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It would be very unfortunate if, out of solicitude for the banking system, the Fed were to slow down its rate of interest-rate increase beyond what was appropriate given the credit contraction. – Mohamed El-Erian	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The contraction this year is smaller than what I predicted publicly, but to my mind what Putin has done is prop up this year’s growth, in an accounting sense, by sacrificing long term growth potential, the lasting consequence of this war will be that Russia has lost Europe and the G7 as energy consumers and that’s going to dry out the major source of export revenue that remains. And it’s going to leave Russia as a smaller, weaker, more isolated economy. – Daleep Singh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It will lead to some disruption and contraction in economic activity, gDP numbers for the first quarter of the year will be affected . – Bismarck Rewane	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These measures could help offset the sharp contraction in government revenue and support infrastructure investment growth to some degree in coming months. – Goldman Sachs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The larger than forecast contraction in 2020 is, however, expected to be offset by an improvement in growth in 2021 which has now been revised upwards to 9.7 percent growth for the year. – Peggy Serame	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Output will likely be positive in the first quarter, but we expect (economic) growth to be negative. The biggest reason is the contraction in private spending due to the state of emergency. – Takumi Tsunoda	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Output will likely be positive in the first quarter, but we expect growth to be negative. The biggest reason is the contraction in private spending due to the state of emergency. – Takumi Tsunoda	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The contraction of the Mexican economy during the epidemic is much bigger than that of other recent crises. – Alfredo Coutino	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The economic cost of the pandemic is huge. It had a deep negative impact on our economy that posted a contraction for the first time in decades. – Al Ississ	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The damage caused by any recession tends to be rapid, while the healing process often takes years, the unprecedented speed and magnitude of this contraction is being followed by an exceptionally rapid restart, but one that is not surprisingly already showing clear signs of slowing. That should be expected to continue. – Jim Baird	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's one of the first thing they should have checked in Omsk. There are a number of symptoms that accompany this poisoning including various types of muscle paralysis, contraction of the pupil in the eye, blood tests, and so on. – in Berlin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Typically, recession data are subject to heavy revisions, nevertheless, taken at face value, the bigger-than-expected contraction suggests some downside risk to our call of a 9.5 % contraction in full year 2020. – Boris Johnsons	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To put this in context, this will be worse than the contraction that we saw in 2008, it will be worse than the one that people estimate happened during the( 1918) Spanish flu, it won't be as bad as the( 1930s) Global Depression, which is a significantly worse contraction, but it will certainly be the second-worst economic shock that we've seen globally. – Director Amer Bisat	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
To pull the economy out of contraction, you need something that benefits everybody, like cash handouts, tax cuts, pushing forward infrastructure spending that can be done sooner rather than later would also help. – Tommy Wu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So far, we are not able to gather his contact history, so we are actively making investigations, hoping to find out the source of the contraction. – Health Minister Chen Shih-chung	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Much of the pressure is now coming from the political unrest. The trade war itself would cause Hong Kong's GDP growth to slow but not a contraction, while the political unrest could. – Tommy Wu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This one is significant. We're seeing a real contraction in the manufacturing sector. – Phil Blancato	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're definitely in rapid expansion mode, not contraction mode, we believe this is part of the future of how people are going to get around. That is what makes us bullish. – Rachel Holt	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We think the attacks would be a wake up call for investors, who have failed to price in risk within the price of crude. Although global supply will contract in the near term, the United States has the ability to supply this contraction. – Hue Frame	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
While investment by non-manufacturers, particularly software-related, maintained robust growth, it was not enough to completely offset the contraction in spending by manufacturers. – Stefan Angrick	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I would not be surprised if we see a technical recession - two consecutive quarters of contraction. That is highly probable now. – Raymond Yeung	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The trend of decreasing freight traffic is hard to ignore. It reflects weakening economic data and contraction forces at play, not just in Europe but around the world. These will ultimately translate into lower passenger demand, adding to that, volatile oil prices, labour cost pressures and more consolidation should also lead airlines to be more cautious with capacity expansion. So pressures on passenger traffic are likely to come both from the demand and supply sides in 2019. – Olivier Jankovec	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I told the mother on the next contraction I want you to push as hard as you can, the next contraction came, the baby came out, I guided the head out. – Cambridge Police Department/Boston 25	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They usually help patients target the pelvic floor muscles and teach them how to do Kegels, lots of times, people aren’t doing Kegels properly—they may be contracting their glutes or thighs or abdominals instead of it being a focused contraction of pelvic floor. – Amy George	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

It would be very unfortunate if, out of solicitude for the banking system, the Fed were to slow down its rate of interest-rate increase beyond what was appropriate given the credit contraction.

