Sentences with phrase «past year held»

Excitement and anticipation about what the new year will hold, and a bit reflective and thoughtful about what the past year held.

This past year held some challenges for me, as well; but I know the two of us will be better than ever for 2015!!

As an end of year wrap - up, I thought I'd devote a few words to what the past year held for financial technology...

Not exact matches

Hari K. Ravichandran founded Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. in 1997, and for the past 17 years has built Endurance into a trusted partner for the business market.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

After holding steady for the past three years, global carbon emissions rose in 2017 by an estimated 2 %.

Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

He also illustrates how in the past year the stock has held a series of lows around the $ 300 level before finally breaking «on heavy volume» down to $ 252 earlier in April.

Over the past year, the number of CLOs, which are also significant investors in energy companies, holding defaulted debt has skyrocketed.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.

Barclays said, given the growth in Netflix's programming over the past year, the number of hours viewed per subscriber should arguably have increased, not held steady.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

He's held the title of «world's wealthiest individual» for 16 of the past 21 years.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

Troubled Perth company Macmahon Holdings has flagged an impairment of up to $ 125 million in its full - year financial result after losing contracts with some of its biggest clients during the past six months, including Fortescue Metals Group.

When he hits the mark, Bezos, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, becomes the first man to bump Gates from his perch in seven years and is only the sixth man to hold the «richest person» title in the past 30 years, according to Forbes.

In the past three years, Guinness has seen world - record attempts spike 250 percent, but it's not because of crazy individuals growing out their fingernails or holding their breath.

The privately held Levi Strauss is also, importantly, self - insured — and has a fairly significant share of employees who stay at the company past a decade, including many who've been there 20 years or more.

Legere has generally held the upper hand in the competition between the two companies performance in the market, as T - Mobile has added by far the most new subscribers over the past few years and surpassed Sprint last year to become the third - largest U.S. carrier.

While the amount companies spend on CEO security varies from year to year, the percentage of Fortune 100 companies that provide personal and home security to their chief executives has held steady, fluctuating only slightly in the range of 45 % to 54 % over the past five years.

But Buffett may have escaped the worst of the damage, as he sold nearly all of his Verizon stock over the past year, and owned just a tiny $ 43,000 stake as of Berkshire Hathaway's latest holdings disclosure.

Indeed, this view has been held for the past 30 years among scientists who study judgment and decision - making.

In light of Harvey Weinstein and several other sexual harassment allegations, a recent survey by consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. shows that 11 percent of employers say they will not hold an office holiday party this year after holding one in the past.

Both of the other members of the Sulzberger extended family have also held positions of increasing responsibility at the paper over the past several years as a way of testing their mettle, like a drawn - out, highly - privileged NYT version of the Hunger Games.

For the past 30 years, holding bonds was a no - brainer.

Despite customers asking McDonald's to offer breakfast past its 10:30 AM cutoff for years, it held off for so long because it's a costly transformation ranging from $ 500 to $ 5,000 per restaurant.

Even after surging 35 % over the past five years, homes in this area held their value in 2016.

For the past 15 years, Goldman Sachs has been tracking S&P 500 companies with the highest hedge fund ownership, along with its Hedge Fund VIP List, a set of companies that appear most in hedge funds» top 10 holdings.

In the past year, Smith also became co-director of eConventus Holdings (B.C.) Ltd., the latest venture of one Mohammed (Mo) Jiwani, who has left a trail of hapless investors across the country over more than a decade.

Instead of unveiling its latest phone in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it has done for the past few years, Samsung is holding out until March, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

So Vanguard has beefed up «engagement» efforts — holding 817 meetings, phone calls, and videochats with companies in the past year compared with 685 the year before.

After holding steady at $ 1 million for the company's first six years, Elite's revenues have doubled in each of the past four.

Investors welcomed the appointment of the former AirTran Holdings Inc CEO as a new start for Spirit, a U.S. carrier that has grown rapidly in the past five years by marketing ultra-low fares with heavy restrictions.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

No doubt Ullman let out the tremendous evil - villain laugh he'd been holding in for the past year and a half after hanging up from the call.

DKMS holds an annual star - studded fundraising gala that has raised more than $ 4 million during the past three years.

The head of Glenview Capital Management said a number of stocks have been held in limbo over the past several years as they were stuck in the middle of deals that weren't getting completed.

Although the Western countries have all said for seven years that Assad must leave power, they held back in the past from striking his government, lacking a wider strategy to defeat him.

Over the past year, LincolnLabs has held a series of meet - ups and hackathons to raise its visibility.

Founded for the sole purpose of selling affordable climbing gear to card - holding members, Mountain Equipment Co-op spent five years steering a gutsy course between the encumbrances of its past and the lure of fashion.

Led by BPI France and Temasek Holdings, a number of top sovereign wealth funds have increased their healthcare investments over the past five years.

Tavonia Evans, who worked in the tech industry for nearly 20 years before launching her own cryptocurrency, called $ Guap, sees those women too and says they're raising the bar because of how they've been held back in the past.

Consumers now hold $ 3.8 trillion in total debt, an increase of 31 percent over the past five years, according to Fed data.

In the past six years, it has morphed into a business juggernaut that now holds stakes in nearly every sector of Iranian industry, including finance, oil, telecommunications, the production of birth - control pills and even ostrich farming.

Few CEOs have had their feet held to the fire over the past year as much as AGL Energy's Andy Vesey and National Australia Bank's Andrew Thorburn.

I have noticed that some used cars have really held their value over the past 5 model years, making it difficult for used cars buyers like ourselves to get good deals.

Additionally, though the event has been held elsewhere in the past, this was not the first time it has taken place at Mar - a-Lago: Not only was last year's ball held there, but the very first Red Cross Ball was hosted there by the property's prior owner, the famous socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.

An investor would be well served to ignore the buy, sell or hold recommendation S&P attaches to each of the reports, instead looking at the growth in earnings, debt levels and the return on equity rates for past several years.