Sentences with phrase «currencies ended the year»

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The findings correlate with an uneven year for business in 2015, due to stock market volatility in the third quarter, which ended a long bull run in the wake of weakening global economies and a devaluing of China's currency.

Meanwhile its currency, the ringgit, has hit levels seen since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis and lost as much as 28 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar from the beginning of the year through the end of September.

«Looking at recent frenzy over virtual currencies worldwide, I worry whether there is some dose of irrational exuberance there,» Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju - yeol said over a year - end event with reporters on Wednesday night.

When he left Nike at the end of last year, some scratched their heads; they continued scratching them when he moved to a digital currency startup.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The analysis used to calibrate next year's index view involves nine different methods, including a normalized earnings yield gap approach, the P / E Bulls - Eye, currency measures, and consumer confidence, which supports a 1,900 year - end result for the S&P 500 - 4 % above the previously released June 2014 expectation of 1,825.

The global economy is ending the year in a fragile state with factory activity shrinking in China, euro zone business growth remaining weak, and emerging market giant Russia in a spiraling currency crisis.

U.S. exchanges only recently ended a six - year bull market, dropping 11 percent in August when China announced it was devaluing its currency.

Renewed confidence in the European economy and persistent weakness in the dollar have driven the euro up 16 percent against the U.S. currency from the first quarter last year to the end of March 2018.

Ripple is one of the best performing digital currencies this year, up more than 20,000 percent after ending 2016 at 0.64 cent.

He reckons the currency might end the year above $ 100,000, but acknowledges that's a gamble.

BAE Systems announced their year end results on Thursday, which showed an increase in orders received and order backlog, plus an increase in Operating Profit (on a constant currency basis).

Within his first week in office, he lifted capital controls that had prevented companies from repatriating dividends and devalued the peso, ending years of a gradual - decline policy that kept the currency overvalued as inflation soared.

For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2016, our operations outside of the United States are not considered material and incur a majority of their operating expenses in foreign currencies.

They form hedge portfolios from extreme fourths (quartiles) of ranked currencies, rebalanced annually at year end, and calculate returns in excess of short - term interest rates.

- Altice said on Nov. 2 it generated 5.8 billion euros of revenue in the three months to the end of September, up 0.3 percent from a year earlier after stripping out the effects of currency movements.

Bipan Rai, a senior foreign - exchange and macro strategist at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, says the currency will slip to about C$ 1.30 by the end of the year.

The Venezuelan government has hopes that the new currency will rejuvenate the country's ailing economy, which is on track to hit 4,000 percent inflation before year's end.

In contrast, abstracting from the increased circulation of cash around the end of last year, annual growth in currency has been relatively stable at around 7 — 8 per cent for a number of years.

These risks and uncertainties include: fluctuations in U.S. and international economies and currencies, our ability to preserve, grow and leverage our brands, potential negative effects of material breaches of our information technology systems if any were to occur, costs associated with, and the successful execution of, the company's initiatives and plans, the acceptance of the company's products by our customers, the impact of competition, coffee, dairy and other raw material prices and availability, the effect of legal proceedings, and other risks detailed in the company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the «Risk Factors» section of Starbucks Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2014.

When I first discovered bitcoin five years ago, I pitched it to my physics colleagues as a way to end the tyranny of banks, fiat currencies, and governments and finally bring about a world of anarchy.

Near year - end, many countries in these regions also offered higher short - term interest rates and had undervalued currencies, in our opinion.

With a couple notable exceptions, the consensus on the street appears to be that the single currency will rise to 1.25 or 1.30 against the greenback by the end of the year, supported by accelerating economic growth in the Eurozone and an end to the European Central Bank's (ECB) quantitative easing program.

Since the 1970s when the Bretton Woods fixed - currency regime ended and currencies began floating, a typical dollar rally has lasted roughly six to seven years.

The latest price escalation comes amid an increase in transactions observed on the bitcoin network, with this figure hitting a 52 - week peak on 30th November, and follows what has been a strong end of the year for the digital currency, which traded for under $ 200 as recently as January.

