Sentences with phrase «because of the down year»

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PDVSA has this year bought 19,000 bpd of U.S. crude arriving in Curacao, down from 30,000 bpd imported last year because of payment delays, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

We revised our estimate for volume this year down further primarily because of later - than - expected launches of mobile wallets from major tech players.

Within the previous year, the survey revealed, 20 percent of the small businesses surveyed said they had considered shutting down, primarily because of lack of growth or cash - flow issues.

Corporate investment - banking fees were down 4 % from the year - ago quarter because of lower advisory and equity issuance fees but partly offset by higher debt - issuance fees, according to the firm.

Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of government bonds it buys to three years because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

In fact, this may be the single reason why so many of us fail to make lasting change each New Year: because deep down, we don't really want to.

Last year Banks made an operating profit of 18 million pounds ($ 22 million), down from 27 million pounds the previous year because of a fall in the coal prices.

Fiona Harris has returned to the board of Oil Search about one year after stepping down from two major board positions because of health issues.

Because Trump has never released his tax returns, his exact net worth is somewhat of a question mark, but Forbes estimated it at $ 3.1 billion in 2017 — down $ 600 million from the previous year.

But the crises have started affecting its financial performance because of concerns it will result in heightened regulations, and CBA shares are down about 7 percent so far this year while the broader market is up.

«But we're lucky that the «Mud Dragon» got stuck in the muck, because its skeleton is one of the best examples of a dinosaur that was flourishing during those final few million years before the asteroid came down and changed the world in an instant.»

Stephen Curry suffered a «down year» in 2016 - 17 while adjusting to the addition of Kevin Durant, but only because of the lofty expectations he had set for himself the year prior.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

«The whole marketplace, our entire business, is built on the trust that consumers have in our platform,» he said «With a platform that does annually $ 370 billion GMV a year, you're going to see some issues with it because it's a large reflection of what's going on in the offline community, but we are taking a very draconian approach to cracking down on counterfeits.

«We sold $ 0 of beer into China last year because of the impact of that election, and the rhetoric the administration had laid down,» Wilson tells Inc..

This year's Fortune 500 generated a total of $ 944.5 billion in earnings, which are down 12.6 % from last year's record of $ 1.08 trillion, in large part because tumbling oil prices took a toll on the majority of the companies on the list.

Verizon is down 5 % from where it was last year, and a big part of that is because it's losing customers to smaller companies like T - mobile.

But she also argues that it's important to have people with a variety of training, because areas that are in high demand right now may not be 10 years down the road.

Maestri told Reuters that the company's seasonal drawing down of iPhones sitting on store shelves accounted for some of the difference because it was concentrated on higher - end iPhone models this year.

Profits at the nation's largest telecom were down last year, largely because of a massive employee buyout.

«And Piperlime, we wound down in Q1 of last year, so the number looks a little bit funny because of the lack of Piperlime sales this year when we had them last year.

But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!

«I bet that the Republicans follow the short - term tradition of forgoing debate and simply voting to disapprove the rule, dumping years of work down the drain because an industry lobbyist asked them to.»

For example, if you had an investment that went up 100 % one year and then came down 50 % the next, you certainly wouldn't say that you had an average return of 25 % = (100 % - 50 %) / 2, because your principal is back where it started: your real annualized gain is zero.

In reality, MBS can steal data only from four wallet apps, because MultiBit, one of the supported Bitcoin wallets, has shut down for more than a year, something that MrRaiX didn't even notice.

For the sake of brevity, we will skip analysis of the Dow Jones SPDR ETF ($ DIA) because both its daily and weekly chart patterns are quite similar to SPY above (broke down firmly below its 50 - day moving average yesterday, and is also coming into support of its year - long uptrend line).

In my experience, a dividend growth portfolio strategy seems to be performing better as an investment than owning a home, in my honest opinion, I would rather rent in a great area than own a home in that area, jeez if I were able to get a lease agreement for 10 years indexed at inflation or at 2.5 % increase annually I would take it and take my down payment and invest it in my portfolio, and continue to contribute the max in my 401K, HSA, and Roth IRA, while enjoying living in a low tax bracket because of my contributions.

It's part of an ongoing shift in the industry in how consumers pay for their service, with more people actually opting to pay for their own smartphones because it can lead to lower monthly charges down the line if you stick with the same device after two years.

My guess is that Congress won't do anything between now and the end of the year, because it doesn't need to, mostly because the deficit situation is actually improving and is down substantially.

What you might have missed: Revenue for Disney's studio entertainment segment dipped 2 % in the quarter, to $ 1.9 billion, because of lower box - office numbers in what was a down year overall for movie - ticket sales.

Because of the slowing subscriber adds and the increased competition in the space, analysts are expecting earnings to drop, down to 3 cents per share from 5 cents per share (adjusted from 38 cents after its 7 - for - 1 stock split in June) at this time last year.

«I turn down many otherwise down attractive investments because of their weak balance sheets, and I believe that this discipline is a material reason for our success over the years.»

What do I mean, to start off the year major stock market were down anywhere from 5 - 10 % because the Federal Reserve was discussing raising interest rates, which in turn made everyone extremely skeptical of investing any more money in stocks, and actually selling off a large portion.

The long - term trend of earnings per share for American businesses is up because large corporations retain earnings that they can use to pay down debt, buy back stock, or grow operations, and this allows us to have the reasonable certainty that Coca - Cola, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and the rest of the usual suspects will be worth more ten years from now.

Investors in BHP Billiton Ltd. sent the stock down the most in more than three years in London yesterday after the world's biggest mining company chose to retain cash because of weaker commodity prices.

Small startups with limited cash have managed to attract some of the world's best talent because the chance to own a stake in a company that could become valuable a few years down the line is extremely enticing

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

Although I personally trade only stocks and ETFs, I know that binary options trading has become extremely popular with traders in recent years because of the low amount of starting capital required, the ability to only determine whether a trade will go up or down, and the instant gratification of knowing whether or not your binary option trade is a winner within a matter of minutes.

One challenge in pinning down a safe withdrawal rate: large additional cash flows because they plan to purchase of an RV and then sell it a few years later.

Here's the important part though is you have to stick to the plan because I see too many people go down a path of like two or three years of potentially qualifying for public service loan forgiveness, but then, they deviate and they start doing other things.

But it's rather short - sighted to completely lose confidence in an asset that has a 5,000 year track record because of a few down years.

Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Refinances are now down just 10 percent from a year ago because volume dropped by half for much of last year.

It was $ 15.5 - billion (U.S.) in 2015, down nearly 60 per cent from the year before, mainly because of tumbling oil and gas prices.

But, I was able to get a free loan modification by BoA for the vacation property out of the blue last year, which lowered my payments by a whopping $ 8,220 a year starting in January 2013 because the interest rate went down from 5.875 % down to 4.25 %.

As logical as it seems to stay away from teachings that cause such debilitating fear (so much so that the thirteen - year - old me created escape plans for the inevitable AntiChrist Army that would march down our street to shoot me after the rest of my family had successfully been raptured), it would be even less logical to believe that God would create a group of strange people created to be forever distanced from Jesus because we can't know Him in the right way.

I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?

To take four days twice a year to do nothing but be together was unheard of, but if any of us backed out because we were «too busy,» the whole thing would come tumbling down.