus campaigns in past downturns.
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This implies that even nasty corrections and perhaps even downturns of more than 240 percent from here will represent brief detours on the way toward much higher prices.
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The more than 37,000 pilots at the three largest U.S. airlines — Delta, United and American — are seeking higher pay and better retirement benefits after cuts in past downturns.
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Over more than three decades and four Fed chiefs, there have been a half-dozen sharp market downturns driven by a growth scare, outside of a U.S. recession.
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Meanwhile, China's transition to a more sustainable economic model has led to a slowdown in growth, while downturns in Brazil and Russia were larger than expected, she added.
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Most experts say it should, because the broad market has always recovered from even the worst downturns, and because the ideal asset mix assumes a long-term view.
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But consumers have a lot of lost wealth to make up for after the recession did much more damage to savings than any of the last eight downturns.
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In the United States, some of the candidates being considered to replace Yellen are at odds with her on interest rates, inflation, and how to fight severe downturns.
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Companies that pay and grow dividends tend to be mature and well established, with the ability to withstand economic downturns and steadily grow their business across business cycles.
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By making some typical instruments, such as expensing, part of the tax code, the tax cuts reduce the number of tools that policymakers can use to fight downturns.
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"It would be, I think, irresponsible to try to tie up Congress's ability to respond to economic downturns or, in the current discussion, to slash programs," he said.
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De Guindos said that in his opinion the ECB would need to expand its policy "toolkit", adding other instruments so that it can react to future economic downturns.
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This story, of banks starving other industries of credit during commodity booms, as well as in downturns, is surprisingly common, says Montfort Mlachila, one of the papers' authors.
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It would also create a financial monoculture of risk that could deepen and prolong economic downturns when most banks' balance sheets react the same way in a crisis.
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The economy has plunged more than 7 percent from its peak two years ago, in one of the world's most severe downturns since the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
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Since the late 1970s, these kinds of tax cuts have led to economic failure, including four significant downturns, and increased inequality, concentrating our limited growth at the top.
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De Guindos said that in his opinion the ECB would need to expand its policy "toolkit," adding other instruments so that it can react to future economic downturns.
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According to a Harvard Business Review study, family-held businesses avoid layoffs during market downturns, invest more in their employees, and create a culture of commitment and purpose.
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The gradual increase in debt in recent years has attracted attention because the ratio of debt to corporate earnings usually peaks during economic downturns, not during economic expansions.
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By an almost 2-to-1 margin, lawyers polled by the academy said they typically only see a decline in the number of divorces during national economic downturns.
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You can't time the market to avoid loss and downturns — they're an inevitable part of the market cycle — but the longer you stay invested, the better you'll fare.
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Bear markets in stocks — defined as downturns, from peak to trough, of at least 20 percent — rarely occur without a recession, and, at the moment, none is visible.
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That has humanitarian and child welfare benefits, but it also prevents the weaker job market from creating secondary and tertiary downturns in the grocery store and agricultural sectors.
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Stiglitz: Well, I think you want to think about this as very different from earlier downturns like 2008, or even the Great Depression, the Reagan downturn of 1981.
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But some university officials said that they must spend carefully to withstand occasional market downturns, and that large portions of many endowments have spending restrictions placed by donors.
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This must also include support for community-based human services organizations that are typically hit hardest by economic downturns, particularly when their services are needed more than ever.
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In a statement on Thursday, Goldman said its own of forecasts of how its capital levels would fare during downturns came up with different results than the Fed.
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Low inflation is a concern because it keeps nominal interest rates at a relatively low level, Ms. Yellen said, limiting the Fed's ability to respond to economic downturns.
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In past downturns, investors have swooped in to rescue debt-burdened developers with offers to buy dozens of units or more, sometimes at 20 to 25 percent discounts.
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In Mr. Hackett, Ford is taking on a chief executive with a track record of refocusing a manufacturing company through several downturns and sharp shifts in its industry.
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But steep downturns in manufacturing tend to be signs of trouble — it is rare for the index to fall much below 45 or so without a recession hitting.
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Much of Vlieghe's speech focused on the firepower at the BoE's disposal to fight a future recession, which he said was now "considerably less" than before previous downturns.
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Concerns about rising oil prices, excess capacity and potential downturns that would hurt travel have lowered the industry's shares, with Delta's falling more than 20 percent this year.
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"But considering the starting point, monetary policy may be hard pressed to play as prominent a role in support of the economy as during previous downturns," he said.
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It would be wise to take on new debt for stimulus during economic downturns or for infrastructure investments, but not to finance tax cuts during a military buildup.
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One step would be to change laws so that "automatic stabilizers" like unemployment insurance can expand automatically during downturns, essentially baking into the system some automatic fiscal stimulus.
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The banks are certainly healthier now than they were in 2011, when the Fed began annual "stress tests" to assess their ability to withstand financial and economic downturns.
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It will develop long-term job security strategies with local businesses and residents, for the sake of adding resilience to economic downturns and damage caused by climate change.
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Low growth, economic downturns, disasters and weak fiscal management have left many Caribbean countries with excessively large public debts, such as Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica and Barbados, experts say.
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"Downtown is much better insulated from economic downturns because we are a much more diverse neighborhood than we used to be," said Jessica Lappin, head of the Downtown Alliance.
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Copper price declines came ahead of the downturns in 1981, 2001 and 2007, while missing those in 1980 and 1990, Wells Fargo's real asset strategy head, John LaForge, wrote.
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Countries like Germany, with its experience of hyperinflation, have maintained a historical connection to gold as a tangible asset that can protect wealth against economic downturns and currency fluctuations.
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Peter Schott of Yale University points out, however, that over the past 60 years the norm has been for the number of manufacturing jobs to recover fully after downturns.
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"Three of our businesses were at lows in their cycles," said Neil Chapman, an Exxon senior vice president, adding the company historically invests during downturns for long-term returns.
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Gasoline prices rose due to supply concerns in the quarter, as refiners planned more downturns and upgrades than usual, while flooding in the U.S. Midwest added to the gains.
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IPOs issued in 2015 are down a median of about 5003 percent as of Friday's close, which is worse than the IPO slumps that occurred in other market downturns.
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That has fueled a debate at the Fed, and more widely, about raising the inflation target to, say, 4 percent, to give more room to deal with future downturns.
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That could mean they feel insulated from any short-term economic downturns caused by a Brexit — and that they don't expect to share in future economic gains from staying.
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Many factors contributed to these wealthy people losing it all — economic downturns, bad investments, and even massive fraud cases that landed them in hot water, to name a few.
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Energy companies' balance sheets and share prices have been hammered by one of the sector's worst downturns in decades, leading so far to a relatively limited number of bankruptcies.
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Importantly, ELEVATE expands the availability of jobs during economic downturns and in areas with persistently-high unemployment and poverty, responding to needs voiced by both rural and urban workers.
