Sentences with phrase «of major affects»

You'll also see how your choice of major affects your overall financial position.

Not exact matches

Sure, there are many other factors affecting this trend besides on - line merchandising — most notably real estate firms which have accelerated neighborhood declines by escalating rents — but those factors combined have decimated downtown and suburban shopping areas and have had a major impact on our way of life.

In February, the chain confirmed a «small batch» of misprinted extra large - size cups were distributed in Atlantic Canada and Alberta for the annual contest, but added no major contest prizing was affected because third - party consultants audit the production process and the seeding of prizes.

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

In what may turn out to be the final major cyber attack of 2016, the blood testing and diagnostics giant Quest announced that hackers attacked the firm in a breach affecting about 34,000 people.

Take into considering factors that might affect your sales numbers — such as the economy or the loss of a major customer — but don't worry too much because the basic tenet of budgeting is that the figures will never turn out to be exactly right.

Social media is fuelling a fundamental shift in labour relations and corporate communications, and is showing it can do more than just complicate negotiations — it can affect control of major business announcements like divestments, layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.

«While major depression affects 10 % of [American employees], an overwhelming 75 % of people with depression don't receive formal treatment,» Marie Apke, chief operating officer for Bensinger, DuPont & Associates, said in a statement.

Those closures, affecting a major U.S. oil refining hotspot, are pushing up the prices of energy products like gasoline and heating oil as investors anticipate a drop in supply.

With business owners like Davis in mind, Inc. looked at the major policy issues affecting small - business owners in 2014 — and whether real change has any chance of happening:

Online petitions have changed decisions by major corporations (ask Bank of America about its debit card fees) and affected decisions on policies as diverse as those related to survivors of sexual assault and local photography permitting requirements.

While most of these changes are minor, Google occasionally rolls out a major algorithmic update — such as Google Panda and Google Penguin — that affects search results in significant ways.

Much like trolls» attempts to affect Black Panther «s status as a critical darling, the Twitter posts describing fake attacks at movie screenings also seemed to be part of a racist campaign meant to scare people away from theaters in order to hurt the film's overall box - office gross (again, a major fail).

With the Chinese market a major driver of coal demand in Asia, any policy changes in the country will affect prices, contributing to the likelihood of continued price volatility in the seaborne coal market, wrote Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for mining and metals fundamentals research, Rory Simington in a Nov. 16 report.

Piracy is a major concern for Nintendo, and the Japanese game giant has been fiercely protective of its characters, but this policy usually doesn't affect people who legally purchased its games.

Both businesses and consumers need to be aware of this Internet scam that has recently affected some major Australian companies.

Each of the major credit bureaus uses its own formula, but factors such as how long you've been in business, your credit utilization, and the lines of credit you have opened in the last six months are likely to affect your score.

In another approach to standardizing what responsible mining looks like on a global basis, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance has brought together a group of major mining, electronics, jewellery and steel companies, NGOs, affected communities and labour unions to establish a multi-stakeholder and independently verifiable responsible mining assurance system, focused on improving both social and environmental performance.

Aside from estimating my score based on data from TransUnion, one of the major credit bureaus in the United States, it also allows me to simulate how certain actions will affect my credit.

All of the above and more will be affected to some degree by a major spill.

The major factors that affect the revenue are governed by the actual number of cryptocurrencies being circulated in the world, exchange of digital assets and cryptocurrency trading.

Part of this improvement was attributable to one - time factors, including the sale of the remaining GM shares and timing factors affecting several of the major revenue components, which will likely be reversed in upcoming months.

The Dodd - Frank Act had six major provisions that affected Main Street corporate governance, all of which I have derided as «quack» corporate governance:

Your FICO ® Scores (you have FICO ® Scores for each of the 3 major bureaus) can affect how much money a lender will lend you and at what terms (interest rate).

A second major issue is that economists and policymakers do not have a comprehensive view of how government programs designed to ameliorate the worst effects of economic inequality actually affect inequality.

Quarter - ending sessions are always tricky affairs in stocks, as funds are adjusting their holdings, all forms of price triggers affect the market, and generally, unusual price action is to be expected, with assets showing strength and weakness out of the blue, especially around major price levels.

It is in fact the case that the amount of currency in circulation has not been affected by any of these policies (such as quantitative easing by major central banks).

Of course, taking out parent student loans is a major decision that can affect your finances for the next decade or longer.

This region is a major exporter of agricultural and manufacturing products to the entire globe, meaning that climate risks that affect industries in this region can have ripple effects far beyond the borders of these eight states.

Major internet providers such as Comcast, Charter and Cox now say 98 percent to 99 percent of their affected customers have had service restored.

Over the past few days, daily volumes of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and other major cryptocurrencies were remaining low and affected their prices.

What's unusual about these tariffs is that they'll end up affecting allies like the European Union and South Korea, which are major exporters of steel into the US.

Transaction delays are just some of the major problems that affect the quality and experience of cryptocurrency trading.

Andrew Adams, an insurance analyst at Credit Suisse, said the Asia strategy had been a «major overhang» affecting the company's stock performance, and the scrapping of the strategy will likely be viewed positively by investors.

We need to accept that this major change will cause most of us to go through normal stages of grief, and be aware of how their impact on us may affect others, writes columnist and author Gloria Dunn - Violin.

The groups highlighted 10 major irregularities they said affected hundreds of thousands of voters nationwide.

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The upheaval could greatly affect the seven major studios, but I would be especially nervous if I were a shareholder in any of the theater chains.

However, most of the surplus in the first three months of 2015 - 16 was attributable to one - time factors, including the sale of the remaining GM shares and timing factors affecting several of the major revenue components.

Were you affected by any of these major updates?

Kimberly Clark is implementing two major cost - cutting initiatives right now, but neither of them affected costs dramatically during the quarter.

Verizon Communications Inc. is exploring a price cut or possible exit from its $ 4.83 billion pending acquisition of Yahoo Inc., after the company reported a second major email hack affecting as many as 1 billion user accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The other majors were mostly left out of the part, but the current correction is affecting the rest of the market as well.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That said, the Fund does hold a portfolio different from the major market indices, so the actual performance of the Fund is always affected by those specific holdings.

Arkadiusz is the author of Sunshine Profits» monthly Market Overview report, in which he keeps subscribers up - to - date regarding key fundamental developments affecting the gold market and helps them prepare for the major changes.

2017 tax reform is the first major tax overhaul in 30 years, and will affect individuals, all types of businesses, tax - exempt entities, international taxation, and many other areas of tax law...

«The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well - being of people and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the people of the whole world and the duty of all Governments.

I like to think of Western Europe as a river with three major cultural streams affecting it right now.

Three major themes are rooted in Judaism without which Christianity, especially at this moment in the life of the church, would be adversely, perhaps fatally, affected: the Jewish sense of history as God's arena, the Jewish passion against idolatry, and the Jewish background which illumines the New Testament.