Sentences with phrase «purchases of the past year»

To balance out the super tight look, I paired it with my flowy long cardigan — one of my favorite purchases of the past year.

My expectations for Fallout 3 were high and I have to say that it was one of my best video game purchases of the past year.

Not exact matches

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.

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 %.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Over the past year, the average mortgage rate on purchases of newly constructed homes fell by... Read More»

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.

The first one basically being that you know, as we have seen over the past two years, even with the emergency monetary stimulus that they're able to grow their balance sheet, which creates excess reserves into the system and in a variety ways and that means, they are purchasing bonds, purchasing mortgages, purchasing treasuries, which increases the amount of monetary supply — the money available to help all set the conditions that they are trying to counterbalance.

Each year we voluntarily disclose the total assets that the firm's employees, our families and the Funds» trustees have invested in the Oakmark Funds; as of December 31, 2016, that number is over $ 400 million, reflecting significant share purchases during the past year.

Thus Toshiba's profits for the past year were $ 1.16 billion, largely due to the purchase of Westinghouse from British Nuclear Fuels.

Thanks to acquisitions like its purchase of Jolly Llama, Casper's has experienced double - digit growth the past five years.

I purchased this because the price of Vanilla Extract has skyrocketed in the past two years.

Wenger is far from perfect, maybe he is inflexible, maybe he is old fashioned but I will wager a hefty sum that no other manager would have done significantly better in the past 10 years with a net spend that has only just gotten above zero in the last year or two with the purchases of Ozil and Sanchez.

In past glory years we would have those players as squad players while now they are considered starters, the quality of the squad has dropped due to the lower quality purchases that was made for a decade!

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Initially, after being bought by Sheikh Mansoor, they struggled to purchase top quality players, so instead bought players that improved the squad, for fairly generous amounts of money, much like Liverpool have done over the past six years, but unlike Liverpool, they promised success to prospective players, through buying marquee players in consecutive seasons; first Robinho, then Tevez, then Silva, and then Agüero.

We've purchased a lot of children's denim over the past 5 years, from the likes of GAP, Old Navy, Gymboree, Tommy Hilfiger, Osh Kosh B'Gosh, and countless other big brand names, plus store brands too.

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

Over the course of the past year, we've purchased some disposable diapers, and we were give some as gifts.

«Over the past five years, the city has provided the Board of Elections with more than $ 77 million to make the transition to the new machines, and that doesn't include the $ 85 million in federal funds used to purchase the new machines.»

The allocation comes on top of Borough President Katz's previous $ 305,000 allocation over the past two fiscal years toward Quality Services for the Autism Community (QSAC) for its after - school programs and the purchase of five specialized transport vans.

But it seems that he has made at least one sartorial purchase of his own in the past year.