And on that front Trump is crimping his own power.
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But that does not appear to be crimping marketing budgets.
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The collapsing pound will drive up inflation up, crimping real incomes.
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If I couldn't write, it would be like crimping a garden hose.
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Less open markets will stunt competition, crimping productivity growth and living standards.
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Uncertainty around the economy and new tax law is also crimping sales.
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It's the victim of rising pension costs that are crimping municipal coffers.
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The plunging stockmarket could hit consumer and business confidence, crimping spending and investment.
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Some say more regulation could tighten the supply of credit, potentially crimping growth.
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Higher oil prices are pushing up the cost of gasoline, crimping consumer spending.
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Yet outsize exposure to the grounded Boeing jet is crimping future passenger growth.
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Whether Europe's tough approach is actually crimping the global tech giants is unclear.
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The drain has lost Syria its brightest, crimping its chances of post-conflict recovery.
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Last year China seemed to be getting serious about crimping off-balance-sheet borrowing.
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It blamed weak growth in the United States and around the world for crimping exports.
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Wrap bread loaf in aluminum foil, crimping the foil together at the top to seal.
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And besides the physics, politics too has played a part in crimping cross-border deals.
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Yet this illegal distribution of NFL content may also be crimping the league's viewer numbers.
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In Australia, similar scandals have prompted the passage of new laws aimed at crimping foreign influence.
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He said another factor crimping it is "inconsistency" in some government policies, such as for investment.
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Top with apple filling, then the top layer of crust, crimping at the edges to seal.
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Supply chain disruptions caused by Washington's trade war with Beijing were also seen crimping business investment.
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That could squeeze businesses there, making it harder for them to borrow, further crimping their economies.
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There are signs mortgages are crimping household spending, in an economy increasingly reliant on domestic consumption.
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But the wave of projects in the pipeline will go some way to crimping any shortage.
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The ruble fell because stringent new sanctions on influential Russians are crimping demand for the currency.
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The price of ethereum is down nearly 60 percent this year, crimping demand for cryptomining cards.
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Higher interest rates, fading fiscal stimulus and cooling global economies are also seen crimping domestic growth.
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If investors cannot trust financial statements, then companies' cost of capital will rise, crimping growth and employment.
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In fact, he told the LA Times that he patented the crimping machine that seals the sandwiches.
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Food magazines typically celebrate Thanksgiving in mid-July, bronzing turkeys and crimping piecrust four months in advance.
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In its quarterly report last month, the company acknowledged that increased competition was crimping profits in Mexico.
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Reputational and financial costs are piling up, crimping margins at some of the world's most profitable banks.
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This crimping process bends the metal to shape and keeps the handle tightly attached to the brush.
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There are some things like topknot buns and crimping... I feel like that could be a thing again.
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Looking forward, a warmer-than-usual winter has been forecast for southern China, potentially crimping appetite for coal.
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So far, there has been little evidence of that with both businesses and households crimping on overall spending.
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In fact, the government is further crimping freedom of speech in a country not exactly known for it.
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Shenzhen (CNN Business)Huawei is still growing despite a continued US campaign aimed at crimping its global reach.
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And Trump now has to deal with the threat of a frightening virus smacking markets and crimping growth.
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Too much divergence and the dollar will strengthen, tightening supplies of dollar credit and further crimping global trade.
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Facebook, the second largest advertising platform after Google, warned in 2015 that ad-blockers were crimping its revenue.
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Executives everywhere have been trying to improve matters by dumping unprofitable businesses, crimping expenses or laying off staff.
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Here are the longer-term forces crimping wage and price increases: Low-cost online firms charge lower prices.
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Hair can get big — like closer-to-god big — when you use a crimping iron on the entire ponytail.
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Gilmore said he brought a utility knife with a special crimping tool to prepare the blasting caps on explosives.
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India in late 26 pulled all 500- and 1,000-rupee notes out of circulation, crimping retail and wholesale markets.
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Hong Kongers may have put a recent freedom-crimping bill on ice, but more challenges to their independence await.
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U.S. markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Day holiday, crimping market activity and potentially exacerbating price moves.
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Airlines have been grappling with a profit-crimping surge in fuel costs, generally their second-largest expense after labor.
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The models at Sonia Rykiel wore their tresses in bouncy waves, but you could spot some crimping and frizz.
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Investors fear that rising inflation in the U.S. could prompt a rise in interest rates, potentially crimping global growth.
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The two businesses have been busy exporting their folding and crimping technologies to dumpling-conscious cities around the world.
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A 2015 Deloitte report found it takes three months to hire skilled engineers, and the shortage is crimping manufacturers.
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The ancillary revenue is key to airlines' bottom lines they struggle with a profit-crimping rise in fuel costs.
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The rising tide hasn't lifted all boats with uncertainty over the political and reform prospects in Malaysia crimping that market.
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Designed to keep hair from catching, crimping, and pulling, these hair ties are gentle on strands and around the wrist.
