Sentences with phrase «past year the sector»

More than 14 million renters live in single - family homes in the U.S., but over the past year the sector has received much more attention from private - equity funds and other institutional investors looking to build large pools of rental homes by purchasing foreclosures and other distressed properties at fire - sale prices.

Not exact matches

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

The Pilbara housing market and the South West unit market were two of the strongest regional property sectors over the past year, a report released today has found.

In fact, over the past two years, while the S&P 500 has jumped nearly 30 percent, the utilities sector has gained only 6.5 percent — besting only the consumer staples and real estate sectors during that time.

The idea that underperforming sectors eventually outperform is not new, but last year's dogs are tending to rebound more rapidly than in the past, says Ratner.

The rush to build over the past five years has left China drowning in overcapacity in many key sectors.

But such is the breathless language of luxury goods, a sector that has taken a beating over the past year.

There's been no growth in the janitorial and sanitation products sector in the past few years, according to the Canadian Office Products Association.

Project Jasper, a joint effort between the private sector and Canada's central bank and payment systems operator over the past two years, is a good example of this type of work, and is a blueprint that the U.S. should follow if we ever want to see blockchain become a viable Social Security number replacement.

Mr Dawson said the downturn in the residential building sector, which he estimated had reduced by about 30 per cent in the past year, had affected the fund's revenue.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

Musk and Buffett see the energy and transportation sectors changing in similar ways, and, over the past few years, their companies have increasingly competed with each other over both solar energy and electric cars.

Membership in private - sector unions has fallen steadily over the past 25 years and now represents just 17 % of the private - sector labour force.

Maybe that's why socially responsible investments in the United States actually grew 4 percent faster than any other sector of U.S. stocks in the past few years.

Sales in that sector have risen an average of 20.5 % over the past two years, according to Sageworks.

The slowing of China's growth and manufacturing sector during the past year has hit investor sentiment towards the world's second - largest economy, causing volatility in its capital flows, putting pressure on its yuan currency and forcing the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

Local governments were identified as a major risk to China's financial stability, partly due to their lending from the «shadow banking» sector and debt accumulated over the past years to upgrade infrastructure across the country.

The gold sector in Western Australia has undergone remarkable change in the past two years.

Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than does Riddell.

Some of the best - performing stocks in the sector over the past year include Nvidia and Micron, both of which are up more than 100 percent in that period.

Tech is up 8.4 percent in 2018 and has skyrocketed 35.7 percent over the past year, leaving all other sectors in the dust.

For the past three years, two rival ideas have battled to become the go - to solution for enhancing retirement savings in Canada: expanding the Canada Pension Plan, and private - sector savings vehicles known as pooled registered pension plans.

It's actually one of the few beverage sectors to show sustained growth over the past five years.

Over the past few years, this tech stalwart has positioned itself as a leader in one of its sector's up - and - coming areas: information technology services.

But with the company's stock price down 62 percent in the past year and Apple threatening its market leadership, Fitbit's future might be predicated on its success in the medical sector.

Domestic steel manufacturers have taken a beating in the past few years, especially after the market was flooded by cheaper foreign imports — but now the sector is rallying.

The public sector has shed over 800,000 jobs over past four years, 700,000 of which were at the local and state government, according to the Federal Reserve.

Said Poloz: «That comparative advantage has been strengthened by the decline in the Canadian dollar in the past couple of years — a symptom of falling resource prices, and a facilitator of the rotation of growth from resource production to other sectors.»

According to Euromonitor, domestic whiskey sales have soared by 40 % in the past five years — NASCAR - fast numbers in a sector where good growth often means 2 % or 3 % a year, and a revolution for a spirit whose sales declined almost without a break for 30 years.

Sales in the manufacturing sector have improved in the past 12 months, and the companies surveyed reported that strengthening U.S. demand is perking up their view of the next year:

The map below links to profiles of the 20 largest job markets, each with their own ranking of the top 10 sectors driving job postings in that city over the past year.

Picking a stock, sector or actively managed mutual fund because it recently outperformed over the past year is a case of hindsight bias and chasing returns, he said.

With a significant cutback in government capacities over the past twenty years, is it even realistic to expect that the public sector can design, fund, operate and maintain needed infrastructure?

By far the biggest revision, on a percentage basis, came in the mining sector, which isn't surprising; the oil and gas industry, which is part of the mining sector, has been extremely volatile in the past year due to tumbling oil prices.

This past year, the information technology sector and other growing areas of the market have benefited from optimism about the global economic recovery and improving corporate earnings.

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.

For beta, we use industry and sector averages, which we calculate based on daily prices over the past five years.

This ought to mean that unless there is a very severe slowdown in the world economy, the trade sector of the economy should still do pretty well, even if the growth rates are not quite as high as in the past year.

The company claims to have captured over 60 per cent of the organised retail sector (over the past 4 years) to become the largest retail CRM provider in India.

In the past 13 rising - rate environments over the past 64 years, tech and health care sectors gained an average of 20 % and 13 %, respectively during the 12 - month period following the first rate hike of each cycle.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

The smartphone sector saw shipments fall 2 per cent in the past year, according to Strategy Analytics, so the company must evolve beyond its reliance on a device that still accounts for more than 60 per cent of revenue.

We look back across various events of the past year in our sector.

In this article, we are going to explain and show you an interesting pattern that has been slowly forming over the past year in the precious metals sector.

It's no surprise then that the tech sector has been at the forefront of the bull market over the past year.

In the past ~ 2 years, NVP has invested in a number of vertical - specific solutions across a variety of sectors, including The Retail Equation (brick and mortar retail); The Rainmaker Group (multi-family housing); as well as CareCloud and Health Catalyst (healthcare).

Over the past eight years, the Ex-Im Bank has helped support more than 1.4 million private - sector jobs here in America.

Over the past 40 years to the mid-1990's America's private - sector net saving averaged 2.5 % of GDP; it remained positive virtually throughout.

I finally feel very comfortable with P2P lending after learning about the sector for the past six years.