Synonyms for business cycle
busi·ness cy·cle

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1. business cyclenoun

   Synonyms:
   economic cycle

2. business cyclenoun

   A long-term fluctuation in economic activity between growth and recession

   Synonyms:
   economic cycle

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:2.0 / 3 votes

1. business cycle, trade cyclenoun

   recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline

   Synonyms:
   trade cycle

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1. Robert Parkes:

   We believe that market optimism on the mining sector is at a pretty low level on concerns regarding supply-side issues and the sustainability of Chinese growth. And that makes the sector sensitive to any good news coming through, we are overweight on the mining sector and believe that the pessimism is overdone especially in the current environment where the business cycle indicators are starting to point upwards. It's a cyclical sector and is exposed to a re-acceleration in the global economy.

2. Robert Parkes:

   The Q2 results season is up and running and the early indications are positive, we believe there is plenty more to come and see the improving global business cycle taking over from currency as the key driver of earnings in 2016.

3. Steve Blitz:

   Remember too that Brexit is occurring while the U.S. economy is in the later stages of its current business cycle, meaning the U.S. is more susceptible to economic shocks, there is, happily, a lot less leverage in the system than there was in 2007, meaning no recession of equal magnitude is threatened.

4. Federal Reserve:

   Eventually expansions come to an end, the business cycle has not been repealed. But I would say there's no reason why this economy can not continue to expand.

5. Torsten Slok:

   I can't ever remember a situation when we've seen anything like this before, when I was at the IMF there was only one global business cycle. In the late 1990s and early 2000s it would have been impossible to imagine the kind of decoupling we have today.