"The Ifo business climate index is a clear dampener," he said.
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Dampener — Meant for tender and bony areas as well as general uses.
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A number of disappointing earnings updates also put a dampener on sentiment.
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S. alliance and put a further dampener on the global investment environment.
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But a moment of xenophobia put an immediate dampener on our day.
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However, The Gin Act of 1751 put a healthy dampener on the gin craze.
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He even helped Cecchinato by finding his racket dampener after it had fallen off.
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Panelists pointed to the rise of economic nationalism as a potential dampener on mergers.
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But uncertainty about the country's political direction is surely a dampener on foreign and domestic investment.
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Monetary policy can be used as a dampener on broad fiscal expansion efforts precisely by design.
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But look closer and clouds are forming that may put a dampener on this sunny outlook.
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Regulatory developments in the Asia Pacific region also likely put a dampener on prices this week.
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They are intentionally targeted in Mexico, which puts a dampener on the ability to report on this.
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But for the avoidance of doubt: nothing's ever going to put a dampener on driving this thing.
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Carol is being held by the Supreme Intelligence, rips out her power dampener and delivers this line.
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On the flip side, the wrong hires can put a dampener on both your company and personal growth.
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Prolonged economic conflict between the United States and China threatens to become an extended dampener of global growth.
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Prolonged economic conflict between the United States and China threatens to become an extended dampener of global growth.
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Has the thought of heading out to work on a Monday ever put a dampener on your Sunday evening?
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Yet her government's strategy, published on August 13th, is a dampener, not least because it offers no new money.
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"It will put a dampener on our growth objectives in the near term," Singh told Reuters in an interview.
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And there's other things that threaten to put a dampener on the holiday period, which lasts for 15 days.
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Slow wage growth could put a dampener on consumption, which has failed to show any sustainable gains in recent months.
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However, midfielder Paul Pogba was forced off with an injury in the second half, putting a dampener on the win.
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Meanwhile, concerns that the risk of fresh elections may put a dampener on that activity in Germany have yet to materialize.
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One dampener was Google-parent Alphabet, which dipped 0.2 percent as investors focused on rising costs rather than the profit beat.
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A second dampener on FDI was big countries blocking deals for national security reasons and for dominance of emerging strategic industries.
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I can still use the dampener (my favorite attachment) but I have to make sure I hold it at the right angle.
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Economic duress is another dampener: it is no coincidence that the slowdown in young Americans' sex lives began during the great recession.
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Higher interest rates make lending more expensive, which can lead to lower spending by businesses and consumers — a further dampener on growth.
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These high stocks are a major dampener on oil prices," he said, "so I think we're rather range-bound for the time being.
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After testing the G3 for five months, the glue holding the dampener attachment to the bit that attaches to the massager wore out.
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"Rising inequality is another dampener on consumption, because those with the highest propensity to consume have the least potential to consume," she said.
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Others wonder if the recent allegations will put a dampener on these plans, and whether, without WPP behind him, his profile will diminish.
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Lawmakers put a dampener on the deal last week when they said the government, which is NBK's biggest shareholder, should reject the offer.
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While these accomplishments are worthy of a toast or two, there are also factors that serve to put a dampener on the party.
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You only get one speed (2400 percussions per minute), two heads (the standard ball and dampener), and a shorter battery runtime of 45 minutes.
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Destatis noted that "positive contributions were made by domestic demand again" although it noted a decline in exports had put a dampener on growth.
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On a wider scale, the uncertainty over divorce negotiations between Britain and the EU is seen as a temporary dampener to the British financial sector.
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On Thursday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the global outlook for oil markets in 2018 could put a dampener on hopes for higher prices.
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UNDER normal circumstances, a nasty public power struggle between a company's controlling shareholder and its chief executive might put a dampener on the share price.
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It would be a shame if the very law designed to encourage growth in the IT sector was the one that put a dampener on it.
