Sentences with phrase «few years declined»

Auction sales tallied 1.7 million pounds as Christie's two biggest categories of the past few years declined sharply.

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Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

As most of us know, viewership has declined for local news stations over the past few years.

This update provides new ways for brands to boost engagement and could counter the decline in organic reach Facebook Page owners have been experiencing for the past few years.

Fewer than 10 years ago, communities on the east side of Austin, Texas, were in serious decline.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

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.

A few years back, with traffic declining at its «anchor» department stores, the shopping center converted a Lord & Taylor into three separate, smaller shops.

The trend also seems to mirror a phenomenon in entrepreneurship: while there has been some reversal in the last few years, entrepreneurship among the younger set has been on the decline.

There's been a lot of hand - wringing over the past few years about the declining rates of entrepreneurship in the United States.

In contrast, commercial shipments are projected to decline just 4.4 % in 2016 and see slightly positive growth for the next few years.»

However, his form has declined since then and there have been growing protests against him from some Arsenal fans over the last few years.

Even as the economy marched back toward prosperity over the past few years, both the number of us donating and the amount we give have declined; analysis by the Fraser Institute pegged the drop at a total of $ 11.1 billion between 2006 and 2011.

The stimulus from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two years, they likely aren't going to respond to a decline of a few more percentage points.

Thanks to his own success in landing a few big contracts, he managed to finish the year with only slightly declining sales — but that still added up to a $ 100,000 loss.

Last year, Service Canada projected that employment in this category would «decline significantly over the next few years.»

The company plans to add up to 30 locations this year, and is looking to open 130 more over the next few years in order to reverse a long decline.

For the past few years, the industry has been working hard to break into China — the biggest lobster market in the world — to offset declining sales in the United States.

Reliable data on business creation and destruction, even at the national level, has only been available for the past few years; until relatively recently, economists didn't even know that the startup rate was declining.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

After a 9 year bull market, it is hard to imagine share prices declining and staying low for more than a few months.

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.

Lai said his forecast of a decline to 6.60 a dollar, which was made more than a year ago, may be reached «in the next few days,» and that there's scope to revise it lower.

The Aussie will decline to 72 US cents by year - end as restrained economic growth and inflation mean the Reserve Bank of Australia will take a «few years» to catch up with the Federal Reserve in raising borrowing costs, said Philip Moffitt, Asia - Pacific head of fixed income in Sydney at the firm, which oversees more than $ US1 trillion.

This could mark the beginning of a substantial decline that all of the «perma - bears» have been forecasting for the past few years.

Numbers may decrease over the next few years though, particularly in Alberta as energy firms continue to lay off staff because of the 2014 oil price decline.

Reports indicate revenue sharing has been declining over the last few years — both in terms of the percentage of plans including it and as a portion of the expense ratio.

The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

As shown in Exhibit 5, forward real rates five years ahead have declined notably over the past few years.

In addition, retirees» confidence that Medicare and Social Security will continue to provide benefits equal to what retirees receive today has significantly declined compared to last year, with fewer than half saying they are very or somewhat confident (46 percent very or somewhat confident in Medicare this year vs. 52 percent in 2017; 45 percent very or somewhat confident in Social Security vs. 51 percent in 2017).

They note, for example, that the size of large trades of US investment grade corporate bonds (so - called «block trades») has continuously declined in recent years.6 Furthermore, in most corporate bond markets, trading appears to be highly concentrated in just a few liquid issues, and concentration appears to be increasing in some market segments.

May 2, 2018 • Food from the frozen aisle accounts for only about 6 percent of grocery store sales — and that percentage has seen some declines over the past few years.

Green Mountain's shares have been on a wild ride the past few years, nearly doubling in 2013 after a harrowing decline during 2012.

The consumer electronics retailer filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday after a lengthy effort at reversing substantial declines in revenue over the past few years.

The past few years have witnessed a fairly brutal decline in the commodity universe.

In just a few short years, fracking has transformed the once - declining U.S. oil and gas industry into the world's most important.

It may take a few years to make the investments, said Lazaridis, who declined to name the startups that are under consideration.

William Dudley, president of the Fed's New York regional bank, on Thursday called the stock market's decline so far «small potatoes» relative to the outsize gains of the past few years.

However, the underlying constraints in oil reserves are expected to re-emerge after a few years, with both ABARE and Geoscience Australia expecting oil production to decline again after 2007.

In fact, in the S&P 500 Cumulative Advance - Decline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - timeDecline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - timedecline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - time highs.

More than 75 percent of farmland sold in the District was purchased by farmers despite a slight decrease from a few years ago and sharp declines in U.S. farm income (Chart 4).

Declining revenue and higher costs associated with transforming the business have left earnings stagnant the last few years in the $ 12 - 13 per share range.

Mysteriously, Forbes chose not to include our analysis of those facts on GM in the article, but we all know what happened to GM a few years later: a declining business saddled with pension obligations it could not pay was forced into bankruptcy.

In an interview he said that although he rarely goes public on stock specifics he thinks the Standard & Poor's 500, which is valued at 1300 will decline to 500 in the next few years.

Share Count Trend I like declining share counts, because the annual dividend pool is spread across fewer shares each year.

The share of new investor loans with very high LVRs (above 90 per cent) at the time of origination has been declining for a few years and is below that for owner - occupier loans (Reserve Bank of Australia (2017), Financial Stability Review, April).

Gold ended the year with a 28 percent decline, while bitcoin received a tremendous boost from just a few dollars to as high as $ 1,200.

We expect good performance over the next few years as economic growth improves, driving strong earnings growth and a decline in risk premia.