Sentences with phrase «end the year strong»

Way to end the year strong.

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NAPA, Calif. (AP)-- Businesses in California's wine capital are mopping up thousands of dollars in high - end vintages and sweeping glass from ghostly downtown streets that officials hope will soon bustle again with tourists following the San Francisco Bay Area's strongest earthquake in 25 years.

-- Still, experts say that inflation isn't yet strong enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates — something that isn't expected to occur until the end of the year.

In the end, Buffett does seem to express strong optimism about American's long - term future, but he's also suggesting how we get there over the next four years might be a challenge.

Nike's North America sales leapt 14 % for the six - month period ending November 30 from the prior year's level with the help stronger footwear and apparel sales.

There's «more work to do, but by the time we get to the end of the year, things look pretty strong and pretty solid.»

The California company ended last year with its strongest sales quarter since its current owners bought the business, in 1995.

By year - end, Sutton sees a Canadian dollar that is stronger against the euro and the yen and subject to more volatility against the U.S. dollar.

Sony Corp. said on Wednesday sales of its PlayStation 4 video game console had exceeded 50 million units as of Dec. 6 helped by strong demand during the year - end holiday season.

TOKYO (Reuters)- Sony Corp said on Wednesday sales of its PlayStation 4 video game console had exceeded 50 million units as of Dec 6 helped by strong demand during the year - end holiday season.

An average of the results from the major surveys shows conditions were moderating in the second half of last year, after a strong first half, but they were still at a high level at the end of the year (Graph 12).

Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have made a strong pitch to investors: Trust us with your money, and we'll make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns inevitably end.

High - yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.

They lagged in the first three quarters of 2017, but ended the year in positive territory after strong fourth quarter performance.

The economy has performed well, the job market has been strong with very low unemployment numbers and the province has consistently had surplus money left over at the end of each year.

We did see some real strong numbers towards the end of last year, consumer spending was growing at around a half a percent each month, which was very strong.

The increase in corporate income tax revenues largely reflecting strong gains in the tax settlement period for those large corporations with a taxation year ending December 31st.

Risk aversion among year - end buyers and short - covering boosted gold futures, but the rally could be short - lived, with the stronger dollar keeping a lid on further gains.

This looks similar to last fall's pattern going into the election season, which turned out to be a positive set - up for a strong finish into year - end.

Other Fed officials, however, have been on record as stating that the U.S. economy is strong enough to weather — and indeed should weather — another benchmark rate increase, certainly by the end of this year.

Because closed - end fund managers have a fixed timeframe during which they have to spend their dry powder, strong fundraising should help prop up demand for real estate in the years to come.

While the second quarter will almost certainly be stronger than the first and the economy should pick up by year's end, so far the consumer isn't playing to script.

Good luck to finishing the month of october strong, still plenty of time until year end.

As you already know, comparable prescription sales decreased 9.9 %; comp front - end sales decreased 0.9 % over a strong prior year period; and total comp sales decreased 6.6 %, with comp prescriptions filled decreasing 9.1 %.

Taking a look at our longer - term gross margin trends, it's important to note that this quarter's 10 basis point improvement was against the 50 basis point improvement a year ago, with both front - end and pharmacy cycling strong margins.

China is ending the year on what many are interpreting as a strong note.

For franchises that were open before the end of 2007, revenues over the past year rose an average of 29.4 percent, a strong indication that CMIT Solutions» services satisfy a nearly insatiable demand.

The manufacturing sector and services sector are doing quite well, sentiment is actually quite strong, and, in fact, we are right now moving into Q1 earnings season, and with the tax cuts that were enacted at the end of last year, corporations are expected to increase their earnings by 17 %.

The 30 - year average was 43 basis points (0.43 %) lower at the end of 2014 than at the beginning of that year, when the stimulus was going strong.

Home prices rose 5.5 % in the 12 months ending last November, a strong showing following a 4.3 % year - over-year increase reading the month before, according to the S&P / Case - Shiller home - price index.

We had a spectacular year end with a strong market return.

The euro - zone therefore looks increasingly able to withstand any political shocks and set for a strong end to the year.

It is the fourth strongest in history; up over 173 % cumulatively as of year - end 2013.

precious metals stocks — regardless of whether they predominantly mine gold or silver — have shown far stronger correlation with silver prices than with gold prices over the past two years (see the chart at the end of this post); 2.

Domestically sourced inflation was a little stronger in the March quarter, with domestic inflation at the final stage of production rising to 4.1 per cent in year - ended terms.

But there's also a strong chance the 30 - year average will rise above 4 % by the end of this year.

On the assumption that there are no second - round effects of the GST, resulting from stronger wages growth, the year - ended CPI inflation rate is thereafter expected to return to the target zone, as the GST impact drops out of the calculation.

Three years later, despite strong economic growth, the government is projecting deficits through 2022 - 23, with no end in sight to the deficit spending.

Still, the 2.8 percent level reached at the end of 2017 was the strongest in years.

The $ 20 million of revenue reportability was driven by $ 9 million of favorable revenue reportability in the first quarter of 2011, due to year - end 2010 sales associated with the launch of the company's Marriott Vacation Club Destinations program that were recognized during the first quarter of 2011, and $ 11 million of unfavorable revenue reportability in the current year quarter from strong contract sales growth that resulted in an increase in contract sales in rescission periods at the end of the quarter.

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.

Analysts earlier this year were expecting the earnings headwinds of falling oil prices and a stronger U.S. dollar to diminish, driving better earnings - per - share growth in the U.S. by the end of 2016.

In early March, it reached the upper end of this range, much the same level as the peak a year earlier, against a background of, inter alia, strong domestic profit results, speculation of foreign takeovers, and rising commodity prices (especially base metals).

Retail sales rose by 2.7 per cent in January and, although this may have partly reflected a change in the timing of consumer spending around year end, the stronger January level was broadly maintained in February and March.

Twelve of our companies, just over 20 % of our holdings, used their cash flow to achieve all four goals: they increased the dividend, reduced the share count, made an acquisition and still ended the year with a stronger balance sheet.

On the other hand, Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Jaffray said: «I feel even stronger about our year - end call of 3, 3.25 [percent] in the 10 - year bond yield at this point.»

We have of late years heard much about the unity of the NT, and to that we will in the end come; but there is a strong case for thinking sometimes of the diversity of the NT.

According to the Faith and Families project published last year, only a minority of the children of mainliners are mainliners, whereas a strong majority of evangelical parents end up with evangelical children.

I have a wonderful husband who forgave me and we love each other and our marriage has gone from strength to strength, at the time i committed adultery i felt strongly that devil was controlling my behaviour it was such a powerful force and yet at the moment i was ending the affair the Holy Spirit was overpowering and brought me back to my husband and we celebrated our 25 th wedding anniversary last year, i have always loved my husband and didn't ever consider adultery and yet my ex came back into my life and i was weak, but now i am strong and so in love with my husband and know i am forgiven.

I myself recalled having heard a number of Dallas faculty members and graduates in recent years distance themselves from «hardline» dispensationalism, reducing C. I. Scofield's highly articulated framework to virtually two principles: the literal reading of the text is to be preferred unless strong evidence indicates otherwise, and Israel and the church remain distinct in biblical chronology (and so in eschatology) to the end.