Sentences with phrase «modest growth»

But the skills shortage issue may win out and I suspect we'll see modest growth in graduate wages — and even starting salaries — this year.

That would make the fund $ 35,000 plus a year's worth of modest growth as the child begins university.

My suggestion is dividend - paying stocks of quality companies, especially those with modest growth prospects.

Many stocks are now overpriced, and the best companies to own in such a volatile environment — financials, consumer staples and other defensive stocks — are delivering only modest growth.

While the bitcoin's price history has been off the charts, rival cryptocurrencies have seen more modest growth.

With even modest growth, these industries would emit 50 % of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5 C, her talk showed.

The new bill calls for maintaining such relatively modest growth over the next 5 years.

Its avid fan base and unique hardware and software platform will enjoy modest growth in the short term, but competitive pressures will see it gradually lose out to bigger companies.

It's not everyone's goal to make seven - figure annual returns, it's merely to achieve modest growth and a secure financial future — which is absolutely achievable through property investing.

The city is projecting modest growth for the next year.

Inflation excluding food and energy, however, has been quite moderate, in part due to very modest growth in unit labor costs.

Instead, annuities offer a combination of security and modest growth not available through many other income options.

After a streak of modest growth, the rig count has now declined for nine consecutive weeks.

In the 2012 - 13 school year, the district's schools posted drops in reading scores, and modest growth in math and science.

Certainly no one is predicting large declines in profits or share prices, but rather a period of much more modest growth.

Limited new commercial real estate construction, coupled with modest growth, has led to a more favorable investment environment for senior commercial real estate debt.

The e-Reader continues to enjoy modest growth and peoples love affair with reading on the go, continues.

Though alarm bells have been ringing of late, city tax revenue shows modest growth of about 3.8 percent for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 compared to the same period in fiscal 2016 (July - September), which is in line with forecasts.

Consequently, outdoor furniture sales have been expanded by a blistering 10 % to 12 % per year since the recession ended, compared with a more modest growth rate of 3 % for conventional niches such as bedrooms.

This mirrored a national trend for modest growth in business numbers in the capital cities and contraction in the regions.

The decline reflected a loss of 74,000 public - sector jobs, which was only partly offset by modest growth in private - sector employment and self - employment.

Despite regularly appearing new tablets, the book retailer still only forecasts modest growth in its NOOK sales Samsung seems

Despite modest growth in the company's enterprise department, the macro-level picture is not pretty: In March 2012, the company was worth about $ 100 billion; today, it's valued at a fourth of that.

Whereas the non-participating schools experienced modest growth over the decade before the voucher program was expanded statewide (about 3 percent, on average), the participating schools had been experiencing a significant decline in enrollment (about 13 percent, on average).

While a recession is clearly possible, most forecasters still expect Canada to post modest growth this year and next.

You might want to consider balancing your mid-term portfolio with a mix of high - quality fixed - income investments with modest growth investments.

2011 saw only modest growth as I was not shoveling as much capital into my dividend machine.

She forecast modest growth at this spring's budget deliberations but drew heat from the D.C. Council, which expressed doubt about the prediction after decades of falling enrollment.

Likewise, RTOS (real - time operating system) and the ominous «Others» will also only see modest growth with RTOS expected to grow from 2.1 million in 2016 to 3.4 million in 2020 and Others expected to grow from 0.4 million in 2016 to 0.7 million in 2020.

The analysts noted that Monster's «sharp upward stock move on modest growth improvement has brought risk / reward back into balance.

The report stated that «growth will slow next year, when the business will do $ 5 billion in sales, Morgan Stanley estimates, followed by similarly modest growth in 2015, when Amazon will do an estimated $ 5.5 billion in Kindle sales.»

It uses pretty modest growth assumptions.

Earnings before interest and tax from continuing operations (excluding fuel and home improvement) fell 4.9 per cent to $ 2.32 billion as Australian food profits declined 2.4 per cent and losses at Big W offset modest growth in liquor, New Zealand supermarkets and hotels and gaming.

What makes such modest growth numbers even more troubling is the amount of stimulus that's already been used to create today's tenuous recovery.

The first is that the US economy is in reasonable shape, exhibiting modest growth.

Ultimately, the key to achieving modest growth while minimizing risk is to keep a close eye on performance and gradually shift to more stable, income - producing investments as the date of your goal approaches.

We continue to see very strong markets in British Columbia and Ontario, fuelled by strong population and employment growth, declines in energy - producing regions such as the Prairies and modest growth elsewhere in the country.

Considering that China's economy — by many measures, the world's largest — now exceeds $ 17.6 - trillion (U.S.) a year, even modest growth represents a fantastic opportunity for Canadian businesses.

Modest growth averaging around 2 % looks to be in the cards again in 2017.

Combined with modest growth from its Fios segment — where increases in Fios Internet customers have more than offset losses in Fios Video connections — as well as sales from its Oath subsidiary, which encompasses more than 50 media and tech brands including Yahoo!, tumblr, TechCrunch, HuffPost, and AOL, management says investors can safely expect Verizon to deliver solid low - single - digit percent growth in both revenue and adjusted earnings this year.

After only modest growth initially following the 2001 global recession, international trade in goods and services has rebounded strongly of late, increasing by about 10 per cent in 2004, or approximately double the rate of growth in world GDP (Graph A1).

In leaderless groups without such persons, four factors can contribute to a growth - productive outcome: relatively «healthy» members, modest growth goals, considerable structure, and avoidance of major focusing on intragroup relationships.

The rent bumps provide just modest growth.