Sentences with phrase «down backs this year»

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The London Metal Exchange three - month aluminum price hit a seven - year high of $ 2,718 per tonne on April 19 but is now trading back down around the $ 2,250 level.

When her restaurant burned down a year later, Toshack went back to law school.

However, in the last two years, the practice has decreased (falling down to just 30 percent of purchases in 2013) as businesses have found more effective ways to fight back.

From the disappointing years of the Gamecube console to the unabashed phenomenon that was the Wii and right back down to the currently underperforming Wii U, it's been a veritable roller coaster ride for the new - ish general manager of Nintendo Canada.

Along the way, the Potash Corp. stock climbed from about $ 4 a share in 1999, when Doyle became CEO, to more than $ 80 a share in 2008, before settling back down to between $ 30 and $ 50 a share in the years since.

In December of that year the company said Wilson would step down as chairman and it also named a new CEO, hoping new faces at the top would help the company bounce back from the debacle.

Labor force participation is down significantly over the past 20 years, but rising pay and benefits could entice some people off the sidelines and back to work.

When you're ready to put down roots, and plan to stay for at least five years, buying's back on the table.

Michael Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist at the firm, said in a note Monday that the S&P 500 could reach his «bull case» target of 3,000 «by the middle of the year as investors bid up P / Es toward 18.5 x on one last surge of euphoria before settling back down by year end.»

Emeco Holdings has reported a net loss of $ 21.6 million, down from a $ 28.5 million profit last year, following a series of downgrades and write - downs on the back of a slowdown in the mining sector.

Iron ore explorer Gindalbie Metals has detailed a $ 586 million loss for the financial year, which was previously flagged on the back of a write - down of its 48 per cent stake in the Karara project.

This goes back many years ago to when we worked with startups who pitched the company, narrowed it down to 40, and then pitched the marketing department, and then we chose ten to work with.

It is now down 2.1 % from March last year and back where it had been in May 2016.

While it looked like oil prices were recovering slightly in June, they slipped back down over the past few weeks, continuing a decline that started to over two years ago.

After Jain stepped down as Kellogg's dean in August 2009, he didn't realize that he would be back at the helm of another leading business school in just over a year.

I first wrote about the company back in 2011 for New Scientist, but just happened to find myself sitting next to some of the principals on the flight down to Vegas this year, which was a great opportunity to catch up on what they've been doing.

Labour MP Pat McFadden asked Davis whether there would be any circumstances where the government would go back to Brussels to negotiate a revised Brexit deal if Parliament decides to vote it down later this year.

Two earlier efforts were struck down by the courts as lacking adequate backing in law, until the most recent 2015 plan was upheld last year.

The minister faced a backlash over his initial plans to change small business taxes last year before backing down on some of the proposed changes and reviving a promise to reduce the small business tax rate.

One person who has known Khan since «back when he was a dorky equity analyst» says he has remained a down - to - earth and thoughtful person over the years.

«In fact, going back more than 100 years, the Dow has been down 0.3 % on average during the first six months after a new Fed chair takes office,» Lynch and Detrick wrote in a note this week.

The GM IPO of two years ago is cited as a recent example of seeing a stock price initially go up $ 6 or $ 7 higher than the IPO the first day, and then settle back down a day or two later.

Last year the company bought back 14.2 million shares for $ 2 billion, down slightly from years prior.

Now, the 79 - year - old Magna International founder is back in Austria and launching a new political party that aims to dump the euro, reform the country's tax system and cut down on bureaucracy.

Back in 2006, AMD peaked at 48 % of tests, nearly reaching Intel's 52 % share, before heading down for most of the next 10 years.

Gold prices, which hit a record highs near US$ 1,900 an ounce back in August, have been falling since beginning the year and stock prices of miners have come down with them.

Fitbit sold only 5.4 million total devices in the fourth quarter, down from 6.5 million a year earlier and 8.2 million sold back in 2015.

«We're at a good time in the cycle right now, but I would suggest that you go back and look at the tougher years in 2009 - 2010 and see how much of a struggle it's been for the entire industry during those down cycles.»

U.S. forces in Syria have already faced direct threats from Syrian and Iranian - backed forces, leading to the shoot - down of Iranian drones and a Syrian jet last year, as well as to tensions with Russia.

Boy Scout membership dropped about 13 percent in just five years according to the AP (from 2.6 million to 2.3 million)-- and it's way down from a height of 4 million a few years back.

MCD is still down for the year and while the 5 % rally today certainly helps the stock trend higher, there's a way to go before this stock is back at all - time highs.

Housing data from the day before had showed US home prices were down 4 % this year, bringing the average home value back to 2002 levels.

On Deck, which launched in 2007, is one of a number of venture capital - backed companies that have arisen in recent years and that take advantage of the greater availability of business data via the Internet to lend to small companies that banks typically turn down, says Mitch Jacobs, CEO of On Deck.

He expects a 3.25 percent 10 - year at year end, but in the meantime, it could run above that level to 3.40 percent or so before backing down.

Looking back over the last 10 years, we can see that volume declined in the first few years after the financial crisis, then bounced up and down until 2015.

For example, a portfolio that starts out strong in retirement and has losses later will likely be in much better shape than one that has down years early, even if strong performance in later years brings its average return back in line with historical averages.

Over the past five years the price of west Texas crude, the primary American benchmark for oil, has yo - yoed from US$ 60 a barrel to US$ 145 in 2008, all the way back down to US$ 30 during the recession, then up again to US$ 114, before settling this year around US$ 100.

For example, if you had an investment that went up 100 % one year and then came down 50 % the next, you certainly wouldn't say that you had an average return of 25 % = (100 % - 50 %) / 2, because your principal is back where it started: your real annualized gain is zero.

In the next 10 years, we'll assuredly go through another recession, Blackstone's favorable tax treatment may be reversed by legislation, and fees may come down as limited partners push back.

If I know the market is going down for five years, my interest would be to pull out now, put my money in cash or Treasuries, and buy back into stocks five years from now, or whenever the crisis has passed.

Yet while uncertainty over the U.S. economy has settled down in the last year, in Canada it's back near its all - time highs.

Tanaka's predecessors as presidents of the laptops - to - nuclear conglomerate, Vice Chairman Norio Sasaki and adviser Atsutoshi Nishida, will also step down after the third - party report showed they played a part in the overstatement of profits going back to the 2008 financial year.

Also, I've done a little of this a few years back and what happened was those articles were taken down as the sites went down.

If we think back ten to fifteen years ago, it was very common to think that mid-level managers to senior executives probably would privately break down and cry if the administrative assistant called in sick.

A few years back, KFC invented the Double Down, which took two slices of bacon, put them between two slabs of fried chicken and wrapped it in the Colonel's proprietary blend of herbs and self - loathing.

At least part of this, however, reflects the winding back of inflation, with a corresponding reduction in the inflation premium built into nominal interest rates, which in earlier years was being consumed — ie retirees were effectively running down their real capital, often without realising it.

As the year progresses, more off lease vehicles will come back driving down the price of used and further reducing residuals on leased vehicles making new leases more expensive.

Everyone swore we would never go back to the bad old days when people could put only 1 % down and still secure a 30 - year mortgage.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't backing down from his government's much - maligned timeline for legalizing marijuana, despite a growing chorus of calls from senators, Indigenous leaders and others to delay the plan for up to a year.

He never, ever in a million years would have written these posts back in 2008 when he was down nearly 50 percent and nearly blew up.