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Worse for WeWork, the commercial real-estate market tends to be hit especially hard in downturns, said Tom Smith, a cofounder of Truss, an online commercial real-estate marketplace.
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The strategy, which focuses on being less correlated to global stocks and economic downturns, uses 30-year government bonds, commodity trading advisors (CTA) and global macroeconomics focused hedge funds.
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There are still three vacancies on the board, and Mr. Trump's nominees will determine how fast the Fed raises interest rates, and how forcefully it responds to future downturns.
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While the U.S. economy has remained strong overall, business investment and manufacturing activity have seen sharp downturns amid the mounting costs of Trump's trade battles with China and Europe.
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" ROBERT LUTTS, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, CABOT WEALTH MANAGEMENT, SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS "We've been educated over the last 10 years that markets have downturns and sometimes are pretty sharp.
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The juxtaposition has been excoriated by conservative think tanks, taxpayer watchdog groups and environmentalists that have long pushed for reining in payouts to farmers, even in times of downturns.
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I co-founded two separate startups just before downturns struck, yet I successfully navigated one through the 2000 dot-com bust and the second through the 2008 financial crisis.
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Recent comments by Fed officials have pointed to the likely need for a larger balance sheet and a willingness to use it more regularly to fight future economic downturns.
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Friedman, the former senior Bear Stearns exec, said CEOs are like American presidents: They get too much credit when things are going well and too much blame during downturns.
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China's economic growth cooled to 6.0% in the third quarter, a near 30-year low, but policymakers have been more cautious about growth boosting measures than in past downturns.
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No. The United States continues to be a center of entrepreneurship and innovation, and it's increasingly a service-based economy that fares better in downturns than a manufacturing economy.
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In downturns, Ford said, it's always the entrepreneurs that turn out to be the decisive factor when it comes to whether a company survives and makes money for investors.
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But analysts note monetary policy easing has been more cautious than in past downturns, likely due to concerns about rising debt and financial risks, particularly involving the property market.
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"Even in equity markets, where passives have their most impact, when you get those downturns, that's where you see the indices and better active managers differentiate themselves, " Finke added.
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Trump and top administration officials, who regularly pressure the Fed to cut rates amid stock downturns, have tried to soothe the fears of a pandemic driving Wall Street's losses.
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If recent history is any indication, teen participation is likely to have leveled off by now after the Great Recession, similar to the trend after the past two downturns.
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For investors big and small, the stock rally since early 2017 has been a welcome sight in a sector that has gone through a series of economic downturns. tgam.
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And those who begin their careers in a strong job market generally earn more over their lifetimes, while people who begin during economic downturns, on average, never fully recover.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Christine Lagarde said on Monday euro zone leaders should set up a "rainy day fund" to help cushion member states in economic downturns.
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EU officials are also considering an unemployment re-insurance scheme, a fund to support investment during economic downturns and money to support structural reforms that help euro zone economies converge.
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That followed Wall Street's poor performance on Wednesday when those indexes fell by more than 3 percent overnight — one of the American stock market's worst one-day downturns in months.
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The benchmark rate is 2.25-2.5%, which gives the Fed little room to cut before hitting zero—and less than half as much as it has needed in past downturns.
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The central bank also on Tuesday raised the capital buffer banks must hold against economic downturns by 25 basis points to 1.5 percent of risk-weighted assets from July 2019.
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Since rates usually fall by much more than three percentage points during downturns, the Fed's projections imply that "unconventional" tools such as asset purchases will be needed again in future.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymakers on Wednesday highlighted intense behind-the-scenes debate over when British banks should set aside more capital to protect them from future economic downturns.
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Rather, we believe 'home-related' investment spending today is only reaching levels where the industry has historically 'bottomed out' during prior downturns/recession (at approximately 3.5 percent of total GDP).
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The buffer aims to force Danish banks to accumulate extra capital during boom periods on top of requirements set through other regulations, to better protect the financial system during downturns.
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The annual test of bank stability subjects the books of large banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup to hypothetical economic downturns to ensure they can withstand the blow without collapsing.
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MTB's NCOs and NPAs have been superior versus most of its peer group through numerous economic and real estate downturns and indicative of the strong credit culture at the company.
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He argued that a countercyclical buffer, built up during more prosperous times, could be released during periods of strain and this may prevent a credit crunch, which usually aggravates downturns.
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They are increasingly resigned to slower growth and lower interest rates, yet they insist they still have the means — by buying government debt, for instance — to help reverse future downturns.
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Others said that kind of revenue growth was already priced into the stock and some had concerns about the broader economic backdrop that drives upturns and downturns in the sector.
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DERIVATION SUMMARY DSG's sales are less vulnerable to economic downturns than those of its rating peers Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC Company (A-(lka)/Stable), and Abans PLC (BBB+(lka)/Stable).
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Often seen as resilient during downturns, Brazil's renewable electricity industry has wrestled with the impact of declining electricity consumption stemming from the country's harshest recession ever and high borrowing costs.
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Some of the industrial's company-specific missteps may have cost it more than the downturns in oil prices, Cramer argued, starting with two acquisitions it made in 2012 and 2013.
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While British exports to China are relatively small, the United States is Britain's largest trade partner after the European Union, and its open economy is heavily exposed to global downturns.
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Bolster or replenish your emergency fundThere's never a better time to have an emergency fund than now — downturns and unexpected events like these are what these funds are built for.
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Falling inflation raises the risk that economies will slip into outright deflation if growth weakens, making downturns worse as consumers hoard their cash, knowing that prices will be lower tomorrow.
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Dang passed away last year, but Nam Long's exclusivity and the splash-the-cash drinking culture it fostered had been on the wane since the 80s and subsequent financial downturns.
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It would expand safety-net programs that help people weather economic downturns, including low-income schoolchildren who risk losing access to free breakfast and lunch if their schools are shuttered.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve unveiled new rules on Wednesday that create a "stress capital buffer" to determine how much banks must hold in reserve to guard against downturns.
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You can stress test your current holdings in a variety of ways, but looking at how you may have fared in past downturns is a simple way to do it.
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The tendency to confuse supply and demand shocks under inflation-rate targeting is increasingly common — and particularly harmful because it can make central bank policy "procyclical," potentially amplifying economic downturns.
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The rate cuts used to battle downturns have typically started with rates at even higher levels, allowing the central bank to slash them by perhaps 5 percentage points or more.
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"The top priority in this area is for national policymakers to build up fiscal buffers to ensure policy space for future downturns," De Guindos told an academic audience in Madrid.
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Timken, a fifth-generation leader of his namesake company, said the steel industry would be able to better withstand downturns if global trade were on a more level playing field.
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The Basel rules, which aim to stop a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis, will force banks to hold more capital so they are better prepared for future market downturns.
