«Everyone
looks at the year where we signed five players on deadline day, but we actually signed players earlier that summer, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain was one of them.
If the average long - term return for stocks is 8.5 %, let
's look at years where returns were a full 10 percentage points more or less than that.
They're expected to debut under $ 400, and will be sold unlocked in the U.S. Provided Sony takes these same fresh philosophies and steps up another level with its flagships, we could be
looking at a year where Sony phones are at least back in the conversation in the U.S., rather than just an opportunity to crack a joke about its numerous missteps.
Not exact matches
The special issue approaches investing from both domestic and international vantage points, providing a well - rounded
look at where you might put your money in the coming
year.
«When you
look at where aviation came from, UAVs will travel that same path in 15
years,» says Robert Kendall, the former executive director of industry association Unmanned Systems Canada.
And yet — here's
where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell
looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20
years.
A couple of
years ago, the practice of showrooming —
where shoppings would
look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.
As to the reason why, all you need to do is
look at Sakhalin, a windswept, earthquake - prone island off Russia's Pacific coast
where temperatures can fluctuate 110 degrees throughout the
year.
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.
«If you
look at what happened [in 2014], the 10 -
year treasury opened up
at just over 3 %, and
where we finished the
year was
at 2.2 %.
In a five -
year study of nearly 5,000 married couples ranging in age from 19 to 89,
where approximately 75 % of couples composed of spouses who both worked, researchers assessed participants» personalities by
looking at the Big Five personality traits — openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and conscientiousness.
John Betts: When I arrived in Canada four
years ago, we were
at a low point in terms of our market share, and when you
looked at our business, clearly one of the areas
where we were not connecting well was in our breakfast business.
«You're going to be able to
look at it and say maybe it's not
where Honeywell is but it can get there,» he said, referring the very different story
at industrial rival Honeywell, which has seen its stock surge 25 percent this
year compared to GE's 37 percent decline since in 2017.
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.
However, Bloomberg reported that it's also
looking into another crash earlier this
year where a Model S ran into a fire truck parked on the highway,
where the driver claimed Autopilot was engaged
at the time.
Looking at the experience we have now, it's fun to dream
where we'll be four
years from now.»
If you
look at a map that shows
where there's active malaria transmission, it'd be easy to think that the disease — which despite being treatable kills somewhere between 438,00 and 730,000 people a
year, depending on the estimate — is purely a tropical problem.
But it was only a few
years ago that people were afraid of online banking, and
look at where we are today.
«Thousands of
years of men innovating society and a single generation
where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than
looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»
«And if you
look at where the growth is going to be... over the next 10, 20
years, Asia seems like a good place for that.»
While he loved the culture
at Zappos.com, the online shoe store
where he'd spent more than three
years as senior director of brand marketing, he wanted to
look for new opportunities
at a large company in New York or a startup in San Francisco.
To find out
where graduates earn the most early in their career, we
looked at data from the Department of Education's College Scorecard and used the median salary of graduates six
years after enrolling — two
years after graduation, for most.
Me: If you
look at the world, and you
look at languages, and you
look at economies... if you were to try to target those parts of the world that in 15
years, 20
years will have taken a bigger step than other parts of the world,
where would you go?
Today's must - read story is from Fortune «s Peter Elkind and it
looks at the recent leadership developments
at CBS (CBS) and Viacom (VIA),
where 92 -
year - old Sumner Redstone stepped aside from his long - held role as executive chairman of both companies.
We've also recently forayed into the Chinese market
where we are
looking at online as a new channel,» said Russell who hopes to increase the contribution from overseas sales to 30 percent in the coming
years.
Two recent pieces
looked at where we are in this recovery and why, seven
years into an expansion, we're still not
at full employment.
There was one return that I worked on
where someone purchased some hideous
looking yard sculptures, let them sit around for several
years, had them appraised
at pretty high values and then donated them to some organization.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong
where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us toge
where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00]
Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us toge
Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This
year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you
look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
Looking ahead into 2018, I am keeping a close eye on the energy sector,
where the ability of US exploration and production (E&P) companies to grow oil production —
at half the price of oil from just a few
years ago — remains a competitive advantage for these firms.
In addition, the mortgage market
looks set for a particularly heavy
year of renewals in an environment
where debt - servicing costs are already rising
at the fastest pace in a decade.
Widmar: When you
look at the U.S., Georges (Antoun, First Solar CCO) showed a slide to today
where the procurement is going to come from over the next couple of
years and identified close to 20 GW.
Oh crap, just took another
look at the complaint, happened in Illinois, this is
where a former governor is now serving a 14
year sentence, one scandal after another.
The Florida Angel Nexus
looks for investment opportunities
where mentoring, capital and member networks will take companies to the next level, resulting in NEXUS members investing in
at least one of NEXUS's identified opportunities each
year.
You went through a couple
years where initially you
looked at this and said, «This market is nuts.
«If you
look at where New York was a couple of
years ago, you can see a parallel to
where Berlin is now.»
There was a point couple
years ago, many
years ago,
where I think Eric Schmidt did
look at the New York Times when they were having all those financial troubles.
If you want to understand why the federal government has clocked deficits in every single
year since the 2008/09 financial crisis, save one (2015), and why there won't be another black - ink budget until
at least the mid-2020s,
look at the pre-budget picture with Finance Minister Bill Morneau
where he changes his shoes.
Look at where it's going to be three
years from now.
If I start to get discouraged about how much I have left to pay off I simply
look at where I was a
year or two ago and it is easy to see how much progress I have made.
Looking at periods
where the price to peak earnings was above 19 and inflation and bond yields were below 2.5 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively, stocks had an average seven -
year return of 6 percent.
Over the last two
years or so, though, the EC has been
looking at special tax deals member countries have been giving to companies;
where it finds that a country has provided special tax treatment to one particular company (and not granted similar tax treatment to other companies), it has held that the country provided «state aid» to that company.
Anyone who
looks at nominal rates is not really
looking under the hood, and it's the steep decline in real rates that's what's kept a lid on the Dollar, which is
at a level that's no different than
where it was a couple of
years ago.
Now that the first few months of the
year have come and gone — let's take a quick
look at which goals I've already completed — and
where I need to get my ass in gear.
«In
looking at past results, it's interesting to see performance numbers in a significant reverse of what was reported last
year where so many U.S. corporations suffered financially,» said Employee Ownership Foundation President, J. Michael Keeling.
However, when we begin to
look at the history of shaving, we can see that this is another area
where humans have made a great deal of progress — with the most important developments coming in the last 100
years or so.
I believe it's fair to say that as we
look at a world
where very few asset classes globally have produced positive nominal returns
year - to - date, and a world
where US corporate earnings and economic growth have been tepid
at best, increasingly ascending US equity valuations connote incremental capital concentration.
This is a phenomenon
where the stocks that were dumped
at the end of one
year in order to make portfolios
look better are bought back up
at now cheaper rates.
In
looking back
at failed attempts to win friends (and keep them) over the past
year, I've discovered six areas
where social media is wreaking havoc on our friendships.
We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and
looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000
years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit
where credit is due, you fall back on 2000
year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.