Sentences with phrase «hit hard this year»

The entire Canadian equity market has been hit hard this year.

This cheerful print is hitting hard this year.

Indonesia suffered severe fires during the 1997 event and, from recent news, is already being hit hard this year.

Crops have been hit hard this year thanks to the historic, widespread drought gripping a majority of nation.

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Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

Sales dropped 9 % last year as foreign exchange impacts hit the company hard.

Few industries have been hit harder in recent years than energy, and the oilfield service provider Schlumberger (slb) epitomizes both the sector's struggles and its opportunities.

Just six years ago, Robert Friedland was No. 14 on the Rich 100, but the commodities slump hit his multiple mining interests hard — which ultimately knocked him off the ranking in 2014.

Co-founders Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz (last we saw them, they were firing a pair of hard - partying friends named Holly and Molly) will be back for a new season on E! later this year... AmieStreet.com, a music - downloading start - up that raises the price of a song as it gains popularity, hit the jackpot when users found recordings on the site by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the woman linked with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

«I bet the numbers show a 20 percent increase over last year's Prime Day, which I expect to cause a boatload of retail analysts to come out of the woodwork and downgrade any retailer that is still standing that they haven't downgraded yet,» Cramer said, adding that only then might the market find a bottom for some of the hardest hit brick - and - mortar names.

Nigeria, possibly the hardest hit among U.S. suppliers, has seen its exports to America plummet to the lowest level in years.

While casual - dining chains have been struggling for years, the industry is now on the cusp of a new restaurant recession — and casual chains will likely be hit the hardest.

Just a year later, the recession hit Crocs hard.

The properties that were hardest hit were the Trump SoHo, Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago and Trump Taj Mahal, down 17 — 24 % in raw foot traffic this past year as compared to the previous year.

Unlike parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean hit hardest by the recent Zika outbreak, areas of Southeast Asia have had the virus present for many years.

KFC, China's biggest restaurant chain with more than 4,000 outlets and plans to open 700 more this year, was hit hard by a report in December 2013 that some poultry suppliers violated rules on drug use in chickens.

President Donald Trump revealed his new plan to combat the opioid crisis on Monday in New Hampshire, a state hard - hit by painkiller and heroin addiction and overdose in recent years.

The U.S. seems to be the hardest - hit country, with 22 % of American firms reporting over 20 cyberattacks of some kind during the past year.

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.

And for some reason, it often feels like they hit harder and harder every year.

The number of cases globally is expected to dramatically increase to 24 million a year by 2035, up from about 14 million currently, with the developing world being especially hard hit.

We found that the latest recession hit them hard — the hardest of all demographics — and as a result, in the years when they should be in peak accumulation, they're struggling to reach their savings goals.

Ross Fraser, a spokesman for Feeding America, the national food bank network that provides food assistance to about 46 million people each year, says this uneven recovery hits the poorest Americans especially hard.

The wireless industry has for years successfully fought regulations that would force mobile phone networks to be hardened so they work during storms, but it may face renewed demands after Hurricane Harvey knocked out seven of 10 cell towers in the hardest - hit counties of Texas.

«Most informed investors believe that when interest rates go higher, as they are expected to within the next few years, condo prices will be hit very hard,» says MacKenzie.

Stress levels surge in September, for instance, when the school year hits families hard, and again in December, when supposedly fun holiday activities add pressure to everyone's lives.

The German ZEW figures beat all expectations, a sign that the euro zone crisis was no longer hitting Europe's largest economy as hard as it was last year.

Hardest hit has been eastern Kentucky, which has endured the highs and lows of the coal marketplace for more than 100 years.

Meanwhile, luxury real estate in Manhattan has taken an especially hard hit over the past few years.

Abbas, a retired 57 - year - old Syrian man, said his neighbourhood in the capital's west was hit hard on Saturday.

Any shortfall would lead to rising food prices that would hit the world's poor hardest, as has already occurred from price increases of recent years.

In European countries hit hardest by recent financial crises, such as Greece and Portugal, incomes have of course fallen sharply in recent years.

Europe's troubles have hit XIN hard this year.

After a not - so - impressive debut in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Mirzya, Harshvardhan Kapoor is back after a hiatus of two years with a hard - hitting story of superhero Bhavesh Joshi.

Among the hardest hit stocks last year were the darlings of the previous year — Bellamy's and Blackmores.

The tougher lending requirements are hitting hardest new buyers who have not built up equity from price gains, typically in Melbourne and Sydney during the past five years.

A Quill & Quire «Book of the Year», Slow Death by Rubber Duck has been featured by the Washington Post (which said it «is hard - hitting in a way that turns your stomach and yet also instills hope»), Dr. Oz, Fox News, and Oprah Magazine, and translated into six languages.

«During the past year, ICBC overcame the hard hit as a result of the financial crisis and realized healthy and stable development.

This year's flu season is hitting early and hard, the worst the U.S. has seen in more than a decade.

During the past two years consumer debt is about the same, but the market has gotten hit hard.

General Mills looks like it's been hit pretty hard this year, Seems fairly cheap from a P / E perspective, back in the mid teens where it was a few years ago, and reasonable yield and earnings growth.

The two - year budget accord signed by President Trump earlier this month contains provisions from a House of Representatives disaster relief bill (H.R. 4460, the Disaster Recovery Reform Act) designed for states hit hard by hurricanes and wildfires in 2017.

Total premium, hit hard by regulatory changes and low interest rates, fell 16 percent to $ 11 billion last year compared to 2016, the Minneapolis - based company said.

Energy stocks as a whole have been hit hard with the decline in energy prices, and NOV is no exception with the stock down 25 % over the past year.

Dennis Lee, the Virginia state prosecutor for Tazewell County, an area hard hit by OxyContin abuse, said he was stunned several years ago to learn that Mr. Giuliani was working for Purdue.

In a year replete with devastating news, the June 22 death of Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami hit especially hard.