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Canada's central bank announced it will not slash interest rates on Wednesday, but isn't ruling out the measure, which is used during economic downturns to keep money in Canadian pockets.
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He's totally supportive of deficits, even massive ones, when they're needed to overcome economic downturns, but now that the economy is recovering and deficits are still large, he's more worried.
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The National Football League has been plagued all season by ratings downturns, forcing its TV partners to give free extra commercial time to advertisers to compensate for lower-than-promised ratings.
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This troubling relationship means that more, not less funding should go to schools and communities during economic downturns to prevent and protect against possible attacks, the authors of the study say.
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On the flipside, during good times firms often opt to reward workers with office perks and one-off bonuses, rather than pay rises that cannot easily be clawed back during downturns.
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"The news media is now obsessed with an alleged tax violation from the 1990s, at the end of one of the most brutal economic downturns in our country's history," Trump said.
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We believe the company has proved its strong financial capacity for debt repayment and shown discipline in maintaining a sturdy financial structure, which will help withstand shocks during potential economic downturns.
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The European Central Bank is due to meet on Thursday, when its president, Mario Draghi, may hint at how concern over Italy's budget and equity market downturns will affect monetary policy.
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After college tuition increases and stock market downturns, the program closed to new enrollment in 2008 when projections showed that the program was on its way to running out of money.
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Downturns in sectors such as autos and technology could also help to fuel L'Oreal's growth this year, Agon added, with people setting less of their income aside for more extravagant purchases.
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Cotton producers would have a greater ability to withstand economic downturns such as those caused by high production costs, price volatility, unfair foreign trade practices and the occasional catastrophic weather event.
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MTB's NCO's and NPAs measures have been superior versus most of its peer group through numerous economic and real estate downturns and indicative of the strong credit culture at the company.
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Investors including Templeton's Wilmshurst are wagering on bond-proxies or instruments that provide fixed income, such as infrastructure stocks with revenues largely immune to downturns and real estate investment trusts (REITs).
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But the folks who typically bet on such switchbacks have been chastened, and so far this year sentiment extremes have meant mere pauses followed by further upside, rather than punishing downturns.
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During economic downturns, this design often creates crises, because the federal government can more easily borrow money in recessions than state governments bound by balanced budget provisions in their state constitutions.
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One analyst says that although WeWork has room to grow, it's not safe from economic downturns since it's much easier for customers to exit their leases than it is for WeWork.
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Occidental Petroleum Corp, Denbury Resources Inc and other oil producers with ready access to carbon dioxide have used the existing credit to keep output going even during downturns in the industry.
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So far, China's stimulus measures have been more restrained than in past downturns, which analysts attribute to fears of adding to a mountain of debt left over from past credit binges.
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Since the first accusations, Noble has booked impairments of over $1 billion, sold its agribusiness and lost its investment- grade credit rating in one of the worst commodity downturns in decades.
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Nonetheless, there is growing support among Fed officials for a review of the Fed's approach to policy, and of alternatives that might allow it to respond more forcefully to future downturns.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) chief Agustin Carstens has urged top central banks to preserve their ammunition for more serious economic downturns rather than deplete it chasing higher growth.
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However, they remain more expensive than in the trough of previous historical downturns including the Global Financial Crisis, the aftermath of the dot-com bubble and the early 90s US recession.
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Moreover, NASCAR fans tend to be less wealthy than those of other leagues, implying that they likely have less discretionary income to spend and will be hit harder in economic downturns.
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Work by former IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard after the financial crisis showed that the economic effects of government spending (so-called multipliers) during downturns are likely larger than originally thought.
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Major central banks have used up much of the ammunition they would typically deploy to fight economic downturns since the 2008 financial crisis, and global debt levels have never been higher.
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Margerison believes that one of the most important take-aways from this entire area of research is that population-level conditions, including economic downturns, can impact our mental and physical health.
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While Keynes was right that during downturns, the public's demand for cash often rises, he was wrong to think the force equilibrating supply and demand of money is the interest rate.
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While Cramer admitted that strategy isn't perfect, he said it's a good way to prevent yourself from being shaken out of stocks and to view downturns as opportunities rather than obituaries.
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A severe financial crisis, together with swingeing spending cuts demanded by the creditors, plunged Greece into one of the deepest downturns experienced by a rich country since the second world war.
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Even at the current low levels of U.S. interest rates, that would give the Fed enough ammo to stimulate the economy by about as much as it has in past downturns.
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Up markets represent a prime opportunity to stress-test your portfolio against future volatility and downturns, said certified financial planner Lynn Ballou, regional director at EP Wealth Advisors in Lafayette, California.
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The food packaging sector has been traditionally popular with private equity firms because it is viewed as generating stable cash flows that are more resilient in the face of economic downturns.
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Alicia Glen, the deputy mayor responsible for economic development, said Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration wanted to diversify the city's tourist base so that it could weather economic downturns in Europe.
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Jeff de Graaf of Renaissance Macro Advisors this week flagged some consumer-durables and apparel stocks that have just reversed from severe downturns and seem ripe for a contrary upside play.
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Fiscally hawkish northerners insisted that it must not be used to support economies in downturns, and that it should be funded using the European Union's seven-year budget, not new spending.
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He sees those markets, and markets dominated by commodity producers, reaching the capitulation stage, where downturns have gone on for so long and prospects look so bleak that investors just give up.
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Despite the downturn by stocks, worries about corporate earnings growth and doubts about the global economy, forex investors only tiptoed into the yen and Swiss franc, two currencies historically bought during downturns.
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According to one recent study, industries that rely on intellectual property pay low-skilled workers 40% more than industries that are not reliant on I.P., and hire them even during economic downturns.
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The important thing is to ensure that these downturns don't take such a big toll on their life savings that they will be forced to delay retirement or put it off altogether.
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January and February saw sharp downturns in U.S. new vehicle sales, though many in the industry tried to downplay the poor showing by blaming the bad weather that spread across the country.
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Chinese bureaucrats believe that they have the right to intervene in their country's economy whenever they want, not only to promote certain industries but also to prevent sudden downturns and reduce volatility.
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"College raises average lifetime earnings, and it also helps insulate workers from economic downturns, providing economic security in the times they need it most," according to a report by the Brookings Institution.
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Top officials have repeatedly vowed not to open the credit floodgates in an economy already saddled with piles of debt - a legacy of massive stimulus during the financial crisis and subsequent downturns.
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That would mean completing a common banking union, to break the self-reinforcing link between wobbly sovereigns and wobbly banks, and creating quasi-federal fiscal tools to support struggling economies in downturns.
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Tullow, like many of its rivals, slashed exploration spending in 2014 but as the sector slowly emerges from one of its longest downturns, it is slowly reviving its search for new resources.
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The currency union would shackle together economies that were too different in structure while taking away a weapon to fight "asymmetric" downturns that hit individual members, such as a local housing bust.
