Sentences with phrase «during the decline of»

Red Dead Redemption is set in 1911 during the decline of the American Old West and it's hard to imagine RDR2, a Western game of course, set in The Roaring Twenties as a sequel.

«It's a tragically beautiful city,» Yanet says, and I'm reminded a bit of Leningrad, the city in which I was born, during the decline of the Soviet Union.

Another is entirely encircled by a frieze like drawing reimagining what Rome's legendary Via Appia, lined with the elaborate tombs of grandees, might have looked like during the decline of the Roman Empire.

Not exact matches

Part of the decline is attributed to an ongoing player protest that started with one player taking a knee during the National Anthem.

Netflix shares, which hit an all - time high during regular trading hours of $ 333.98 last month before selling off in the recent stock market decline, jumped as much as 8 % in after hours trading on Monday.

During oil's deep decline, Schlumberger offered to drill in oilfields that were on hiatus in exchange for a share of future production, a move that was «very controversial» and has yet to pay off, says Colin Davies, an analyst at Bernstein.

Retail, not mining, has borne the brunt of the slowdown in Western Australia during the past 12 months, with a study of the state's economy by the investment bank Goldman Sachs revealing a startling decline in retail jobs of more than 20 per cent.

«Importantly, the series also shows a sharp decline in the flows of illegal immigration at the U.S. - Mexico border during the last recession, and those flows have remained at historically low levels since then.»

Even more devastating, wages» share of GDP has been declining (with brief interruptions during asset bubbles) for 46 years.

An IRS spokesperson declined to comment on the investigation's new scope, which is limited — in the agency's words — to users with «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 15 period.»

The decline during the first three months of 2017 translates to a $ 2.7 billion loss in spending by those missing visitors, according to Tourism Economics.

The company said it expects another low single - digit decline in the current quarter, which it largely attributes to the company's strategy of cutting ad loads, or how long commercials run during its shows.

While prices in the Midwest declined dramatically in the 1980s, Shiller notes that there has only been one farmland bubble in the U.S. during the 20th century, when there was a fear of overpopulation in the 1970s.

While that level certainly has declined, the nearly 6 percent drop to 7.9 million as of March 2014 could have been much worse considering the way Wall Street banks cut jobs en masse during the crisis.

Sales of those hep - C drugs, Sovaldi and Harvoni, are plateauing, and Gilead stayed mostly on the sidelines during a recent pharmaceutical - deal frenzy, declining to refresh its product pipeline by buying a rival.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

During a call with media Wednesday, Bank of America executives declined to comment on specific client information.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

During an economic downturn, your volume of sales is likely to decline — so don't make matters worse by lowering prices at the same time.

The total included $ 23.6 million generated during the last three months of last year, as a reduction of operating costs at Torstar's print divisions offset a 10 per cent decline in fourth - quarter revenue.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

The stakes for the iPhone 7 are high after sales of the gadget dropped during two straight quarters this year, the first declines in its history.

Pence, an evangelical Christian who had planned to highlight the plight of Christian minorities during his trip, will not meet with Palestinian Christians or with officials from the Coptic Christian church, who declined a meeting in response to the U.S. move.

The report said that «Facebook (including Messenger but excluding Instagram) saw a decline in total person - hours (number of users multiplied by hours of consumption per person) during September of -0.1 % year - over-year following a -0.9 % decline in August.»

Amazon declined to comment on Echo devices said but said in a press release it sold millions of its Echo Dot speaker during the holiday season, making it the best - selling product over the period on its online store.

So the discount chain, hoping to avoid the 1.3 % decline in comparable sales of the 2016 holiday season quarter during the most important time of year, is streamlining the number of promotions and making them simpler and easier to understand, Target executives told reporters at a briefing last week in New York.

The German engineering group reported a 14 percent decline in quarterly industrial profit during the final three months of 2017 last month.

«A stress test that claims that if the Dow falls by 60 %, the unemployment rate rises to 12 %, housing prices decline substantially more than they did during the 2008 recession, GDP declines by 6 - 7 % — and that all of that can happen and no bank will be in serious financial trouble or have any problem of being undercapitalized or illiquid — I kind of think says more about itself than it says about the health of the banking system.»

Apple Watch accounted for «well over» 100 percent of the sequential growth of «other products» and more than offset decline in iPods and accessories, Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer, said during a call with analysts.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is up for re-election in a state where 58 percent of voters approved of President Donald Trump during the first quarter, now finds himself 1 point underwater — 43 percent approve, 44 percent disapprove — after a net slide of 17 points from fourth quarter, the biggest decline of any senator during that period.

A study at the University of London found that participants who multitasked during cognitive tasks experienced IQ score declines that were similar to what they'd expect if they had smoked marijuana or stayed up all night.

During the first four months of the year, mine production fell 8.1 percent from the same time a year earlier due to declines in Australia, India, Peru and Ireland, according to the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.

First, has been the significant decline in terms of trade during the first half of the year due to lower commodity prices.

They also developed new rules, known as circuit breakers, allowing exchanges to halt trading temporarily in instances of exceptionally large price declines.12 For example, under current rules, the New York Stock Exchange will temporarily halt trading when the S&P 500 stock index declines 7 percent, 13 percent, and 20 percent in order to provide investors «the ability to make informed choices during periods of high market volatility.»

Figure 1 shows that the natural rate declined substantially during the recession and did not start to recover until the end of 2014.

His data shows that during the bear market year of 2008, the overall market, as represented by the SPY E.T.F., declined 36.8 percent.

The postwar trade partnership, which worked so well during the «miracle» years of Japanese growth, has been in decline since the collapse of Japan's «bubble...

Indeed, the downturn in the US government - bond market at the end of 2016 and earlier this year benefited many fixed income arbitrage managers who were able to take advantage of the price decline in US Treasuries during those periods.

For example, during 2008 and 2009, many third - party investors that invest in alternative assets and have historically invested in our investment funds experienced significant volatility in valuations of their investment portfolios, including a significant decline in the value of their overall private equity, real assets, venture capital and hedge fund portfolios, which affected our ability to raise capital from them.

While the national income of this country may decline modestly during this recession, the main issue is not income but wealth.

It's strange why the 44 — 61 age group have shown a 23 % decline in their retirement accounts during some of their prime earning years.

Shares of Alibaba declined today after surging 38 percent during their trading Sept. 19 debut.

It's interesting to note that since the inception of the Barclays Aggregate Index, the two have never declined during the same annual period.

Bitcoin was at the forefront of the decline, although coupled with the ICO ban, the likes of Ethereum and NEO are more affected by the new legislation, and indeed ETH fell more during the correction than BTC.

If you do find one of your clients in an early withdrawal retirement scenario during a declining market, sit tight, Moraif said.

Our analysis shows government bonds have provided positive returns during periods of significant equity declines, upholding their diversifying role.

Most investors do not realize this, because the majority of traders and «professional» money managers were still in college or b - school during the 2007 - early 2009 stock market collapse, but the homebuilding sector actually peaked and began a waterfall decline in mid-2005 (see the chart above).

Bitcoin is trading in a very narrow range near $ 2600, as volatility declined considerably during the weekend, while correlations broke down between the two majors and the rest of the coins, signaling the end of the liquidation period.

According to the dictionary, a recession is defined as, «a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two successive quarters.»

During the decline, there was a break below the 50 % Fib retracement level of the last leg from the $ 0.7560 low to $ 0.9090 high.