Sentences with phrase «slower gains in»

Indeed, average hourly earnings were up just 1.77 % in December versus a year earlier, the slowest gain in more than a year.

Unfortunately, most economists predict that the unemployment rate will remain elevated as discouraged workers reenter the labor force amid slow gains in jobs.»

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In doing so, these first movers gain an immense advantage over slow - moving competition.

Buchanon admits that for him coding is still a slow and intense process, but after seeing how the tech sausage is made, he gained the knowledge necessary to bring the apps in his head onto his smartphone.

While overall smartphone market growth has slowed in recent years, we continue to see good opportunities for Apple to gain market share in both developed and emerging markets due to its significantly superior user experience, human - computer interface, and premium branding.

The Labor Department's monthly employment report, due Friday, is projected to show payroll gains slowed to a still - solid 185,000 in March and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4 percent, which would be a 17 - year low.

Global growth is seen rising 3.4 percent next year, with China slowing to a 7 percent annual pace, Europe expanding by 1.2 percent and Japan eking out 1 percent gain in GDP.

Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind U.S. Productivity Gains (Naked Capitalism) Since 1973, there has been divergence between labour productivity and the typical worker's pay in the U.S. as productivity has continued to grow strongly and growth in average compensation has slowed substantially.

«While overall price growth slowed, gains in core price measures remained firm, leaving the Bank of Canada on track to lift interest rates two more times this year,» Alicia Macdonald, the Conference Board of Canada's principal economist, said in a statement.

«We were a little slow to recognize the trend toward mobility,» he said, but added that the company is starting to see some traction and gain market share in large growth markets in areas such as tablets.

Chinese data had also helped, with signs of easier liquidity conditions and home prices up 10.4 % in May from a year ago, although slowing from April's 10.7 % gain.

U.S. hiring slowed sharply last month and previous job gains were revised lower amid a broad slowdown in the global economy.

Further gains are likely after a report last week showed some stabilization in factory activity in April after slowing for five straight months, as well as a solid rise in new orders.

But that was much slower than the revised 1.1 percent gain in...

The second is the risk of slow, long - run erosion in real value (or failure to gain real value) in the portfolio due to overweighting low - return holdings.

Also, if we're really at full employment, we should expect some slowing in payroll gains as employers bump up against supply constraints.

That would be slower than the average pace of gains in recent months but still enough to push the unemployment rate down to 4.0 %.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changeIn the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changein years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changein China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changein the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Despite steady demand from employers and brisk economic growth recently, average monthly job gains slowed from 187,000 in 2016 as the 4.1 % unemployment rate meant fewer available workers.

Alone, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but combine it with these: (1) sales in the craft segment are slowing, and distinctive winners and losers are emerging; (2) large, independent brands not committed to deep cost - cutting are suffering, while corporate - owned craft brands are selling briskly; (3) small craft beer producers are still posting big growth gains; but (4) legacy mass market brands are collapsing; finally (5) mass market Mexican imports are killing it, especially (yay!)

If you first grow and then rebalance to more yield returning investments, you will have to realize your gains at some point along the way... I assume ideally you would prefer to do that in a slow and steady process after retirement, but when you deal with growth stocks you might also want to protect your gains by setting stop losses which could then create a huge taxable event on some random Friday morning...

The dollar may be nearing its peak, and poll forecasts point to a slower pace of gains against most currencies in 2016.

That's because the health, wellness, and personal care spaces are rapidly gaining in popularity, and money: As of 2016, the wellness industry was worth $ 3.72 trillion and grew by 10.6 % from 2013 to 2015, with no signs of slowing down.

However, we expect the gains to be moderate over the short term, as Fed rate rises will likely be slower than in past cycles given relatively tame U.S. inflation.

Progress on global energy goals slow, but strong gains in countries show promise The world is not on track to meet the global energy targets for 2030 set as part of the Sustainable Development Goals 2 May 2018

Canada's GDP grew 0.2 percent in February, in - line with expectations but slower than January's 0.5 percent gain.

