Sentences with phrase «cycle high of»

But with the onset of the Great Recession in December 2007, median household income fell over the next five years from a business cycle high of $ 57,357 to $ 52,605.

Leverage in the non-financial corporate sector has recently increased from 40 % of GDP to its previous cycle highs of 45 % in 2000 and 2007.

Not exact matches

«If you have been financially conservative during the high cycle, and you've got a strong balance sheet, and available cash, there's no question that the evaluations of everything in the business will be plummeting,» says Yager.

So there's almost more concern for locking in a long - term rate of income than there is for just maybe catching a higher yield at one point in the cycle in the front end.

This will set off a vicious cycle of higher deficits that lead to higher debt, which in turn will mean higher interest costs and less funding available for healthcare, education and other provincial services.

«We're seeing a higher rate of people switching to iPhone than we've experienced in previous cycles,» CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.

Comments: «Our economists see growth disappointing in 2013 with added risk as a result of uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff... Political uncertainty is also high and history tells us that the US underperforms in the first year of a presidential cycle.»

«It (Q400) has been designed to be robust and reliable in consideration to high cycle demands of regional airlines,» she said in an interview.

As a result, we do not expect a quick return to the prior highs although we do think higher highs for the S&P 500 are likely ahead of us before the cycle top later this year.»

For B2C, the general rule of thumb is that the higher the item ticket price, the longer the sales cycle.

«This is typical of a late cycle expansion which is another reason why multiples will be lower as higher volatility typically demands a higher equity risk premium.

The highest driver of the use of IoT in business transformation is expected to be improved business efficiencies and productivity, followed by faster innovation cycles.

So the Fed is now in play, it's raising rates, and typically that's the part of the market cycle where valuations start to come down, and I think that's especially relevant today because valuations have been so high.

While these companies are unsurprisingly out of favour with many investors — a lot simply won't buy these companies on moral grounds — they think the sector's high yields, low correlation with market cycles and steady earnings will make investors give them another look, and then stock prices will appreciate.

As of January at the recent high the trailing P / E was at 21 times earnings, which really gets up there, and so I think for the next year or so as we approach and enter late cycle, that's really gonna be the big part of the conversation.

The debate over high drug prices has been a red hot topic here and inspired a lot of anger and legislative threats, especially in the midst of the 2016 election cycle.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

But the combination of high and seemingly sustainable prices eventually triggered a late - cycle rush of investment, not just from the majors but also the independent shale producers.

Vanguard says investors should pay more attention to low unemployment rates than GDP growth at this stage of the cycle for prospects of either higher spending for capital expenditures or wage pressures.

Each year, Gartner's Hype Cycle, highlights «a set of technologies that will have broad - ranging impact across the business... It features technologies that are the focus of attention because of particularly high levels of hype, or those that may not be broadly acknowledged but that Gartner believes have the potential for significant impact.»

Since the selling cycle is longer and presentations are made higher up in the chain of command, the person making the sale has to be comfortable conversing with CEOs.

Demand for Powerpack is high, despite the poor economics of its 7 kWh daily cycling unit.

But with monthlong high - tech - product life cycles, just - in - time manufacturing operations, and overnight global currency crashes, the business world might just be coming around to the marines» point of view.

The former VP of business development at high - end gym chain Equinox took over as CEO of SoulCycle, the sizzling hot cult cycling chain, in June.

«We've seen a few cycles of this,» he says, pointing to the EU's $ 794 million fine against Microsoft (msft), in 2004, for bundling its media player with Windows, and the 2001 decision to block a merger between GE (ge) and Honeywell (hon), as other high - water marks of regulatory zeal.

«As the business cycle deepens and inflationary concerns push interest rates higher, cross-asset correlations with commodities decline and the diversification benefits of owning commodities rises with higher rates.»

Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices, while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self - reinforcing bullish cycle.

Here again, bull markets have tended to carry on a while — even years of fresh record highs — after the bull / ratio peaks for a cycle.

But if this economic cycle indeed has another extended leg in — as plenty of indicators suggest — and companies can keep the profit machine running along with stock buybacks and mergers, there's no saying the market as a whole can't work its way a good deal higher before it reaches its ultimate peak.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

Still — even if the market starts making headway again toward its January high - water mark — it is possible Wall Street has passed its moment of «peak happiness» for a while — and perhaps for this entire cycle.

«Meanwhile, any inflationary impulse from higher tariffs depends on whether firms view the increase as permanent and if the current state of the business cycle would contribute to a high pass - through rate from tariffs to final goods.»

As a result, it is now clear that the U.S. is in the latter stages of the multi-year credit cycle, a period when rising corporate leverage negatively affects returns to corporate debt as investors demand higher risk premiums to compensate for the greater volatility created by increased leverage.

We are in the ninth year of an unusually long economic expansion, and while we believe the cycle has room to run, we see gradually rising rates and modestly higher inflation ahead.

This Hype Cycle looks at technologies that show promise in delivering a high degree of competitive advantage.

In North America, we see several meaningful differences from prior cycles, including a high level of oil - directed activity.»

This cycle of a rally, pullback (or consolidation), then rally again is what forms the «higher highs» and «higher lows» of any healthy market uptrend.

While it's still early to make a call, we'll begin testing shorter cadence cycles to reduce the number of calls a rep has to make to a somewhat unreachable audience (much lower connect rates), freeing up time and capacity to spend on higher value metrics.

As is frequently detailed on this blog, stocks and ETFs trading at new 52 - week or all - time highs typically repeat the «base, breakout, base, breakout» cycle several times before eventually entering into a substantial correction, as there is a complete lack of overhead supply (no technical price resistance).

They naturally had cycles of high and low calories.

The faith in the effectiveness of interest rate cuts has driven the percentage of bearish investment advisors to a dangerously low 25.5 %, while the average equity allocation of Wall Street strategists is now above 70 %, the highest level in this market cycle and quite probably a record.

Consumer confidence and high yield bond spreads corroborate the unemployment rate in suggesting that we are in the mature stages of the current business cycle.

That is exactly what happened, the lenders exhausted the pool of borrowers, the reflexive impact of rising demand pushing prices higher began to wane, and the virtuous cycle turned dramatically (as they always do eventually) into a vicious cycle that triggered the Global Financial Crisis and those same banks that made all the ill - advised loans were crushed by massive losses Then, yet again, what were the «Masses» doing at the peak?

They include high levels of labor mobility, high levels of capital mobility, a system of transfers that shares risks across the region, and coordinated business cycles.

The relationship seems to be perverse for much of the cycle: high rates of interest often coincide with high expenditure.

If there is a danger that monetary policy will be seen as «too difficult», there is also a risk that too much will be expected of it or, at least, that its success or failure will be judged against an impossibly - high standard: it can't cure the business cycle; it can't reduce inflation costlessly; and it can't be operated with surgical precision.

High - yield bonds are in the eighth year of an investment cycle that has seen assets under management grow threefold, to $ 300 billion, so interest among investors remains hHigh - yield bonds are in the eighth year of an investment cycle that has seen assets under management grow threefold, to $ 300 billion, so interest among investors remains highhigh.

Most had high levels of foreign investor activity during the last cycle.

Those stocks have enjoyed sustained growth in recent years, regularly reaching record highs despite the relative chaos of the daily news cycle dominated by the Russia investigation and fears of conflict in North Korea.

Interestingly, though, no other positive result (e.g. shorter sales cycles, more wins, higher sales price, more demos) showed up in a majority of responses.