Sentences with phrase «past year purchased»

A majority of foreign buyers over the past year purchased a single - family home, and nearly half bought in a suburban area.

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Carbon Business Group has announced the purchase of Pursuit Group, adding to a number of acquisitions in the past year worth more than $ 2 million combined.

This past year, 51 percent of purchases took place online, more than 90 percent of consumers used smartphones while shopping in - store and 78 percent of global shoppers were influenced in some way by social media.

The past couple of years has seen a spate of Chinese companies going public through reverse takeovers — a somewhat murky process in which a private firm purchases a shell company that already trades on a foreign exchange.

It found that millennials moved even more of their purchasing online over the past year, with Amazon cited as an increasingly common destination for fashion and beauty shoppers.

Actually, I can't recall the last time I ever purchased anything from GoDaddy over the past five years at full retail price.

Indeed, Canadian corporations have been on a «buying spree» in the past two years, having purchased 790 foreign companies, according to KPMG research released earlier in May.

The U.K. - based pharmacy chain Tesco reported that sales of folic acid — a popular prenatal supplement — have doubled in the past year, while condom purchases fell by 9 %.

In the past few years, Apple has purchased several AR startups, including FlyBy Media and Metaio.

Professional services firm KPMG inked its 11th acquisition in the past two years today, announcing the purchase of Melbourne - based Markets IT for an undisclosed sum.

Together they have purchased nearly $ 57 billion worth of foreign assets over the past five years, more than 15 % of total overseas investments by Chinese firms, according to Dealogic.

He purchased a unit for his home and has been training on it for the past year.

Tsinghua Unigroup has spent more than $ 9.4 billion making acquisitions and investments at home and abroad over the past two years, including the purchase of stakes in U.S. data storage company Western Digital Corp (WDC) and Taiwan's Powertech Technology Inc..

Women purchase more tablets, laptops and smartphones; download more music, movies and games; make the majority of household technology purchasing decisions; and utilize devices and services, from games to social media, more than their male counterparts, according to research over the past two years from the market intelligence firm Park Associates.

Over the past year or so, Netflix (NFLX) has been on a sustained spending binge, locking up the rights to a wide range of content as part of a planned $ 6 billion purchasing plan.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

In the past year, our business has seen a shift to a younger generation, which means that we are processing a lot more mobile purchases than ever before.

You must understand that customers are searching for your products and services and the customer's purchasing pattern has practically changed over the past years.

During the past year, households have taken 6 percent of their after - tax income to either set aside in savings vehicles, purchase financial assets, or pay down debt.

Bohlig declined to be more specific about her income level but did say the couple has been able to save almost all of Craig's corporate salary over the past several years, which they plan to use to purchase a new home.

It didn't do much good for Sprint's long - term equity holders who have suffered a catastrophic loss of purchasing power over the past twenty years.

The ECB will have to respond to catastrophic eurozone unemployment and growing social unrest by stepping up asset purchases this year, after a hiatus in the past few months...

Despite the fact that it has already risen in the past year, there is currently no conclusive evidence that warrants the purchase or sale of this stock.

Cruz also managed to legally purchase at least five other guns in the past year, said a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.

As the loonie became favourable over the past year, Canada saw a net inflow of $ 105 - billion into debt securities purchased by foreigners, according to RBC Dominion Securities.

«Mortgage applications for new home purchases hit a 12 - year low in the middle of November (down 22 % in the past month!)

Delving deeper into its data, Slice Intelligence said that 72 percent of the U.S. watch buyers had purchased an Apple product in the past two years and 21 percent of them pre-ordered an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus just months ago.

Chinese authorities plan to use the country's mysterious «social credit» database to ban people guilty of past unruly behavior from purchasing plane and train tickets for up to a year.

If you're purchasing a business, the lender will look at the business's tax returns from the past three years.

Want moms with 2 children that have purchased a vehicle in the past year and work in retail?

Over the past 16 years, the US dollar's purchasing power, when measured against gold, has crashed by more than 81 %.

In any event, even if one explains the fact that the US dollar has crashed in purchasing power in recent times, over a very condensed period of time, by more than 75 %, because it has been one of the strongest currencies in a pool of rapidly devaluing currencies for the past two years, I've discovered that quite often, even presentation of indisputable facts can not sway people to believe something that they simply do not want to believe.

Over the past year, DiscoverOrg has expanded its sales & marketing intelligence offerings to include a robust account - based marketing suite of tools aimed at helping customers identify and expand their audience of best fit prospects and prioritize them based on predictive data that indicates likelihood to purchase.

Step 4: On February 11, 2010, with Treasury backing in place, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (whose delinquency rates have more than doubled over the past year) announce the purchase of $ 200 billion in delinquent mortgages that they had previously guaranteed.

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.

Other specific factors to have contributed to the CPI increase over the past year have been large increases in insurance and tobacco prices, much of which were tax - related, and house purchase prices, which have been partly driven by strength in housing demand attempting to avoid the GST (and accommodated by easy credit availability).

While some of the rise in inflation over the past year or so reflects increases in the price of oil and tax - related increases in the cost of insurance, house purchase and cigarettes and tobacco, the pick - up in inflation has been quite broadly based (Table 12).

The Commercial Capital Training Group has a board of lenders with over 50 years of experience in a wide range of industries, including business acquisitions, and our panel of commercial finance professionals is available 24/7 to help business brokers get past any snags to structure the financing their clients need in order to purchase the businesses they want.

The large rise in the house purchase component of the CPI over the past year has contributed to the increase in the CPI and to most measures of underlying inflation.

Here's Nick Laird of Sharelynx's chart setting out the SGE withdrawal figures for the past eight years, which demonstrates nicely the huge (and very consistent apart from a blip in 2014) upwards trend in withdrawals as China's economy has continued to grow and individual purchasing power has grown with it.

Things are just more expensive in general than they were years ago, or viewed differently, the dollar in your pocket can purchase fewer goods than you could in the past.

Jeff Sutton, for one, has purchased $ 2.96 billion worth of prime Manhattan retail properties in 18 deals over the past five years, according to RCA, which found that he was the most active investor in the sector during that time period.

Having purchased over $ 500 million in real estate in the past two years, Ken brings a unique property management perspective when estimating a property's potential value.

However, in the past year the monthly investor share of existing homes purchases, including hedge fund purchases, has exceeded 20 percent only twice since April 2012.

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After the Parkland shooting, House Speaker Paul Ryan focused on past legislation on mental health issues, despite the fact that Republicans actually made it easier for people with mental illnesses to purchase guns last year.

Over the past two years, more and more customers are purchasing luxury items.

This past month, the Central Bank of Iraq purchased 36 metric tons of gold, or $ 1.56 billion worth of the yellow metal, the biggest acquisition of any central bank or nation in three years.

If SNA management purchases shares in line with the averages of the past three years, it would repurchase $ 173 million next year.

We know that over the past four years, many a retail investor has shunned stock investment in deference to purchasing bonds.