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Appointing him would be a mistake, says Christian Odendahl of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank: the bank would be less activist in downturns and less supportive of fiscal easing.
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And consumer companies like Amazon tend to be more exposed to those downturns than enterprise companies like Microsoft or Oracle, who get the bulk of their revenue from business customers, he said.
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OSAT companies, which focus on the back-end of the manufacturing process, suffer disproportionately during downturns as OEMs and foundries bring more testing and packaging back in-house, significantly cutting outsourcing demand.
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Male breadwinners make up a higher proportion of the newly unemployed than in previous downturns, which mainly affected female and young workers, notes Naercio Menezes of Insper, a university in São Paulo.
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Sectors that are more vulnerable to cyclical downturns, such as transport, materials and financials remained sluggish on Tuesday, although defensive sectors, such as consumer and healthcare were strong, up over 1 percent.
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Two cities not on Lyft or Uber's list: New York City and Chicago, which rely more heavily on car and taxi services and are probably less likely to see downturns in demand.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Future Developments That May, Individually or Collectively, Lead to Negative Rating Action - Operating margins materially below 10%-15% in downturns and below 25%-30% at the peak of up-cycles.
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But Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, said world market downturns are not justified by economic fundamentals and should not stall Federal Reserve tightening in the United States.
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As the Journal noted, the idea of a merger between the two companies is not new and would help them ride out any potential downturns in the aviation and defense industries:Waltham, Mass.
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COPENHAGEN, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Icelandic banks, recovering from a 2008 financial crisis, face tighter capital requirements to withstand any future downturns even as the country's economy improves, the central bank said Wednesday.
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Congress will have less flexibility to implement expansionary fiscal policy during economic downturns; investors would likely need higher interest rates to compensate for the risk of investing in an increasingly volatile economy.
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Practices common among United States hedge funds, like short-selling stocks to protect against downturns in the market (in other words, hedging), are restricted in China, where regulators treat them with suspicion.
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The I.M.F. chief also expressed concern that wealthier countries had not been able to compensate for slower economic growth in developing countries like China, and for sharp downturns in Brazil and Russia.
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Economists say that the recovery from the 2008 recession has likely peaked, and further growth will be restrained by fading fiscal stimulus from tax cuts and severe downturns in Europe and China.
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The kingdom made the same mistake in 2008, 2014 and 2018, failing to raise production early enough, creating the conditions for unsustainable price inflation and sowing the seeds of the subsequent downturns.
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The company has been cautiously reviving its search for new oil and gas resources after emerging from one of the longest downturns in the sector's history with a $3.5 billion debt pile.
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While Beijing is easing overall credit conditions in the face of slowing domestic demand, analysts think it will be more cautious about stimulating property investment than it has been in past downturns.
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The conservative People's Party (PP) passed a labor market reform at the height of the five-year economic slump from 2008 to 2013 aimed at making the system more flexible during downturns.
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Another third delivered a measure of what was promised — buildings were built, courses taught, a product introduced — but they also encountered substantial problems, like lawsuits, government investigations, partnership woes or market downturns.
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Halliburton and other service companies — the ones that do the drilling and hydraulic fracturing that blasts through shale rock — are exposed because explorers and producers frequently cut their services first during downturns.
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Interest rates are expected to remain low for the foreseeable future, and the combination of low rates and low inflation leaves little room for the Fed to respond to future economic downturns.
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Last week, the Conference Board published its index of leading indicators — meant to be a sort of early-warning system for downturns in the economy — without three of its usual 10 components.
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In particular, Fed officials have ruled out raising the 2 percent inflation target, a step that might give it more flexibility to respond to future downturns but would mean less stable prices.
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Preferably, that will be an area popular with owner-occupiers, rather than other investors, as those tend to see the greatest appreciation and are better able to withstand economic downturns, said Butchovich.
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Despite the downturn by stocks, worries about corporate earnings growth and doubts about the global economy, forex investors only tiptoed into the yen and Swiss franc, two currencies historically bought during downturns.
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At the same time, drug overdoses are increasingly seen as "deaths of despair" not unlike fatalities from smoking and drinking, which tend to rise during economic downturns, the study team points out.
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He said he&aposs heard many stories of folks losing millions of dollars during economic downturns because they had most of their money invested in a single company on the stock market.
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Interstate geographic mobility has fallen by about half since 1990, which may explain why labor markets appear less able to adjust to these technology-driven upheavals or to economic downturns more broadly.
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The block grant funding would rise if enrollment in Tennessee's program, called TennCare, increases in the future -- addressing a major concern that the safety net couldn't expand in times of economic downturns.
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Up markets represent a prime opportunity to stress-test your portfolio against future volatility and downturns, certified financial planner Lynn Ballou, regional director at EP Wealth Advisors in Lafayette, California, told CNBC.
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Sectors that are more vulnerable to cyclical downturns, such as transports, materials and financials remained sluggish on Tuesday, although defensive sectors, such as consumer and healthcare were strong, gaining over 1 percent.
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The focus on individual liberties was still there, but the vision of government had become stronger, more interventionist — ready to regulate markets, bust monopolies and spend its way out of economic downturns.
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The theory goes: every industry is becoming a technology industry, and downturns only accelerate the process, because software is eating the world, and recessions bring fresh carrion we don't even have to hunt.
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The market refused to wait, surging by 22018 percent in the next three weeks in a climax of optimism and overconfidence that would set up the first of two bruising downturns in 280.
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With technology stocks garnering renewed scrutiny, it's helpful to take a look back at one company that has weathered some of the most severe market downturns and serious doubts from Wall Street: Amazon.
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The CBO has projected that absent a change, deficits will average $1.3 trillion over the next decade, adding to the federal debt, raising interest costs and limiting policy responses to any economic downturns.
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"People are generally better prepared to deal with disruptions — more have a steady income, more have gotten the message about putting money aside," Butch says, which will help them weather any future downturns.
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What you can't see on this chart are any anomalous downturns in apprehensions — the sort of thing that could be explained by a change in US policy that had discouraged families from coming.
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The inversion, where 3-month bills return at a higher rate than the longer-dated notes, is an anomaly that in the past has preceded economic downturns by around one to two years.
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Nestle's trading operating profit margin improved to a better-than-expected 17.1% as the company pressed ahead with its premiumization strategy, selling more products with fatter margins and more resilient to economic downturns.
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Contrary to zombie films, suburbs are the first to be hit by downturns, the first to be smashed under tornadoes and other acts of god, and the primary generators of anger and fear.
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A recent downturn in stocks and worries about corporate earnings growth has prompted forex investors to buy the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc, two currencies typically seen as safe havens during downturns.
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While many property analysts believe authorities will be more cautious about stimulating property investment than in past downturns, some suspect additional funds will inevitably flow into the market as investors look for opportunities.
