Sentences with phrase «over the past decade global»

As a result, over the past decade global luxury brands started expanding into the capitals of oil - rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E., giving women access to shopping on par with the biggest European cities (Dubai is home to the world's largest shopping mall) and higher consumer expectations.

The president's assertion that over the past decade global warming has been accelerating at an unforeseen rate is perfectly correct.

«Mr. Obama's assertion that over the past decade global warming has been accelerating at an unforeseen rate.»

«was at all anxious to defend Mr. Obama's assertion that over the past decade global warming has been accelerating at an unforeseen rate.»

«none of the «Democrat» Senators and none of the people they had chosen to testify before them was at all anxious to defend Mr. Obama's assertion that over the past decade global warming has been accelerating at an unforeseen rate»

John West said at 8:29 am «none of the «Democrat» Senators and none of the people they had chosen to testify before them was at all anxious to defend Mr. Obama's assertion that over the past decade global warming has been accelerating at an unforeseen rate»

is already making an important contribution to electricity supply... • Over the past decade the global market for wind power has been expanding faster than any other renewable energy source.

Skea warned that over the past decade global emissions growth has risen from 1.3 per cent to a staggering 2.2 per cent per year.

Not exact matches

Over the past decade, China has emerged as a global economic power.

«With almost 30 % of global M&A volume done cross-border over the past decade, the final quantitative thresholds associated with earnings stripping are likely to have a potentially meaningful impact on cross-border M&A appetite,» the note said.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

Dan Nixon, a senior analyst at the Bank of England, says persistently weak growth in productivity over the past decade has coincided with a ten-fold rise in global shipments in smartphones:

We also invite you to take a look at how each Global 500 company has moved around in the ranks over the past two decades.

With global soup sales declining steadily over the past half of a decade, a new study indicates that an iconic packaging format may be to blame.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

We can take some comfort from the major efforts over the past decade to improve the resilience of the global financial system.

Over the past decade, growth in global steel production has again been very strong, running well ahead of that in global industrial production.

This is because international trade has increased rapidly over the past few decades as the world economy has become more developed and globalized — notwithstanding the flattening of the global trade - to - GDP ratio over the past few years.

It is worth noting that the Australian share market has behaved quite differently from the global market over the past decade.

«Our research into the proportion of senior business roles held by women has revealed precious little movement over the past decade,» said Francesca Lagerberg, global leader, tax services and Europe, Grant Thornton, in a statement.

The letter notes that the current backdrop of strong and balanced global growth is underpinned by a resilient global financial system that is the product of determined efforts by the G20 and FSB over the past decade.

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

As we have said in past commentaries, the historic levels of quantitative easing following the global financial crisis — that is the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet from around $ 900 billion to nearly $ 4.5 trillion today — was one of the most dominant market - shaping forces over the last decade.

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

The trading boom that helped reshape global investment banks over the past decade is sputtering, raising fears that one of Wall Street's biggest profit engines is in peril.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

In light of the issues around the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmarks that have arisen over the past decade, there has been an ongoing global reform effort to improve the functioning of interest rate benchmarks.

Global VC funding has skyrocketed over the past half - decade.

Over the past decade, China has become a market that seeks to transform its domestic industry into a global producer of animation.

The higher level of liabilities that must be serviced would normally have significantly increased the NID over this period, but this effect was substantially offset by trend declines in global interest rates over the past two decades.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

The Argento brand has achieved outstanding global recognition over the past decade and we now have a unique opportunity to combine our extensive vineyard and winemaking facilities with Argento's global reach and internationally based team.»

Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry, climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades in freezing conditions?

The opening two chapters address changes over the past decade in U.S. and global policy.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

In The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Limits of Nations and the Pursuit of a New Politics (Allen Lane, # 25), he argues that, over the past few decades, domestic problems such as unemployment and the environment have grown international roots.

«The gains African countries have made over the past decade are under threat from two crises not of their making: global recession and climate change.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

In Europe and North America, steel consumption has plateaued and even declined slightly over the past four decades, but global demand rose by 40 per cent between 2000 and 2010 as the rest of the world played catch - up.

To be more specific, the models project that over the next 20 years, for a range of plausible emissions, the global temperature will increase at an average rate of about 0.2 degree C per decade, close to the observed rate over the past 30 years.

Meanwhile, average air temperatures in the region rose 1.5 °C over the past 5 decades, nearly twice the global average.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past few decades suggested that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

The finding challenges previous arguments that a hot spot north of Cape Hatteras over the past few decades was due to a slowdown of circulation in the North Atlantic, which is itself due to global warming.

Several studies have clearly shown that the spread of animal and plant species through global trade has increased massively over the past few decades.

It finds that global temperatures over the past decade have «continued to rise rapidly,» despite large year - to - year fluctuations associated with the tropical El Niño — La Niña cycles.

Pop Quiz: Q. — The U.S. lags in science and technology A. — False As nations such as China and India increased their global science and technology presence over the past few decade, researchers have groused that the U.S. was in danger of losing its edge.