Sentences with phrase «last year we cut»

Brevan Howard Asset Management last year cut 50 jobs because of losses.

You know, last year we cut a $ 10 billion dollar defecit without raising any taxes at all.

The federal government last year cut off funding for the Syracuse lead program.

And on 7 December, a report from Policy Cures in Sydney, Australia, a group that monitors global research and development for neglected diseases, showed that public and private funders last year cut their commitments to HIV / AIDS research targeted at the developing world by US$ 67.5 million, or 5.9 %.

The company estimated that last year it cut the use of about 300 metric tons of lead (roughly the weight of two 747 commercial airplanes) from its production environment.

Last year it cut the number of new license plates by 37 percent to 150,000 a year and is also paying for another 200,000 ageing vehicles to be upgraded.

Subaru sells 600 to 800 Bajas a month, even though last year it cut the price by $ 2,000 and added a turbocharged performance model.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board was entirely correct yesterday when they said, «Republicans have spent the last year cutting taxes and regulations, which hasn't been easy.

In a sign of the stakes involved, Google last year cut off the Echo Show's access to YouTube and took the rare step of explicitly saying it was acting in retaliation for Amazon refusing to sell Google products.

Last year we cut down a huge tree that we just enjoyed without the pressure to decorate it.

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Over the last few years, business owners have been tightening their belts and getting creative over cost - cutting.

The tax cut plan approved last year will have a disproportionate impact on Verizon because almost all of the company's revenue comes from inside the United States.

Pay television lost a record number of subscribers in last year's fourth quarter as more and more companies have opted to cut the cord.

Flannery said GE is «keenly aware of the pain» caused by its poor performance and dividend cut last year.

The bank agreed last year that it would cut executive bonuses, as investors saw its compensation packages as excessive.

Well, survey respondents were discussing cutting costs to increase profit last year.

Last year, Greenblatt's network was one of several major companies to officially cut ties with Trump in the wake of the offensive remarks Trump made as he first announced his candidacy, when he called Mexican immigrants «rapists.»

And cutting its plan to four films per month will probably make new customer acquisition a lot harder for MoviePass, which has grown massively since dropping its price last year.

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

If cutting rates by 500 bps over the last few years didn't spark a recovery then why would cutting from 25 bps?

As for «peak earnings,» Michael Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist and CIO of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, said in a note to clients on Sunday that» [W] e think the market is digesting the fact that the tax cut last year has created a lower quality increase in US earnings growth that almost guarantees a peak rate of change by 3Q.»

Starting in January of last year and due to continue throughout 2018, OPEC and 10 other producers agreed to production cuts to overcome a glut and push up prices.

The Bank of Canada said nothing in public about the possible merits of deficit spending as it twice cut its benchmark interest rate last year to offset the collapse of oil prices.

Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for election promises in this year's budget.

They were the first to see that the plunge in crude prices last year heralded serious trouble — hence the January interest - rate cut.

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT) cut about 18 per cent of its workforce late last year in response to the soft demand.

Two former Fancy employees estimate that one - third of the company was cut that day, scaling a team of 45 US employees last year down to about 15 or 20 now.

Oil and gas firms worldwide have cut their share in investment given the subdued market prices in the last few years.

What's more, the bank sent a fair amount of its employees packing last year, cutting 6,671 positions in 2015.

Chef's Cut grew from just $ 181,000 in revenue three years ago to more than $ 7 million last year.

Kenney spent most of last year driving cutting - edge brand marketing campaigns for Brooklyn, New York - based über - brand MakerBot, including the wildly successful #Robohand video that documented how MakerBot users developed prosthetic hands for disabled children.

It opened full - time in December of last year — a floor - through, gut - renovated homage to millennial pink: pink - and - white packaged products arranged on pink lacquered displays, pale - pink - subway - tiled walls, staff dressed in pink mechanics» jumpsuits, fresh - cut pink and white flowers and flattering lighting.

At a dinner table over the holidays, I sat next to a New York - based investment manager who told me that the CEOs who have come to visit him over the last couple of years told him that their recent layoffs were just «cutting out the dead wood» that they'd been reluctant to cut earlier.

Indianapolis - based pharma giant Eli Lilly is slashing 485 jobs, with most of the cuts coming from the Alzheimer's unit that saw high - profile (and expensive) clinical flop last year.

Last year, she cut those costs by using credit card reward points and frequent flyer miles to book flights, hotels and rental cars.

Last week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply - chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»

Last week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»

This company made waves with price cuts that took on cloud market leader Amazon (AMZN) Web Services last year.

They also follow a recent pledge by the bank to build more branches and expand hiring in underserved neighborhoods and expand its philanthropic work, in response to an expected windfall from the passage of federal corporate tax cuts last year.

WHAT THEY DID: An earlier version of the Senate plan would increase deficits by roughly $ 1 trillion over 10 years, even when taking into account additional economic growth forecast with the tax cuts, the Joint Committee on Taxation said last week.

Last fall, the MDA announced it would cut back the telethon to a six - hour prime time special in 2011, leading to speculation that Lewis, who has been forced to cut back his airtime considerably in recent years due to mounting heath issues, was on his way out.

In the last five years, 20 % of jobs have been cut in the district, three schools have been closed, the Journal reported.

The planned capital investments follow backlogs that choked UPS» network during last year's holiday shopping surge, which led to shipping delays and forced UPS to spend $ 125 million on leasing additional planes and trucks, cutting into the company's Q4 profits.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

The first quarter has been quite a pivot away from last year, when Goldman was said to be seeking cuts upward of $ 1 billion, according to Bloomberg.

Excluding items, the company reported earnings of 78 cents per share, which included a 13 - cent impact from tax cuts signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump late last year.

Those who've made the final cut — after what's typically a yearlong series of interviews that scrutinize a venture's business model, hiring practices and sales potential — have gone on to collectively create more than 225,000 jobs and generate more than $ 6 billion last year alone.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The combined effects of President Trump's tax cuts and last month's budget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

Last year, the central bank sounded an alarm, ranking the expansion of personal credit as the biggest threat to the economy, which is why everyone was shocked when Poloz suddenly cut interest rates in January.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.