Sentences with phrase «from recent years which»

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Harley, which commands about half of the U.S. big - bike market, has seen its U.S. market share erode in recent years as it grapples with an ageing customer base, weak demand from younger buyers and discounts offered by rivals.

Much of the growth in recent years has come from household spending, which must slow eventually because so much of that spending was done on credit.

In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

About half of Splunk's data analytics software sales derive from its security business, which has seen a growth spurt in recent years.

The firm also notes that a recent report from the New York Fed, which we wrote about here, discusses the role that electronic and automated trading could be playing in the bond market, particularly how these dynamics may have exacerbated the bond «flash crash,» an event JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said is the kind of thing that happens «once every 3 billion years or so.»

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

The culture also shifted in recent years from super individual competitor to making others successful and teamwork, which reduced the stress level at work to low,» says one employee.

With SARS, mad cow, avian flu and the worsening ailments plaguing the airline industry (which remained a significant revenue source), Cara's share price went from bad to worse in recent years.

It has also faced competition here in Canada in recent years from Starbucks Corp. and McDonalds Corp., which has worked to improve its coffee.

In fact, 29 % of respondents in the recent poll think that environmental spending should decrease, which is up from the 9 % who felt that way two years ago.

China is a critical region for Yum, which has benefited greatly from the country's rapid economic expansion in recent years.

According to a recent report from research firm G.P. Wild, approximately 60 people per year are injured on cruise ships due to «operational mishaps,» which can range from small fires on the ship to actual explosions, as well as collisions, or ships sinking or getting stranded.

In Chappelle's recent stand - up special «The Bird Revelation,» which premiered on Netflix New Year's Eve, the comedian did an extended bit on the women who accused Louis C.K. of unwanted masturbation, calling them «weak» for letting C.K.'s behavior affect them — or in one woman's case, stopping her from pursuing a career in comedy.

«We believe the bogey for investors is a 15 percent increase to Apple's total reported capital return number (shares repurchase plus past dividends), which would imply a $ 150 billion headline number, up from $ 130 billion announced last year,» said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, in a recent note.

Carriers expanding flights to the region in recent months include Southwest, which in November announced two new seasonal routes to the Mexican resort town from Pittsburgh and Raleigh - Durham, North Carolina, and deep discounter Spirit, which is adding year - round service from Baltimore / Washington and Chicago.

Most pressing, perhaps, is the troubling migration of businesses from Toronto to the suburbs in recent years, which, says Miskin, is due primarily to the city's high commercial tax rate, not the relatively insignificant taxes Ford has pledged to abolish.

Last night's ratings were also up 7 % from the most recent Game 7 of an NBA Finals series, in 2013, in addition to easily beating out already strong ratings from earlier games in this year's NBA Finals, which saw just over 20 million viewers tune in for Game 5 last week.

In recent years, the industry has attracted competition from the likes of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, the latter of which has diversified into toys and games in order to prop flagging book sales.

However, he says there's good reason to think Canada can manage the risks from debt, which he says is a natural consequence of several factors, including the combination of a strong demand for housing and the prolonged period of low interest rates maintained in recent years to stimulate the economy.

On Tuesday, telecommunications giant Verizon announced that it plans to buy AOL, which has in recent years transitioned from an Internet gateway to a provider of online video services, content, and most notably, online ads.

The data firm, which has garnered significant attention in the political world over the past few years for its work for candidates like Cruz and Donald Trump, has come under fire in recent days since a whistleblower named Christopher Wylie detailed how the company exploited Facebook to collect data from unknowing users.

Starting from the most recent 2014 report (which contains data from 2013) and working backwards through all the available studies, we find that the number of these workers has shrunk somewhat, though there is a great deal of year - to - year volatility:

Smartphone maker BlackBerry once accounted for 20 % of Celestica's revenue (which was US$ 6.5 billion last year), but as BlackBerry lost market share in recent years and had to cut costs, it switched to cheaper Asian suppliers, and the two companies formally announced their split last summer; sure enough, Celestica's first - quarter results showed a BlackBerry - sized hole in the balance sheet, with revenues down 19 % from the year before.

His most recent is The Year Without Pants, in which he distills enriching, actionable lessons from managing a virtual team at Automattic, the 120 - person company behind Wordpress.com.

