Sentences with phrase «held to increasing»

With corporate legal departments being held to increasing levels of accountability, I was not surprised to hear conversations that frequently used terms like ROI.

«Legal Operations leaders and their teams are held to increasing levels of accountability and expected to help drive business value.

Of course, the life - course nature of wealth accumulation means we can usually expect wealth holdings to increase with age, so those in the lowest wealth bands will tend to be younger.

Available for accounts with at least $ 500,000, Advanced Indexing takes Direct Indexing one step further by adjusting holdings to increase the portfolio's expected after - tax return.

Maddie's Pet Adoption Days is being held to increase awareness of shelter animals and their need for loving homes and to shed light on the tireless...

Maddie's ® Pet Adoption Days is being held to increase awareness of shelter animals and their need for loving homes, and to shed light on the tireless efforts of the shelters and rescue organizations across the country that work so hard to save the lives of countless dogs and cats every day.

Maddie's ® Pet Adoption Days is being held to increase awareness of shelter animals, boost adoptions, and support the shelters and rescue organizations in the eight participating communities.

Maddie's Pet Adoption Days is being held to increase awareness of shelter animals and their need for loving homes and to shed light...

Maddie's Pet Adoption Days was being held to increase awareness of shelter animals and their need for loving homes and to shed light on the tireless efforts of the...

This two - day seminar is being held to increase support for families suffering from Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

Not exact matches

It's now holding on to 60,000 finished lots and «should be able to comfortably meet forecasted deliveries in the next two years without materially increasing land spend,» wrote Wetenhall.

Facebook — Facebook was upgraded to «buy» from «hold» at Stifel Nicolaus, which said the stock is now «too cheap to ignore» despite challenges coming from increased scrutiny over its privacy practices.

Always agreeing to take on tasks, meet up with people and increase your responsibilites can hinder your business and hold it back.

NEW YORK, May 2 - The dollar was off its highs of the day and Treasury yields eased on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and gave no signals it was in a rush to increase the pace of rate hikes.

The «alert» honk is the shortest tap possible and the «attention» honk is held for about a second; anything longer is providing your opinion, which increases the chance of a road rage incident and adds to noise pollution.

Microcap fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per cent of the voting power.

Automotive Holdings Group has announced plans to raise up to $ 110 million from investors and purchase two car yards on the east coast, on the same day it revealed an increase in full - year profit.

The industry has got used to existing on lean inventories, some refineries holding less than one week's operating stock, and ignored the increasing complexity of alumina trading between big entities such as Rusal.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

The idea is that retirees with well - diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their holdings — or $ 4,500 per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.

But the fund has substantially increased that position and it is now a top - five holding, according to a person familiar with the fund.

According to Harvard professor Amy Cuddy, two minutes of power posing — standing tall, holding your arms out or towards the sky, or standing like Superman with your hands on your hips — will dramatically increase your level of confidence.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

In fact, the billionaire businessman's triumph and the Republican hold on Congress only increased the market's anticipation of a December hike, The probability stands now at nearly 91 percent, according to the CME.

Bitcoin has slumped more than 20 % this week amid increased regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Japan, an attempted theft at one of the biggest trading venues, and news that the bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox has started selling the now - defunct exchange's holdings to repay creditors.

Increases have been held to less than 12 % a year.

The purchase worth as much as 26.5 billion rupees could increase Singtel's stake in Bharti Telecom by up to 1.7 percentage points to 48.9 percent and its holding in Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile carrier, by up to 0.9 percentage points to 39.5 percent.

That's worth holding on to — but concessions that increase Uber's costs could also trigger similar demands from other locales.

If we were trying to hold the exchange rate unchanged instead of targeting inflation, we would probably need to match U.S. interest rate increases in lockstep; but doing so would risk pushing our inflation rate back below our target.

Lagarde, meanwhile, is regarded as a consensus - builder who can contend with the increasing dissatisfaction among EU member states — in three years Britain plans to hold a referendum on its membership — and bring positive change to the organization.

Icahn also revealed that he bought more than 45 million Apple (AAPL) shares during the second quarter, increasing his holdings in the tech giant from about 7.5 million shares to roughly 52.8 million.

Weighed against unemployment, which has dropped to a 16 - year low at 4.1 percent, that weakness has puzzled economists and made some policy makers declare the Fed should hold off on additional rate increases until prices respond more briskly.

Nickel miner Western Areas is moving forward with plans to increase its holding in South Australian tenements held by Monax Mining and Strandline Resources, and will begin a new drilling campaign in the coming weeks.

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters)- Oil prices dipped early on Monday as a rising U.S. rig count pointed to further increases in the country's output, underlining one of only a few factors holding back crude markets in an otherwise bullish environment.

The current scandal may be the country's worst yet, with Prime Minister Najib Razak facing increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing last month to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

Perth - based Transaction Solutions International looks set to increase its network in India after a company it holds a stake in reached an agreement today.

Enbridge Inc. said in March that Enbridge Energy is expected to experience an $ 80 - million decrease in annual distributable cash flow, but that will be somewhat offset by a revenue increase on the Canadian Mainline system held by Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc..

Mostly, that's because the richest households tend to hold most of their wealth in financial assets, whose value increased rapidly after the downturn, while poorer folks have a much larger share of their net - worth tied up in real estate, whose value didn't bottom out until the end of 2011, Pew researchers note.

Nickel miner Western Areas is moving forward with plans to increase its holding in South Australian tenements held by Monax Mining and Strandline Resources to 90 per cent, and will begin a new drilling campaign in the coming weeks.

On the buying front, one continuing drama was Buffett's increasing Berkshire's holdings in Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) during the year from about 28.5 million shares to 45 million shares.

«I would think that if they did start to sell, there would be a fair bit of demand from other countries and U.S. companies, especially as rates slowly increase, which makes them more attractive holdings.»

The Fed is likely to announce at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) that it is holding interest rates steady, but it could encourage expectations of a rate increase in June.

An increasing number of privately - held players are going from garage to grocery store in fewer than five years thanks to an erosion of barriers to entry within the food industry.

Buffett's annual letter to shareholders, released today, speaks of the Coke holding, in a section describing dividend increases that he thinks will be materializing and helping out Berkshire's returns.

The remaining months of 2014 and beyond will hold unexpected twists for those hoping to ride the ever - increasing crowdfunding wave.

INFLATION: The biggest, most commonly held fear investors are talking about right now is that inflation will rise sharply enough to force the Federal Reserve to accelerate interest rate increases.

Increasing exposure to larger deals (there is considerable evidence, anecdotal and otherwise, that lenders are seeking to raise their hold limits on syndicated deals) will create an uncomfortable dynamic in which the failure of some deals will be too painful to contemplate, suggesting drawn - out turnarounds as an approach to increase enterprise value and bailout lenders unable to take severe haircuts on large exposures.

«Increase in exports to Germany, higher consumption and falling hydro inflows are bullish factors, while stronger wind power output is to hold back Nordic prices,» a Point Carbon analyst said.

They noted in a jointly issued statement that it «pinned its hopes on revenues growing at a robust average rate of 5.6 per cent over the next five years while holding program spending increases to an average rate of 1.6 per cent.»

The pay increase at its company - operated U.S. restaurants threatens to complicate an ongoing labor dispute that turns on whether McDonald's can be held responsible for the labor violations of its fran...