Sentences with phrase «of flat growth»

Again, I'm slightly hesitant on HGIC both because of the flat growth and because of the weight in my particular portfolio.

Sure, the volatility we saw in the market has had a psychological effect on investors, but in addition, we've also experienced a decade of flat growth in stocks, which has many people questioning the long - held assumption that buy - and - hold investing is the best way to produce gains on your money.

Coming from a period of flat growth since the summer, tablets enjoyed a surge during the holiday season as lower - cost devices such as the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble's Nook tablet reached shoppers just in the nick of time.

This, after a year of flatter growth and considerable volatility in the commodity markets, marked by continued discounts on Canadian crude and low gas prices.

Some periods of flatter growth...

Not exact matches

ConAgra, which has reported flat or falling sales in four of the past six quarters, is struggling to boost growth as consumers shift from packaged products to fresh foods in search of healthier options.

As of January 2001, the CBO foresaw another decade of 3 % real GDP growth, 3 % inflation, unemployment at 5 % or below, and flat - as - a-pancake interest rates.

Yet, while Scotiabank says it voluntarily curtailed its mortgage business, leading to flat growth in the most recent quarter, it's unlikely to pull back on the reins too hard for fear of losing market share to competitors and leaving money on the table.

New York, Dec 11 - The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened flat on Monday after news of an explosion in New York's busy Port Authority commuter hub, while stocks rose around the world on continued solid global economic growth indicators.

Compound annual growth rates of the overall fashion industry have been flat or grown by 1 % to 2 % over the last 20 years, but fast fashion — driven by chains like H&M, Zara, and Forever 21 — has grown by more than 12 % each year.

In a live CNBC interview from Sun Valley with Becky Quick of «Squawk Box,» Buffett says the general economy's growth has «tempered down» so that it is now «more or less flat.»

By 2005, profits were flat after three years of double - digit growth.

«Looking at the quarterly data, the underlying trend as suggested by the three - month on three - month movement is one of growth, following a fall in quarter 1, suggesting a relatively flat first half of 2017.»

Without it, however, AECOM's organic revenue growth was flat last year, restrained in part by the effects of currency - exchange rates.

After several quarters of showing flat or anemic growth, Twitter said that it added 9 million new monthly average users in the latest quarter, the largest increase since 2015.

About eight years ago, Simon became convinced that his company would have tremendous growth potential if it could reorient its sales of high - priced equipment away from the semiconductor industry and toward the developing high - definition and flat - screen - display markets.

Given that sort of longevity, you'd expect Motel 6 to have flat growth, but the number of U.S. franchises has quadrupled in the past decade, from 197 in 2007 to 801 in 2017.

The $ 300 million company has enjoyed more than a decade of sustained growth, almost tripling its capacity in the past six years — all while the food industry has generally stayed flat.

«We still expect a long lasting economic expansion of moderate growth, which should rival the US record of 10 years with S&P EPS growth averaging 6 % until the next recession, on 5 % sales growth, flat margins, 1 % share shrink,» Bianco wrote.

Growth of delivery at dinner has remained flat over the last five years and has grown at breakfast and lunch.

Given the persistence of these factors, our latest forecasts have incorporated a flatter profile for consumption growth than has been the case in previous forecasts.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3 % to 4 % over the coming three...

I think of the economic book value as the no - growth value of the business or the value of the business if existing profits stay flat forever.

To some extent, stock market action also implies expectations for slower economic growth, though interest rate signals, such as a flat yield curve, are more suggestive of slow growth than stock market action is, and we've yet to see a substantial widening of credit spreads that would suggest imminent recession.

Brands Reports First - Quarter GAAP Operating Profit Growth of 14 %; Flat First - Quarter Core Operating Profit Growth; Maintains All Aspects of Full - Year Guidance

Pro forma EPS of $ 0.92 in the quarter grew 16 % y / y and bested Wall Street expectations of $ 0.79 (also a 16 % upside to consensus, which had essentially expected flat EPS growth).