Virgin America, which has expanded its operating fleet in recent years, is also moving to serve more markets from Los Angeles and San Francisco — that move will help the airline become more attractive to frequent travelers who prefer to concentrate their travel with one airline.

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.

The NoVo Foundation, which Buffett leads with her husband, Peter Buffett, has been awash in vast new wealth in recent years thanks to annual gifts of Berkshire Hathaway stock from Warren Buffett.

Before the recent string of production disruptions, which were caused by militant blockades on pipelines carrying crude from three fields to export terminals, Libya was pumping over 1 million barrels of oil daily, eyeing 1.2 million bpd in output by the end of the year.

Pierson says the layoffs were part of a shift away from having an in - house brand agency, which the company had been building in recent years.

The initial financing for the loans would come from certificates of deposit, which Goldman has been amassing in recent years.

HIV medicines, which GSK sells through its ViiV Healthcare unit, have been star performers in recent years and new CEO Emma Walmsley said in April that the «HIV portfolio continues to go from strength to strength».

By 2016, the most recent year for which there is complete data, companies spent $ 536 billion on purchasing their own shares, according to data from S. & P. Dow Jones Indices.

Allergan worked hard in recent years to protect Restasis, which generated about $ 1.5 billion in sales last year, from generic rivals.

To that end, we've onboarded several real estate companies and processed several 6 and 7 - figure real estate purchases this year, including a recent deal which garnered press coverage from Fortune, Business Insider, and CNNMoney.

Ahead of Facebook's annual F8 conference, which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday in San Jose, California, the company's earnings from the first quarter of the year affirmed that its bottom line hasn't suffered from recent data - privacy scandals.

The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range of allegations, including mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.

The 18.1 % growth expected this year for US display advertising is down somewhat from more robust rates of increase in 2011 and 2012, but eMarketer continues to be bullish on the prospects for digital display advertising — especially at social media properties like Facebook and Twitter, as well as at Google, which has dramatically increased its overall share of the display market in recent years.

Ancillary revenue — which has ballooned in recent years — comes from fees airlines charge for checked bags, different levels of seating, and food.

The quick service restaurant industry has benefited in recent years from a «wave of refranchising» in which company - owned stores were sold to franchisees, Morgan Stanley said in an industrywide report.

«It reflects the direction of travel for Standard Life,» given the company's move in recent years to build up its asset management arm and move away from insurance, said Liontrust fund manager Jamie Clark, which holds shares in the firm.

In the four days of trading in the final week of the year 40.94 tonnes were withdrawn — suggesting around 50 tonnes for a full 5 - day week including Jan 1st — which is pretty much on par with other recent weekly withdrawal figures despite any minor disruption from the big Christian Christmas holiday period which has little, but possibly some very minor, impact on Chinese domestic trade.

In recent years, inflation's been pretty low, averaging 1.26 percent in 2016, based on the year - over-year change in the Consumer Price Index, which tracks prices for common items from gas to ground beef.

Australia's imports from China have also grown rapidly over recent years, with over 90 per cent of merchandise imports being manufactured goods, of which an increasing share is ITC equipment.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Still reeling from two successive hikes to stamp duty in recent years which particularly hit the higher value prime central London (PCL) property market, appetite to transact has also been buffeted by Brexit - inspired political uncertainty, domestic economic jitters and a surplus of luxury new build developments gearing up to enter the market.

«We are convinced that «quant» funds», which have attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few years and a significant portion of which use leverage, and whose models and various strategies are largely based on price action and correlations extracted from the reasonably - recent past when volatility has been low (largely of their own making), have contributed mightily to the illusion that market risk is low.

Currently all three of the national series show prices rising at a relatively fast pace over the latest year for which data are available, though they also show that the rates of increase have come down from their most recent peaks.

The amount of money you'll receive from a dividend all depends on the dividend yield, which is the most recent full - year dividend payment divided by the current share price.

However, the fact that the average quantity of frack sand used per well has more than doubled in recent years — which has helped lower the breakeven price of U.S. shale oil — should help insulate the industry from the worst of the oil crash.

In recent years, Mr. Blankfein had brought in a series of executives from other areas of the company to manage the unit, which includes Goldman's mutual fund group and its money management business for wealthy families.