Sentences with phrase «of a down year for»

It's been kind of a down year for Lynch, due in part to various injuries.

After a monster 2011, the righty slugger had a bit of a down year for the Rangers this past season, but still hit.227 /.343 /.467 with 24 home runs in 108 games.

By now you've probably picked up on the general consensus that the 2018 North American International Auto Show represents something of a down year for one of the industry's annual events.

2013 had some great games, but overall it was a bit of a down year for me.

It was somewhat of a down year for handheld games this year, and Pokemon Sun & Moon stood head and shoulders above the rest of the pack in my mind.

Not exact matches

As our thoughts turn to nailing down plans for the year ahead, it's a good time to start thinking about these new rules of engagement.

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

In the past 20 years, CNBC's «Managing Asia» has spoken with some of the top business leaders in the world to drill down the recipe for success in the region.

Shares of Exxon are down about 4 percent over the last year, compared with a 9 - percent gain for the S&P 500 energy sector.

In the past 20 years, «Managing Asia» has spoken with some of the top business leaders in the world to drill down the recipe for success.

«So if you have a long - term view that markets are frothy, they have taken some of the froth out and if you are really investing for a 10 - year horizon, yeah you buy the stocks that are solid, that you think you like the underlying earnings and you go into them and you wait until they calm down,» he said.

Worldwide demand for gold totaled 973.5 tons in the first quarter of the year, according to the Council's latest report, down 7 percent year - on - year.

This was ahead of analysts» expectations for 26 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S, but down from $ 1.09 per share a year ago, when a buoyant stock market boosted investment returns.

Carol Meyrowitz stepped down but as CEO of American retailer TJX, but will stay on as executive chairman for three more years.

Google closed down the service in Spain last year after a new law forced it to pay for publishing even small amounts of copyrighted information.

I typically note down all my ideas, and maybe do a bit of research, and then I let them sit for years on end.

For each year, a lot of time gets locked down months ahead.

This was ahead of analysts» expectations for 26 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S, but down from $ 1.09 per share a year ago, when a buoyant stock market boosted...

Half an hour later, he put a down payment on a couple of condos that won't be built for two to three years.

Earlier this year, the company whittled down its more than 70 different privacy agreements for all of its products to just one.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Motor vehicles sales in Western Australia for the year to November are down 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, with sports utility vehicles the only part of the market that held up.

That's exactly what has happened over the last month, as shown in this graph of the yield on the 10 year US treasury bond for the last year (keep in mind that yields going up means prices going down):

With news of both Jessops and HMV closing down just days after the start of the New Year, for people wishing to start up their own business especially, the outlook isn't good.

It's another thing for some of these stocks to be down 10 - 20 % since the beginning of the year.

More importantly for J.P. Morgan's shareholders, however, the bank also set out a clearer succession plan in preparation of Dimon's potential departure five years down the road.

Licensed insolvency trustees regularly see people who manage to meet their mortgage payments for months, even years, while the rest of their fiscal house falls down around them.

End - of - financial - year specials failed to maintain May's positive tone on new car sales for Western Australia, with numbers for June down 5.5 per cent as the financial year ended with a whimper.

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

Speaking of which, hiring for the year is slightly down — at 1.7 percent — and the average paycheck is flat, meaning small businesses have been able to grow revenue without spending more on either new or existing employees.

The price dive could put pressure on the federal government to the tune of $ 2.5 billion annually for the next four years, according to a fall economic update from Ottawa, and oil - producing provinces such as Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland are staring down revenue and royalty losses worth billions.

Nadal could be seen this fall on CNBC, BNN and Business Insider, offering confident reassurances on the state of the ad business and boasting that while the Big Four chose to batten down the economic hatches over the past couple of years, MDC saw it as a key time for bold investment.

We revised our estimate for volume this year down further primarily because of later - than - expected launches of mobile wallets from major tech players.

A way for users to collect and share photos and videos related to an event or a theme, Stories is also similar to a feature launched by Facebook - owned Instagram earlier this year, when co-founder Kevin Systrom admitted it was a virtual carbon copy of Snapchat's feature, right down to the name.

From the disappointing years of the Gamecube console to the unabashed phenomenon that was the Wii and right back down to the currently underperforming Wii U, it's been a veritable roller coaster ride for the new - ish general manager of Nintendo Canada.

Though Brady hasn't shown signs of slowing down at 40 years old, perhaps the Patriots would have been willing to talk return packages for Brady if it meant securing a future with Garoppolo.

The jobs of both the president of the Eurogroup and Euro Working Group will soon be up for grabs as incumbents step down at the end of the year.

The proportion of people who say they are saving less than last year to retirement savings is down, but the retirement income deficit for the coming generation of retirees is estimated to be $ 4.3 trillion.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in January received Momcilo Krajisnik, a wartime Bosnian Serb leader who was released after serving two thirds of a 20 - year jail sentence handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.

I think with the last accord, with the escalator [automatic year - over-year increase in transfer dollars] built in it really sort of dampened down the usual federal - provincial tensions, and for whatever reason it also then fell off the media and public horizon.

21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 % since the beginning of the year, or less than half Disney's decline.

After a seven - year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($ 2.72 billion) and raising the prospect of more.

When Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan's (TSX: POT) board learned in 2011 that William Doyle, its long - time CEO and president, wanted to step down when he turned 65, it began a rigorous three - year search for a successor.

Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of government bonds it buys to three years because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.

That turned out to be the wrong angle, and Virgin Cars ended up shutting down just five years later,» Branson says, adding that in retrospect, «the biggest potential for disruption in the automotive industry had nothing to do with the process of selling cars, but rather with how cars were powered.»

The administrative costs of updating and tracking down that information are estimated to be more than $ 2 billion dollars a year for the health - care industry.

Starbucks sees profit for the full year at $ 2.05 to $ 2.06 a share, down from previous guidance range of $ 2.09 to $ 2.12.

A cheap date — defined as cab rides, dinner or lunch for two at a pub or diner, soft drinks, two movie tickets and a couple of beers — runs about $ 195.90 in Zurich, down around 7 percent from last year, the survey found.

DiCeglie said that, when the effort for 2016 first started in January of the previous year, the GOP was down by roughly 6,000 voter registrations in comparison with the Democrats.