Sentences with phrase «of market difficulties»

Monitor rating agencies Follow the publications of the rating agencies, which may indicate advance warnings of market difficulties.

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In other words, while the market seems to have quite a bit of interest in meal kits, the business is anything but a sure thing and Vice may have difficulty standing out in a crowded field.

For companies experiencing hyper - growth, the difficulty of finding enough talented people — not just software engineers but also sales, marketing and design staff — in Canada's largest centres becomes a determining factor in how they grow.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

While T - Mobile (tmus) continued to attract hoards of new customers, larger carriers AT&T (t) reported declining wireless revenue, and Verizon (vz) had difficulty holding onto phone customers in a fiercely competitive market environment.

«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»

Giving the carmaker the benefit of the doubt that it will resolve its production difficulties with its new mass - market Model 3 sedan and its ambitious targets for later in 2018, we should get ready to see many more Teslas on the road.

The situation got Taggar thinking about the difficulties of that market, which eventually led him to exploring pain points of the people on the other side — the landlords.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Our results may be affected by our ability to successfully market both new and existing products domestically and internationally, clinical and regulatory developments involving current and future products, sales growth of recently launched products, competition from other products including biosimilars, difficulties or delays in manufacturing our products and global economic conditions.

He said regulatory confusion and delays in Canada have prevented the timely completion of pipeline projects such as the Trans Mountain expansion, leading to difficulty in getting crude oil to markets and the current steeper - than - usual discounts being paid for Canadian oilsands crude compared with benchmark New York - traded oil.

Of course, young people are due a certain amount of sympathy for the perennial difficulties involved in getting one's foot in the door of the job market — it's always been hard work finding that first full - time positioOf course, young people are due a certain amount of sympathy for the perennial difficulties involved in getting one's foot in the door of the job market — it's always been hard work finding that first full - time positioof sympathy for the perennial difficulties involved in getting one's foot in the door of the job market — it's always been hard work finding that first full - time positioof the job market — it's always been hard work finding that first full - time position.

If you're a marketing consultant handling any small business clients you can get, you have lots of competition and great difficulty commanding a premium fee.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

«The difficulty is a 10 out of 10,» they'd tell him, «and you don't know if there's a market.»

With the large number of houses on the market in Michigan right now and the difficulty in selling a house, the number of rental units on the market is increasing — probably faster than the pool of potential tenants.

You said you rank liquidity by «difficulty level of withdrawing your money without a massive penalty», and for Lending Club notes, it's not only difficult and extremely time consuming to sell all of your notes in their super illiquid market, but you would have to sell your notes at large losses to hope to get others interested in buying your notes.

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But while there has been some spillover of equity market weakness, the difficulties in credit markets at this stage have been mainly confined to the industrial countries.

On top of the difficulty of trying to predict where stock prices will go when we can't see the future, timing the market is tough because we're often influenced by our emotions when deciding what — and when — to buy and sell.

The difficulty with the TRIN is that those favorable historical signals invariably occured in undervalued markets with high levels of public bearishness.

We could have avoided a lot of difficulty without that issue, but even without considering market internals, history teaches that the longer value - conscious investors are wrong, the more seriously their views should be taken (remember Roger Babson).

Few areas illustrate this difficulty more profoundly than financial markets, where analyst projections of earnings are regularly off by 10 + %.

Another difficulty (or necessity, depending on your point of view) is that market participants must submit to KYC and AML compliance checks by brokers.

During periods of difficult market conditions or slowdowns in these sectors or geographic regions, decreased revenue, difficulty in obtaining access to financing and increased funding costs experienced by our funds may be exacerbated by this concentration of investments, which would result in lower investment returns for our funds.

My involvement with financial markets gives me a keen appreciation of the importance of regulation, including both the difficulty in getting it right and the damage that can be done when it's not right.

Second, our own admitted difficulty in the advancing period since 2009 did not reflect a shortfall in either our measures of valuation or our measures of market internals.

