The search for higher returns has also resulted in a sharp increase in direct investment in the share
market by households.
Not exact matches
It creates a «median multiple»
by dividing the median house price in a given
market by the median
household income.
The city was recently ranked the second - least - affordable major
market in the world
by Demographia, a U.S. research firm, with median home prices 10.6 times the median pre-tax
household income.
According to Scotiabank's Derek Holt, who predicts
household grocery bills could balloon
by as much as 15 % in the next few years, the failure of the international community to settle on a rational policy for handling shortages has led to stockpiling and export bans, which «further impairs supply sides of
markets and causes prices to go up even more.»
With home robotic vacuums expected to be the fastest - growing segment of a $ 14 billion
household vacuum cleaner
market by 2018 and competition heating up, he was also probably finding that he couldn't afford to wait much longer.
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household debt, IMF, interest rates, labour
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The increase in the price level was fully anticipated
by households and financial
markets.
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markets, financial regulation,
household debt, housing, interest rates.
A recent report
by Sotheby's International Realty found Boomers with an average
household income of $ 300,000 to $ 500,000 are the principal drivers of the luxury real estate
market in Canada.
Consumer price index: A measure of the average level of prices, inclusive of sales and excise taxes, faced
by urban
households for a given «
market basket» of consumer goods and services.
The first quarter was also highlighted
by the launch of our new distribution model in France, which we are confident will accelerate our
household penetration in this large
market going forward.»
By studying its most loyal customers and
marketing specifically to similar
households near one of its dealerships, a Minnesota group not only increased sales but also generated significantly higher profits on those incremental deals.
Columbus, OH - Despite a surprising slowdown in
household growth at the end of 2015, the outlook for the U.S. housing
market remains upbeat thanks to solid housing demand driven
by continued job growth and incipient wage gains.
Keying off a healthier labour
market and buoyant consumer sentiment,
household spending rose
by 2.1 per cent over the year to the September quarter.
The
market absorbed the sale of an additional 16.6 per cent of Telstra quite comfortably, with strong demand
by households.
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markets, financial regulation,
household debt, housing, interest rates.
Under his leadership, Uber became a
household name and earned a $ 68 billion valuation
by raising unprecedented amounts of venture capital, dodging regulators in new
markets and generally focusing on growth at all costs.
From the demand side, this year's growth was driven in significant part
by a more than $ 6 trillion increase in
household wealth from the stock
market rally.
Moreover, the intensification of financial
market turmoil is likely to exert additional restraint on spending, partly
by further reducing the ability of
households and businesses to obtain credit.
However, starting in the early 1980s (as the stock
market started this amazing bull
market run discussed earlier)
household debt rose to 100 % of GDP and 130 % of PDI
by 2008.
The key 18 year bull
market we experienced here in the U.S. ending in 2000 was driven
by excesses in
household debt.
My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share
markets — were all observed in real time
by households and businesses right around the world.
Citing emerging domestic price pressures and stronger - than - expected
household spending and housing
market activity, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised its policy rate
by 1/4 of a percentage point in January to 5 1/4 per cent.
In contrast to the improving conditions in the business sector,
household spending has been flat over the past year, held back
by a relatively subdued labour
market.
Nonetheless,
household spending continues to be supported
by a strong labour
market, with employment growing
by 4.4 per cent over 2004 and the unemployment rate declining to an historically low 3.6 per cent.
Despite the increasing exposure to financial
markets,
household sector balance sheets remain strong, with their aggregate net financial assets rising
by around 14 per cent over the year to the March quarter 1998.
[U] nderpinned
by an improving labor
market, better
household balance sheets, favorable financial conditions, a healthier housing
market as
household formation gradually returns to levels that are more closely aligned with demographic factors, higher nonresidential investment as firms finally upgrade aging capital stock, and a smaller fiscal drag.
Sen shows that income earned in the
market by a male breadwinner is often not evenly distributed within the
household, due to cultural as well as legal factors that discriminate against women.
Telstra has been battered
by the high cost of providing NBN services to
households and the looming entrance of TPG into the mobile
market.
