Sentences with phrase «higher as the sector»

Basic resources also moved higher as the sector recovered from a two - week low after a slip in copper prices.

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As a result, the study noted, corporate Canada faces losing high - potential women to non-corporate sectors.

Can Canada's manufacturing sector once again generate major growth for the economy as it did in the decades before oil and other commodity prices surged to record highs?

Other than real estate, which has higher yields and can act as a diversifier, Turnbull won't hold any sector or alternative - asset ETFs.

Oil hit a multiyear high as President Trump threatened to strike Syria with missiles, but actual attacks in the Middle East have been bad for the energy sector.

SPECIAL REPORT: There has been a flurry of high - profile moves by senior lawyers in Perth as the sector readies for a pick - up from several quiet years.

The Australian share market is modestly higher as gains by the energy sector offsets modest falls across the healthcare and the retail sectors.

Specific criticism included not lowering interest rates enough, allowing the Canadian dollar to rise too high as the country's oil and gas sector boomed, and allowing the manufacturing sector to wither.

But whatever the appropriate amount of celebration, it's clear that the Canadian tech sector is in fine form — as Sebastian noted, the Toronto - Waterloo corridor has the highest concentration of startups in the world bar the Valley.

For starters, only 7 % of unicorns are hardware companies, and energy doesn't register high as a major business sector that has seen many unicorns.

Nations unwilling or unable to devalue their currencies, meanwhile, can suffer higher unemployment as their export sectors lose competitiveness.

As more cash pours into the sector, the deal is the latest sign PE firms are willing to pay higher prices to outbid rivals.

More from Quarterly Investment Guide: You can stop wasting your time waiting for Dow 20,000 Think small... caps: Big fund managers reaping big returns by shunning the Dow As Dow nears 20,000, these sectors can take it higher

Down Under, the S&P / ASX 200 edged higher by 0.49 percent to 5,982.70 as the utilities and heavily weighted financials subindexes advanced, canceling out slight declines in the materials and energy sectors.

Given the concentration in Canada's banking sector, it's likely that at least some of the banks will be designated as such, requiring higher capital levels and putting even more pressure on their return on equity.

There's been no shortage of high - profile hacks over the last few years — think Target, Sony and Ashley Madison — but one sector that hasn't made as much news for breaches is financial.

Though we're not likely to get into the higher - education business, it certainly strikes me as a sector where a serious overhaul is overdue.

Building on the advice he gave as a consultant, Pearson continued searching for companies to acquire in high - growth, low - competition sectors, finding profitable niches in ophthalmology, dermatology and gastroenterology.

Hopes have been high in the game industry that the arrival of the three consoles will revitalize the sector, which has lagged from competition from smartphones and other mobile devices, wooing users with their own games, as well as social networking and other pastimes.

Markets may have soared higher, but were dragged down by losses in the tech sector — an industry that has come under criticism by Trump during his campaign — as investors worried the president - elect's policies may lower profits for Silicon Valley.

Leading the way higher in the S&P 500 were financial, energy, and industrial stocks, with each sector boasting gains of more than 1.7 % as of mid-day.

But the S&P 500 total return and equal weighted indices have already broken through their 2007 highs, as have the sector indices for Discretionary, Staples, Health Care and Tech (and the NASDAQ).

«In this month's fund holdings update, Consumer Discretionary remained the most crowded sector, as large cap fund managers modestly raised their relative exposure to a five - month high,» strategist Savita Subramanian wrote in a note to clients Thursday.

Many experts caution investors against playing the sector short - term, as those often unpredictable cyclical highs and lows can increase volatility in a portfolio.

«With the right tools and right culture, regular people can answer those questions themselves,» said Elissa Fink, chief marketing officer at Tableau Software, which has been the tech sector's biggest IPO of 2013, and after an initial public offering price of $ 31 has traded as high as $ 59.

The site sells Internet filters and the numbers appear to include traditional sector businesses as well as the adult industry itself, so it's probably safe to assume they're on the high side, but they are still more comprehensive than most found elsewhere.

Small companies already profit in sectors as diverse as high - tech R&D and food and beverage manufacturing and distribution.

«We're hollowing out the whole high - tech sector right now,» says Chowaniec, who also serves as chairman of Startup Canada, which bills itself as a «national movement» to enhance entrepreneurship.

When Main Management looked at LIT as a potential buy, it was because of a downturn in the materials sector (LIT was still trading at too high a valuation compared to the mining and materials sub-sector ETF (XME).

The energy sector fell 1.1 percent on the back of a more than 1 percent drop in crude oil prices as the dollar remained near a four - month high.

The company said salaries paid to its workers were among the highest in the logistic sector and that it also provided some benefits such as private medical insurance or money to pay for training programs.

The sector makes up 25.1 percent of the S&P 500 as of Tuesday's close, its highest weighting since November 2000 — a few months before the dotcom bubble burst — according to data from Bespoke Investment Group.

Except that, as PwC's Strategy & discovered, in key sectors like consumer packaged goods there is no direct correlation that can be drawn between being big and achieving higher shareholder returns.

Precision shares, though, are off nearly 30 % from their all - time high, as the company's earnings have been hit by weakness in the oil and gas sector, where the majority of the company's non-aerospace sales come from.

As Nitasha Tiku and I discovered in our reporting, Malaysia presents other opportunities for entrepreneurs: strong high - tech and telecom sectors, as well as lots of incentives for foreign companieAs Nitasha Tiku and I discovered in our reporting, Malaysia presents other opportunities for entrepreneurs: strong high - tech and telecom sectors, as well as lots of incentives for foreign companieas well as lots of incentives for foreign companieas lots of incentives for foreign companies.

Europe's banks also drove higher following broker upgrades for Credit Suisse, while there was little sign of tension for the sector or for the pound or euro as formal Brexit negotiations kicked off in Brussels.

The technology sector may see more pressure if industries that use chips — such as transportation, machinery or even security cameras — fall under higher taxes, Credit Suisse's Pitzer wrote.

QE could be described as a tax on the private sector since it removes high yielding safe assets from the private sector and swaps them with low yielding less safe assets.

Millennials may be better educated than earlier generations, but Credit Suisse's researchers said they expected only a «minority of high achievers and those in high - demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the «millennial disadvantage.»»

Both the private sector as well as federal, state and local governments have an important role to play in supporting high growth businesses and job creation.

The risks appear highest in sectors such as transportation and storage (56 %), manufacturing (46 %) and wholesale and retail (44 %).

After defying a grim outlook for the consumer discretionary sector, the designer and retailer of «yoga - inspired» sportswear is once again back to being a stock - market darling, testing its record highs and all but silencing the skeptics who once dismissed it, with no small whiff of macho market chauvinism, as a fluff stock — a women's fad.

A lot of market strategists were pointing to bank stocks as the sector that would benefit the most from interest rate increases, since higher interest rates would boost lending profits.

Vulnerabilities in the household sector continue to edge higher while overall risks to financial stability are evolving as expected.

Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.

Like most sectors of the fixed - income market, municipal bonds struggled in the first quarter as yields climbed higher.

With some of the classic safe havens currently providing little protection, Russ shares two stock sectors to consider as rates drift higher.

The Dow industrials are in a full correction mode, dropping more than 10 percent from their highs, while multiple S&P 500 sectors are there as well.

Each fund has a stated objective, generally focusing on a particular sector, such as corporate or Treasury bonds, or broad category, such as investment grade or high yield.

This ought to mean that unless there is a very severe slowdown in the world economy, the trade sector of the economy should still do pretty well, even if the growth rates are not quite as high as in the past year.