Sentences with phrase «first positive year»

On the international front, emerging stock markets notched their first positive year since 2012 on signs of improving fundamentals, but developed overseas markets (Europe in particular) continued to lag due to slow growth and structural concerns.

Gold finished up 8.6 percent, its first positive year since 2012, when it gained 7.1 percent.

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Last tip: You have to be able to afford the program in the first place, and you should expect to see a positive ROI from a successful system within a year.

And, if he thinks he will stay for five years, he has a positive net present value of $ 12,712, assuming he saves that $ 280 every month during the first year and increases savings by 3 % each subsequent year.

Factory prices rose 1.2 % on - year, the fastest pace since December 2011 after turning marginally positive in September for the first time in nearly five years.

«International investors have embraced the positive changes in the accessibility of the China A shares market over the last few years and now all conditions are set for MSCI to proceed with the first step of the inclusion,» Remy Briand, MSCI Managing Director and Chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee, said in a release.

After navigating the company through its first substantial challenges (the U.S. authorities investigated Alibaba's accounting practices last year, concerned about data from its blockbuster annual sale), Tsai is making more positive headlines of late.

But Zuckerberg himself has said being too «focused on the positive» for the first 10 years of Facebook's existence blinded the company to much of the abuse it was enabling as well as to emergent effects of social media like hyper - polarization.

«We experienced strong Medicare Advantage enrollment growth and solid performance across all segments in the first quarter, with early positive indicators of medical utilization allowing us to raise guidance for the year,» said Brian A. Kane, Chief Financial Officer.

The positives of his first two years in politics have been swamped by his star - crossed attempt at tax reform and his failure to put his personal assets in a blind trust.

At least the first year is a train wreck, with constant disappointment, nobody calls, once in a while something positive happens.

«We were bootstrapped for almost 1.5 years and were revenue positive before we took our first investment from Axilor,» adds Gupta.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

Last year, and for the first time since 2001, the contribution of net exports to overall growth turned positive, but the performance of non-energy exports and investment remains weak.

The U.S. Commerce Department this year revised its first - quarter GDP data from negative to positive growth, and its second - quarter data from 0.6 per cent growth, at annual rates, to 0.9 per cent — a rather different economic picture.

The company's sales were down 39 % year - over-year due in part to shuttered lines and in part to fewer project sales, but despite $ 18 million in restructuring and asset impairment charges, First Solar still pulled off a positive operating margin and a net profit of $ 52 million.

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

Today, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: VAC), the leading global pure - play vacation ownership company, reported first quarter 2012 financial results and reaffirmed the company's full - year outlook for 2012 based upon positive trends in important North America metrics to date.

These are positive over the first three years but negative thereafter.

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Top line growth, combined with the cost actions we took in the first quarter, have us on track to be adjusted EBITDA positive in the fourth quarter of this year.»

It does not have to be this way and through our mission we want to change the statistic of 99 % of businesses failing in the first 5 years to 99 % being successful and having an amazing positive influence on society and our communities.

But RevPAR turned positive for the first time in 10 consecutive quarters at the end of last year, an indication that the market have hit bottom and is now in recovery.

Last year, for the first time in five years, Stratasys reported positive FCF from its business.

The park exceeded expectations for visitors and delivered positive operating income in its first year of operations despite predictions that it would only just break even.

Rome has returned positive growth in the last quarter for the first time in several years, Venice is showing increases at the upper end and all cities have seen increased sales activity.

When the first week and the month of January both have positive returns, then the signal is predictive 93.5 % of the time for a positive year: a slight improvement over 92.5 %.

China's nominal gross domestic product (GDP) rebound is reflected in producer prices turning positive year over year for the first time in nearly five years last month.

To review, 2017 was the first so - called «perfect year,» meaning that the S&P 500 generated positive returns in each month.

ORLANDO, Fla. — May 3, 2012 — Today, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: VAC), the leading global pure - play vacation ownership company, reported first quarter 2012 financial results and reaffirmed the company's full - year outlook for 2012 based upon positive trends in important North America metrics to date.

Finally, if the S&P 500 finishes with a positive gain during December, it will complete the first full calendar year since at least 1926 without a single down month on a total return basis — which includes dividends.

That said, a new leaf seems to have been turned this year with hedge funds returning to positive flows in the first quarter of 2017.1 Renewed interest has been spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which some industry experts are predicting should bring meaningful tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending that we think could prove a boon to hedge strategies.

MILAN, April 26 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) reduced its debts by more than expected in the first quarter, putting the carmaker well on course to become cash positive later this year.

In fact, Midtown South — which has gotten a lot of attention lately because of its popularity with technology and media firms — has represented 73 percent of the positive office space absorption in Manhattan through the first four months of the year, commercial data firm Cassidy Turley reported.

Notwithstanding the positive signals from the labor market and the pickup in sentiment, consensus estimates for US first - quarter 2017 growth showed little change, staying in the 1.5 % — 2.0 % band that has prevailed in recent years.

As I argued when the second quarter GDP numbers confirmed the recession, the big issue is not whether GDP growth is slightly positive or slightly negative. The big issue is why it has been so close to zero in the first place. The July GDP numbers do not change that analysis. And they do not change the empirical fact that the Harper government's overall economic record — even before this year's downturn — is uniquely weak, on both historical and international criteria.

Instead, what developed was a gently ever - ascending bull market, the least volatile in more than 50 years and the first year ever to post positive total returns (for the S&P 500) in every month.

Based on these positive first year results, we expect thee acquisitions to be accretive going forward.

According to Hedgeye Risk Management, if these trends hold up, the fourth quarter of 2016 will be the first time in two years that companies will have generated positive earnings for two straight quarters.

On the 12 occasions when the Dow posted a first - quarter gain of eight percent or more, the index has always finished the year in positive territory.

To date, investment has been concentrated in the manufacturing sector, although in the September quarter Tankan survey, firms in non-manufacturing industries expressed positive investment intentions for the first time in five years.

For the first time on record, the S&P 500 produced positive total returns in each month last year.

The first 5 trading days of this year saw US stocks add 2.8 %, pointing toward a potentially positive year for the market, according to this indicator.

The past twelve months were historic for the S&P 500 Index, marking the first calendar year since 1926 when every month experienced a positive total return.

well, my daughter is gay and i am grateful for people like you standing up for her and for me for supporting her < 3 (she has recently returned to church for the first time in 7 years and fortunately it is gay positive)(i haven't returned to church in 2, but that's another story:P)

In the first three months of this year alone: Son of Man, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmas.

It is true that the situation was not clear during the first years of the Nazi regime, since the party program claimed a basis in «positive Christianity.»

When I started my blog and instagram account last year I started following way too many people, some because of their food, some for their lifestyle or creativity, some for the aesthetics... but recently I realized that I spend so much time scrolling through my feed, comparing, feeling bad about my work, my life or simply not good enough that I decided to unfollow quite a few of those accounts, keep only the ones that make me feel good and positive and to focus more on creating, shooting, baking, styling so basically all those things that make me happy and fulfilled and being the reason why I started doing this in the first place!

On a more positive note, as a first year teacher it's seriously crazy to me how quickly the year is flying by.