Sentence examples for economy sensitive from inspiring English sources

As Bill Dudley of Goldman Sachs points out, those areas of the economy sensitive to interest rates (such as housing) are hardly depressed.

He noted that sectors of the economy sensitive to interest rates, like housing and automobiles, are already vigorous and that the Fed's rate cuts ripple through the economy with long lags rather than providing a quick boost.

The most powerful brake on the economy right now is not the portion of the economy sensitive to lower interest rates -- industries like housing, and consumer spending generally -- but the steep decline in spending by businesses on new factories, computers, telecommunications equipment and other capital goods.

"The main thing that's going on is we're getting a healthy rotation into many of the economy sensitive stocks," Goldman says.

But it has also made the economy more sensitive to changes in short-term interest rates.

In the balance, they claimed, was nothing less than the global climate, America's economy, even sensitive racial divisions.

Successfully overhauling a system this big (one-seventh of the economy) and sensitive (tending to the sick) was always going to be a long, contentious process.

David Woo of Bank of America/Merrill Lynch notes that America's petroleum deficit has narrowed to 1.7% of GDP while Europe's has widened to nearly 4%, which seems to have made both the dollar and the economy less sensitive to oil prices.The second channel lies in the economics of shale.

But the government is also worried about the housing market for two domestic reasons that a crash could cause a wider recession, and that property is too expensive.Britain's reliance on variable-rate mortgages (see chart) makes the entire economy too sensitive to changes in interest rates.

The large size of South Africa's financial sector and equity market makes the country's economy particularly sensitive to financial market swings, both to the upside and the downside.

While the conservative, inward-looking Czech financial system has remained relatively healthy, the small, open, export-driven Czech economy remains sensitive to changes in the economic performance of its main export markets, especially Germany.