Third, and most importantly, the tone during Best Buy's post-earnings conference call was that the company is transitioning away from «outsized gains in its operating margin rate» and will now see slower growth moving forward.

The report also showed corporate profits rose at the slowest pace in more than three years and smaller wage gains at the end of 2011.

A slowing economy, uncertain fuel price regulations, new taxes and a weakening currency have slowed new - car sales to a 2.8 % gain in May from 7 % the same month a year earlier.

... to rising corporate profits, an ok economy, slow inflation and a reasonably quiet Fed and you get all the reasons to defer selling and booking your eight - year bull market capital gains, especially since TINA (there is no alternative) remains in everybody's mind.

The consumer segment saw even slower growth, with operational increases of just 1.3 % as poor performance in domestic baby care products offset gains in beauty products like Neutrogena and Aveeno.

Household sector financial assets increased by 1.7 per cent in the March quarter, a somewhat slower rate than in previous quarters, as a reduction in the value of direct equity holdings partially offset strong gains in the value of funds held in superannuation.

Finding the sweet spot: Hiring surged in February as employers added 313,000 jobs, but it slowed in March to a gain of just 103,000 — well below the average for the past year.

More productive U.S. workers supported faster economic growth in the third quarter, but slower business investment might limit future gains.

That score came as L.A. home prices surged 15.9 percent in two years — No. 32 biggest gain; per - capita homebuilding of 6 houses per 10,000 population was fourth slowest nationally; and business output rose 4.9 percent last year, No. 51 fastest.

Lower interest rates, slower amortization rates («interest - only loans»), lower down payments and easier credit terms enabled millions of Americans to take on huge debts today with the hope of reaping huge capital gains sometime in the future — or simply to avoid having to pay more as home prices rose beyond their means.

Job gains slowed across most major industries and employers cut workers in manufacturing, construction and mining.

A negative in the report was the underlying trend in average hourly wages, which slowed to a 0.1 percent month - over-month gain and 1.8 percent on a year - ago basis.

But overall, the U.S. auto industry in 2013 had its best sales year since 2007, and industry executives said on Friday they expect gains to continue in 2014, though at a slower pace.

ZURICH — Wealthy clients of Swiss private bank Falcon will be able to store and trade bitcoins via their cash holdings with the bank from Wednesday, a move that signals the traction the virtual currency is gaining even in slow - changing asset management.

Lowe's executives attributed a same - store sales gain of 2.7 % — less than rival Home Depot's 5.5 % increase — to slowed store traffic in August and September.

The method previously used by Litecoin traders to report their gains and losses was either through a painstakingly slow manual process, or the highly inaccurate First In First Out (FIFO) method which should not be applied to transactions ex post facto.

But the rate of appreciation could slow down in 2016 — the company has predicted a gain of only 2.9 % over the next 12 months.

From TRD New York: Price gains slowed ever - so - slightly in China's major cities in July amid the government's effort to rein in the housing market...

«The relatively slow, gradual gain in market share and prominence in Firefox shows it was more of a case of advantages and benefits of the software among its users,» maintained 451 Group analyst Jay Lyman.

His work in Geneva slowed progress on this project, but after 1546 he had gained sufficient momentum to produce commentaries on most of the Hebrew Bible and the whole of the New Testament except 2 and 3 John and Revelation.

Gaining interest in the bank is one of the slowest ways to gain profit from money.

Though white bread and whole grain bread has the same amount of carbs (which are processed into sugar in your body), whole gain is processed slower and more gently, due to the fiber.

Only one 1,000 - yard rusher from last year returns — Cincinnati's Isaiah Pead — though Louisville's Victor Anderson gained 1,047 yards in 2008 before being slowed by injuries....

With a top ranking in strokes gained putting and needing an average of 26.5 putts per round last week, Lefty's short game certainly was on target, even on the patchy, much - criticized greens slowed by rains.