Meanings of weak number in English

A weak number today could well boost equities by reigniting rate cut bets.

However, market expectations are for a weak number.

U.S. retail sales are expected to have rebounded in July after an unexpected weak number in June.

The first is that the political impact of a weak number will be greater than its economic significance.

But a weak number accompanied by the current concerns on QE would be a double whammy, he said.

But a weak number is a weak number - that's not good for stocks, said an official at a Japanese brokerage.

A weak number could rekindle expectations of further European Central Bank monetary policy easing, potentially via a large-scale programme of sovereign bond purchases.

A weak number could jeopardize re-election prospects for Australia's centre-right government which has been pitching "jobs and growth" as its key economic mantra.

The weak number was largely due to distress in the retail sector, where jobs fell by 20,300 in their largest drop since March.

Treasury yields had tracked the decline in Europe amid weak numbers in the region and on nagging doubts about U.S.-China trade.

But the still weak numbers failed to lift oil prices, which slipped by $1 a barrel shortly after the data was released.

Under these circumstances, it will take some very weak numbers to get us back to 2.5 percent by Q4.

But Dan Martin at Capital Economics said these cannot explain the still- weak numbers, which are "something to worry about more than we did before".