Sentences with phrase «lift earnings this year»

Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci is shifting his focus from «sledgehammer» price cuts to finer tools such as data analytics and customer loyalty to lift earnings this year after restoring momentum in Australia's largest supermarket chain.

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It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

Just Eat was also among the best performers for its second consecutive day after Barclays analysts had lifted their rating to overweight after the U.K. online meal delivery portal reported full - year earnings in the previous session.

Nevertheless, the latest gain in earnings left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have been in for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed would want to see before lifting benchmark interest rates.

«There is a good chance the euro would weaken again,» he said, saying the currency could reach $ 1.12 - 1.15 during the second half of the year, likely bolstering corporate earnings, although any lift could be delayed by hedging policies.

Well, it will certainly lift the rate of return investors expect from stocks, but bulls insists that with earnings growing 20 percent this year, the expected return may be sufficiently high, so that there will not be any shift out of equities, that corporations are going to make enough money to more than compensate for higher rates.

Shares of Dunkin' Brands fell by about 3 % in early morning trading, however, as analysts were looking for the company to lift its full year sales and earnings guidance.

However, Nissan lifted its forecast for full - year earnings nearly 32 percent, to 705 billion yen, thanks to changes to the U.S. tax system and higher earnings from other sources including its Chinese joint venture.

Rising rates and a banner year for stocks could lift earnings at some large companies that have made an arcane but significant change to the way their pension plans are valued.

Rising interest rates and a banner year for stocks could lift reported earnings at some large companies that have made an arcane but significant change to the way their pension plans are valued.

The world's largest retailer on Thursday topped Wall Street's earnings expectations during the latest quarter, and lifted the lower end of its full - year guidance.

Verizon Communications Inc.'s earnings got a big lift Tuesday from a change it made in its pension accounting a few years ago, and some other companies could see similar gains in the days to come.

As a result, Elders, which operates a network of rural supplies stores, lifted its underlying earnings guidance to $ 54 million to $ 57 million, up from $ 40.6 million a year ago.

Mr Segal believes there is scope to lift Caltex's retail sales from about $ 1.2 billion a year to $ 3 billion to $ 5 billion — more than replacing lost sales and earnings when its fuel supply partnership with Woolworths comes to an end.

We've already lifted 900 thousand pensioners out of poverty — and in the next five years will restore the earnings link for the basic state pension.