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United said it was recovering most of a profit-crimping surge in fuel costs through higher fares and other initiatives.
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Double-digit wage increases are crimping productivity and may encourage inflation, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Many of the nation's oil fields are aging after years of use, while high production costs are also crimping output.
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No matter how committed you once were to your crimping iron, we're not entirely sure it will make a mass comeback.
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Crude oil prices had dropped as renewed U.S.-China trade worries stoked concerns of slower global growth crimping demand for commodities.
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Ford Motor Co has, however, said it would not hike prices on its imported cars for now, crimping its profit margins.
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Soured loans across Europe are threatening to undermine economic recovery by crimping banks' ability to lend, especially in slower-growing economies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's fund managers face calls to hold more emergency cash, potentially crimping their ability to pay dividends or expand.
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He sees this trend potentially crimping performance going forward, and compounding the challenges that the mutual-fund industry is already confronting.
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In addition to its considerable human tragedy, Tropical Storm Harvey is crimping the supply of energy that runs the U.S. economy.
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Meanwhile, No.2 grocer Coles Group acknowledged that it underpaid some store managers for six years, crimping its half-year profit.
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Instead of crimping payments around the margins, it would eliminate entirely all U.S. economic assistance until the PA ends its incitement.
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Jet-fuel prices are up about 22018 percent from a year ago, crimping airline profits even as travel demand remains robust.
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And he wants to spend heavily on health and education, money which can only be found by crimping the armed forces' budget.
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Combined with signs of a global economic slowdown, that has led to falling long-term interest rates, crimping the industry's profit margins.
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Last year it was seen as the main cause of a drought that hit crop production, fuelling inflation and crimping economic growth.
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And a nativist turn in both America and Britain has led to tighter rules on visas for foreign students, crimping their numbers.
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And pressure on banks to use mobile channels to cut costs has increased since the government capped rates, crimping their profit margins.
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"That's hardly what you would do if you were really worried about the possible unconstitutional travel ban crimping your business," he said.
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Fallout from Australia's real-estate downturn has hit earnings across the economy, crimping sales at grocers, building suppliers, advertisers, mechanics and developers.
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The WSJ points out that Chinese tariffs on soybeans are crimping exports, and prices for oilseeds are down 11 percent this year.
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Saudi retailers have struggled in 2016 as reduced government spending due to the impact of lower oil prices is crimping consumer spending.
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And to fend off the inflationary threat the Bank of England may be forced to raise interest rates, crimping investment and consumption further.
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U.S. airline stocks have largely struggled this year amid a profit-crimping rise in fuel, generally airlines' second-largest expense after employee salaries.
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Shell and BP managed slight gains as oil prices rose on signs the price fall may start crimping supply from the United States.
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Crown then faced a new challenge, with a downturn in Chinese consumer spending crimping revenue from Chinese high-rollers at its Australian tables.
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It will probably divert investment from China and towards the TPP partners it competes with, crimping the former's GDP by 0.1% by 2030.
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A strong dollar, in which oil is traded, makes fuel purchases more expensive for countries using other currencies at home, potentially crimping demand.
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The gains are fueled by a boost of about 218.8 percent in capital spending, benefiting executives come bonus time but crimping shareholder returns.
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There are concerns about crimping future diplomatic conversations if leaders think they can't speak freely because their interpreters' notes could be made public.
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Eventually, economists assume, this inflation will work its way through the economy, further depressing growth by crimping consumer spending and potentially sowing unemployment.
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A prolonged stoppage could affect G.M.'s Canadian and Mexican operations, crimping the company's bottom line and the fortunes of its parts suppliers.
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Bachelet's policies were seen by many in the business community as crimping investment at a time slumping copper prices were weighing on the economy.
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Without ample early-stage funding, the startup and venture pipeline begins to constrict, eventually limiting late-stage activity after crimping its early-stage sibling.
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The big fear is that China's economy, the world's second-largest after the United States, is slowing down and crimping growth in other countries.
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The danger is that America's outperformance pushes the dollar even higher, leading to more volatility in global finance and crimping growth in emerging markets.
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Because oil and refined products are traded in dollars, its import costs rise for any country using other currencies at home, potentially crimping demand.
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The first-time officeholder has vowed to ramp up oil, natural gas and coal projects while crimping federal protections for clean air and water.
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But demand for such assets in developed markets has been so strong and supply so tight that investors have bid up prices, crimping returns.
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He said the United States, where sales have limped recently, did not yet show signs of recovery, with constrained wage growth crimping consumer spending.
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The "Mad Money" host based his reasoning in the the economy is "inherently deflationary," in part due to labor-saving technology crimping wage growth.
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The virus outbreak that began in central China has been shutting down industrial centers, emptying shops and severely crimping travel all over the world.
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Getting the look yourself is as easy as dusting off your old crimping iron, or making a quick trip to the nearest Sally Beauty.
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Guzman said he expected some recovery of economic activity in the second quarter of 2019 despite fuel shortages, road blockades and strikes crimping growth.
