Sentences with phrase «following years of decline»

It was revealed that following years of decline in pay, the industry is now showing signs of recovery, offering reassurance to employers and job hunters alike.

Sears Canada announced 700 layoffs last week following years of declining sales and increasing competition.

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The port city of Tianjin saw the sharpest fall in its livability score among the eight Chinese cities surveyed, with the drop compounded by a decline in its environment score following an explosion at a chemical factory a year ago.

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.»

Following years of increasing employment and wealth driving up rent and property prices in San Francisco and surrounding cities, demand for luxury housing appears to be on the decline and housing and condo price appreciation have «basically plateaued,» according to Paragon Real Estate Group.

Further, I showed that Pharma's IRR has followed a rapid and steady linear decline over 20 years, which is consistent with recent estimates from BCG and Deloitte, and can be fully explained by the Law of Diminishing Returns as a natural and unavoidable consequence of prioritizing a limited set of investment opportunities while each new drug raises the bar for the next.

As I said, the greenback's been on the decline for most of the year so far, but it slumped to a 13 - month low against the euro last week following European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi's remark that «monetary accommodation» would continue in the European Union (EU) until at least the end of the year.

Finally, by substituting the historic linear trend above into the IRR term of this equation, and the industry average investment period of 13 years into the c term, we get the following formula, which shows that nominal R&D productivity / ROI currently stands at about 1.2 (i.e., we get only 20 % back on top of our original R&D investment after 13 years), is declining exponentially by about 10 % per year, and will hit 1.0 (zero net return on investment) by 2020:

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.

Yet BC Housing's budgets for public, non-profit and co-operative housing will receive a slight bump for 2008 - 2009 before declining again in each of the two following years.

Wall Street had upped the ante for the quick - service brand, which has revamped its image following several years of market share declines.

Update: Following the big game, Bell Media reported that its ratings dropped in from 7.2 million viewers in 2016 to 4.47 million this year, a decline of 39 %.

Male employment in Ontario followed a similar trajectory as manufacturing job declines, with only 80 percent of 25 - to 54 - year - old men holding a full - time job today, a full eight points lower than in 1980.

As the following chart illustrates, cumulative funding for ICOs has declined steadily since the beginning of the year.

Apple is moving to ease investor anxiety following the Tuesday release of an earnings report that beat analyst expectations, but still marked the tech giant's first year - over-year profit decline in a decade.

Mac — in a declining PC industry, we expect Mac to continue its market share gain and support our forecast for its strong performance of 7.3 % revenue growth in FY 2015, followed by 3.6 % in FY 2016, and 4.6 % in FY 2017 on flat average selling prices over the three year period of $ 1,230.

A listing would test investors» appetite for entertainment software, a group whose shares have declined an average of 18 percent from their offer prices following IPOs this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

No. 1 diciest was Houston (22 percent chance of price declines within two years) followed by San Antonio (20.3 percent); Tampa - St.

Following the peak of the housing bubble in 2006 and the subsequent market collapse, U.S. home prices declined for six years.

Following declines over the past three quarters, driven by significant price falls, expenditure on imports of goods and services rose by 6 per cent in the September quarter, to be 3 1/2 per cent higher than a year ago.

Following any decline of greater than 5 percent in the year - over-year change of the leading indicator has led to an average contraction in the Italian economy of about 3 percent six months later.

Some analysts have concluded that prices have been declining regardless of the news, possibly signaling a natural cooling off following the year - long bull rally.

Over the following 4 weeks, the S&P 500 declined 13.95 % to 957.28 — its second largest short - term percentage decline of the past 18 1/2 years.

Goldman Sachs predicts a «significant decline» in gold in 2014, following losses of around 26 percent in the previous metal so far this year.

In contrast, oil producers posted cumulative losses of $ 32 billion over the course of the last three years as revenues declined sharply following the global collapse in oil prices.