Our response to «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes was the source our difficulty in the half - cycle since 2009, because these syndromes encouraged us to maintain an overly negative market outlook in the face of unrelenting speculation.

If the emerging - markets index is dominated by China, then you can compare your performance to that of the emerging markets as a whole, including China, while understanding that you will probably not be able to match the index's China exposure because of access difficulties.

There is a common difficulty with overvalued markets, misleading accounting of earnings, and overleveraged economies.

In February 2014, Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett announced steps to help Israeli exporters, who were facing difficulties competing in foreign markets due to the strengthening value of the shekel.

I didn't get into martech shock (too much tech), difficulty in finding qualified marketing candidates, measurement challenges or the implications of the lockdown on data represented by GDPR in the EU and recent attention being given Facebook by lawmakers.

But it's a challenge having confidence in customer loyalty because of the difficulty tracking the customer journey from marketing to sales and beyond.

Regardless of the difficulty in evaluating it, the bitcoin market obviously enjoys broad participation (we previously noted that Elliott Wave analysis seems to work very well with BTC for this very reason).

I've spoken to a lot of friends over the past 3 months, and one of the common points they made was the difficulty in sticking to plans as markets go backwards.

However, they also have difficulty identifying whether the stock market is indeed in a bull phase that is climbing the wall of worry or whether fear is justified and the bull market is nearing the end.

This might leave cryptocurrency investors in the dark in the event of «[thefts] of vast sums of virtual currency from customer accounts, sudden and poorly explained trading outages, possible market manipulation, and difficulties when withdrawing funds from accounts.»

The market has also been affected by ongoing supply disruptions in Iraq, which have arisen from technical difficulties and sabotage ahead of the Iraqi elections.

When we talk about the analysis of the currency markets, it seems that traders have the most difficulties with understanding the issue of complex corrections.

The insurers» previously rosy outlook on China came despite foreign insurers exiting the country in recent years, citing a hostile regulator, falling market share and the difficulty of making profits.

I bought two water stocks a couple of years ago, AWK and AWR, as I figured they were be difficulty disrupting the water market

The «Critical incidents among women entrepreneurs» study cited above, claims that «the main challenges they (women) face in their professional context are: difficulties concerning acceptance, lack of affective and social support, difficulty operating on the international market, problems balancing personal, family, and professional matters,» among others.

Unlike prior cycles across history — and this was really the difficulty in this half - cycle — even extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes were not enough to counter the speculative siren's song of QE, provided that market internals were favorable.

The 2013 Best of the Hot List features articles about the difficulty of trying to time the market consistently, why the simplest approach to investing is often the best, and how the market is always a «stock - pickers» market.

For instance, China's new and booming e-commerce industry, championed by Jack Ma's Alibaba and its subsidiaries, can be a point of entry for small and medium enterprises in Canada looking to expand their markets while avoiding traditional operational costs and relocation difficulties.

As discussed in detail in the section on Balance of Payments below, manufacturing is likely to be one of the areas in which exporters have greatest difficulty in the short term in diversifying into alternative markets to compensate for reduced sales in Asia.

So when I say, for example, that I estimate a probability of about 80 % of fresh credit difficulties accompanied by a market plunge over the coming year, that figure is based on various combinations of historical evidence, and what has (and has not) happened afterward, and how often.

The Australian government also put through a bunch of anti-competitive laws in the hope of removing some of the market competitors but regardless of that the project failing anyway and the government is having difficulty fully enforcing such anti-competitive laws in practice.

As a result, those that make markets, or buy and sell stocks tend to be more cautious in setting prices to buy and sell illiquid securities because of the difficulty of trading, and the problem of moving the market away from you with a large order.

The difficulty for the ECB in managing market expectations on monetary policy in the face of stronger economic growth was evident elsewhere in President Draghi's remarks, as he repeatedly stressed the need to keep the region's interest rates at current levels while the central bank winds down its QE program.