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Then, caught in the glare of increased scrutiny, they reined in lending, further crimping investment and pushing credit-seekers towards non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs).
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Earlier this year the IMF warned that authoritarianism and arbitrary policies were crimping growth in what was once one of the continent's fastest growing economies.
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Tuesday's manufacturing data also show demand exceeding supply of goods produced, with production bottlenecks crimping the ability of producers to keep up with consumer demand.
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Meanwhile, for the third quarter of 2019, AT&T's pay-TV business continued to be in free-fall, crimping revenue and hurting the bottom line.
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Oil prices plummeted more than 4 percent, crimping the record-breaking rally in U.S. shares, while European shares dipped after four straight days of gains.
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At the same time as the leadership problems, weakening demand for cars in Europe and North America, the company's largest market, is crimping Nissan's earnings.
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Earlier this year the IMF warned that authoritarianism and arbitrary policies were crimping growth in what was once one of the continent's fastest-growing economies.
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The monthly decline came as local coal prices were down about 20 percent from records hit in January, with warmer weather crimping demand from utilities.
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If it grows too strong, they are likely to start cutting costs — crimping wages and investment, which experts see as vital to helping the economy rebound.
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In 2000 the suppression of an uprising in Soweto, a black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, ushered in sanctions and boycotts, crimping South Africa's economy.
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"Supermarkets are afraid to raise prices and the Tesco-Unilever tussle is a symptom of a bitter sector price war that is crimping margins," added Wilson.
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Bloomberg reports that SDI's batteries were thought by U.S. regulators to be too large for the phone, crimping the corners and causing them to short circuit.
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That means the House bill would pinch Trump's blue-collar white supporters in two ways – crimping their own Medicaid coverage, and that of their elderly parents.
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But the possibility of growth-crimping Western sanctions being extended has put foreign investors to flight and driven the rouble to 22016-43/24-year lows.
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Lenders in the East African nation have turned to consolidation to boost profit growth after the government capped commercial interest rates in 212.7, crimping their margins.
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That weakness was also a major reason wage growth slowed to a record low of 1.9 percent in the year to September, crimping spending power nationally.
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Then early last year, the Federal Reserve, the bank's primary regulator, ruled that the bank could not expand its balance sheet, crimping its ability to grow.
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The franc is trading at 1.087 versus the euro EURCHF=, close to its highest level in two years, making exports more expensive and crimping profit margins.
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The franc is trading at 1.087 versus the euro EURCHF=, close to its highest level in two years, making exports more expensive and crimping profit margins.
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As for his business's customers, while they might complain, his policies are less likely to end up badly crimping their profit than, say, those of Sanders.
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Australia typically exports two-thirds of its wheat but, with dry weather crimping east coast output, demand from domestic millers will supplant major customers such as Indonesia.
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Moscow, which says the territory is rightfully Russian, can supply it only by sea and air, a factor which is crimping the Black Sea peninsula's economic growth.
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India overhauled bankruptcy laws last year with the main goal of helping banks tackle a $150-billion bad loan issue that is crimping growth in the economy.
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Australia exports so much beef to China that the Global Times, a pugnacious state-owned newspaper, has suggested crimping the trade to punish Australia for various provocations.
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Before crimping, the hair pro lightly dusted his fingertips with Matrix Style Link Mineral Booster Texture Booster and raked them through her hair to create extra volume.
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A weak peso, driven in part by the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, has led to a rise in inflation, crimping consumer confidence and purchasing power.
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On one hand, he has called for dismantling the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul that is credited with reining in risk taking but blamed for crimping profits.
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Italian lenders are still saddled with around 300 billion euros ($23 billion) of bad loans, hurting their already weak profitability and crimping their ability to lend more.
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Unfortunately the chipmaker has announced a delay in moving its next-generation manufacturing technology to holiday 2019, which may be crimping overall chip production, according to Hariharan.
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Neither China nor Russia have any deep interest in crimping the DPRK's nuclear and missile threat, for it will not launch nuclear bombs at its two benefactors.
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United Airlines on Friday became the latest carrier to raise the cost of checking a bag, as airlines grapple with a profit-crimping surge in fuel prices.
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Prices rose to the highest in more than six years in late July and remained elevated through August, potentially crimping demand for imports of the polluting fuel.
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"Crosscurrents from policy uncertainty have risen since early May, crimping business investment plans, raising concerns in some financial market segments, and weighing on global growth prospects," Brainard said.
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Aside from crimping household budgets, lower overall personal income growth makes it harder for a state to keep up with increasing costs of delivering services without raising taxes.
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All of which fueled speculation that the major central banks would also have to take drastic action, if only to prevent an export-crimping rise in their currencies.
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Moreover, investors also took a wait-and-see approach ahead of Trump's closely-watched Congressional address later in the day, capping the dollar and crimping overall market activity.
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Without help, the ailing banks have little room to offer credit, thereby crimping Italy's sickly economy, which has barely grown since the birth of the euro in 1999.
