Sentences with phrase «corporate profits since»

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.

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.

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Notice that since the ensuing crash, stock prices, while broadly correlating with corporate profits, never again reached parity with their 1957 level.

In fact, currency markets now are helping the central bank in that regard, since a stronger currency essentially has the same effect on the economy as higher interest rates because it will reduce exports and corporate profits.

Since 2010, rising corporate profits have led to larger marketing budgets, while growing disposable income has helped drive attendance at both B2B and B2C events.

Earnings are again in the stratosphere: Consider that in the second quarter, corporate profits in the U.S. were equal to 9.5 % of GDP vs. the long - term average since 1950 of 6.6 %.

The job growth is fake, there's been no wage growth since 1999, inflation numbers are false, government debt is too high, corporate profits are too low, corporate profits are unsustainably high, companies aren't reinvesting their profits, companies are buying back too much stock, the Federal Reserve is propping up the market, the Federal Reserve is keeping rates artificially low, and so on.

... 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.

Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

Corporate America was entrenched in an «earnings recession,» where profits for the companies in the S&P 500 had declined (on a year - over-year basis) for six - straight quarters, the longest such streak since the financial crisis.

Since productivity gains have been captured by corporate profits, perhaps municipal wages are not too high, but private - sector remuneration has fallen too low.

Last week I shared with you the Commerce Departments» news that fourth - quarter corporate profits, while still at record highs, sank at their fastest pace since the same period in 2008.

Since income growth tends to follow corporate profits in China, it's a good bet consumption will initially hold up in 2018, helping offset the slowdown in investment.

Is an increase from 2.6 % of GDP in 1981 to 3.1 % of GDP in 2012 unsustainable?  Yes, I suppose so, if this rate of increase continues for another few centuries. The same argument the CFIB makes for municipal spending could be made for corporate profits but far moreso. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have increased by 245 % since 1992, doubling as a share of GDP and growing at a rate of ten times Canadaâ $ ™ s cumulative population growth of just 23 % since 1992.

As if to support this outlook, the Commerce Department released economic data last Friday that shows fourth - quarter 2015 corporate profits fell at their fastest rate since — you guessed it — the same period in 2008.

Finally, note that the LFP is also a very important coincident Supercycle Period indicator (like corporate profit margins and industrial capacity): see the up - trending arrow ending in Mar ’00 and the down - trending arrow declining since then.

The share of global corporate earnings attributable to non-US companies is at a 13 - year low of 43 %.7 Not since the aftermath of the ill - fated technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) bubble has the United States commanded such an overwhelming share of global corporate profits.

profit was $ 53.9 million, since corporate prisons make their profits based on the daily number of prisoners, longer sentences are the strategy.

Perhaps everyone is looking for a way to forget, since with profits below corporate demands, forty percent of the staff are due to be fired to save money.

Some worry that corporate interests are the real force behind the Core, since they'll reap huge profits from selling new tests and preparation materials, and many are deeply suspicious of the hundreds of millions of dollars the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation poured into supporting the effort.

The fruits of our labor have, by and large, gone to bulk up corporate profits which have shot up 153 %, in real terms, since 1980.

Returns on equities are impossible to predict, but the McKinsey researchers point to several factors that have changed since the «golden era,» including lower inflation, lower interest rates, slower economic growth and slimmer corporate profit margins due to greater competition.

The share of global corporate earnings attributable to non-US companies is at a 13 - year low of 43 %.7 Not since the aftermath of the ill - fated technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) bubble has the United States commanded such an overwhelming share of global corporate profits.

In fact, currency markets now are helping the central bank in that regard, since a stronger currency essentially has the same effect on the economy as higher interest rates because it will reduce exports and corporate profits.

Investors are embracing safety as the S&P 500 is within 3 per cent of an all - time high reached 12 months ago and corporate profits are mired in the worst decline since the financial crisis.

Coming back to GNP, since even «national» corporate profits are not completely apples - to - apples (the issues mentioned above still apply), I wonder if using these data might actually skew the profit levels upwards since they would capture corporate activity abroad but very little non-corporate activity.

Six years since the book's publication, Shilling's prediction has largely proven correct, with two exceptions: corporate profits have risen during this time because of an intense focus on cost cutting; and corporate earnings per share (EPS) have risen due to financial engineering.

Corporate profits in the final quarter of 2011 were $ 1.99 trillion dollars, which at 14.6 percent of national income is the largest profit share since the Department of Commerce started compiling quarterly data on the U.S. economy in 1947.

Since starting her firm in 1998, Ellen has coached many hundreds of attorneys throughout the world at all levels of experience and seniority in law firms, corporate legal departments, government, not - for - profits and the judiciary.

Corporate profits are at their highest levels since the mid-1960s!

Since coming to Queen's Law, Claire has worked on projects involving not - for - profit organizations, corporate governance issues, and shareholder agreements.

I think typically one gain's the most tax benefit from a C - Corp, but only after reaching a certain level of profits since you can choose and pay your salary after the Corporate taxes are almost finished.

Since 2008, Kelly has played a leading role in the re-writing of corporate by - laws, which have been around for the past century, to bring Hockey Canada into compliance with the Canadian Not For Profit Corporations Act.