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We need much more research on how oil and gas workers and suppliers respond to downturns, now and in the past, where they go, and how easy it is to bring them back.
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Democrats and Medicaid advocates contend it would lead to states cutting enrollment and services, especially in economic downturns and public health emergencies — like the ongoing pandemic that's brought the country to a standstill.
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From the recession of the early 1990s to the 2001 dot-com crash to the housing collapse of a decade ago, downturns often end up being more pronounced in the state than elsewhere.
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So, at the end of this piece, I've excerpted a quote from a recent interview I held with the CEO of Smartsheet, Mark Mader, about tech cycles, downturns, and getting through tough times.
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While consumers welcome low prices, the Fed worries that low expectations will continue to keep inflation and, consequently, interest rates at below-normal levels, thus providing little flexibility to cut during future downturns.
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But severe recessions have not been common since the end of the Second World War and most downturns have proved milder, which therefore seems a more likely prediction for the next cyclical slowdown.
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And I think that also gives us a little bit of a perspective on the opportunities you get in the downturns and also the important areas to focus on during challenging market conditions.
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Yes. There are a lot of movies that I think have touched upon these themes — The Wolf of Wall Street or movies like The Big Short — which explain [financial downturns] from the bullpen.
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The S&P 500 had 17.8% 10-year annualized total since it bottomed out in March 2009, which matched the gains made by the S&P following the downturns in 1982 and 1987.
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And such slumps may reduce long-term growth as well: the experience since 2008 suggests a high degree of hysteresis, in which seemingly short-run downturns end up reducing long-run economic potential.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Many of Britain's fast-growing fledgling banks have little experience of downturns and could underestimate potential loan losses if markets turned sour, a Bank of England review of 20 lenders showed.
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Change in the S&P 500 during major downturns 0 –10 % Current downturn –12.2% –20 2008-9 financial crisis downturn –56.8% –30 –1753 –50 –60 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 103 Number of trading days since each downturn's peak 0 –10 % Current downturn –12.2% –20 –30 Change in the S&P 500 during major downturns –40 –50 2008-8.33 financial crisis downturn –56.8% –60 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 113 Number of trading days since each downturn's peak 0 –10 % Current downturn –12.2% –2008 –2000 218-2175 financial crisis downturn –210% –28.3 Change in the S&P 143 during major downturns –214 –214 22020 50 100 150 200 250 300 143 Number of trading days since each downturn's peak Source: Refinitiv By Karl Russell Uncertainty breeds fear, and fear breeds panic.
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Stocks may have rebounded Monday on renewed hope for a trade deal between the U.S. and China, but CNBC's Jim Cramer still found value in some names that tend to do well during downturns.
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For hundreds of suppliers, from oil services firms to rig owners or engineering companies, this means coming to terms with the fact that industry spending may not rebound as it has after previous downturns.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Euro zone authorities should shift bank capital requirements, putting greater emphasis on buffers that can be released during downturns, European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday.
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Obama would also create a permanent TANF fund for recessions, to help make the program better at fighting downturns, and would, for the first time ever, increase the size of the TANF block grant.
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But his plan has failed to win over investors and the company has faced headwinds, particularly in its main automotive market where weakness often ripples through semiconductor and component supply chains early in downturns.
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Recent research by Blackrock, an asset manager, found that companies with a greater ESG emphasis have high-quality and low-volatility characteristics, suggesting they can help act as a buffer during equity-market downturns.
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That means each of those people made an average of $22,000 or so per year and minimum wage workers – hourly folks who are usually hit hardest during post-holiday downturns – would be making $15,000.
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During serious economic downturns, central banks usually cut interest rates to encourage new borrowing and investing, and governments swing into action by running larger budget deficits to make up for falls in private spending.
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For the single currency to continue to be economically and politically sustainable, the euro area needs a budget that could support investment in downturns and facilitate limited, temporary transfers via an unemployment-insurance scheme.
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In 2017 economists at the Bank of England studied 130 downturns in 26 advanced economies since the 1970s, and found that those immediately preceded by rapid private credit growth were both deeper and longer.
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At a rally in Pueblo, CO, on Monday, Trump was on the defensive, explaining the nearly billion-dollar loss was at the end of "one of the most brutal economic downturns" in U.S. history.
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They have enough spare resources to absorb external shocks or ride out temporary downturns, and they can move operations from one part of the world to another if the political climate turns against them.
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Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam said last week the economic impact on the city threatened to be worse than the 2003 SARS outbreak or the 2008 financial crash, both of which triggered sharp downturns.
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Tech companies especially like to sit on cash, Evercore's Lee Horowitz said, to keep "dry powder as a way to weather cyclical downturns" and to take advantage of market pullbacks to pick up assets.
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With interest rates still under 3 percent and unlikely to be raised in the near term, the government will have to rely more heavily on fiscal policy tools to mitigate downturns and support recoveries.
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A 2015 study, titled The Two-Speed Economy, concluded that the impact of government regulation on small firms, combined with the Great Recession, made the recent recovery period weak in comparison to previous downturns.
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Surely some of that turnaround can be attributed to general economic improvement in the US, but Chattanooga's current mayor Andy Berke says he believes the network has helped "insulate" the city from future downturns.
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If they are smart [narrator: they were not], policymakers will treat this an opportunity to make sure the peak sticks, avoiding what is typical after downturns, a snapback that ends up increasing total emissions.
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The plan would vastly ramp up "extended benefits," the long-neglected part of the UI system mentioned above that is already part of the unemployment insurance law, and adds emergency money during large downturns.
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The group became the venue for eurozone members to debate how to help nations like Cyprus address bank-system failures, a looming Greek default on government debt, and severe economic downturns across the region.
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She says sentiment among investors is still higher than it's been during other recent downturns, and stocks are unlikely to make a sustained rally until sentiment has gone as low as it can go.
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With the stock market officially in a bear market, here's a look back at each decline of at least 20% since the 1930s to see how long, and how severe, such downturns typically are.
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I don't think that I am quite brave enough to just dump all my available cash into the stock market in one fell swoop, but I do plan to start investing chunks on downturns.
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The euro area's biggest downturns, during the global financial crisis and the sovereign-debt crisis, were triggered by shocks—such as a seizure in the market for credit—that affected all of its members.
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Chambers has had his share of downturns, having led Cisco through several bad economic periods, including the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the financial crisis in 2008 about a decade ago.
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Reforms to the state's unemployment system allowed this debt to not only be repaid three years early but built up a reserve fund of more than $1.5 billion to prepare for any future economic downturns.
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It helps firms ride out economic downturns and spread investments in electric vehicles (EVs), self-driving cars and mobility services (such as ride-hailing and car-sharing beloved of younger car users) across more vehicles.
