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Political leaders who have a purely private-sector background tend to take a more short-term approach than leaders with experience in public service, not least because most markets produce incentives for corporations to emphasize quarterly and yearly profits and share prices above all else.
Yet the quarterly US current-account deficit actually increased – from $195 billion to $205 billion.
And when the government misses its fiscal targets, the Fund and Pakistan’s finance ministry agree on quarterly mini-budgets, which often include new taxes on school fees, bank transactions, Internet access, and so forth.
It should go without saying that if businesses do not even know what tax measures will be included in the next quarterly mini-budget, they will be unable to plan and invest.
Over the same period, China’s foreign-exchange reserves swelled by $128 billion, to $3.4 trillion – the largest quarterly increase since 2011 and equal to the total rise in 2012.
For example, Unilever has rejected the short-term pressures of capital markets by ending quarterly earnings reporting and broadening its focus to advance greater social interests, rather than just the interests of its shareholders.
Hedge funds, venture capital firms that actually venture into new things, and recreated merchant banks are relatively well suited to make financial decisions that require judgment, the ability to engage the unknown, and to do so over a horizon not dictated by quarterly earnings.
While it is important not to overreact to quarterly figures, recent data, as well as some of the revised data for the first quarter, are deeply disappointing.
Even Germany’s GDP declined in quarterly terms in the first half of the year.
Investors’ obsession with short-term returns, according to the new conventional wisdom, compels corporate boards of directors and managers to seek impressive quarterly earnings at the expense of strong long-term investments.
For example, pharmaceutical companies cannot develop new products on a quarterly basis; they must operate with multi-year time horizons.
The oil industry cannot open and close oil fields on a quarterly basis; companies must spend a decade or more investing in developing new fields.
Institutional investors have traditionally outsourced their investments to investment management firms, whose performance is generally assessed on a quarterly basis.
To determine whether this event was indicative of a deeper pattern, Philip Hans Franses and I have studied how stock markets worldwide responded to preliminary estimates of quarterly GDP data from China (released first), the United States (released two weeks later), and Germany (released two weeks after that) in 2006-2009.
The quarterly growth rate decelerated from 13% in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 9% in the third quarter of 2009.
Moreover, many companies boosted their quarterly dividend payouts to shareholders.
The bigger concern is that many leading companies across different industries have continued to focus excessively on quarterly profits, because that determines how executives are remunerated.
The company’s latest quarterly sales results show how the company has become something more than a technology firm; it is now a major middle-class Chinese consumer brand.
Listed companies report on a quarterly basis, and recent regulatory changes, such as those mandating increased use of mark-to-market accounting, limit long-term thinking.
Moreover, 55% said they would delay investments in projects with positive returns in order to hit quarterly balance-sheet targets.
With an annualized 1.9% quarterly rise in GDP in April-June, growth was twice as high as in the first quarter (0.9%).
In the United States, quarterly GDP growth has fluctuated between -2.1% and 4.6% in the first half of 2014.
During the period of implementation, they carried out regular supervisory missions supplemented by quarterly progress reports and annual audits.
So, for example, two meetings a year at the head-of-government level and quarterly meetings at the finance-minister level (with more at the deputy-minister level) would provide ample time for dialogue, and thus for trust-building, and would allow the commitments made by the heads of government to be monitored.
For example, forecasters calculate real GDP on the basis of initial monthly estimates of quarterly GDP – a statistic that is often substantially revised as more data become available.
The Oxford English Dictionary, now updated quarterly, revised more than 1,900 entries in its March 2011 edition, and added new terms, such as “subdomain,” “dataveillance,” and “geotagging.”
The unexpected distribution of damage can be clearly seen in the International Monetary Fund’s quarterly revisions of its economic projections.
The COVID-19 crisis sent its economy plunging by a reported 6.8% in the first three months of this year – its first (acknowledged) quarterly contraction on record.
Yes, in historical perspective, the latest GDP report was weak: quarterly growth was the slowest since the current statistical reporting system was adopted in 1992, and even worse than that recorded a decade ago, in the depths of the global financial crisis.
It provides eligible refugee families with a debit card, which is loaded each month with 120 Turkish liras ($21) per family member, in addition to a quarterly top-up depending on family size.
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