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Crude has been volatile this week, boosted momentarily by a weaker dollar but also continuing to face downward pressure from concerns towards a slowing global economy crimping demand.
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The Commission document said the European Central Bank was concerned the current withholding tax system was crimping the efficiency of its new Target 2 Securities or T2S platform.
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Prices are expected to climb 21 percent this year, the poll of 20.8205 economists taken this week found, yet wages will only rise 2.4 percent, crimping household budgets.
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All of which fuelled speculation that the major central banks would also have to take drastic action, if only to prevent an export-crimping rise in their currencies.
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Global oil prices have fallen more than 255 percent since mid-20.18, eroding cash flows of oil producers and crimping their ability to meet debt and interest payments.
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Today however, with regulations crimping the amount of risk they can run and increased capital costs applied to holding those risks, banks are less likely to garner outsized gains.
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Global oil prices LCOc21.3 have fallen more than 255 percent since mid-20.18, eroding cash flows of oil producers and crimping their ability to meet debt and interest payments.
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A default by PDVSA, which issued about half of the country's outstanding bonds, could ensnare the company's foreign assets such as refineries in legal battles - potentially crimping export revenue.
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One hope for Alphabet is that the unspecified "product changes" that CFO Ruth Porat said were crimping growth in the first quarter could now actually help recharge the segment.
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Ms. Trauss started to attract the attention of wealthy donors like Jeremy Stoppelman, the co-founder of Yelp, who had started to worry about housing costs crimping economic growth.
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The fading stimulus from last year's $537 trillion tax cut package and weakening growth overseas is also crimping the longest economic expansion on record, now in its 22015th year.
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The cost of China's favourite meat has surged, and no wonder: African swine fever has slimmed the country's pig herd by nearly 40% over the past year, crimping supply.
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American Airlines is cutting some of its international flights, including some money-losing service to China, as the world's largest airline faces a profit-crimping surge in fuel prices.
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Mr. Romero said shoppers in the market for refrigerators were forgoing costlier units and opting to buy a $1,000 refrigerator rather than one that sold for $1,250, crimping profits.
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Mr. Romero said shoppers in the market for refrigerators were forgoing costlier units and opting to buy a $1,000 refrigerator rather than one that sold for $1,250, crimping profits.
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Once considered the most savvy Wall Street trading house, it has suffered because of tougher regulation since the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and low market volatility crimping revenues.
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U.S. gasoline and distillate stocks surged unexpectedly last week, government data showed, crimping margins for refiners at the height of summer driving season when demand for fuels were generally healthy.
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Oil prices and the dollar are typically in a so-called inverse correlation, since a strong greenback weighs on crude as it makes fuel purchases more expensive, potentially crimping demand.
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Over the same period the economy shrank 2.6% year-on-year, after the lira last year shed some 30 percent of its value against the dollar, crimping consumners' purchasing power.
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U.S. equities surged on Thursday after the Fed said it would be patient in raising interest rates further this year, easing investor concerns about tighter financial conditions crimping economic growth.
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But fees for content and revenue sharing as well as in-house production costs jumped 63 percent, crimping its gross margin to 34 percent from 38.9 percent a year earlier.
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Investors took heart from the Fed's pledge on Wednesday that it would be patient in raising interest rates further this year, easing concerns about tightening financial conditions crimping economic growth.
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S. trade dispute is causing businesses worldwide to put off investment decisions, crimping economic activity and risking a self-fulfilling global downturn, a top Australian central banker warned on Thursday.
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And prices for important industrial commodities like aluminum, copper and steel have fallen, confirming deep weakness in the industrial sector and crimping the profits of the companies that produce them.
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One scene, where the Moffatt girls transform Meg March into a 'regular little beauty' by 'crimping, curling and polishing' until she looks 'not a bit like herself,' is particularly telling.
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And prices for important industrial commodities like aluminum, copper and steel have fallen, confirming deep weakness in the industrial sector and crimping the profits of the companies that produce them.
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" As the strong dollar squeezes global companies' profits because overseas currencies are translated into fewer dollars, higher interest rates are crimping domestic demand for real estate, Cramer warned on "Mad Money.
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The ECB is expected to resume buying corporate bonds this year to revive a faltering economy, crimping the returns from investment-grade bonds and pushing investors into so-called junk debt.
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OPEC's effort to balance an oversupplied oil market could have the unintended consequence of crimping crude demand from China, said Matt Smith, head of commodities research at shipment-tracking firm ClipperData.
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Brussels has threatened punitive measures - including refusing to roll over recognition of Swiss bourse rules beyond the end of 2018, crimping cross-border trading - should the talks fail, prompting Swiss retaliation.
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South Korea scored an exemption from steel tariffs in March, 2018, but only in return for a quota a third below the previous years' volumes, severely crimping the Asian country's industry.
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From Swatch watches and a crimping iron to Christie Brinkley and Bo Derek, the tweens have to take a few passes before they hit their stride during a game of Heads Up!