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The defeat put a dampener an historic evening for Porto goalkeeper Iker Casillas who made a record 175th appearance in European competition, overhauling Paulo Maldini's total.
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"It did not even take a week for U.S. President Trump to put a dampener on the mood of German companies," Dekabank economist Andreas Scheuerle said.
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But while investment-grade spreads have not spiked dramatically, bankers expect the decision to put a dampener on what was already a flagging primary corporate market.
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The minister's comments put a dampener on expectations of a meaningful intervention into the market which has been dogged by oversupply for more than two years.
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They noted, moreover, that "wider activity across Asia put a dampener on economic prospects, with factory activity and export orders weakening across the region in November".
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As rewarding as seeing her study published and creating the dampener may be, Nora said she was also thankful for what the process had taught her.
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"There isn't an absolute conviction the aluminum market is tight, inventories have put a dampener on prices," said Eoin Dinsmore, an analyst at metals consultancy CRU.
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The deal with MTN puts a dampener on a takeover bid by South Africa's fourth-biggest carrier Telkom, 40% owned by the state, made on Friday.
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"(Stocks) are at such elevated levels, especially for products for which demand growth is slackening, that they remain a major dampener on oil prices," the IEA said.
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Putting a dampener on the market was the restart of Libya's El Sharara oilfield, where the aim is to reach initial output of 20193,000 barrels per day.
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Putting a dampener on the market was the restart of Libya's El Sharara oilfield, where the aim is to reach initial output of 80,000 barrels per day.
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"The continuation of the state of emergency keeps a dampener on business sentiment, given that [President Tayyip] Erdogan can pretty much rule by decree," said SEB's Hammarlund.
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"It's an example of how this sort of sanctions is a dampener on safe international aviation," said Andrew Charlton, managing director of the consulting firm Aviation Advocacy.
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While that has put a dampener on the enthusiasm of a lot of cryptocurrency retail investors, the bigger question is how do institutional players work through this market?
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While the Fed has given a jolt to markets worldwide, oil is expected to add an extra dampener on markets, with crude futures posting solid losses on Monday.
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It could put a dampener on German public-to-privates, which have had a tricky history, including a lengthy and complicated takeover saga of German generics drugmaker Stada.
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"Far from being a dampener on growth, integrating climate action into growth policies can have a positive economic impact," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said in a statement.
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Company executives also flagged slowing U.S. mall traffic and a more competitive retail landscape as a sales dampener for both Hollister and Abercrombie going into the second quarter.
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One dampener was Walmart, which dropped 20.4 percent after lowering its earnings forecast for the year to include the impact from its acquisition of Indian e-commerce company Flipkart.
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The global outlook for oil markets in 2018 could put a dampener on hopes for higher prices, according to the latest monthly report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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"There has been subdued activity today with the U.S. holiday so the market close that side putting a dampener on trading volumes," said Ferdi Heyneke, portfolio manager at Afrifocus Securities.
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European stocks ended mostly lower on Wednesday, as a renewed decline in oil prices put a dampener on sentiment, while investors looked ahead to the Federal Reserve's meeting next week.
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The scale of that export flow still holds the key to whether the global market can rebalance to the point that high stocks, the ultimate price dampener, can be reduced.
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The war girls, who have mechs, too, are hiding in plain sight thanks to a signal dampener, one of the many technological flourishes that Onyebuchi employs, mostly to capable effect.
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The return of at least 500,000 barrels per day of Iranian crude in the short term after the lifting of Western sanctions is also putting a dampener on oil prices.
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Fuelling the optimism about sterling has been a decline in negative headlines about Brexit negotiations in recent weeks, which had been a dampener for sterling bulls for much of 2017.
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"IP and fixed asset investment missed the consensus so that was a dampener and put a bit of constraint on the metals," said Robin Bhar, head of metals research, Societe Generale.
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"Although stocks are close to topping out, they are at such elevated levels, especially for products for which demand growth is slackening, that they remain a major dampener on oil prices".
