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It's not that difficult to get essentially the same results for much less investment by going the route of Amazon Kindle (for ebook) and CreateSpace (for print).»

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A noted decrease in job growth is less of a concern if it's accompanied by signs «that manufacturing activity is starting to rebound, that businesses are spending more on investment, and that consumers are continuing to spend,» he said.

It is likely to be tough, but China's new leadership needs to do less and not more if it wants an economy driven by consumption rather than investment and exports.

The CD Howe Institute has argued the deduction carries a cost to the economy by shifting investment from large companies to small ones, which are less productive.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Co-founded by Jon Stein in 2010, this startup is an online investment platform geared toward Millennials, offering financial advice for fees that can be less than $ 3 per month.

Those factors partly help explain why Exxon is now seen by Wall Street as a less - desirable investment than Chevron, which has several large oil and gas projects coming online by the end of the decade, offering far - stronger growth potential than Exxon.

After being rejected by at least fives Canadian banks, one foreign financial institution believed in their grassroots idea and contributed a little less than half of the $ 7 million investment they needed to get the new brewery going.

Shared networks are great in practice, but they can also easily lead to less competition and investment if not carefully overseen and managed by authorities.

In the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S. growth; higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted households.

«By making it less punitive for companies to bring back this money and making the process far less bureaucratic and difficult, we can return trillions and trillions of dollars to the economy and spur billions of dollars in new investments in our struggling communities and throughout our nation,» Trump said.

So the investment is less than half of the unencumbered equity that would be required by a traditional franchise restaurant.

But there's a story about Schultz that suggests he's less Machiavelli than mensch — told by Billy Etkin, 55, who runs a mergers - and - acquisitions investment - banking boutique in Manhattan.

At these levels, Canadian energy companies are expected to reduce investment again, albeit by less than half 2015's drop in percentage terms.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

For now, China remains among the most comely contenders in a beauty contest otherwise populated by less attractive investment options.

Further, that women's salaries peak earlier, they retire with less money than men but need to support themselves for longer are realities often overlooked by investment advisors.

Assuming I got along with both CEOs and enjoyed working with either of them equally, but the number of women - led ventures receiving venture investment was still disproportionately less than their male counterparts, I would probably invest in the venture led by a female CEO.

The agreement comes after recent changes by Industry Canada allowing telecom companies with less than 10 per cent of the market to have no restrictions on foreign investment.

For all the indications that younger investors may be catching onto a «buy - and - hold» stock investment strategy, it's important to note that millennials have much less to invest, and to lose, by staying in the market than their parents who are close to retirement.

Griffin's termination comes less than three weeks after he announced, to some fanfare, an investment of $ 44.4 million in TPUB by Ferro, a prominent Chicago entrepreneur.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

While not feasible in most states, they can be great investments in a few states and the returns are more or less guaranteed by law.

By having a thorough understanding of your risk appetite, the purpose of each investment in your portfolio and the implementation plan of your strategy, it allows you to feel much more confident about your investment plan and be less likely to make common behavioral mistakes.

Saving oil and natural gas through efficiency gains and investment in renewables would also generate profit by allowing BC to import less oil from Alberta and to export more of the natural gas it already extracts.

That means some financial advisors — basically, brokers and insurance agents - will once again be able to give conflicted investment advice by recommending high - priced 401 (k) investments that pay them rich commissions over less expensive - but comparable - alternatives on May 7, 2018.

We have the right to acquire all of our then - outstanding common units at the then - current trading price either if 10 % or less of our common units are held by persons other than our general partner and its affiliates or if we are required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act.

The indicated solution is to limit the proliferation of debt by borrowing less, for instance, and to channel savings more into equities and tangible investment than into debt - claims on economic output.

In such periods, there is a flight to quality by investors that drives down the rates on presumptively risk free investments like Treasury bills.Conversely, as was the case in the post-Lehman Brothers crisis, banks become less creditworthy and liquidity in the interbank lending market dries up.

«If you assume that for many years China has been misallocating investment (by which I simply mean that the resulting increase in productivity generated by the investment was less than the correctly calculated debt - servicing cost)...» How about not «assuming» and offer proof?

Few investments grow by a factor of 19 in less than a year.

By contrast, in coastal provinces, private consumption has on average become more self - sustaining and less dependent on investment.

The debts created by businesses, consumers and national economies cutting back their long - term direct investment leaves these entities even less able to carry their mounting debt burden.

International investments, particularly investments in emerging markets, may carry risks associated with potentially less stable economies or governments (such as the risk of seizure by a foreign government, the imposition of currency or other restrictions, or high levels of inflation or deflation), and may be or become illiquid.

Both the investment structures and founder covenants required by angels are less constrained by standardized institutional practice.

The speed with which China's GDP growth slows in 2013 will tell us a lot about how determined Beijing is to rebalance the economy in such a way that growth is driven more by higher household income and consumption and less by investment funded by rising government and government - related debt.

I get one for free, though much less involved in my day - to - day investments, from Schwab just by having an account there.

A narrow majority of defined - contribution - plan advisers and consultants say managed accounts provide less benefit to participants than target - date funds, according to a survey by Pacific Investment Management Co..

NEXUS» goal is for its members to achieve higher returns with less risk than typical angel investments by utilizing a model combining the business acumen of NEXUS members with Florida's community resources — including the vast university system and regional economic development programs.

By undermining the Mexican economy, trade intervention would make Mexico less attractive as an investment destination.

Gross domestic product (GDP): The total value of goods and services produced by the economy, the sum of aggregate consumption, investment, government purchases, and exports, less the value of imports.

Diversification may not always protect against losses, but a balanced portfolio that includes these three types of investments may be more insulated from risk and less impacted by market gyrations.

As one's investment horizon lengthens, however sentiment matters less and returns are more dominated by cash flows» Andy Redleaf

Still, there is emphatically no investment merit in long - term bonds, in the sense that by definition, a long - term investment in 10 - year Treasury securities will lock in a total return of less than 3.4 % over the coming decade.

Such trends are in keeping with the Communist Party's latest five - year plan to restructure the Chinese economy to make it less reliant on investment in heavy industry and other capital - intensive sectors and more driven by innovation and consumption.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

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For a variety of reasons, few of which relate to government policy, and more of which can be attached to market economics, the family farms are being swallowed up by corporate interests, whose MAIN concerns relate more to returns on investment and less on responsible husbanding of the land.

Bill Adams, PNC senior international economist, and Bill Stone, chief investment strategist for PNC Asset Management, explain how China's economy affects the United States and why our own stock market ups and downs are influenced less by China than many people think.

Flatt also chairs Brookfield's Investment Committee, whose investment approach is to acquire high - quality assets at less than replacement cost by looking for opportunities in regions and sectors during periods of financial upheaval or operational Investment Committee, whose investment approach is to acquire high - quality assets at less than replacement cost by looking for opportunities in regions and sectors during periods of financial upheaval or operational investment approach is to acquire high - quality assets at less than replacement cost by looking for opportunities in regions and sectors during periods of financial upheaval or operational challenge.