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Producers who set their 123 spending plans when oil was above $50 a barrel could put the brakes on second-half expenditures, crimping the oilfield sector's ability to raise prices, they said.
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Southwest's measures and outlook show how airlines' struggle with repeated delays to the planes' return to service is getting worse, crimping their growth at a time of strong demand for air travel.
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A default by state oil company PDVSA, which issued about half of the country's outstanding bonds, could ensnare the company's foreign assets such as refineries in legal battles - potentially crimping export revenue.
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LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) - Leaving the European Union would be a shock to Britain's financial industry, threatening foreign investment and crimping growth, a leading City of London Corporation official said on Monday.
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This is very bad news, considering tuition costs are likely to go up as the bill proposes to tax university income to raise $2628 billion a year, crimping expansion, research and scholarships.
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Banks are typically more profitable in a rising rate environment, and after years of historically low rates crimping the bottom lines of banks, investors cheered any signs that rates would move higher.
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The NAR also said last year's revamp of the U.S. tax code, which reduced the amount of mortgage interest payments homeowners could deduct, was crimping demand for homes priced $232 million and above.
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The results look a bit like a more severe version of our favorite '80s trend — where crimping is a gentle, rolling tide crashing on the shore, the zig-zag is a tidal wave.
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China Eastern Airlines sold Eastern Air Logistics to its parent in February for 2.43 billion yuan ($356.57 million), saying the unit's shrinking market share and debts were crimping the airline's overall operating performance.
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Manufacturers also reported an unusually big rise in input prices, which are likely to feed into prices on the high street next year, potentially crimping consumer demand — a key pillar of economic growth.
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A two-hour drive north of Boone in Algona, Iowa, a town of about 5,500 people, farm doldrums are crimping business at the local Deere and Harley-Davidson Inc dealerships, the operators said.
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So far regulators have been treading carefully as countries such as Britain are wary of crimping a sector that is still tiny compared with banking, but could create many new jobs in future.
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Sluggish wage growth and tepid inflation have been crimping Australia's retail environment for years, but the added impact of bushfires this summer heaped more pressure with consumers dodging shopping for non-essential items.
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Australia's east coast had three-years of below average output following sustained dry weather, with the strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years fuelling dry weather in the region and crimping production last season.
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Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it would not hike prices on its imported cars for now, including those on higher-margin luxury Lincoln models, crimping its profit margins on cars imported to China.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes rose far less than expected in June, another sign that a lack of inventory is crimping activity despite mortgage rates being at near-record lows.
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The environmental inspections are also limiting the production of raw material from mines in China, curtailing the amount of supply available for smelters to produce refined lead and also crimping stockpiles, according to analysts.
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Equity markets were struck early in the week by worries about the health of the euro zone banking sector, with very accommodative monetary policy seen crimping bank profits and their ability to repay debt.
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But when it was time to choreograph some sleepover dance numbers to the soundtrack, I'd beg to play a bad kid, crimping my hair and tying my (modest) shirt into a midriff-baring top.
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It was LG Display's second consecutive quarterly loss amid an uncertain time for the global panel industry, with Chinese manufacturers ramping up capacity and a glut of LCD output crimping prices and profit margins.
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He said small businesses - often seen as the engine of the British economy - are becoming increasingly reluctant to borrow from traditional lenders, even it means crimping their business prospects and limiting overall economic growth.
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Global equity markets have been hit by worries over the health of the euro zone banking sector, with a very loose monetary policy seen crimping bank profits and consequently their ability to repay debt.
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It wants to do so without a spike in unemployment or crimping domestic consumption, but strong labor protections make companies unwilling to create new jobs or pay much for the jobs they do create.
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Oil prices fell on Tuesday, retreating after an early surge to a 24½-year high when the United Kingdom's biggest North Sea oil pipeline was shut, crimping the flow of global benchmark Brent crude.
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Equity's announcement marks the third major deal among lenders in Kenya since the government capped commercial lending rates in 2016, crimping their profit margins and forcing them to look for survival strategies, including consolidation.
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The last quarter saw small businesses in the U.K. regain their confidence to pre-referendum levels but the falling pound is driving up costs and crimping profits, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
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After 2008-2009, regulators took a harder line on bank risk-taking, crimping their ability to trade commodities and forcing Wall Street's biggest firms out of the business of proprietary trading, or trading for themselves.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. aviation supply-chain companies have hit turbulence in 2016, and fears of a global recession crimping jet demand could make the sector's ride bumpy for some time to come.
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But the government may not be able to keep providing enough jobs for graduates, especially if a slowdown in China's economy, which is crimping demand for commodities, has a knock-on effect on the plateau.
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In August, the Bank of England eased a broad measure of capital adequacy for banks to help avoid crimping the flow of credit after the vote in June to leave the European Union. (reut.rs/2alqlXk)
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Existing contracts meant Angola had only one cargo to sell on the spot market in February, traders said, crimping its ability to generate cash when needed and ability to set prices for its term buyers.