– Mohamed El-Erian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The contraction this year is smaller than what I predicted publicly, but to my mind what Putin has done is prop up this year’s growth, in an accounting sense, by sacrificing long term growth potential, the lasting consequence of this war will be that Russia has lost Europe and the G7 as energy consumers and that’s going to dry out the major source of export revenue that remains. And it’s going to leave Russia as a smaller, weaker, more isolated economy.

– Daleep Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It will lead to some disruption and contraction in economic activity, gDP numbers for the first quarter of the year will be affected .

– Bismarck Rewane

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These measures could help offset the sharp contraction in government revenue and support infrastructure investment growth to some degree in coming months.

– Goldman Sachs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The larger than forecast contraction in 2020 is, however, expected to be offset by an improvement in growth in 2021 which has now been revised upwards to 9.7 percent growth for the year.

– Peggy Serame

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Output will likely be positive in the first quarter, but we expect (economic) growth to be negative. The biggest reason is the contraction in private spending due to the state of emergency.

– Takumi Tsunoda

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Output will likely be positive in the first quarter, but we expect growth to be negative. The biggest reason is the contraction in private spending due to the state of emergency.

– Takumi Tsunoda

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The contraction of the Mexican economy during the epidemic is much bigger than that of other recent crises.

– Alfredo Coutino

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The economic cost of the pandemic is huge. It had a deep negative impact on our economy that posted a contraction for the first time in decades.

– Al Ississ

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The damage caused by any recession tends to be rapid, while the healing process often takes years, the unprecedented speed and magnitude of this contraction is being followed by an exceptionally rapid restart, but one that is not surprisingly already showing clear signs of slowing. That should be expected to continue.

– Jim Baird

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's one of the first thing they should have checked in Omsk. There are a number of symptoms that accompany this poisoning including various types of muscle paralysis, contraction of the pupil in the eye, blood tests, and so on.

– in Berlin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Typically, recession data are subject to heavy revisions, nevertheless, taken at face value, the bigger-than-expected contraction suggests some downside risk to our call of a 9.5 % contraction in full year 2020.

– Boris Johnsons

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To put this in context, this will be worse than the contraction that we saw in 2008, it will be worse than the one that people estimate happened during the( 1918) Spanish flu, it won't be as bad as the( 1930s) Global Depression, which is a significantly worse contraction, but it will certainly be the second-worst economic shock that we've seen globally.

– Director Amer Bisat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To pull the economy out of contraction, you need something that benefits everybody, like cash handouts, tax cuts, pushing forward infrastructure spending that can be done sooner rather than later would also help.

– Tommy Wu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So far, we are not able to gather his contact history, so we are actively making investigations, hoping to find out the source of the contraction.

– Health Minister Chen Shih-chung

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Much of the pressure is now coming from the political unrest. The trade war itself would cause Hong Kong's GDP growth to slow but not a contraction, while the political unrest could.

– Tommy Wu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This one is significant. We're seeing a real contraction in the manufacturing sector.

– Phil Blancato

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're definitely in rapid expansion mode, not contraction mode, we believe this is part of the future of how people are going to get around. That is what makes us bullish.

– Rachel Holt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We think the attacks would be a wake up call for investors, who have failed to price in risk within the price of crude. Although global supply will contract in the near term, the United States has the ability to supply this contraction.

– Hue Frame

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While investment by non-manufacturers, particularly software-related, maintained robust growth, it was not enough to completely offset the contraction in spending by manufacturers.

– Stefan Angrick

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I would not be surprised if we see a technical recession - two consecutive quarters of contraction. That is highly probable now.

– Raymond Yeung

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The trend of decreasing freight traffic is hard to ignore. It reflects weakening economic data and contraction forces at play, not just in Europe but around the world. These will ultimately translate into lower passenger demand, adding to that, volatile oil prices, labour cost pressures and more consolidation should also lead airlines to be more cautious with capacity expansion. So pressures on passenger traffic are likely to come both from the demand and supply sides in 2019.

– Olivier Jankovec

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I told the mother on the next contraction I want you to push as hard as you can, the next contraction came, the baby came out, I guided the head out.

– Cambridge Police Department/Boston 25

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They usually help patients target the pelvic floor muscles and teach them how to do Kegels, lots of times, people aren’t doing Kegels properly—they may be contracting their glutes or thighs or abdominals instead of it being a focused contraction of pelvic floor.

– Amy George

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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