Oversea - Chinese Banking Corp. and ABN Amro Group NV see gold sliding to $ 1,100 an ounce by the end of next year as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy, real Treasury yields increase and the U.S. currency rises.

Volatility clustered in February this year after a protracted calm in 2017, roiling global equities, currencies, bonds and commodity markets and this led it to remain elevated through the end of March.

For the year ending December 31st 2005, the return on the Giverny Global portfolio was +11.5 % in Canadian currency compared with +3.6 % for our weighted benchmark.

After all, it was just two years ago when a «taper tantrum» — or the talk of an end to the Fed's bond - buying program hit emerging markets such as India and South Africa with a wave of currency depreciation and capital flight.

Profits at Japanese automakers have surged in yen terms as the Japanese currency weakened against the U.S. dollar over the past year, helped by a mammoth Bank of Japan effort to expand the money supply and ignite inflation to end years of economic stagnation.

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As a result, the single currency continued to make gains, and by the end of July had reached a two - and - a-half year high against the US dollar.

Stock Spirits Group, a leading owner and producer of premium branded spirits and liqueurs that are principally sold in Central and Eastern Europe, has reported a 5.2 % increase in revenue to $ 274.6 million, and 3.0 % rise on a constant currency basis for the year ended 31 December 2017.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

Greece could be forced out of the euro currency by the end of the year, predicts UKIP's leader Nigel Farage.

Priced at $ 0.99 each with a discount for buying in bulk, these coins will become the official in - app currency to pay for SuperSwipes, as well as additional paid features that the dating app will be launching before the end of the year.

Meanwhile in the 4th quarter for the period ending June 2017 revenues declined $ 26 million, or 6 %, compared to the prior year, driven by $ 19 million from the absence of the additional week in the prior year, the negative impact from foreign currency fluctuations and lower sales at the Children's division, which had bigger title releases in the prior year.

Although decreases in adjusted fares stabilized towards the end of the year, the association says competitive pressures within the industry will likely translate intro further fare declines in the first half of the year as currency hedges unwind.

The big decline in May - June was caused by an indication by the Federal Reserve that it may begin tapering its quantitative easing strategy by year's end, which caused the domestic interest rates to rise and emerging market currencies to fall against the dollar.

Given recent price and economic momentum, we are reasonably confident the bear market in EM assets — five years long for EM equities and currencies, and three years long for EM local currency bonds — came to an end in January 2016, and the early stages of a bull market look to be well underway.

By June of 1949, the brutal post-war bear market had ended; that same year, the British devalued the pound by 30 percent, the first of 28 currencies to do so.

Yes, I was equally keen on Japanese property a couple of years back, but opted for German property in the end as i) I think it also offers a global / European safe - haven status (which Japanese property doesn't), and ii) I had no need / inclination to hedge it (I think currency hedging a Japanese property position is essential, even now).

NB: Year - end 2015 share price for VOF: LN re-denominated to GBP, to reflect an end - March listing currency change.

Even if the central banks were to cause a hyper inflation, when that inflation ends after two or three years, the currency must be renounced.

This year saw positive returns from all currency selections other than a short position in the Japanese yen, which ended the year up against higher interest rate currencies.

Carry strategies yielded positive returns from all currency selections other than a short position in the Japanese yen, which ended the year up against higher interest rate currencies.

Instead, as reported by Inside Mobile Apps, the company is believed to make the switch to real currency by the end of the year.

If not for some delayed collections, year - end market turmoil and currency headwinds, we would have had a nicely up year.»

Despite a small budget increase, in the face of price increases and a deteriorating currency, we're still going to have to find $ 250,000 in savings this year to make ends meet.

Barclays has faced intense public scrutiny in recent years: from the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into the bank's # 12bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis, which resulted in criminal charges against the bank and former executives relating to a # 2.3 bn loan Barclays provided to Qatar, a multibillion - dollar legal battle with the US Department of Justice over allegedly - fraudulent mortgages and a New York currency trading probe that ended in a $ 150m settlement.