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For its part, the bond market might take the view that the Trump impeachment proceedings will only add to Washington political gridlock that will be a further dampener on investor confidence.
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"(Stocks) are at such elevated levels, especially for products for which demand growth is slackening, that they remain a major dampener on oil prices," the Paris-based group said in a report.
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And though marijuana peddlers tend to get around that by overpricing other goods and throwing a pungent-smelling "gift" into the bargain, this requirement remains a serious dampener on Mr Amsterdam's business.
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But the government is now trying to put a dampener on the sector as it tries to help get more people on the property ladder, one of its main messages to voters.
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"With rising bond yields spoiling the fun and disappointment around the U.S. tech sector putting a dampener on sentiment, hopes are pinned on earnings delivering," said Societe Generale macro strategist Kit Juckes.
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The ECB should like this, because a strong euro is a powerful inflation dampener in a highly open euro area economy, where the external sector represents about two-thirds of its GDP.
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President Donald Trump's trade dispute with China, and the mutual import tariffs both country's have applied, are widely seen as a dampener on global economic growth and the demand outlook for oil.
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Despite major Middle Eastern oil producers insisting that they are reducing supplies in a bid to support oil prices, an excess supply is still expected to put a dampener on the market.
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The first sport they've aimed their wizardry at is tennis, with a in-racket (!) Internet of Things device in the form of a 'smart dampener' to help coaches and players improve their game.
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Stocks rose and bond yields fell on Friday as investors welcomed an apparent end to a political crisis in Italy but prospects for a full-blown trade war put a dampener on gains.
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"Overtones of the trade conflict are, like the unseasonably wet weather in much of Europe right now, difficult to avoid and likely to put a dampener on things," City Index analyst Ken Odeluga said.
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Revenue was also up from the previous quarter due to higher prices for its products, even though in June the FIFA World Cup put a dampener on construction activity and overall demand, it said.
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"The provisions made in the budget lacked immediate boost to consumption and the provision for increase in effective tax rate is also a dampener," said Deepak Jasani, Head of Retail Research at HDFC Securities.
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High U.S. oil production could also put a dampener on the crude rally, added Kilduff, potentially negating the benefits of a deal among Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to restrict supply even further.
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Paris said "zero" miners had complied with the requirement to seek approval, stretching that to power and infrastructure - a potential dampener on any incoming investment into resources, a key sector for Southeast Asia's largest economy.
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But a period of near-paralysis due to a lack of drilling success, an oil price slump and a deteriorating relationship between state firm Sonangol and oil majors have put a dampener on new developments.
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"It's a bit soon to draw conclusions but yesterday's ECB sources piece put a dampener on front end rates and that has weakened sentiment towards the euro somewhat," said Citi G10 currencies strategist Josh O'Byrne.
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The higher taxes will be a dampener for passenger vehicle sales and there may be a retardation in growth, Sugato Sen, deputy director general at Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), told reporters on Thursday.
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On Friday, however, the sector was under pressure as earnings from major U.S. banks disappointed, and CPI data indicated inflation in the U.S. was slowing, potentially putting a dampener on the Fed's monetary policy tightening plans.
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"With the Australian federal election out of the way, we have seen an uptick in the number of IPO prospects in the pipeline but as always the dampener for ECM activity is market uncertainty," Dulhunty said.
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The arrest of Meng has put a further dampener on Chinese relations with the United States and Canada at a time when tensions were already high over a trade war and U.S. accusations of Chinese spying.
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The prolonged trade dispute has been a dampener on oil prices but Brent is still up 12% this year, helped by production cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies including Russia.
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"The uncertainty of the EU and UK relationship is likely to put a dampener on Asia's exports to that region, perhaps extending Asia's trade recession," said Khoon Goh, head of research in Asia at ANZ in Singapore.
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McLachlan said Rezidor's strategy on the continent was about 80 percent focused on business travel to help ride out the occasional dampener on the leisure market, including the outbreak of diseases such as Ebola or militant attacks.
