Sentences with phrase «lower in years past»

This was much lower in years past and has been increased over time by changes in the law.

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WESTERN Australia's hotels increased their total earnings by 20 per cent in the past financial year despite low occupancy rates.

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

He also illustrates how in the past year the stock has held a series of lows around the $ 300 level before finally breaking «on heavy volume» down to $ 252 earlier in April.

Airlines posted lower profits on the year in the past quarter, but both profits and margins will likely stabilize in 2018, said Jonathan Root, a senior credit officer at Moody's.

Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in volatility have come amid relatively subdued trading volumes.»

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

Home values in Perth were up 0.2 per cent over the past three months, but were 3.1 per cent lower year - on - year.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

«While revenue for Q4 and FY18 was below expectations due to lower than anticipated smartphone unit volumes, Cirrus Logic made meaningful progress this past year on numerous strategic initiatives that we expect to position the company for a return to year - over-year growth in FY20,» said Jason Rhode, president and chief executive officer.

He supports plans to lower the federal corporate tax rates and the harmonization of British Columbia and Ontario's sales taxes with the GST, but notes both Quebec and Nova Scotia have hiked their sales taxes in the past year.

Disney has closed more than 120 stores in the past two years as it struggled to keep its own merchandise competitive with lower - end retailers.

For the past two years, energy stocks have looked quite dirty, as the price of oil sank to a latter - day low of US$ 27 a barrel in February.

Petrol prices reached 14 - year low averages in the past year but gross retail margins hit fresh highs, the competition watchdog says.

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

Over the past few years, public pensions including California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERs) and California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs)-- the largest in the country by assets — have posting mediocre returns due to low interest rates and growing retirement obligations.

In the past few years, Durex has released some creative ad campaigns that focus on real couples and the link between lowered technology use and more intimacy.

While the Dish Network's reach and power have weakened over the past few years just as Viacom's have, the satellite company is still in a somewhat stronger position than it used to be relative to the entertainment giant, because it knows that Viacom is already suffering from low viewership numbers, and that impacts its ad revenues.

So, after a multi-year decline in Canadian venture capital funding — hitting a low of just $ 1 billion in 2009, despite US$ 132 billion invested by venture capitalists south of the border over the past five years — the March budget finally screamed an end to business as usual.

Large percentages of respondents expect to see lower profits this year, and contend consumers will be far more price sensitive than in the past.

Analysts are probably correct in saying that the past few years of somewhat lower bills were just a hiccup — Canadian wireless companies are on the verge of resuming business as usual.

In the past year, Breyers, the ice cream brand owned by Unilever, introduced a low - calorie, high - protein ice cream with the calorie count printed in big letters on the container, just like Halo ToIn the past year, Breyers, the ice cream brand owned by Unilever, introduced a low - calorie, high - protein ice cream with the calorie count printed in big letters on the container, just like Halo Toin big letters on the container, just like Halo Top.

The Fed has been working to normalize monetary policy over the past two years, beginning with its initial move off historically low, near - zero rates in December 2015.

He said the company had committed increased resources to online service functions in the past two years and that Live Help was an adjunct to those services, making it a low cost service implement.

«This stock is still making lower highs for the past few years, I am very skeptical of this move, and if it's truly marking a change in the long - term trend,» Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with iIn years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with iin the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

The most common measure used to assess volatility in the U.S. is the VIX index, which has been persistently at low levels for the past year.

In the past we've covered Demand Media, «the content farm» that brings in $ 200 million a year by paying writers low rates for search - engine - friendly storieIn the past we've covered Demand Media, «the content farm» that brings in $ 200 million a year by paying writers low rates for search - engine - friendly storiein $ 200 million a year by paying writers low rates for search - engine - friendly stories.

Second, that Saudi Arabia, the driving force within OPEC and the shock absorber in oil markets for the past 40 years, would cut production if necessary to keep prices from falling too low.

The count of companies that did not take part in buybacks or dividends remained at a low level (20 companies), right near the average for the past three years.»

Last month, unit sales were the lowest for any August in the past dozen years, and nearly 40 % below the 10 - year August norm.

According to data from price intelligence firm 360pi, over the past year through June — which includes the past holiday season — Wal - Mart has consistently offered lower prices than Target or Sears in the sports and toys category (though a severe price dip over the summer brought Sears» prices much closer to Wal - Mart's).

For instance, agriculture has produced record levels for the past few years and yet inventories are the lowest in 40 years because consumption keeps going higher and higher, faster than production does.

And 2,700 miles from June's office in San Francisco, in a low - rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion - measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the facial - cue recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.

While they have higher costs than Spirit because they target business travelers and must maintain multiple types of planes, lower fuel prices in the past year have let them profitably chop their fares.

Yet «low» inflation remains in the spotlight for Fed policymakers, with government price data remaining tame over the past five years.

The number of women hired is similar to numbers from years past, however, the number of men hired is much lower then in previous years.

Last year, 111.3 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl, according to Nielsen, which marked a low when compared to Super Bowl viewerships in years past.

In the past three years, HYLD has returned negative 1.68 percent, while JNK is up by about the same percentage, with an expense ratio (0.40 percent) that is 83 basis points lower.

Although China's foreign exchange reserve fell in January to $ 3.23 trillion, the lowest in the past three years, Xiao Lian, an economist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the number is still manageable.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

In fact, over the past 35 years, the market has experienced an average drop of 14 % from high to low during each calendar year, but still had a positive annual return more than 80 % of the time.

As it stands, TLRD recognized just $ 50 million in synergies over the past year, and while they still claim these synergies will eventually reach the lower end of that $ 100 - $ 150 million range by the end of this year, it's hard to trust those claims given the combined company's poor operating results.

After moving above resistance of a downtrend line that was in place for more than a year, $ KOL developed a tight base off the lows that has been in place for the past six months.

In fact, according to our analysis, though higher U.S. valuations were associated with lower future returns, there were numerous instances in the past, particularly in the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizonIn fact, according to our analysis, though higher U.S. valuations were associated with lower future returns, there were numerous instances in the past, particularly in the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizonin the past, particularly in the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizonin the mid-to-late 1990s, when very high U.S. valuations coincided with strong returns over one - and three - year horizons.

It notes that global growth was lower and much more variable in the past ten years than in the preceding decade.

until you see that number in the low 7s and until you see inflation exceeding above 2 %, the fed is going to do what they have done in the past two to three years and that is to ease quantitatively.»

For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years.

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).