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"Crosscurrents from policy uncertainty have risen since early May, crimping business investment plans, raising concerns in some financial market segments, and weighing on global growth prospects," Fed Governor Lael Brainard said in Cincinnati, Ohio Friday.
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The plot moves fast, crimping in terrifying ways, letting us see the repercussions without the easy vamping that other TV thrillers engage in—and suggesting that the next teen-ager Philip corrupts might be Paige.
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His trade war with Beijing also widened the gap: Stiff tariffs on Chinese goods helped slow China's economy, crimping American exports, which declined nearly 50 percent in December from the same month a year before.
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The central bank has been under pressure from investors and, perhaps more notably, from President Donald Trump and others in the administration to cut interest rates that Trump argues are unnecessarily crimping the U.S. economy.
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A machine builder who uses lots of steel fears that higher costs could make his clients less competitive, crimping their production and in turn demand for his product—a "downward spiral for us and our customers".
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Barnier, denying a reporter's suggestion that he was "angry" by characterizing his attitude as "impatient" and "determined", again rejected British accusations that his need for 27-nation consensus was crimping his ability to negotiate and compromise.
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Alternatively, as suggested in a recent working paper published by the Bank for International Settlements, a strong dollar could tighten global credit conditions, making it harder to finance long supply chains and so crimping trade flows.
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Eight years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a global banking meltdown, Europe's banks are estimated to have about 3 trillion euros in problem loans (NPL), crimping their ability to lend and scaring off investors.
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Then there is the knock-on effect, as the dwindling appetite for building ricochets through the supply chain, slowing land releases, crimping sales in timberyards, and driving layoffs from labor hire firms to engineers and architects.
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The result revealed a common anxiety: About one dozen of the questions were a variation of whether employees should worry about the company's competitors, particularly Facebook and Instagram, which appeared to be crimping its rapid growth.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's pork prices are being kept in check even as pig production continues to drop, with tough new rules on slaughterhouses crimping trade and pushing frozen pork stocks onto the market, according to analysts.
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It said that Britain's vote next month on whether to stay in the European Union, along with upcoming general elections in Australia and the United States had dampened business and consumer confidence, crimping demand for travel.
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While the issue is complex, in terms of pure economic output a British exit from the 28 member group would be a negative, crimping trade, impairing growth and worsening the prospects of British sectors like finance.
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Kachikwu's concerns were echoed by Total SA Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne, who warned that pipeline constraints crimping supply in the shale industry are a short-term concern that will be fixed as new pipes are built.
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As a result, some Marriott workers find themselves in a kind of financial double jeopardy: Low pay from Marriott keeps their account balances minimal, and those modest balances lead to more fees, crimping their assets further.
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Carefully crafted message Putin chose to make his big move on "Black Monday," the day oil markets crashed off the back of OPEC's failure to agree (with Russia) how to handle the coronavirus crimping oil demand.
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By allowing North Korea to continue sending workers abroad, the Security Council missed an easy target for crimping revenue, said Joseph DeThomas, a former State Department official who specialized in sanctions against Iran and North Korea.
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The Bank of England has previously said uncertainty hanging over the June 23 referendum was crimping investment, especially in the commercial real estate sector where transactions dropped 40 percent in the first quarter of this year.
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But while Kuroda vowed to stoke inflation to 2% in two years, the BOJ has generated price rises of less than half of that, while ultra-low interest rates are hurting banks by crimping lending margins.
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Yellen's remarks suggest she embraces the thinking of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers who has said secular stagnation, or a lack of demand, is crimping global growth, said Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital.
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Meanwhile: Huawei's inclusion on the so-called entity list, which limits the ability of U.S. companies to sell goods and services to Huawei, is just one of several separate U.S. actions crimping the Chinese firm's business.
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A spokesman for the executive European Commission rebuffed any suggestion EU spending rules were crimping action by Italy, saying Rome was getting 2.5 billion euros from EU coffers for investments in network infrastructure in 2014-2020.
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Eight years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers sparked a global banking meltdown, many of Europe's banks are still saddled with billions of euros in poorly performing loans, crimping their ability to lend and putting off investors.
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Trump's new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, promised on Thursday the volatile Republican presidential candidate would stick to a more disciplined and uplifting message to voters in the final dash to Election Day without crimping his freewheeling style.
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The pace of lending has dropped in Indonesia this year - despite the BI cutting interest rates by a total of 150 basis points - crimping government and central bank efforts to raise economic growth to above 5 percent.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline and distillate stocks surged unexpectedly last week, data showed on Wednesday, crimping margins for refiners at the height of summer driving season, a time when they generally enjoy healthy demand and profits.
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The slowdown had caught up to Ms. Quillen's company, crimping her ability to contribute to the blue-collar revival that Michiganders had hoped for when they backed a Republican president for the first time in 2300 years.