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While the trade dispute was putting a dampener on global economic growth, it had not yet affected demand for BHP's commodities such as iron ore, copper and coal in China, its biggest customer, Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The global glut in oil is refusing to ease and acts as a major dampener on crude prices despite robust demand growth and steep declines in non-OPEC production, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.
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Wohlrabe added that an impasse over a trade deal between the European Union and Canada - which has not been signed because of opposition from the Wallonia region of Belgium - was not putting a dampener on the German economy.
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Another dampener for the sector has been the diplomatic, trade and transport boycott imposed on Qatar in 2017 by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt over allegations, denied by Doha, that it backs Islamist militants.
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Ten years on from the collapse of U.S. bank Lehman Brothers, Hammond said there was "light at the end of the tunnel" for British households but that Brexit talks were currently "acting as a dampener on the economy".
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News that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had raided the offices and home of Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday had put a dampener on equities, which had rallied on signs of cooling in the China-U.
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The authorities also put a dampener on the market, by reiterating a year ago that e-commerce firms have to act mostly as matchmakers between buyers and sellers (as eBay does in most countries), not sell their own inventory.
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"We really want to get through a bit more data before we draw conclusions but yesterday clearly put a dampener on front end rates and that has weakened sentiment towards the euro," said Citi G10 currencies strategist Josh O'Byrne.
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"The oil price bounce pushed commodity currencies higher across the board but the latest Huawei news is a bit of a dampener on sentiment in these thin markets," said Alvin Tan, a currency strategist at Societe Generale in London.
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Other data published on Friday showed retail sales unexpectedly fell on the month in August and posted a smaller increase on the year than forecast, putting a slight dampener on hopes that a consumer-led upswing will continue at full steam.
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"Terror has had an impact on the way people dine out," Chief Executive Olaf Koch told a call for analysts, adding the Euro 2016 soccer championships in France had also put a temporary dampener on the restaurant sector across the continent.
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Chinese city governments have recently announced a flurry of curbs on property purchases, which could be seen as a dampener on industrial metals, but new building construction is expected to continue at a rapid rate at least into the new year.
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But the warnings are unlikely to put a dampener on Thailand's most important holiday and one of its biggest tourist attractions – a time when Thais and tourists alike take part in boisterous street water fights armed with water pistols and buckets.
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British Airways-owner IAG said it had been unable to reach agreement on a possible takeover offer for Norwegian after holding talks with the struggling airline's board, putting a dampener for now on M&A in the European airline market.
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Albeit, it bills its platform as surfacing only "the most engaging, high-converting social media content" — so the user generated content it pulls in clearly skews positive, rather than showing travelers any UGC that might risk putting a dampener on bookings.
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Home-town hero Pearson, the 100 meters hurdles world champion and face of the Games, was forced to pull out with a serious Achilles injury, announcing her decision the day after the opening ceremony in a major dampener to the Games.
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The prolonged U.S.-China trade dispute has been a dampener on oil prices but Brent is still up about 12% this year, helped by production cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, including Russia.
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"We are still in a difficult place, where there has been too much supply over the last couple of years and some of the macro factors like Brexit … are putting a bit of a dampener on the oil price," Flowers told CNBC.
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Still, a slowdown in Chinese consumer demand, as a result of weakening economic growth, will be a "dampener for aggregate tech demand," according to Gokul Hariharan, managing director and co-head of Asia Pacific technology, media and telecom research at J.P. Morgan.
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"We saw corporate businesses defer their spend on information, communication and technology (ICT) as a result of an uncertain political, economic and policy environment," Maseko said, adding that lower spend from government placed a further dampener on ICT spend in the public sector.
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Other retailers, including supplement provider Mr. Vitamins, are also reconsidering their options after a move by China last April to raise taxes on goods bought on overseas e-commerce platforms failed to put the anticipated dampener on China's booming e-commerce market.
