Sentences with phrase «ramp up spending»

(TNS)-- After doing just enough to maintain their homes in the wake of the Great Recession, Americans are starting to ramp up spending on backyard decks, spa - like bathrooms and other vanity improvements.

Apple has no shortage of cash, of course, so it could easily ramp up spending if it sees success next year.

Ramp up spending on technology deployment now.

That said, applying for new cards is a poor idea if you fail to pay off your balance every month, have trouble remembering when payments are due or tend to ramp up your spending when you receive a new card to the point that it causes financial stress.

You can't get to a point to where your passive income starts to cover expenses, then just ramp up spending.

If you are really looking to jumpstart your savings or pay off debt, you can really ramp up your spending freeze and challenge yourself to a no spend month.

This would suggest that investors have confidence that the Central Bank is able to orchestrate some near - term inflation, which the Fed hopes might motivate consumers and businesses to ramp up their spending, while holding long - term inflation expectations in check.

De Blasio isn't on board with the governor's call for the city to ramp up its spending on the MTA, but his likely Republican opponent, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, is.

They have made it clear that their intention is to ramp up spending which comes with more taxation; which is something they've shown Albertans they have no problem doing.

These items, combined with the impending approach of critical construction windows, the lead time required to ramp up spending, and the imperative that the company avoid incurring significant debt while lacking the necessary clarity, have brought Kinder Morgan to a decision point.

ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Doubling up: Vale plans to ramp up spending next year Mounting concerns over Banco PanAmericano's liquidity sent its shares into freefall and prompted a government bailout.

The company currently expects revenue to rise by a low double - digit percentage rate, with upside potential into the high teens if customers ramp up spending.

Then lawmakers reached a bipartisan agreement this year to ramp up spending.

It would be prudent for Check Point to ramp up spending on sales and marketing.

It also plans to ramp up spending on marketing.

In fact, Apple is ramping up spending on research and development, signaling that it may be interested in more than merely creating updated iPhones and smartwatches.

Companies might have simply ramped up spending in late 2012, thinking some incentives on capital expenditures might expire in the new year, says Caranci.

Determined to prevent any uprisings of this nature in their domains, oil - exporting nations have reacted to The Arab Spring by ramping up spending on social programs.

In the fourth quarter, AmEx ramped up its spending on rewards, increasing 12 % year - over-year to $ 1.98 billion, as more cardholders took advantage of rewards benefits — such as airport lounge access and the new $ 200 credit for Uber rides.

Losses grew as the company ramped up spending in an effort to win larger contracts.

The U.S. economy accelerated in the second quarter as consumers ramped up spending and businesses invested more on equipment, but persistent sluggish wage gains cast a dark shadow over the growth outlook.

Democratic and Republican congressional campaign committees and outside groups for both parties are ramping up spending and committing tens of millions of dollars to those races.

Both state and local economic development agencies have ramped up spending on subsidy programs since Cuomo took office.

As the primary nears, Democrat Joe Nicoletti has ramped up spending more than any other candidate.

Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest Internet retailer, reported a plunge in third - quarter profit after it ramped up spending on new products such as the Kindle Fire tablet.

Ramping up spending on a business credit card is also useful to the company because it incurs rewards or cash back.

But there is an element of art as well as science in determining whether to ramp up spend on a specific card.

Credit card spending heats up Credit card holders are ramping up their spending this summer, according to new research from First Data Corporation, and many of those purchases are going on their cards.

Card spending heats up Consumers are ramping up their spending, according to new research from the New York Federal Reserve, which could lead to heavier card balances.

On his blog, Cummings says they code - named the period «Waterloo» and ramped up its spending, bombarding the small sliver of people it had identified as «persuadable» with every kind of ad.

Apple ramped up its spending on semiconductors by more than a quarter in 2017, a new report from Gartner claims.

(TNS)-- Consumers ramped up their spending in January at the fastest pace in eight months as incomes also continued to grow at a strong pace in a sign economic growth is improving after slowing at the end of last year.

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It has been spending heavily to ramp up the digital side of its business so customers can move money in seconds with just a few clicks on their mobile devices.

Now, the digital currency could ramp up another 165 % over the course of 2017 thanks to Donald Trump's «spending binge,» Denmark - based Saxo Bank wrote in a report titled «Outrageous Predictions for 2017.»

Apple and Facebook clearly both have the cash to quickly ramp up in video, but they would both still be spending far less than leaders in the streaming entertainment like Netflix (spending $ 6 billion on original programming this year alone) and Amazon ($ 4.5 billion).

Jim Cramer detailed how ramped - up consumer spending is bolstering the retail sector beyond what tax reform can do.

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.

«If only three of the 14 project consortia move forward,» noted energy economist Peter Tertzakian, «the spending ramp - up mid-decade will be greater than that of the oilsands bonanza 10 years ago.»

Expectations that the government will have to ramp up borrowing to fund president - elect Donald Trump's plans to cut taxes and boost spending on infrastructure have sent Treasury yields soaring.

As it seeks to get a bigger slice of Americans» spending, Google just ramped up the delivery wars by expanding its same - day service.

Now it is time to lay pipe, which means dramatically ramping up its daily burn rate, spending billions more before the pipe can start operating in 2020.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)-- The U.S. economy grew 1.7 % in the second quarter, aided by stable consumer spending and a ramp - up in business investment, the government said Wednesday.

The U.S. is ramping up government spending at the very peak of the economic cycle, even as it cuts taxes, and the deficit is projected to balloon.

Free cash worsened throughout 2015, as the company ramped up not only content spending, but international expansion plans, adding markets such as Japan and others.

We'd see evidence of that option if more drillers follow Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and use their financial resources to ramp up cash returns to investors instead of spending it to expand production further.

If you are convinced that lowering the interest rate, pumping money into the economy and ramping - up government spending is beneficial, then from your perspective a failure of such measures to sustainably boost the rate of economic growth can only mean that the measures weren't aggressive enough.

In recent years, Uber has hired top political operators and ramped up its lobbying spending as it faces regulatory battles around the country.

The GIC also expects mobile computing to be an important focus, as users spend more time on devices and companies ramp up advertising spend and mobile payment capabilities.

Sajjan's plan calls for an additional $ 615 million to be spent in 2017 - 18, ramping up to $ 2.3 billion more in 2021 - 23.

Similarly, Starbucks continued to see a ramp - up in its customer counts, hitting the 80 million mark for weekly transactions and getting customers to spend $ 5 billion in loading up their Starbucks loyalty cards during the year.