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"The weak demand for German products in certain important markets will probably not leave economic growth in Germany unaffected," GfK analyst Ralf Buerkl said, citing economic downturns in the key U.S. export market and China.
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During his three years as CEO, Skou has sold off the Danish group's oil and gas business to focus on the container business, a strategy some analysts say has left Maersk exposed during economic downturns.
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Advisors say MLPs are ideal for investors who can wait out downturns and who expect high demand for oil and gas to continue, ensuring high volumes and fee income from pipelines, refineries and storage facilities.
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Chief Executive Oliver Samwer, whose serial internet investments have helped him join the ranks of Germany's newest billionaires, told reporters he had always found "good bargains" through previous downturns such as in 2000 and 2008.
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But hopes that cash from Germany's buoyant economy would make it easier to paper over the parties' differences diminished on Monday when an official advisory council warned that surpluses were needed to cover future downturns.
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In both the 2001 and 2007 downturns, the Fed raised rates even after the yield curve inverted and did not cut until just a few months before the start of recession about a year later.
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While cutting hog breeding rates and culling sows is typical during downturns in demand, this is turning out to be the most severe contraction for Brazil's livestock industry since the world economic crisis in 2008.
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However, some early champions of these plans recently told the Wall Street Journal that they are concerned with many workers' having rosy expectations for market gains without the perceived need to plan for market downturns.
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"ExxonMobil has historically been one of the most successful super-majors at investing through the business cycle and taking advantage of downturns by lowering its cost structure and high-grading its asset base," he said.
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Most recent downturns have started within the financial system, such as the Great Recession and financial crisis more than a decade ago, explained J.W. Mason, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank.
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Rosenberg is doubtful, saying that after past downturns like the 2001-02 recession and the Great Recession, it took two or three years for the US economy to get back its former pace of growth.
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Monetary policy remains a powerful tool for fighting downturns — and officials plan to use mass bond-buying and promises to keep rates low for longer to make up for their lost room to cut rates.
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Home to government agencies, embassies and universities, as well as consultant firms, technology businesses and government contractors eager to be near the seat of power, the capital has long been buffered from national economic downturns.
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The Swedish truck maker reported a smaller than expected slide in first quarter core earnings on Friday and raised its forecast for the European truck market while predicting deeper downturns in North America and Brazil.
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BERLIN, March 26 (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Monday proposed creating a "rainy day fund" for the euro zone to help cushion members of the currency union in future economic downturns.
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The appointment of Garcia comes as some of Latin America's largest economies slowly emerge from severe downturns or, in the case of Brazil, from long and harsh recessions that have created acquisition opportunities for buyout firms.
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Through its focus on premium tyres, which it expects to account for 63 percent of sales by 2020, Pirelli is less exposed to economic downturns than in the past because that segment has proven less cyclical.
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That could give the central bank the ability to stimulate the economy in future downturns by shifting its holdings to long-term securities, a strategy that would not require expanding the size of its balance sheet.
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But policymakers have repeatedly vowed not to open the credit floodgates in an economy already saddled with piles of debt - a legacy of massive stimulus during the global financial crisis in 2008-09 and subsequent downturns.
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Top officials have repeatedly vowed not to open the credit floodgates in an economy already saddled with piles of debt - a legacy of massive stimulus during the global financial crisis in 2008-09 and subsequent downturns.
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One reason, some economists argue, is that the Great Recession was unlike other downturns because it was caused by the crisis in the financial system, which inflicted much more damage on the economy than other recessions.
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Top officials have repeatedly said they will not resort to massive stimulus like that deployed in past downturns, though some analysts believe interest rate cuts are possible if conditions continue to deteriorate and job losses mount.
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But top officials have repeatedly vowed not to open the floodgates in an economy already saddled with piles of debt - a legacy of massive stimulus during the global financial crisis in 2008-09 and subsequent downturns.
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The company, which has struggled historically to safeguard profitability during cyclical downturns, has been restructured under Rosengren's tenure with the sale of a string of businesses seen as outside its core and decentralization across the group.
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But policymakers have repeatedly vowed not to open the credit floodgates in an economy already saddled with piles of debt - a legacy of massive stimulus during the global financial crisis in 13-09 and subsequent downturns.
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Despite the downturn in stocks, amid worries about corporate earnings growth and doubts about the global economy, forex investors only tiptoed into the yen and Swiss franc, two currencies typically seen as safe havens during downturns.
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There had been some initial relief for Italian bonds early on Wednesday following a report that Germany is working on a scheme to let southern countries tap the euro zone's bailout fund for investment during downturns.
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As has been the case in past global downturns, the Gulf markets which are part of emerging market indexes - Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar - may be most vulnerable because foreign portfolio investors are relatively active there.
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"During the boom years, a lot was done to prepare for potential downturns like what happened recently...There are a great deal of opportunities that have been prepared for in the past ten years," he said.
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Switzerland has not been hit by a domestic financial crisis since the 1970s; the Scandinavian countries were wracked by crises in the 1990s and suffered sharper downturns than Switzerland did following the global crisis of 2008.
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Conglomerates are out of style Wall Street was once enamored of the benefits created by joining dissimilar businesses under one roof: shared sales forces, more attractive financing and diversification to protect against downturns in one industry.
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However, these downturns pale in comparison to Egypt, a former holiday hot spot where tourism numbers fell by 40% last year as a direct result of political turmoil as well as a 2015 Russian plane crash.
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To hedge against a coming recession, the firm said to own things like gold and gold miners, as well as companies in monopoly areas like the utility sector since companies having pricing power even in downturns.
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During downturns, many businesses have to pull back on operations or payroll, but since Washington has the power of taxation and printing dollars, there is no incentive for tightening its belt beyond vapid election year promises.
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That's because the central bank has already raised interest rates to levels that are consistent with previous downturns in the stock market and economy, according to Barry Bannister, the head of institutional equity strategy at Stifel.
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Rio Tinto is one of the few big miners willing to underwrite projects at a time when most rivals operate under austerity measures in hopes of riding out one of the worst commodity downturns in decades.
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The Basel III rules, which are aimed at making the global banking system more resilient following the 2008 financial crisis, include forcing banks to hold more and different types of capital to insulate themselves during downturns.
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Chinese policymakers have repeatedly vowed not to open the credit floodgates in an economy already saddled with piles of debt - a legacy of massive stimulus during the global financial crisis in 2008-09 and subsequent downturns.
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The Basel III rules, which are aimed at making the global banking system more resilient following the 2008 financial crisis, could force banks to hold more and different types of capital to insulate themselves during downturns.
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The move by the 800-seat restaurant was prompted, according to local news reports, by the city's decision to ban gatherings of more than 500 people, though Chinatowns around the country had already been experiencing downturns.
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While the PBOC has guided interest rates lower over the past year through various means, many analysts believe it has less room to loosen policy after it cut RRRs and interest rates aggressively in past downturns.
