Sentences with phrase «of the past few»

Thiel's substantial donation to Trump doesn't come as a surprise — he did have a prime - time speaking slot at this summer's Republican National Convention — but the billionaire has been largely silent about his chosen candidate's many controversial statements of the past few months, which had caused some to wonder if he had abandoned his support for the Republican nominee.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

«The events of the past few months are a strong reminder that the Internet can be used for the worst reasons imaginable,» Microsoft said in its post.

Now, he says, the experiences of the past few years suggest that central banks will need more room to maneuver in future crises.

More critically for Dorsey, Noto and company, there is a special opportunity to turnaround the negative perceptions that Twitter has carried for the better part of the past few years.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

The events of the past few months, and especially the last week, have thrown Ukraine onto the world's stage again.

«The sad experience of the past few years shows that there is ample scope to improve the efficiency and resilience of the global financial system.»

After all the frenetic deal - making of the past few years, Canada's oilpatch is now finding itself in the grip of an unaccustomed drought of mergers and acquisitions.

While he was trying to come up with a strategy for Odeo, Williams was processing the lessons of the past few years.

«Absolutely,» she said, seemingly unshaken by the events of the past few weeks.

«Each of the market reversals of the past few weeks has in common that they represented widely held positions — long equities, overweight small caps, overweight tech, underweight emerging markets, and short duration,» says Loeys.

Given the events of the past few days, I can understand the concerns — even the fear — that some people have expressed.

Dissecting the economic tumult of the past few years has offered full - time employment to a legion of journalists, economists, analysts and academics.

«With the modest economic recovery of the past few years, finance functions are preparing the enterprise for challenges that could materialize at any time by working to preserve margins and by sustaining a strong focus on working capital management,» said a Protiviti managing director in a release.

The most significant change of the past few years has been that of the consumer taking complete charge.

Reiss may not see his company as style - focused, but certainly Canada Goose's no - frills aesthetic falls in with major fashion movements of the past few years, from normcore to athleisure, utilitarian to unisex and, of course, authenticity.

Is the enigmatic multimillionaire looking for a distraction from the events of the past few months?

McFarland points out that many of the great fast - growing companies of the past few decades relied on Market Development as their main growth strategy.

It is a view based on how innovation and inventions affect the economy, especially the inventions of the past few decades.

That combination seems hard to justify, even under the nearly perfect backdrop of the past few years.

In a statement issued by the company Winterkorn said he was «shocked by the events of the past few days.»

As the stock market works out its manic episode of the past few days, let's get into a question of great importance: if wage growth is really accelerating, what will that mean for price growth?

The great wealth boom of the past few decades is now fueling a super-charged era of big philanthropy, with many new, deep - pocketed donors emerging with ambitious plans.

Yet volatility is still below its long - term average, and the low - volatility climate of the past few years is incompatible with a world marked by slow growth, unstable inflation expectations and a likely Federal Reserve rate hike before year's end.

Asked whether the Fed should raise rates, Trump, a billionaire real - estate developer who has spent much of the past few months as the favorite among Republican voters, said it should but would not for «political reasons.»

His Twitter hash tag of the past few weeks is replete with warnings of a slowing global economy.

PIMCO's leaders reacted bluntly to the dour economic news of the past few days, highlighted by the third straight disappointing monthly jobs report on Friday that rattled investors and sent markets sharply lower, wiping out the remnants of the Dow's 2012 rally by midday.

I will argue that most economists have an incoherent understanding of China's rebalancing needs, and for this reason many if not most of the reform proposals of the past few years, about which economists widely agree and even celebrate, are in many if not most cases largely irrelevant.

With the incredible market swings of the past few weeks some investors might feel more comfortable waiting on the sidelines for calmer waters before jumping in.

The surge in debt of the past few years has created tremendous concern, but I would argue that this concern would not be justified if investment levels in China were still too low.

If this is all you were focused on, you might have missed what I believe was the most significant development of the past few days.

If you panicked and cashed out stocks during any of the past few wild market swings, that decision could curdle...

Good morning, I am on vacation this week, so instead of Daily Updates based on the news of the past few days, I am doing Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats (SWOT) analysis» of five of the most important companies in tech: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon.

The longer - term slowdown in China is likely to continue, but the events of the past few months won't have a material impact on the trajectory.

Fortunately, the evidence of the past few years suggests that exports do respond, with a lag, to the dollar.

As recently as six months ago, many investors expected the dollar to continue its rally of the past few years based on stronger economic growth, via Trump's agenda items, and tighter monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.

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However, at least for now, it appears that the deflationary pressures of the past few years are beginning to subside rather quickly.

These projections are in sharp contrast to Angola's experience of the past few years.

Commodities are little changed in today's low volatility environment, with gold hovering around the $ 1275 level, while oil is trading near $ 47.50 per barrel after the decline of the past few sessions with the mixed US inventory and [production data causing some volatility.

William Dudley, president of the Fed's New York regional bank, on Thursday called the stock market's decline so far «small potatoes» relative to the outsize gains of the past few years.

So an «upside - down out of the gates» January is more than inauspicious — it's an outright «non-starter» for risk managers in light of the performance - challenged era of the past few years.

Since risk spreads for most borrowers have also declined this means that overall borrowing costs for rated borrowers, corporate and most governments, are low by the standards of the past few decades.

This annual growth rate is close to the average of the past few years.

If oil prices ever move up, or stabilize, then we should get to a point of growing dividends (rather than the cuts and suspensions of the past few months).

Some of the better performers of the past few years have been sold.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

But given that strong labour markets have been one of the hallmarks of the past few years of U.S. expansion, any persistent slowing in this area would certainly make raising rates much more difficult for the Fed.

We believe conditions are more positive than the reaction of the past few days would suggest, which is why we think this is a short - term respite within the ongoing bull market.