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Following Ms. Ludwinski's detailed though easy-to-follow instructions for making a crust (two full pages for the recipe and several more dedicated to rolling, crimping and blind baking) rewarded me with my best pie crust yet.
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The new rules will aim to better assess borrowers' debt obligations from the first home to prevent binge borrowing, at a time when the nation's household debt is expanding at a double-digit pace and crimping private consumption.
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Because if we don't do it, we'll keep using that same eye-makeup remover from 12 months ago that our friend left when she stayed over, or cluelessly continue crimping with that battered old eyelash curler each morning.
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While analysts said lack of supply is having an impact on the housing market, some are also blaming last year's revamped U.S. tax code, which reduced the amount of mortgage interest payments homeowners could deduct, for crimping demand.
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CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, March 11 (Reuters) - Much of Venezuela, including parts of the capital Caracas, remained without power on Monday for a fifth day, crimping vital oil exports and leaving people struggling to obtain water and food.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's top central banker on Tuesday rapped the country's scandal ridden banks for their errant behavior, saying strong penalties were required to punish misdeeds, but cautioned over regulation risks crimping much-needed credit to the economy.
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Above all, the laws demand that Ms. Sodi dedicate herself so thoroughly to the Tuscan ways of stewing meat sauce, crimping ravioli or squashing Cornish game hens under an iron weight that her own ideas almost completely disappear.
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The political impasse over the border wall funds and the recent unceremonious departure of the U.S. defense chief have added to investor worries over U.S.-China trade tensions and other geopolitical events, crimping global growth and corporate profit.
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ASTANA (Reuters) - The president of Kazakhstan on Friday declined a proposal by his parliament to rename the capital city after him, crimping the growing personality cult around the man who has run the Central Asian nation since 1989.
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BEIJING, Feb 13 (Reuters) - China's pork prices are hovering near last year's record after measures to battle a coronavirus epidemic hit transport of pigs and delayed the restart of slaughtering plants, crimping already tight supplies of the meat.
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China typically buys about two thirds of globally traded soybeans to help feed its huge livestock herd, although it has been taking steps to reduce that such as turning to alternative meals and crimping protein levels in feed.
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There are already signs that rising inflation, caused in part by the pound's post-Brexit vote tumble, is crimping spending by consumers, the main drivers of the economy, just as Prime Minister Theresa May begins Britain's EU divorce talks.
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While the new team helped Lowe's record better quarterly same-store sales growth than Home Depot for the first time in three years, it was not fast enough in reacting to cost increases, crimping margins, which fell nearly 3%.
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The benchmark S&P 500's 1.3 percent advance adds to a 3.613 percent surge on Friday, when strong U.S. jobs data eased worries over economic health and the Federal Reserve calmed nerves over interest rate hikes crimping growth.
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But while critics claim that high costs have discouraged some firms from joining the stock market, crimping their prospects and hindering the growth of the economy, bankers say few are likely to be able to replicate Spotify's direct listing.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - To the outside world, China's ruling Communist Party - faced with an expanding trade war crimping an already slowing economy and spiraling protests in Hong Kong - is confronting some of its strongest political and economic headwinds in decades.
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The goal: to inoculate the world's biggest economy against the risk that weakening global growth and continued trade tensions between the United States and major trading partners including China will continue to sap investment and business confidence, crimping growth.
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But this much is clear: The next time someone tells you that a wide swath of financial regulations needs to be reversed because they are crimping bank lending, you can tell them they've got only part of the story.
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The United States and China have waged an 11-month trade war marked by tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of each others goods, roiling financial markets, disrupting supply chains and crimping global economic growth prospects.
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While some may think of K-beauty as a cutesy fad that will eventually go the way of feather hair extensions and crimping, there's a reason you see K-beauty everywhere: The products are innovative and effective, plain and simple.
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ANZ expects another two 10-basis point hikes in the 7-day reserve repo rate and other medium-term rate hikes for the rest of the year, though analysts expect the PBOC to tread cautiously to avoid crimping economic growth.
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Market expectations have risen that the ECB will soon change the rules of its asset-purchase scheme, which have put more than half of Germany's bonds out of reach and are crimping buying in smaller economies such as Portugal and Ireland.
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As Thais begin a year of mourning for their king, parties and celebrations will be toned down, particularly over the next month, temporarily crimping consumer and tourist spending in an economy that has been struggling for traction in recent years.
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Fed officials feel their four interest rate increases last year, far from crimping the recovery, were an appropriate response to the fact that Trump's tax and spending policies pushed the economy, at least temporarily, to accelerate faster than had been expected.
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That's a major roadblock for doctors who are often unsure whether a patient has been in withdrawal for at least a week, and for patients desperate for immediate treatment, crimping Vivitrol's market potential just as providers increasingly embrace medication-assisted treatment.
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Some U.S. politicians would like the world to believe that American government policy has played a key role in creating today's abundance of oil and gas, crimping Saudi Arabia and Russia's ability to use energy as a foreign-policy hammer.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A flood of light crude oil set to arrive in Asia will likely push prices for regional grades lower, crimping revenues and potentially creating a supply surplus since local refiners are ill-equipped to process all of the flow.