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But she predicted a cut in October rather than this week as the Bank of Korea has never cut the rate at two meetings in a row, excluding the serious economic downturns of 2001 and 2009.
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Also, the administration would reduce the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant and eliminate the program's contingency fund, which states use during economic downturns -- saving a total of more than $21 billion over a decade.
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And should the economy fall into a recession — something that some in Hollywood fear is imminent — the entertainment industry could take a hit, though cinema in particular has historically managed to keep going through economic downturns.
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While Fitch views the luxury hotel business as typically more exposed to industry downturns than the mid-range and budget segments, Accor will decrease its vulnerability due to the lower share of fixed costs in managing hotels.
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Bulk Land Sales Support Liquidity: Fitch believes Modernland's large land bank and the good locations of the sites allow the company to sell land in bulk, which may provide liquidity support during downturns in the property cycle.
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Strategists blamed the quick rise in interest rates for stock downturns in February and October, when both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 entered correction levels with falls of more than 10 percent.
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But the current wave of job losses is expected to take years to reverse, in part because, unlike in previous downturns, companies have taken on more debt that will make it more difficult to return to growth.
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An influential Federal Reserve policymaker appears to want the Fed to adopt wholesale changes to the way it targets inflation, urging a new framework that would encourage higher prices and provide more flexibility in U.S. economic downturns.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world's listed oil companies have slashed oil output by 2.4 percent so far this year during one of the industry's worst downturns as OPEC battles to agree on its first production cut since 2008.
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Although income is correlated with happiness when looking across countries—and although economic downturns are reliable sources of temporary misery—long-term GDP growth does not seem to be enough to turn the average frown upside-down.
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"We are also approaching a similar point as in the previous two downturns when investors realized that a rate cut wasn't going to have a lasting impact—the point at which earnings growth turns negative," he says.
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The thinking goes that if banks are willing to hold on to more capital as a buffer against potential downturns, they should not have to adhere to a host of strict rules aimed at making banks safer.
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The company has repurchased approximately $300 million on average over each of the past four years, though it has historically conserved cash during downturns, reducing share buybacks when necessary to maintain leverage in the 2.5x-3.25x range.
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Bitcoin's price is still floating above $10,000 USD for 1 BTC—compared to $800 one year ago—despite some recent downturns, but large companies dropping support for the cryptocurrency threatens that monetary position and the technology's future.
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As Fed chairman from 200 to 21972, that same Alan Greenspan presided over what was called "the Great Moderation," a period when business-cycle downturns were muted and investors became convinced that the Fed had their backs.
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They have to pay for every dime they spend right then, and that in practice tends to necessitate program cuts during economic downturns, when tax revenues fall as people spend less, property values tank, and incomes plummet.
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"Given there hasn't been a single lead indicator as good as the yield curve at predicting U.S. downturns in the past 20 years, the inversion has to be taken very seriously," said Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid.
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"Given there hasn't been a single lead indicator as good as the yield curve at predicting U.S. downturns in the past 70 years, the inversion has to be taken very seriously," said Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid.
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"Given there hasn't been a single lead indicator as good as the yield curve at predicting U.S. downturns in the past 0 years, the inversion has to be taken very seriously," said Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid.
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Downturns and subsequent recoveries associated with the East Asian financial crisis of 22018/219, the global financial crisis of 21999/22000 and the shale bust of 22007/208 can all be traced out clearly in the spreads.
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It sounds almost quaint in the Trump era, but the Fed carefully examined bank lending under the current law in the last 15 years, seeking to fashion new rules that would promote lending, particularly during economic downturns.
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Since the mid-22s, the Fed has focused on keeping inflation slow and steady, at about 225 percent a year, in the belief that it was the best way to nurture economic growth and avoid painful downturns.
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Mainland China shares declined as Beijing said it will not resort to aggressive interest rate cuts to boost growth, with Premier Li Keqiang reiterating that the "flood-like" stimulus unleashed in past downturns would not be resorted to.
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Rate cuts totaling 21994-295 basis points before year-end would be similar or slightly larger than during the downturns of 27 (75 basis points) and 1998 (75 basis points) but smaller than during the last two recessions.
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They will steer clear of more controversial plans for using the proposed budget to help euro zone countries in economic downturns as they seek to overcome opposition to their ideas from other members of the single currency bloc.
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"A rebalancing of the current composition of capital requirements toward a more prominent role for the countercyclical capital buffer, keeping the overall level of capital requirements unchanged, could help mitigate costly economic deleveraging during downturns," de Guindos added.
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"A rebalancing of the current composition of capital requirements toward a more prominent role for the countercyclical capital buffer, keeping the overall level of capital requirements unchanged, could help mitigate costly economic deleveraging during downturns," de Guindos added.
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The bottom line: Tech is hardly immune from future downturns, and any number of disasters — from a full-on trade war with China to a massive earthquake along the San Andreas — could trigger a race to the exits.
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"A rebalancing of the current composition of capital requirements towards a more prominent role for the countercyclical capital buffer, keeping the overall level of capital requirements unchanged, could help mitigate costly economic deleveraging during downturns," de Guindos added.
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Van Houten also claimed the company would be insulated against macroeconomic downturns on the basis of its transition into a health care company, and said he was "very confident" about the company's outlook for growth in emerging markets.
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LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Mervyn King, who headed the Bank of England as the country suffered one of its biggest-ever economic downturns, is about to take his turnaround skills to another ailing institution: soccer club Aston Villa.
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The Fed should avoid removing support for the U.S. economy too quickly because of potential weakness in the labor market and risks of foreign economic downturns, Fed board governor Lael Brainard told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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While Beijing has accelerated approvals for road and rail projects in recent months, a familiar tactic used in past downturns, analysts note it will take time for construction to begin and put a floor under weakening economic growth.
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Rate cuts totalling 21994-295 basis points before year-end would be similar or slightly larger than during the downturns of 27 (75 basis points) and 1998 (75 basis points) but smaller than during the last two recessions.
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It will also review what new tools it might use to combat any future downturns, including tools that it rejected during the most recent crisis like capping Treasury yields as part of a bid to lower borrowing costs.
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By doing so, investors may be more willing to take advantage of market downturns to buy stocks when the herd is selling, if they see that as an opportunity to get closer to their financial goals, said Brown.
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Oil companies around the world are emerging from one of the longest downturns in recent decades amid warnings that the drop in investment in recent years may lead to a supply deficit by the end of the decade.
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Most ordinary investors use mutual funds and exchange-traded funds rather than individual stocks, and many avoid taking losses because they've been told over and over not to try timing the market and to instead ride out downturns.
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"We believe that the growth in committed revenue backlog provides greater visibility and predictability of our future revenue to help mitigate the impact of short to medium-term downturns in the economy," the company said in the filing.
