Sentences with phrase «over the past couple of years in»

Canada has posted some of its weakest economic growth outside of a recession over the past couple of years in part because business investment sunk along with the price of oil.

Profits have grown strongly over the past couple of years in the mining industry, driven by strong growth in sales volumes.

Many, if not most, providers have become more cost - efficient over the past couple of years in response to margin pressures, by incorporating new technologies into their trading and lending platforms.

And I definitely can look back over the past couple of years in my entire journey with food and with sugar.

This site has definitely lost much luster over the past couple of years in my view.

We have helped over 100 families with a successful short sale over the past couple of years in Cape Coral and Fort Myers.

Mr. Radulescu's activities have been discussed over the past couple of years in mainstream media as well as here on Slaw.

We have helped over 100 families with a successful short sale over the past couple of years in Cape Coral and Fort Myers.

Not exact matches

-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

Ad - blocking in general, on both the desktop and mobile web, has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years, according to industry surveys.

Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.

Over the past couple of years, Gillinder has spent tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade its backup generators so they can deliver enough energy to keep the furnaces running in the event of another blackout.

«We've gotten accustomed to cheaper gasoline over the past couple years,» Robert Sinclair, AAA Northeast Manager of Media Relations told CNBC's On The Money in a recent interview.

After years of pitching, Hamilton has gotten some bold - faced names in Silicon Valley to pony up a total of around $ 5 million for her two funds over the past couple of years.

Fresh food is already available in more than half of Walmart's 337 stores, and the company has nearly doubled its grocery market share over the past couple of years.

In a way, all the things that have made Snapchat such a viral hit over the past couple of years are the same things that could make it difficult for it to succeed with a larger mass - media strategy.

These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.

Of course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decadeOf course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decadeof decades.

Over the past couple of years, Emirates» expansion into the US market has been met with pushback from a coalition lead by American, Delta, and United Airlines (the US3) that claim Emirates» growth has been fueled billions of dollars in government subsidies.

Identity theft has taken on a new dimension over the past couple of years as hackers increasingly target big retail in their attempts to steal consumers» financial information.

While sales at full - line stores have been relatively flat in the U.S. over the past couple of years, they've surged at Rack outlets.

The U.S. and China diplomatic teams remain far apart on a host of issues including Chinese hacking that targets U.S. companies, China's buildup of islands in the South China Sea for military purpose, and the pressure American companies say they've faced in China over the past couple years.

«It continues to reflect that equity markets had done so well, and were so calm, heading into 2018 that this is kind of unwinding that complacency that we saw set in over the past couple of years.»

Over the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (GraphOver the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (Graphover the past couple of years (Graph 3).

The food delivery market, a new category that has grown in popularity over the past couple of years, includes HelloFresh in Europe and Chefs Plate in Canada.

Morissette said industrial rents in Metro Vancouver have appreciated by between 20 and 30 per cent over the past couple of years.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

To do so credibly would presumably require confidence that the upward trend in inflation seen over the past couple of years would be likely to turn down.

In an attempt to further foster an innovative ecosystem, over the past couple of years the Canadian Government has developed a series of new investments and programs to support its innovation agenda.

Currently, business investment is equivalent to around 16 per cent of GDP — not far below its peak level in the past four decades — and is expected to rise a little further over the next couple of years (Graph 2).

Stability of the monetary policy framework — and of policy settings themselves — seems to have been a source of confidence for financial markets in Australia, helping them avoid the extreme market instability that characterised many countries over the past couple of years.

What we see is that non-commodity exports over the past couple of years have been responding largely as expected to growth in foreign activity and the Canadian dollar.

Though the US dollar has remained the strongest fiat currency in a pool of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies over the past two years, if one calculates the declining purchasing power of the US dollar in the past couple of decades when using real rates of inflation inside the US (versus the bogus rates produced by federal entities), then one can easily reach the conclusion that the US dollar has crashed as well.

It's a nice reminder of the benefits of global and style diversification in a portfolio after the a select group of stocks in the U.S. have performed so well over the past couple of years.

Over the past couple of years, there has been a shortage of homes for sale in many of California's local real estate markets.

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

Even that had been a source of trouble for IBM, with the company seeing declines in software - related revenue for seven straight quarters over the past couple of years.

Weak economic conditions in the past couple of years have seen growth in labour costs slow to 2 1/2 per cent over the year to the December quarter, from 3 1/2 per cent a year earlier.

Over the past couple of years, the prevailing concern was to limit the risk of an abrupt decline in growth, and to facilitate a return of inflation to the target.

Vijay now simply calls it a mobile internet business as possibilities have exploded over the past couple of years, especially after a US$ 680 million funding infusion from Alibaba in return for a 40 percent stake.

An additional factor explaining the continued strength of consumption over the past couple of years has been the strong increase in household wealth.

A pattern that has emerged over the past couple of years has been for the Australian dollar to move more overnight in offshore trading sessions than in domestic sessions (Graph 27).

Domestically - sourced inflation has been running faster over the past couple of years and there has been a significant pick - up in domestic producer prices recently, associated with rising materials costs and strong demand pressures in some sectors.

-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.

The disinflationary forces seen over the past couple of years, both globally and domestically, are waning, suggesting that a fall in inflation back below the target is now unlikely.

The relatively weak state of overall labour demand over the past couple of years has been evident in measures of employment intentions, job vacancies and advertisements.

Over the past couple of years, it has meant that the growth in output that we've seen has been achieved with relatively moderate growth in employment.

Most of them would have been tightening policy in a measured fashion in response to rises in headline inflation over the past couple of years.