Sentences with phrase «growth during the past year»

Employment growth during the past year has been only moderate, and remains less than trend labour - force growth.

Not exact matches

Already the most diversified food franchisor in the country, MTY has quickened its pace of growth in the past three years, during which it almost doubled its number of outlets.

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

The slowing of China's growth and manufacturing sector during the past year has hit investor sentiment towards the world's second - largest economy, causing volatility in its capital flows, putting pressure on its yuan currency and forcing the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

During the past 15 years, Marriott's prime growth engine has been select - service hotels in North America — led by Courtyard, Fairfield, and extended - stay entry Residence Inn.

As a stagnant global economy has hit Unilever's growth during the past two years, Deboo says, some investors have begun to question whether the strategy should trump other factors.

FAST food chain Nando's has achieved total WA sales growth of more than 80 per cent per annum during the past four years, says national marketing manager James Tomlinson.

Cook went on to say that, in China, «growth in iPhone activations has actually accelerated over the past few weeks, and we have had the best performance of the year for the App Store in China during the last 2 weeks.»

The industry's growth rates slowed during each of the past three years.

During the past two years, Teamvantage has executed a strategic approach to the defense market that led to significant sales and potential growth with new defense industry customers; and the company moved to a brand new, custom - designed manufacturing facility in Forest Lake, Minnesota.

Over the past 30 years, during which earnings growth hasn't been stellar, market values have instead been driven by Federal Reserve - induced low interest rates leading to corporate share repurchase strategies and merger and acquisition activity.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, increase in stock price during the past year and expanding profit margins.

These relatively moderate outcomes have been an important restraining influence on overall inflation during the past year, and they also point to the prospect of continued employment growth and lower unemployment.

The overall picture is one in which both growth and inflation will remain subdued against the backdrop of very low money and credit growth during the past few years.

Aggregate corporate profitability remains at a high level, though the growth of profits as recorded in the national accounts has eased during the past year.

Activity in non-Japan Asia remained strong during the first half of 2000, though the pace of growth varied widely across countries; over the past year, growth has been strongest in Hong Kong, Korea and Malaysia and weakest in Indonesia (Table 1).

Based on other measures of economic activity there have almost certainly been 12 - month periods over the past 10 years when China's economy shrank in real terms, but during these periods China's government still reported growth of around 7 %.

During these past 15 years, the Anglo - American economies (US, UK and Canada) have experienced episodes of weak growth in broad money (M2 or M3) with moderate inflation (in the early - 1990s) and episodes of strong monetary growth with little measured inflation of consumer prices, as now.

Underlying high - yield volatility has increased slightly during the past five - plus years as ETFs have experienced rapid growth and their influence has increased in the market.

But I also note that much of China's growth is domestically generated, with investment spending, in particular, surging during the past year.

Strong growth in business investment has occurred in most sectors of the economy during the past year.

In these circumstances it is not surprising that business investment has contributed strongly to the overall growth in demand during the past year, and indicators of investment intentions suggest that it will continue to do so.

«We posted another quarter of over 20 percent year - over-year growth in new client signings as the investments we've made in Egencia's sales team over the past year continue to pay dividends,» Okerstrom said during a quarterly earnings call Thursday.

Although imported input prices have been declining during the past year, as a result of the strengthening exchange rate, this appears to have been insufficient to offset the impact on profits of faster wage growth.

While companies throughout various industries cut costs and managed to boost their margins during the past seven years, technology companies in particular, with their inherently high profit margins, were a significant contributor to overall margin growth.

Indonesia's economy posted its lowest growth rate during the first quarter of 2013 in over the past two years despite having topped FDI records, exhibiting a mostly declining expansion trend since the last quarter of 2010.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

The results show that during the past twenty years economic growth as measured by current indicators, especially Gross Domestic Product per capita, has been accompanied by decline in real economic wellbeing.

The company has seen a 35 percent increase in growth during the past two years and earlier this year was named one of the top - 50 food management companies by Food Management Magazine.

The Albany - Schenectady - Troy region, which has benefitted from billions of dollars of state - subsidized high - tech investments over the past 20 years, had the strongest performance of the major upstate regions during Cuomo's first term — but still trailed the national and statewide growth rates for the four - year and one - year periods.

This becomes clear by looking at the key economic indicators such as inflation, unemployment, and growth during the past few years and compare them with the past 4 decades.

Despite significant growth during the past ten years, these expenditures, in constant dollars, have not returned to the levels of the 1960s.

During the past few years, most of the reports that developing countries have filed with the U.N. on how they plan to adapt to climate change mention population growth as a complicating factor.

The team then reconstructed the coral's past functions, such as growth and accretion (accumulation of layers of coral), and compared that to surrounding environmental conditions before, during and after the 2,500 - year hiatus in vertical accretion.

Their research shows that during the past 32 years there have been widespread increases in both plant growth and evaporation due to recent global climate trends.

YouCam reports triple - digit growth during a test with an undisclosed brand at Selfridges this past year and double - digit growth when they bring their kiosks into department stores like Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue for special events.

Abstract: Using the first nationally representative survey to focus on internet dating, we identify those «at risk» of using internet dating, i.e., one must have internet access and have been single in the past five years during the technology's growth.

In his eighth and final State of the State Address last week, Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar outlined his administration's past victories and vowed to stay focused on children and economic growth during his last year in office.

During the past several years it has managed to keep its spending growth at 11 percent or less.

During the past 20 years in particular — largely because of the rapid growth and enormous potential of the Internet — classroom technology use has garnered extraordinary attention.

Based on analyses produced by the Benchmark Educational Resource Group, annual public education operating expenses in Texas approximate $ 7,000 per student, and total spending increased by over 40 % over the past five years, more than twice the sum of enrollment growth and inflation during that period.

Specifically, the Student Progress Rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on reading and math assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state.

This region has experienced significant population growth during the past 25 years, particularly in the communities along the northern portion of the corridor in Iredell County.

During the past years, Hyundai ambitions into the US - market (this may be applicable for other overseas markets such as Europe) to growth in...

During the past years, Hyundai ambitions into the US - market (this may be applicable for other overseas markets such as Europe) to growth in terms of sales have been foiled by a scant lineup of crossovers and trucks and the focus on BRiC's markets.

The growth in demand for ebooks has cooled during the past four years, although as the report notes, this «is only because [ebooks] have become less of a novelty and more mainstream.»

During Phil Schiller's keynote, he showed a graph of the «OS X» user base over time, with steady growth over the first part of this decade followed by a sharp jump from 25 to 75 million over the past two years.

This includes correctly identifying the extreme dividend growth and capital appreciation awaiting Visa shareholders in general during its rise from $ 50 to $ 130 per share over the past four years, Schwab investors during Brexit when the stock was at $ 25 before rising to $ 60, or pointing out the inanity of paying $ 71 per share for classic blue - chip staple General Mills in the summer of 2016 (triggering my only ever «short» article for a blue - chip stock in my history of writing).

This slowdown in sales growth is happening during a year in which Ford expects to have a manufacturing capacity of 2.1 million in China, which represents double its sales this past year.