Sentences with phrase «businesses are in decline»

Similar to a veteran who has taken a pay cut with each successive job, self - employed veterans whose businesses are in decline will receive extra scrutiny.

Jaime Katz, Morningstar analyst, discusses Hasbro's takeover bid for Mattel and whether the toy business is in decline.

The commodity business was in decline, and the engineered systems business was ramping very rapidly.

«Lavalife is not of great strategic value, and its business is in decline,» said Mark Brooks, an industry consultant with Courtland Brooks.

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Throughout the hearing, Comey declined to deny any assertion made by his questioners that mentioned Flynn or any other individuals, explaining that the FBI is not in the business of correcting or verifying such reports.

Keane also declined to talk about future data center locations, only to say that they would be built in places where Microsoft likely sees big business opportunities.

Further evidence of the decline can be seen in the decreasing rates of first - time patents since the 1980s, as well as increases in demand for professional licensing, which could further restrict new business opportunities by requiring expensive (and often unnecessary) credentials.

The Independent was created in 1986 as an alternative to the existing British daily press, and for a time it was a successful business, but as the pressure of a declining print market continued to grow it faded rapidly from a readership of about 400,000 to less than 50,000.

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Wheeler's statement also mentioned a «sharp decline» in exports, a «weakening» of consumer and business confidence, and that home prices in Auckland were «becoming more unstable.»

But tobacco sales were in decline, so it was exiting a weak business.

That sector has been weak since the recession, and between 2015 and 2017, business investment actually declined in Ontario.

«And while this has been a very damaging reputational moment for the company — the dramatic decline in the stock price, the front - page stories, all kinds of negative press about the business and various assertions and attacks — we think the Valeant business is quite robust.»

Moderate household consumption will be mostly offset by a decline in business investment.

In part, the decline is due to a flawed business plan reliant on very generous tax credits.

But the recent decline in cryptocurrency prices since their feverish peak last year — when Bitcoin, now hovering around $ 8,700, nearly touched $ 20,000 — has convinced the government that safely regulated markets could be viable, according to Business Korea.

If, in contrast, the Fed were to raise rates now, before the economic recovery is fully entrenched, house prices might resume declines, the values of businesses large and small would drop, and, critically, unemployment would likely start to rise again.

But if anything is certain, it's that the iPad business is in a dangerous state of decline.

Still, the impact on Telus in the province was most pronounced in the business wireless sector, where average revenue per business user declined 7.6 per cent in the fourth quarter, Entwistle said.

The rest are reconfiguring their businesses in a variety of ways — most commonly by postponing capital spending — the inevitable result being a decline in production down the road.

The declines at American Apparel suggest the growth in top - line sales is primarily coming from its wholesale business and new store openings.

But she ran into a problem that many CMOs and innovators face, especially those that are in a legacy business: getting the founding partners and the sales team to understand that many outbound marketing tactics are in decline.

O'Leary Funds continued raising money, but it was not enough to offset the decline in closed - end business.

It was the latest in a string of quarterly declines in Apple's tablet business, which has been struggling to keep pace with two - in - one hybrid computers that can be used both as tablets and notebooks.

Over the last 30 years or so, the number of people starting new businesses has been in serious decline.

Business investment is stagnant in the United States and has declined sharply in Canada.

«Based on the current challenges in the power industry and a significant decline in orders, GE Power continues to transform our new, combined business to better meet the needs of our customers,» GE's statement said in flawless corporate speak: «As we have said, we are working to reduce costs and simplify our structure to better align our product solutions, and these steps will include layoffs.»

America is in «disintegration mode,» and unless businesses, government, and the media behave more ethically and more cooperatively, high unemployment levels and economic decline will continue.

When I had to reinvent and rebuild my photography business in 2007, which was failing because of the rapid decline of film, it was my powerful personal brand that drove much of our success.

Customers that are declining are those who haven't left yet, but are clearly placing fewer orders and becoming less prominent in your business.

Nashville - based Gibson, whose legendary brands include Les Paul and SG, has been suffering under $ 500 million in debt linked to the acquisition of its consumer electronics business overseas, where sales have been in sharp decline.

«When you have declining sales, it causes turmoil in any business, because people start pointing fingers,» says Bitove, who is in talks with lenders.

In a presentation to the Canadian Association for Business Economics in August, Industry Canada economist Annette Ryan reiterated the familiar productivity lament: beginning in the 1980s, growth in Canadian labour productivity, defined as GDP per hour worked, has been steadily declining and now trails the U.S. and the majority of other G7 countrieIn a presentation to the Canadian Association for Business Economics in August, Industry Canada economist Annette Ryan reiterated the familiar productivity lament: beginning in the 1980s, growth in Canadian labour productivity, defined as GDP per hour worked, has been steadily declining and now trails the U.S. and the majority of other G7 countriein August, Industry Canada economist Annette Ryan reiterated the familiar productivity lament: beginning in the 1980s, growth in Canadian labour productivity, defined as GDP per hour worked, has been steadily declining and now trails the U.S. and the majority of other G7 countriein the 1980s, growth in Canadian labour productivity, defined as GDP per hour worked, has been steadily declining and now trails the U.S. and the majority of other G7 countriein Canadian labour productivity, defined as GDP per hour worked, has been steadily declining and now trails the U.S. and the majority of other G7 countries.

The nation's sharpest decline in business bankruptcy filings in the past year was Denver, where filing dipped 26 percent.

«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

Although the company faces some risk that usage of its service may decline thanks to the negative sentiment surrounding it, its advertising business appears to be largely unaffected by the scandal, Sebastian said in a research note issued Friday.

«Small businesses are already feeling the pinch with higher borrowing costs, cash flow squeezes and a decline in business investments.

«While economic growth remains robust, business investment is in decline, retail sales are low and forward employment indicators are subdued.

Campus recruiting was down at Indiana University's Kelly School of Business, which reported a 7 % decline in this area in 2014, according to the school's most recent undergraduate career services report.

By this point, for the first time in its history Microsoft was facing the prospect of a decline in its core business.

Microsoft's $ 20.5 billion in revenue is down more than $ 1 billion from the same period a year before, depressed by continued decline in its Windows consumer licensing business.

At a time when many business schools are reporting declining enrollment in their full - time MBA programs, Welch's Management Institute is doing a brisk business.

Nondefense capital goods orders excluding aircraft (a proxy for future business investment) rose 0.9 % in June after declines of 0.4 % and 0.7 % the prior two months, and are down 4.0 % ytd.

In the orange world, big businesses and corporations start to decline and are replaced by smaller, flexible organizations that provide workers with autonomy and a variety of ways to work.

Jaime Prater, a shift supervisor at a Starbucks in California, told Business Insider's Kate Taylor in March that tips were «in steady decline» due to an increase in mobile ordering and payment.

Some degree of customer turnover is inevitable for any business and if you're not marketing to bring new customers in the door, your sales are almost certainly going to decline.

The fraction of incoming college freshmen surveyed annually by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA who reported that «becoming successful in a business of my own» was «essential» or «very important» to them declined from 52.1 percent in 1988 to 41 percent in 2004.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

For example, one stat used to justify the decline of small business is that the number of startups as a percentage of total businesses has fallen from 15 % in 1978 to 8 % in 2012.

To be sure, it was a sixth straight quarter of sales declines, but the results suggest Kohl's strategy to contain a secular decline in its business is starting to take hold.