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The United States and China have waged a 10-month trade war marked by tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of each others' goods, roiling financial markets, disrupting supply chains and crimping global economic growth prospects.
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The United States and China have waged an 11-month trade war marked by tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of each others' goods, roiling financial markets, disrupting supply chains and crimping global economic growth prospects.
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That is putting the onus on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to cut rates again from the current record low 2.0 percent - if not at Thursday's meeting, then soon after as the high local dollar is also crimping already low inflation.
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Analysts polled by Reuters had predicted March consumer price inflation would edge up to 1.0 percent but remain well within the central bank's comfort zone, giving it room to continue with a gradual pace of monetary policy tightening without risking crimping economic growth.
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Officials continue to see the economy as strong, but they remain worried about global trade tensions, including potential damage from American and Chinese tariffs and the possibility that uncertainty over trade policy could already be crimping business investment in the United States.
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In recent months, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has adopted a modest tightening bias in a bid to contain financial risks, though it is treading cautiously to avoid crimping economic growth - which Beijing has said will be a more modest 6.5 percent this year.
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In recent years, Beijing has been crimping civil liberties in the former British colony of 7.4 million people, which is governed under a "one country, two systems" policy that grants Hongkongers greater civil liberties — including the right to freedom of expression — than on the Mainland.
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At a lunch with the Chamber of Commerce here, Bostic repeated his view that the uncertainty around U.S. trade policy may be crimping investment and making companies hesitant to commit funds in an environment where prices could change quickly and supply chains be disrupted.
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HARVARD 73, PRINCETON 71 Patrick Steeves made a pair of game-winning free throws and blocked a last-second shot as Harvard (13-16, 5-253) held off visiting Princeton (20-6, 10-2), crimping Princeton's hopes for a share of the Ivy League title.
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But it's also worth keeping an eye on some key differences with Harvey, which landed over the weekend in Texas as a hurricane: In addition to its considerable human tragedy, Tropical Storm Harvey is crimping the supply of energy that runs the U.S. economy.
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Further, leading up to this election there has been a great deal of hand-wringing by private equity executives that carried interest taxation, which allows them to be taxed at around half the going rate ordinary Americans face, may rise in coming years, further crimping profits.
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The seven-member cabinet, in an opening salvo urging voters to reject curbing immigration from the EU in the referendum, said approving it would hurt Swiss efforts to attract qualified workers, stunt economic growth by crimping exports and raise the prices consumers pay for EU imports.
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The plunge in oil prices, meanwhile, has meant a reduction in drilling activity and capital expenditures by energy companies in the United States, further crimping output as measured by G.D.P. That has hit the economy even though cheaper gasoline and heating oil are delivering a big bonus to ordinary consumers.
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Even despite the record low financial market volatility that's crimping trading revenues, deal making has been super brisk over recent months and overall fee income from banks around the world rose some 22018 percent last year to a record level of more than $123 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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Compounding the slowdown for the companies that sell funeral services, older people who might otherwise buy their own packages aren't venturing out to meet with funeral directors — both because they are sheltering at home and because the stock market's collapse is likely crimping their spending, Oppenheimer analyst Scott Schneeberger tells me.
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The annual profit update shows a company once feted for its China exposure being stalled by Beijing on two fronts: new customs rules for e-commerce purchases are crimping informal "daigou" exports, while required health authority clearance for formula is delaying sales from a newly acquired Bellamy's plant in Australia.
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In an effort to grow revenue and profits amid margin-crimping cost increases, American and its rivals are segmenting their cabins into smaller classes of service, including no-frills basic economy and premium economy, which offers a larger seat, more leg room and an amenities kit for a higher fare.
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Even despite the record low financial market volatility that's crimping trading revenues, deal making has been super brisk over recent months and overall fee income from banks around the world rose some 123 percent last year to a record level of more than $212 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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But as the bloc now grapples with the biggest migration crisis since World War II, the revival of checkpoints on some of the region's most important transport routes is crimping commerce and threatening to cost billions of euros in lost business just as Europe is recovering from a six-year economic slump.
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Tran breaks it down for us below, but first, let's watch the technique in action... Now in slo-mo... As you can see, the secret is using a curling iron a bit like you would a waving or crimping iron, with just the right amount of tension (the more tension, the deeper the wave).
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After revelations that data harvested from Facebook may have been used to try to influence Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the United States presidential election, the social network giant faces multiple investigations in both Europe and the United States, along with potentially profit-crimping regulations and limits to its use of data.
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At one point, he offers a riveting tour of a Manhattan street corner starting with asphalt ("hot poured and rolled") and the manhole covers ("round because a square or rectangular cover turned at the wrong angle would drop right into the hole") and on up to building awnings ("formed of sheet metal using giant rolling and crimping machines" still fed by hand at an old factory in Brooklyn).
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