By median value, house prices rose by 1.4 % in large tier one cities in December, outpacing a gain of 0.3 % for smaller tier two cities and flat growth in smaller tier three and four cities.

Mac — in a declining PC industry, we expect Mac to continue its market share gain and support our forecast for its strong performance of 7.3 % revenue growth in FY 2015, followed by 3.6 % in FY 2016, and 4.6 % in FY 2017 on flat average selling prices over the three year period of $ 1,230.

We now expect adjusted EPS of $ 0.39 to $ 0.40, which represents year - over-year growth of about 20 % and adjusted EBITDA to be flat to up 1 % compared to 2015.

Investors have been lulled into believing that an endless horizon of weak growth, easy money, and zero interest rates is desirable, when it is actually a syndrome of flat - lining vital signs.

However, the lack of growth in hourly earnings is something of a conundrum (average hourly wage growth was flat month - over-month in June and up over the past year by just 2 %).

Productivity gains have been weak, the participation rate (meaning the percentage of the labor force in employment) declined to 62.6 % in June — the lowest level since 1977 — and hourly wage growth was flat in the same month.

Indeed, in volume terms, headline imports of goods and services appear to have remained flat in the June quarter, following very strong growth in the March quarter.

The U.K.'s Office of National Statistics on Thursday said the economy grew 0.3 per cent in the second quarter, after 0.2 per cent in the first, the lowest growth for any major advanced economy since the start of 2017, according to Reuters, which also reported flat business investment and little growth in household spending.

Surveys and official data indicate flat or falling house prices across the UK; according to the Nationwide and Halifax surveys, house prices increased at an annualised rate of 1.8 per cent over the past three months, compared with annualised growth in excess of 20 per cent in the first half of 2004.

Around three - quarters of countries tracked by the index recorded flat or positive annual price growth in Q1 2015, three years earlier this figure was closer to 47.2 %.

The Canadian economy started the fourth quarter of 2015 off on a tepid note, recording essentially flat growth for the month of October.

A businessman may cite flat sales, low - growth rate or some other standard malady as the issue that's dogging their enterprise when, in reality, those are the results of their problem.

Data on export volumes are not yet available for the June quarter; however, with the exception of rural exports, volumes have been relatively flat over the past couple of years, after strong average growth through the 1990s (Graphs 36 and 37).

The quarterly pattern of GDP growth in 1996 is difficult to interpret, but suggests some bounce - back after a relatively flat period in the middle of the year.

In contrast, buildings and structures investment was flat, following six consecutive quarters of remarkably strong growth, while spending on computer software fell for a second consecutive quarter.

Employment growth in the recent period has been concentrated in part - time jobs; full - time employment has been, at best, flat in recent months, even allowing for the prospect of some reversal of the large monthly fall recorded in March, and there has been little net gain in full - time jobs since October 1995 (Graph 12).

Modest growth in export quantities and prices, together with flat imports (on a quarterly basis), pushed the March quarter balance on goods and services back into a surplus of around half of one per cent of GDP, reversing the deterioration late last year.

Some economists have forecast that home prices in the area will remain mostly flat in 2016, after many months of steady growth.

Combined, the aftermath of the territorial spat with China will shave 0.8 percentage point off Japan gross domestic product growth for the fourth quarter, sending Japan's overall economy slightly downward, instead of the initial forecast for flat growth, according to J.P. Morgan.

Despite flat growth of its carbonated beverage portfolio for Q417, Coca - Cola said it remains committed to improving the performance of its core soda brands, particularly Diet Coke and Coke Zero Sugar.

Veggie is a plant growth chamber that uses a flat - panel light bank including red, blue and green LEDs — which are responsible for the red color of the lettuce — for growth and crew observation, NASA reports.

U.S. consumer spending on away - from - home alcohol to grow 2.3 % in 2016, with total alcohol volume in bars and restaurants expected to be flat, driven by lack of growth in consumer occasions that include alcoholic beverages.

US butter and butterfat prices fell in February 2013 on the back of rising US butter inventories - a build up that has been attributed to increased production and flat export growth.