Galaxy said such declines were part of «seasonal trends» in lithium prices, and noted that small retractions in prices were also witnessed in early 2017 only to be followed by strong price rises later in the year.

If, however, it deteriorates at a slow rate, the home ownership rate would most likely follow the average decline rate of the last five years (2012 - 2016), decreasing on a year - over-year basis by 0.5 percent of the prior year's rate.

These rises follow declines in each of the previous three years.

Even if next year turns out to deliver a further bull market gain of 20 %, followed only then by a minimal 20 % bear market decline, the return since late - 2002 would still be limited to 9 % annually.

Growth in U.S. real GDP would fall 2.7 % over the three years that follow a vote, with a corresponding decline of 13.1 % in U.S. equities and a contraction of 0.53 % on the yields in U.S. corporate bonds.

Following declines in the first half of 2003, dwelling investment rose by 2.6 per cent in the September quarter and by 5.3 per cent over the year.

Respondents to this survey expect inflation to decline over the following year, to a median of 2.4 per cent.

Following a record - breaking year for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, dealmaking declined to a two - year low in the first quarter of 2016.

We now have examples from seven or eight African countries where the proportion of men and women reporting more than one sexual partner in the past year has declined significantly, and this is followed by a general decline in HIV prevalence at the national level.

Last year Putnam and Lewis Feldstein published a follow - up volume, Better Together: Restoring the American Community, which goes beyond mapping the decline of social capital to telling the story, via 12 case studies, of the ways social capital is being revived.

Over five million manufacturing jobs were lost just during the eleven - year period following the turn of the millennium, which indicates that the decline has accelerated in recent years.

MLA's estimates of consumer expenditure on red meat during 2011 suggests that Australian spending on beef fell 8 % year - on - year, to $ 6.4 billion — following a 5 % decline in utilisation and 3 % fall in retail prices.

It is the first decline in growth reported by the country following seven years of consecutive growth, having reached a record high of $ 1.62 billion in 2016.

I have always stood by wenger, but recently I have had to struggle with doubts following the steady decline in the fortunes of the club, most especially when last year arsenal lost the change to win the EPL plus some embassring results this season such as ones against Everton, Watfort, Man City and Man U in the EPL and the most recent 10 - 2 aggregate ECL loss to Bayern Munich.

The average household size has followed the national trend, continuing to decline each year, from a high of 3.8 persons in 1960 to 3.6 persons in 1970, 2.9 persons in 1980, and to 2.6 persons in 1990.

This follows a strong downward trend in offences over a five year period showing a decline of 66 % in the number of offences since 2006/07.

Stefanik, who has previously spoken highly of Scalise following his near - fatal shooting last year, declined to make an endorsement, but said the GOP conference would be in good hands under the leadership of either lawmaker.

The financial institution assured that, `' barring any unforeseen circumstances, we see improved operating performance in 2018 based on the improving macro-economic and capital markets environment, declining cost of funds for the bank, and the growing contributions of asset and wealth management following last year's acquisitions».

The BNP has been in a state of steady decline over the past few years, following the rise of other hard right and far right parties.

Cuomo declined to endorse in Miner's primary race following a year of very public disagreement over the governor's pension smoothing proposal.

«Item sees real household disposable incomes falling by 1.4 % this year, following a decline of 0.8 % in 2010 — the first back - to - back declines in household income since 1976,» Mr Spencer added.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board received 4,487 complaints in 2017 — up 202 from the year before — an uptick in allegations following seven years of declining numbers, according to the police watchdog agency's 64 - page report.

The record follows a trend over the past three years of anomalously high winter ice extents, providing a stark contrast to the inexorable decline of Arctic sea ice

It is the second year running that they have improved, following four years of decline.

King gives an example of a group of students a few years ago who were working to replicate a paper about presidential election campaign strategies by a respected social scientist — King declined to name names — and after following the paper's methods section to the letter came up with vastly different results.