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The prolonged trade dispute has been a dampener on oil prices, but Brent is still up about 13% this year, helped by production cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, including Russia, to drain inventories.
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In the two weeks to Friday, mixed U.S. economic data and uncertainty about the path of future interest rate hikes had put a dampener on a stock market rally that had seen the S&P gain about 15 percent from its February lows.
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In the two weeks to Friday, mixed economic data and uncertainty about the path of future interest rate hikes had put a dampener on a stock market rally that had seen the S&P gain about 223.9 percent from its February lows.
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BERLIN, July 2 (Reuters) - German retail sales declined by 0.6% on the month in May, the Federal Statistics Office said on Tuesday, confounding the consensus for a 0.5% rise and putting a dampener on hopes that household spending will prop up Europe's largest economy.
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The euro's blistering rise to a two-year high could start to threaten the bright outlook for European corporate profits, big brokers and investors warned, putting a dampener on enthusiasm around the region's equity markets, which are currently among the most favored destinations for global investors.
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While it is predicted that corporate asset quality for India's public sector banks will improve from here on, the sheer volume of bad assets that they own puts a bit of a dampener on their future, said Rana Gupta, managing director for Indian equities at Manulife Asset Management.
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The banking sector is dominated by the state-run Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, which controls more than half of the sector's assets, and remains stuck in a time-warp even by African standards, with no way to transfer funds between banks, putting a massive dampener on basic economic activity.
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"Only in 2017 will we finally see oil supply and demand aligned, but the enormous stocks being accumulated will act as a dampener on the pace of recovery in oil prices when the market, having balanced, then starts to draw down those stocks," the IEA said in its report.
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As well as complex logistical issues, such as the time needed to return a drone to its origin point after delivery, the analyst points out that a return on investment for drone deliveries has yet to be proven — putting another dampener on the prospects of any broad rollouts of the tech.
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A substantial improvement in the external sector of the U.S. economy (30 percent of GDP) would provide a strong impetus to demand, output and employment — a kind of stimulus that would also reduce budget deficit and public debt, without revving up inflation (a trade-driven dollar strength would be a powerful inflation dampener).
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"The observation I have made is that one would think increasing terrorism would put a dampener on business travel, but we have found this to not be the case, business travel is increasing," said Dr. Robert Quigley, senior vice president and regional medical director for International SOS, a medical and travel security company.
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" Rebuffing fears of a slowdown in U.S. growth and how that could put a dampener on oil demand, OPEC said "positive projected growth in the U.S. economy and continued healthy growth in the road transportation sector are seen outweighing downside assumptions for overall U.S. oil demand, mainly linked to fuel substitution and vehicle efficiencies.
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"After all, the oil price has stopped reacting to the factors which would normally support it ever since the Saudi oil minister (Khalid) al-Falih put at least something of a dampener on such expectations," he said, referring to Falih's comments to Al-Arabiya television on how it could be premature to discuss an extension to OPEC's supply cuts.
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Though it remains to be seen whether Google's shift to a paid auction model which Ecosia is not participating in — given doing so would require the not-for-profit to spend money paying Google to appear as a choice rather than ploughing those revenues into planting more trees — will put a dampener on Ecosia's Android growth this year.
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The G3Pro has two settings, 1740 and 2400 percussions per minute, and you're able to choose from six head attachments: the dampener (for general use, tender areas, and bony areas); large ball (for larger muscles, such as the glutes and quads); standard ball (general use); wedge (shoulder blades, IT bands, scraping, and flushing); thumb (lower back and trigger points); and the cone (trigger points and small muscles).
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JP: We think that wage increases of course are tied to increases in productivity and productivity in many places hasn't been that great but in the end we also believe that another impact of technology and globalization is full and complete transparency or your competitive position as it relates to wages so we think that aside from all the known factors that affect wage increases shortage of skills and availability, need for certain skills sets, you also have this impact that there is full transparency which we believe acts as a dampener because all companies know to what level they can increase prices for goods and services and still be competitive.
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