Sentences with phrase «boom earlier this decade»

During the Great Bag Boom earlier this decade, women would buy several handbags a year to build a wardrobe.

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Earlier this year, Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) 2018 State of the Wine Industry Report said that US, specifically, had experienced a boom in wine sales over the past two decades, that growth was now levelling off and reaching the end of a 20 - year growth period.

The last decade did see some improvements for Africa's oil producers, especially when compared to the continent's earlier boom in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The Republic of Ireland's economy boomed during the 1990s and the early part of this decade on the back of infrastructure funding from the European Union and inward investment from international companies — the archetypal Celtic tiger.

As the Wall Street Journal «s James R. Hagerty reported earlier this month, more jobs are appearing in the manufacturing sector after a decade - long decline; the retirement of Baby Boomers also means more high - paying jobs on factory floors.

People who retired around 2004 - 2005 (whose vital decade has been one of roughly zero returns in the stock market) tend to be in much worse shape than those who retired a decade earlier, in the middle of a stock market boom.

For myself, I have a small portion invested in Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund (TAREX), which happens to be my third best mutual fund investment in terms of returns, thanks to the real estate boom in the early years of the decade (following chart shows the performances of DJ Equity REIT Total Return Index, DJ Industrial Average, and S&P 500 since 2001).

In a cash - in refinancing, something practically unheard of during the housing boom earlier in the decade, the homeowner pays down their mortgage balance at closing.

If it weren't for the boom in the early part of this decade, most AustEcon followers blindly betting on commodities would have been absolutely decimated — far worse than comon stock or corporate bond or government bond investors.

During the early 1970s he studied with John Baldessari at CalArts; he was included in Douglas Crimp's epoch - defining exhibition, Pictures, in 1977; he showed at Metro Pictures along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo during the boom years of the 1980s; and he spent his last decade as a recluse in a trailer in East LA.

The first signs of a fossil - fuel bust emerged early last year with growing evidence that the decade - long boom in global coal demand was peaking.

The growth is also expected to continue early in the second decade of the new century when baby boomers turn 65.