Before we do, though, it's worth taking one
last look at the year just past — at the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2017.
Not exact matches
That has prompted investors to take another
look at the widening interest rate differential trends between the United States and Europe which hit the highest in nearly 30
years at 236 basis points
last week, and protracted weakness in the greenback.
Last year, Paul English, a co-founder of the travel booking site Kayak — which Priceline bought for $ 1.8 billion in 2012 —
looked at his calendar.
And we're
looking at that over the
last several
years to tell you whether we think that price is going to go up,» Patrick Surry, Hopper's chief data scientist, told CNBC's «On The Money» in an interview.
After eight
years in business we
looked at the performance of our company in the
last three or four
years, we had a lot of growth ahead of us, but still we had enough maturity to know that our concept is very resilient, very solid.
Travel search engine Kayak helped us narrow down the most popular spring break destinations in America this
year by
looking at searches on the site over the
last six months (October 9, 2017, through January 9, 2018) for travel dates between February 24 and April 21, 2018.
Dubbed the best business book of the
year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist
looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85
years closed.
Once you think about that question, it's good to
look back
at the journey that has led us here in the
last year, and what a «bot» has meant in that period.
It's time to take another
look at this Shasta puzzle and see if I can put
last year's lessons to good use.
I
look at it like: What did we do
last year?
We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you
look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the
last 20
years, it's something like 1,500.
That's massive growth, no matter how you
look at it, which helped push the stock price (NFLX) up by more than 139 %
last year.
And I have to tell you, when you do a $ 30,000 - plus kitchen and haven't even
looked at your roof in the
last 10
years, it doesn't make sense to me.
This paper, however, proposes a different approach: Before pressing the overdrive button on money printing presses, Tokyo might wish to take a careful
look at why the
last 15
years of ultra-loose credit policies failed to move the economy closer to its estimated potential growth rate of 1.5 percent.
When you
look at what's happened in Chattanooga these
last few
years, it's been a cooperative effort.
Then they can
look at your track record from the
last number of
years and see it's all worked out, and when you have made a mistake, you've owned up to it, and that there were lessons learned.
Look a little closer
at this
year's oddballs and you'll see they're just
last year's questions in disguise.
Few technology trends
last more than a few
years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a
look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.
Last year, AG Hair took another gamble and launched a collection of texturizing products aimed
at people who prefer the effortless «I woke up like this»
look.
Halfway through
last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next
looked at the total ad revenue booked by those two companies as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.
Looking at the strategy of the company, I think we've succeeded over the
last year since we transitioned to Alphabet to be more disciplined about the bets we're supporting.
Retailers should
look at historical data to anticipate what customers might be seeking based on
last year's purchases and what they're likely to purchase again.
«These [fall] benefit meetings with clients are a time to
look at last year's tax return and see what they can do differently with benefits to help next
year's taxes,» said John Gugle, CFP and principal
at Alpha Financial Advisors.
Jurrien Timmer: Yeah, the way that I
look at the world, you know, the market cycle has different phases and where we have been for the
last few
years has really been the Goldilocks, sort of mid-cycle phase.
Watch Dogs stole the show
at the
last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was unveiled, not just because it's an entirely new property, but mainly because it
looks like it's going to capture the zeitgeist of the super-connected era in which we live.
At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test
At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting
at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test
at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then
looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).
Fortune wrote
at the time of
last year's deal that IBM was
looking for full acces to The Weather Company's reams of weather data.
Germany has reacted to
last year's M&A frenzy by raising the bar for foreign acquirers
looking at domestic targets in tech - heavy industries.
McDonald's (MCD), which is suffering through one of its worst
years in more than a decade, hinted
at its investor meeting
last week that it's
looking to make progress in this department by simplifying ingredients.
«When you
look at our track record of what we've done over the
last several
years, you've seen that effectively we were returning to our investors essentially about 100 percent of our free cash flow.
Last year, to boost confidence in our company, we were
looking at pursuing a VeriSign Authentication Services Trust Seal, which confirms that VeriSign has verified that your business is authentic and that your site is free of malware.
Also,
look at last year's budget.
Apple has previously aired streaming video on Apple Music, including a behind - the - scenes
look last year at artist Taylor Swift's world tour.
Last year, Seeing Machines signed a deal with construction vehicle manufacturer Caterpillar to install systems in 40,000 of the company's mining trucks that sense when drivers aren't
looking at the road or are falling asleep
at the wheel and alert them with an alarm and a vibrating seat.
When they
look at the United States, they say, «OK, returns have been poor for the
last 10
years but before that we made good money.
Just take a
look at last year's Equifax breach, where the information of more than 145.5 million people was exposed, including credit card numbers and social security numbers.
«If you
look at... recent purchases over the
last year we've bought more Apple than anything else,» Buffett tells CNBC.
«If you
look at our holdings, you would assume that we like them in the order in which they rank by dollar value of holdings, but if you
look at them in terms of recent purchases over the
last year we've bought more Apple than anything else,» he said in a wide - ranging interview Monday on CNBC's «Squawk Box.»
You can check out our review of
last year's BlackBerry DTEK50, which was also made by TCL, for a
look at what the skin is like.
But more disturbing to me if you
look at the debt that is being issued in the
last two
years back in 0» 6,»07 28 % of that debt was B rated.
«I was prompted to
look at the outplacement industry that has been offering the same type of service and the same quality of service over the
last 20 or 30
years while the rest of the world has changed,» Sathe says.
«If you
look back
at the
last eight
years of what Republican senators did, there is plenty of bad behavior which is much worse than what Franken did the other day,» Tobias said hours before the Oregon senators announced their intention to block Trump's nominee to the 9th Circuit.
When you
look at the
last 15
years of eSports history, and in particular the production quality, sponsor involvement, global reach and audience, you will notice that the quality and level of entertainment have always gone up with an audience boost.
Over the
last twelve months, we've
looked at technological innovations, creative case studies, and ergonomic solutions to determine five trends that will influence next
year's modern office.
At GE (GE), Beth Comstock's «clean tech» Ecomagination initiative
looks like feel - good marketing; under the hood, though, there's a real business that
last year generated $ 18 billion in revenue.
It is unclear what special projects Deneve will be overseeing
at Apple, which is still
looking for someone to head its retail operations following the ouster of John Browett
last year after less than a
year on the job.
We got a taste of smart - home technology
at last year's CES and it
looks like 2015 will have even more.
The Bank of Canada
looked at raising its target
last year and decided against it.
But an income - based valuation (which
looks at this club's historical, rather than potential, earnings) shows it netted only about $ 98,000
last year.
Even in just the
last few
years, the number of hours the average American spends
looking at digital screens has increased dramatically.