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by consumer insight,
market understanding and creative solutions for personal care, cosmetics, healthcare, food and beverage, industrial
household chemical and animal health products.
Due in part to intense competition, aggressive retail promotion and consumers seeking value, it is up to the package design — and the labeling — to lift sales in the
household packaging
market by differentiating brands and delivering value.
A Reportlinker (reportlinker.com) report on the global
household products
market showed the industry had total revenues of $ 177.58 billion in 2013 and was expected to reach $ 208.69 billion
by the end of 2018.
Keurig Performance Update Since becoming a private company following its acquisition
by a JAB - led investor group in March 2016, Keurig has renewed its
marketing investment and improved its new brewer innovation pipeline, which has resulted in renewed top - line volume growth, increasing U.S.
household penetration for Keurig brewers to 20 %, from 17 %, in the last two years.
Labour has demanded to know what the Treasury would do to prevent further manipulations of Libor
by traders, warning that mortgage repayments of
households across Britain depend on a fair and true interest rate
market mechanism.
«Additional sources of risk to the
household sector include slower housing
market growth than expected, brought about in part
by strong home price growth, as well as a steeper slowdown in auto sales than anticipated.»
Little attention was paid to energy and food prices until last year, when Labour highlighted how the cost of fuel was wrecking
household incomes and Ed Miliband ignited the issue
by arguing prices needed to be frozen to give ministers time to construct a new
market structure.
«New York
households pay some of the highest electric bills in the nation, and the wholesale electricity
market overseen
by NYISO has a major impact on prices,» said Beth Finkel, state director for AARP in New York state.
A 10 % closing of the gap in favour of women decreases women's
household work
by 14 % and increases their rate of full - time
market work
by 4 %.
Low - and moderate - income
households were most affected
by the housing
market downturn, however those involved with this study saw gains in net worth, indicating that homeownership may be «a pathway to asset security,» as Grinstein - Weiss puts it.
[1] His brother Will Keith Kellogg had a flair for
marketing and eventually made Corn Flakes ® and Kellogg ®
household names
by marketing this accidental discovery: [2]
Many laundry products on the
market contain an array of these chemicals along with food, personal beauty items, and other
household items that are deemed as safe for approve of use
by manufacturers to use in their products.
By late spring, the farm was self - supporting, supplying microgreens to area restaurants, selling vegetables at a farmers»
market, and supplying weekly produce and flowers to 25
households that paid $ 450 each for the season through a CSA.
Marked
by excellent quality and features with unmistakable refined leather interior that added value and class to the Hyundai Elantra More information about the 2013 Hyundai Elantra: The Elantra is Hyundai's entry into the compact car
market, competing with
household names such as the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla.
«Purchases are being driven
by rising
household wealth — the key driver of the luxury auto
market — which is being buoyed
by strong equity
market performances across much of the globe and ongoing house price appreciation,» said Gomes.
Dean is a well known
marketing expert and has received much acclaim for his work with jewelry webstore SterlingForever, making their sterling silver Baguette Band Cubic Zirconia Rings a
household name
by combining social media, advertising, and search engine optimization to drive traffic and attention to otherwise unknown products and services.
(Prediction that 2 - 3 percent of American
households will own a dedicated e-reading device in the next 18 months [this is huge, and even if he's off
by half, it's still huge], and most of the panelists agreed the ebook
market will be dramatically larger in the next couple years.
Donating clothing and
household goods
by December 31 will allow you to deduct the fair
market value of those donations on your tax return.
USDA requires borrowers earn less than 80 percent of the adjusted median income for their
household size to get a subsidized mortgage funded directly
by the government, and less than or equal to 115 percent of the median for a guaranteed mortgage at
market rates from a private lender.
With the housing
market expected to moderate further, the vulnerability posed
by overly indebted
households is easing, RBC says, clearing the way for the Bank of Canada to move toward higher interest rates
by mid-2015.
«A lot of the price inflation that you're reading about in the Canadian housing
market is largely driven
by lack of supply in single - family homes, strong
household formation, strong immigration numbers — so demand is still there,» Mr. McKay said.