Sentences with phrase «percent worse this year»

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In other words, even good news can be bad news for a company like Ecolibrium, which, despite the industry tumult, has racked up a three - year growth rate of 988.7 percent.

Shares in the company that also owns the Taco Bell brand fell 5 percent early on Wednesday, after its chief financial officer said lingering concerns at KFC UK would contribute to the current quarter likely being «the worst» of the year.

It is down 12 percent this year, easily the worst - performing sector of the S&P 500.

Both the SPDR S&P Homebuilder ETF and the iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF fell more than 2 percent, pacing for their worst daily performances in about a year.

The bonds are down 8.7 percent this year, making them the worst performer among emerging market corporates.

Yields on the securities have climbed to their highest levels in six years, and total returns were negative 2.6 percent for the first two months of 2018, making for the worst start of a year for the asset class since 1981.

The virtual currency was the worst - performing currency of the year, plummeting by more than 56 percent since January and 72 percent since last November, according to Bloomberg.

Among young female veterans, the numbers were way worse: In 2011, female veterans who were 20 to 24 years old had an unemployment rate of 35.4 percent.

Although they may have had some bad customer service experiences in the past — almost two - thirds (64 percent) acknowledged losing their temper with a customer service agent within the past year — one good experience can turn it all around.

Given the average professional service business runs on profit margins of around 10 percent, having clients not pay you for 100 days means you're eating up every cent of profit for a year worth of hard work to cover their bad behavior.

Cathay shares have risen by 29.4 percent since the start of January despite the airline in August posting its worst first - half loss in 20 years.

The poll found that Americans are most downbeat about the relationship with Russia: 56 percent think it will get worse over the next year, while just 13 percent think it will improve.

Among the top five cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, ripple has fared the worst, down more than 74 percent this year following an epic 35,000 percent increase in 2017, according to CoinMarketCap.

On China — with which Trump has forged cooperation against North Korea but drawn sharp differences on trade — some 48 percent expect relations to get worse in the next year, while just 17 percent expect things to get better.

Things look even worse if you're in the food service sector where the National Restaurant Association says 30 percent of new restaurants fail in the first year, with another 30 percent failing within the next two years.

Early in the year, bond guru Bill Gross warned clients that if the 10 - year Treasury yield jumped past 2.6 percent, bad things for the fixed income market would follow.

VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF was down 6.8 percent in April, its worst month in nearly three years.

It had its worst year in 2001, when it was down 7.67 percent, and its best year in 2003, when it was up 69.22 percent.

The S&P 500 ended the month down 3.9 percent, its worst month in two years.

Shares of the New York - based company fell as much as 5 percent, on track for their worst day in nearly two years.

And, with researchers predicting a 42 percent increase in chronic disease cases by 2023 — not to mention the 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day for the next 13 years — things may get worse before they get better.

The stock slid 5 percent last week alone, for its worst weekly performance in more than a year.

The S&P 500 fell 4.1 percent Monday in its worst day in more than six years, following a 2.1 percent drop Friday.

The Nielsen report attributed waning confidence to brewing worries over Malaysia's economic outlook, a near 20 percent drop in the value of the Malaysian ringgit year - to - date and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

The S&P 500 declined 1.4 percent to end at 2,677.67 — erasing its year - to - date gains — with industrials as the worst - performing sector.

The Southeast Asian economy expanded 4.9 percent on - year over the April - June period amid uncertainties in global growth, persistent weakness in oil prices and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

Here's the bad news: Analysts are keeping earnings estimates for the rest of the year in sky - high, record territory, with nearly 20 percent growth in every quarter.

Norwegian consumer goods maker Orkla sank 7.7 percent, its worst fall in five years, after reporting that higher raw - material prices caused its earnings to miss expectations.

The ringgit, among the world's worst performing currencies, has fallen around 17 percent year - to - date.

While U.S. stocks plunged in their worst day in years on Monday, Apex said that across its 7.6 million accounts, there was 56 percent less activity among the so - called millennial age group than older investors.

Broad dollar strength and a rout in commodity prices have seen the ringgit tumble to levels not seen since the Asian Financial Crisis, making it the region's Asia's worst - performing currency with losses exceeding 9 percent year - to - date.

The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year's industry average.

When respondents were segmented, 100 percent of the participants who earned $ 150K or more a year, said they shared bad customer service interactions with others.

If you can't stomach the thought of 20 percent of your portfolio disappearing in a bad year, you need to factor that into how you choose your investments — even if you don't need the money for a long time.

The euro, meanwhile, has plunged, falling 2.4 percent against the dollar in its worst week in a year.

Nickel set for biggest weekly increase since April 2009 Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches record on Thursday Gold heading for worst week in a month Largest increase in 30 - year Treasury yields since 2009 Italian bonds are poised for worst three - week selloff since 2011 Emerging - market stocks set for biggest three - day slide since August 2015 Mexico's peso plunges 12 percent in three daysCommodities

House prices in London have slipped by 1.5 percent over the past year, according to Rightmove in the worst annual fall since 2009.

On the other end of the investing spectrum, the average annual returns on bonds since 1926 was just 5.5 percent on average, with a 32.6 percent gain in the best year and an 8.1 percent loss in the worst, according to Vanguard data.

Even the earnings you make over the course of a year using a money market account with a two or three percent interest rate can be wiped out with a few bad fees.

In the worst year, stocks experienced a 43.1 percent loss; in the best year, a 54.2 percent gain.

That doesn't mean that you're going to make 10 percent every year, however; and if you sell after a bad year, you could miss out on big gains in the years to come.

Its shares fell by nearly 7 percent on Monday, their worst one - day drop in about four years, and sparked a tech selloff on Wall Street.

A 38 percent drop in fixed - income, currency and commodity trading revenue over the same five - year period made Goldman the worst performer of the five banks.

Wells Fargo's stock, which has gained 5.4 percent for the year, is still the worst performer among the 10 largest U.S. banks and trails the 27 percent rise of the KBW Bank Index.

What's even worse is that the numbers don't show any tendency of slowing down, and have actually grown by 8 percent this year.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

this year that found that, if the economy took a sharp turn for the worse, some 13.7 percent of credit card debt would go into default.

In fact, the Federal Reserve ran a stress test this year that found that, if the economy took a sharp turn for the worse, some 13.7 percent of credit card debt would go into default.

The worst drawdown in nominal percent terms was just -8.9 % in the 22nd year, but at that point you're talking about a $ 245,000 decline.

BEIJING Aluminum Corp of China Ltd, known as Chalco, said on Monday that first - quarter net profits fell by 19.4 percent from a year ago due to lower aluminum prices but one - off gains helped it avoid a much worse result.