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This is based off research from the Atlanta Fed, which shows the increase in interest rates to date has been more substantial than any of the last five tightening episodes, four of which ultimately led to economic downturns.
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Credit Suisse economists think a quarter point rate rise could boost the chance by around 5 percent of the UK economy tipping into recession, based on an analysis of factors that have contributed to downturns since the 1970s.
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Fitch believes that the proportion of property sales in Vietnam that is driven by investor demand rather than end-user demand is higher than for Indonesia and China, which can result in higher sales volatility during economic downturns.
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In his view, he said, such a rate cut would not be insurance against a possible bad outcome, but rather a bid to boost Fed credibility along with inflation, and position the Fed to better fight future downturns.
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While it provides extra cash to consumers, it also hurts U.S. oil companies and, over the last several years, has led to bankruptcies and economic downturns in parts of North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas and other oil production areas.
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Only recently have budget deficits at the federal and state levels been seized as a pretext for further spending cuts amid economic downturns, deepening recession and intensifying its effects on those at the bottom of the labor market.
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Doing so would send a signal that the Fed won't be complicit in the trade war while also preserving "much-needed ammunition" for rate cuts down the road that might be needed to combat economic downturns, Dudley said.
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Nowicki said he had a connection to the firm by way of his time in the Bay Area, where before Google, Vinod Khosla backed a startup of his (which went bust in one of the dot-com downturns).
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Critics of the idea say it would not keep pace with rising health costs and leave states especially vulnerable during economic downturns, when there's greater need for safety net services, Congress has not been supportive of the idea.
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Additionally, 401(k) contributions are voluntary and you can tap your funds for a variety of purposes before retirement, a situation that makes these types of retirement savings accounts more "vulnerable" than traditional pension benefits to economic downturns.
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And, during downturns like the Great Recession, it's tempting to put all your money in CDs or tuck it under the mattress instead of contributing to a retirement savings account where the value of the investments is cratering.
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The surprise reading comes against a backdrop of a prolonged slowdown in Polish factory activity, with the IHS Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing showing the sector enduring one of the longest downturns in the survey's history.
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Incorporating additive manufacturing is also a way for smaller Youngstown companies to remain resilient and make products at a lower cost, so that when downturns come or a large client moves away, they can pivot to other markets.
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"We do think this reluctance will be questioned more and more the longer rates are below zero, but until negative rates are widely passed on, the ECB's effectiveness to deal with future downturns is materially weakened," Holman said.
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In prepared remarks, Quarles said the Fed is preparing to shed further light on the models it uses to test banks and the scenarios it concocts to test their books against hypothetical economic downturns during each year's tests.
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The restructuring and exit of unprofitable business lines over the past five years is nearing completion, leaving a more focused business that is better positioned to fund R&D, manage cyclical downturns and compete within its areas of focus.
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For years, rural communities in Appalachia, the American Southwest and the Mississippi Delta have seen small theaters close due to the high cost of technology updates and to economic downturns that discourage investors from taking over struggling movie houses.
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The Fed is also in the midst of a policy review that may see the central bank decide to welcome inflation that is slightly and temporarily over its target to give officials better ability to respond to future downturns.
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In recent speeches, Clarida has argued that inflation is less responsive to lower unemployment than in the past, a view that may lead the Fed to stimulate the economy more aggressively and lower rates faster in response to downturns.
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Some academics and policymakers have expressed concern about the growing presence of nonbank lenders in mortgage lending, such as online lender Quicken Loans, given they are not as strictly regulated and lack a deposit base to help weather downturns.
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Dividend stocks generally tend to have higher annual returns than the rest of the market during market downturns, and concerns about the market so far this year have driven dividend stocks higher than the S&P as a whole.
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But the impact of crises suggests that if the president wants to reduce the number of economic migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean he should ensure that his administration responds rapidly and generously to downturns and natural disasters.
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The borrower wants or needs to reduce debt, and in order to achieve that, they cut back spending very sharply Recessions in a high-debt economy last longer and are more severe than downturns in a low-debt economy.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS IDRS, NATIONAL RATINGS AND SENIOR DEBT MTB's rating affirmation is supported by the company's strengths such as solid performance during a difficult operating environment and through various economic downturns as well as its improving capital position.
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"It reflects top officials' maturity in accepting that China needs to stabilize growth in a sustainable manner, instead of a rush of liquidity to the economy, as we saw in previous downturns," Hui said in a note on Tuesday.
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With barely four months until the world's fifth largest economy leaves the European Union, a raft of major companies set out plans on Tuesday to counter any trade delays and downturns that could stem from a no-deal scenario.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS IDRS, NATIONAL RATINGS AND SENIOR DEBT MTB's rating affirmation is supported by the company's core strengths and financial profile, such as consistently delivering solid performance through various economic downturns as well as its improved capital position.
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Instead, through three cyclical downturns in oil prices, Naimi has always chosen to use Saudi Arabia's vast oil supply scale - Riyadh produces more than a tenth of global crude - and its financial muscle to drive out higher cost rivals.
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Qualcomm is prepared to invest through downturns because such stakes offer a ringside seat for "the next generation of disruptive innovation around our mobile core," said Brian Modoff, who oversees strategy, mergers and acquisitions and ventures for the company.
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Presidents usually get too much blame when the economy is doing badly, since downturns are often caused by outside shocks or cyclical factors, but that also gives them a chance to crow when things are going full steam ahead.
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The S&P 500 could surge in a powerful rally to 1.943,850, if stocks stage the same type of breakout they had after the last two similar downturns, according to technical research strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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In a seminal paper, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke found that it was not the rise in oil prices that precipitated downturns, per se, but the Fed's decision to increase interest rates in response to the oil-generated inflation.
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At its last meeting in June, the FPC brought forward a requirement for banks to explain how they would cope with heavy consumer lending losses, and also started to increase the risk buffers banks must hold against cyclical downturns.
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Economists are more concerned a downturn might be on the horizon now than they have been previously, but if economic downturns and stock market busts were easy to predict, well, we'd have a much better track record of guessing.
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These occurrences, called inversions, are rare, and they have grabbed Wall Street's attention for one simple reason: They have preceded every recession over the last 60 years (although some of those downturns took up to two years to materialize).
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While hundreds of millions of people staying home will increase viewership in the short term — notwithstanding ESPN, given major sports leagues paused or canceled their seasons — TV advertising revenue shrinks during market downturns as brands reduce their marketing budgets.
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His older coworkers who were flight attendants during downturns have described how voluntary leave could be the first step in a process that might include voluntary furloughs, meaning no benefits, or splitting schedules between two workers, before actual layoffs.
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An auto parts business provides a hedge against economic cycles, said Rosa, noting that consumers are less likely to acquire new cars during downturns but are still obliged to spend periodically to keep their aging clunkers on the road.
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