Sentences with phrase «by most measures of»

There are five companies that dominate life reinsurance globally, and in my opinion, RGA is the best, though they are a close number 2 by most measures of market share.

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We compiled that information into this snapshot showing which states have the most at stake, measured by the total number of jobs:

I was very proud of the fact that our waterfront corporation has installed what is by most objective measures a world - leading broadband capacity.

Of course, beyond the major geographical changes as a result of the meteors, there's a new season of «Fortnite» — the most popular game in the world, by some measures — for millions of players to dig intOf course, beyond the major geographical changes as a result of the meteors, there's a new season of «Fortnite» — the most popular game in the world, by some measures — for millions of players to dig intof the meteors, there's a new season of «Fortnite» — the most popular game in the world, by some measures — for millions of players to dig intof «Fortnite» — the most popular game in the world, by some measures — for millions of players to dig intof players to dig into.

As detailed in a study by Harvard Business professor Dennis Campbell, TD revolutionized the way it measured the in - bank experience, streamlining its customer satisfaction survey and using a massive pool of customer data to find out not only how customers felt about their banking experience, but also what specific elements of «satisfaction» mattered most to them.

A new generation of service companies, like Lunar Design, have figured out that it's all in the multiple By most outward measures, Lunar Design would be considered a success.

As required by SEC rules, we provide a reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to the most comparable GAAP measure.

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

«Shifting from animal meat to the plant - based meats developed by Beyond Meat is one of the most powerful measures someone can take to reduce their impact on our climate.»

By the mid-1990s, when Oracle had effectively neutered its competition, Ellison had begun making a sport of taking pot shots at Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, though both were, by most measures, entirely out of his leaguBy the mid-1990s, when Oracle had effectively neutered its competition, Ellison had begun making a sport of taking pot shots at Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, though both were, by most measures, entirely out of his leaguby most measures, entirely out of his league.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said about 5,000 of the most dangerous tank cars will be pulled off the tracks within a month, part of a series of measures in response to recommendations by the Transportation Safety Board in the wake of last summer's deadly derailment and fire in Lac Megantic, Que.

This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix of conditions: Volatility as measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies around the world were in growth mode.

Perhaps the most egregious waste of resources committed by many business owners is the expenditure of money to create lead - generation infrastructure and the failure to develop a framework by which the effort can be tracked and measured.

While that might suggest the «smart money» is signaling a swift correction, don't necessarily buy it: Lipper research found that «following the most recent periods of four or more consecutive weeks of net outflows from the Lipper High Yield ETF segment, the market — as measured by the BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index — performed relatively well in the calendar month that immediately followed.

Opposition to the measure was spearheaded by the group Priorities First Fort Collins, which according to filings, received most of its funding from the Colorado Cable Telecommunications Association.

By rewarding those employees who engage the most, you are also giving everyone in the company a way of measuring their level of engagement (and encouraging some friendly competition).

The forward price / earnings (PE) ratio — the price of the S&P 500 divided by the expected earnings of those S&P 500 companies — is probably the most popular way to measure value in the stock market.

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.

The most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is the combined ratio, which is computed by adding total incurred losses and LAE, including the impact of catastrophe losses and loss and LAE reserve development from prior years, with the insurance expense ratio.

From the viewpoint of open government, 2002's Bill 66 is one of the most praiseworthy — if unheralded — of all measures implemented by the Liberal government.

When valuations exceeded even 12 times normalized earnings (on our most comprehensive measure discussed above), seemingly «favorable» market action was followed by profound losses averaging -69.8 % on an annualized basis (generally reflecting a few weeks of vertical losses until enough damage was done to kick the market action measures negative).

The most reliable measures we identify in market cycles across history are consistent with the expectation of near zero total returns in the S&P 500 Index over the coming decade, and the likelihood that the market will fall by half over the completion of the current cycle.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

Our experience is that Facebook referral traffic is the most engaged of any referral traffic including organic search, as measured by time on site and pages / visit.

For most of the public, the reputation of the Federal Reserve will continue to be measured mainly by our success in promoting economic growth with price stability, rather than by our interactions with educators and students.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

In our State of Social 2018 report, we found that most marketers (42 percent) measure the success of their ads by how much engagement they receive, with leads (17 percent) and sales (15 percent) being the second and third most common measures of ROI:

Presently, wicked valuations are coupled with still - unfavorable market internals on our measures, and have now been joined by the most extreme «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndrome of conditions we identify.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

Among the valuation measures most tightly correlated across history with actual subsequent S&P 500 total returns, the ratio of market capitalization to corporate gross value added would now have to retreat by nearly 60 % simply to reach its pre-bubble average.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

In most economies, GDP growth is a measure of economic output generated by the performance of the underlying economy.

One of the most common ways to measure the performance of a product marketing manager is by the number of leads she generates.

The viral push is by far the most important aspect, I think many people are now focusing in that as a measure of ROI.

Using the conventional total debt - to - income ratio, where debt is measured as a share of income, college - educated student debtors are by far the most indebted.2 The median college - educated student debtor has total debt equal to about two years» worth of household income (205 %).

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the most widely recognized price measures for tracking the price of a market basket of goods and services purchased by individuals.

The figures released earlier today by comScore on the US online display advertising market confirm what most of us have suspected — Facebook continues to grow in influence and presence almost in every measure imaginable.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Specifically, the tax measures proposed in Budget 2018 - 19 to limit the tax deferral advantages on passive investment income earned inside private corporations address most of the concerns communicated by the GVBOT and other groups as part of government's consultation in fall 2017.

Although a small surplus was recorded in the first two months of 2017 - 18, monthly deficits are expected for most of the rest of the fiscal year, given the impact of the measures introduced by the Liberal Government since the election of 2015.

Perhaps the most profound takeaway from their discussion with Buffett was the importance of measuring yourself by an «inner scorecard» as opposed to an «outer scorecard» — the need for public approval and recognition.

Historically, the most reliable way to measure risk attitudes is by the uniformity or divergence of price movements across a wide range of securities.

By most measures, my portfolio would be considered a lower risk and conservative collection of stocks.

Our analysis shows that wage growth, as estimated by our composite measure of wage pressures, is beginning to accelerate; we also show that labor market indicators most closely correlated with wage growth, such as the quit rate, continue to improve.

His desire to break up the most successful company of all time as measured by percentage gain in value per year is a passion born of the passing of a social mood peak of even higher degree than that of 1929.

The University of Nicosia (UNIC) is, by most measures, the leading university globally in the digital currency and blockchain field.

The launch of a volley of protectionist measures by the Trump administration, which mainly target China but impact entire East Asian regional value chains (not to mention many other US trading partners, most notably Canada), appears to have galvanized negotiations among third parties.

In recent months, we've observed one of the most persistent shortfalls from economic expectations in years, as measured by various «economic surprise» indices.

Currently, the S&P 500 would have to decline by about 55 % simply to price out at historically run - of - the - mill valuations on the most reliable measures.