Sentences with phrase «corporate profits»

Even considering the combined effect of somewhat greater international sales on somewhat higher profit margins, it is impossible to account for the overall change in corporate profit margins on that basis.

However, when it comes to the current sustainability of corporate profit margins vs. past cycles, this time may truly be different.

Indeed, we could be witnessing a reversal of the sharp rise in corporate profit margins that's occurred over the past dozen years.

It was just the latest in a string of major setbacks for tar sands oil, which has become nearly as bad for corporate profits as it is for the environment.

Take a look at the second link I provided below to see how employee comp and the national debt have helped increase corporate profits as well.

The holiday would involve drastically lowering taxes on corporate profits for companies that choose to bring assets back into this country.

Private - sector investment intentions are only 1.3 % higher this year, a far cry from the growth of after - tax corporate profits.

Sadly, our current political leaders place more importance on increasing corporate profits than increasing living wage jobs.

That's because the peak of earnings season will bring new information and guidance for corporate profit growth.

The plan included a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 21 %, which is expected to result in higher corporate profits and fuel a potential increase in hiring and investment.

So it does not contribute to corporate profit at all.

Again, the big question is what has driven record corporate profits during a period in which we experienced the weakest GDP recovery in modern times following a recession?

He added the employment to population ratio is historically low, and there's been a shift in the distribution of income with corporate profits up strongly while employment compensation is down.

Human psychology plays as big a role in market behavior, as economic numbers and corporate profits do in the short to intermediate term.

The significant retreat in corporate profits over the next several years will take investors by surprise — it should not.

Usually, a strong economy leads to strong corporate profits, not the other way round.

Between 2000 and 2006, average wages remained flat despite an increase of worker productivity of 15 %, while corporate profits increased 13 % per year.

However, assuming a more normal rate of inflation, shouldn't corporate profits (and stock prices) rise along with inflation?

It takes pressure off of fixing real environmental problems that would hurt corporate profits; and supports central control to support the status quo,.

This is because dividends are payments to shareholders from corporate profits.

If you compare corporate profits to employee compensation, employee compensation is about four times as large.

It appears corporate profits fell another 3 % in 2015's fourth quarter.

Meanwhile, you're also getting paid increasing passive income (through those rising dividend payments, which are funded by growing corporate profit).

«When corporate profits as a whole rise, that's what creates jobs,» he says.

One study found that corporate lobbying and political campaign spending has been responsible for a significant portion of the rise in corporate profits since 2000.

Higher borrowing costs can reduce corporate profits and reduce the amount of income consumers have available for spending.

But it seems to bother many people, possibly because it threatens corporate profits.

Consequently, they are very reliant on corporate profits through investments held in retirement savings vehicles such as employer pension plans and individual retirement arrangements.

A strong rise in inflation would send borrowing costs higher and could cut into corporate profits.

You're standing with the experts, activists, and caregivers who believe that the wellbeing of children should come before corporate profits.

Corporate profits overall are expected to have risen 17 percent for the three - month period, but the financial sector has drawn especially keen interest.

In this report we examine the sustainability of elevated corporate profits.

-- Bringing back corporate profits held offshore without setting any aside for infrastructure investment.

They may stand more to gain than to lose, if their creativity is subject to common good considerations rather than to corporate profit motives.

Highly successful sales and marketing executive with demonstrated skills in all aspects of planning, developing, launching and promoting products and services that ensure corporate profit and customer satisfaction.

A credit union exists to serve a community of members — not to maximize corporate profits.

Despite strengthening corporate profits, companies seeking to expand don't want to tie up capital in real estate.

Consumer spending, and thus corporate profits, will fall.

The following day, the same department issues final gross domestic product data for the first quarter, along with revised corporate profits figures.

The principal drivers of dividends are corporate profit growth and payout ratios.

In other words, watch corporate profits, jobs growth and inflation.

In Q4 2016, corporate profits jumped a remarkable 22 % from the prior year.

A snowball effect occurs: consumer demand falls and corporate profits contract.

Natural by - products of slower potential growth are not only weaker corporate profits and dividends, but also a lower average rate of return on investments.

We could strive for global rules governing corporate behavior that would place human well - being and the health of the earth above corporate profits.

In districts where schools pay their food service provider a flat rate for meals, rebates represent corporate profit that goes to shareholders instead of into the food kids are being served.

Maybe some of us think there are more important things to do than destroy corporate profits and the world economy.