Sentences with phrase «recent years declining»

The debt situation has improved, with the annual average rate of debt accumulation of 36 % in recent years declining to about 13.6 %, as at September 2017.

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These traders are «looking for the VIX index to continue declining from its recent year - to - date high and settle back nearer its 10.79 July / August average,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3, wrote in a client note.

The union declined to provide figures related to threatening situations that housekeepers have faced in recent years while working at Las Vegas hotels.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

In the most recent quarter, revenue from print ads fell a whopping 20 %, and the paper has seen similar double - digit declines every quarter for more than a year now.

The Fed permitted the quantity of money to decline by one - third from 1929 to 1933, just as the Bank of Japan permitted monetary growth to be low or negative in recent years.

Thanks to his contacts in the business, the report costs him only $ 35,000 a year to produce, and Hoffman says that when he asks recent hires, as well as people who have declined recent offers, «What gave you a favorable impression about us?»

But the recent decline in cryptocurrency prices since their feverish peak last year — when Bitcoin, now hovering around $ 8,700, nearly touched $ 20,000 — has convinced the government that safely regulated markets could be viable, according to Business Korea.

Stat News, a publication that covers health, reported in May that Trump's speech had become less articulate in recent years and suggested it could be related to cognitive decline.

«The unexpectedly swift decline in the unemployment rate in recent years has in large part been attributed to a drop in the labor force participation rate.

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

Even Atlantic Canada, which has battled declining enrolment in recent years, saw its undergraduate numbers rise by 1.5 %.

The recent drop in oil prices has Todd Hirsch, ATB Financial's chief economist, predicting a mild recession for Alberta this year and a sluggish recovery next year after forecasting in June that the province would avoid such an economic decline.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

Though 2009 proved a bright spot for Gottschalk — Buffett listed her as one of the execs who increased profits despite declining sales in Berkshire's annual report — Pampered Chef's more recent years were bumpy.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins attributed those declines to recent troubles in the global markets, which have been in steep decline since the new year.

Golf has dealt with declining television ratings in recent years, but a healthy, well - performing Woods has already led to a substantial spike in viewers.

But for all the «crazy experiments» from central banks, it's interesting that global GDP has been either very stable or steadily declining in recent years, he said.

Apple competes with services like Vudu and Amazon's Prime in the market for digital video rentals and sales, with Apple's share of that market declining in recent years amid increased competition.

In recent years, there have been claims that movie ticket sales would decline as more people opt for watching at home via streaming.

The internet giant earned $ 166 million on subscriptions in its most recent quarter, a 5.4 percent decline from the previous year's second quarter.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.

They are aimed at combating recent trends in cigarette smoking, which has been in decline over recent years.

Luxury home and condo sales were on the up and up from 2012 through 2015, but recent data indicates a possible decline this year.

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

Further, I showed that Pharma's IRR has followed a rapid and steady linear decline over 20 years, which is consistent with recent estimates from BCG and Deloitte, and can be fully explained by the Law of Diminishing Returns as a natural and unavoidable consequence of prioritizing a limited set of investment opportunities while each new drug raises the bar for the next.

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

The Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, to a lesser degree George Soros (since his political giving does not approach the scale of these men and has declined in recent years) are massively influential players in our political process.

Given how important oil has been to the Canadian economy in recent years it shouldn't come as a huge shock that the loonie is heavily correlated with the decline in the price of oil.

Sears Holdings» (shld) sales may have declined in recent years, but some of its assets remain prized.

While the amount of cocaine seized annually by law enforcement officials in the Chicago area has been declining in recent years, the amount of heroin has skyrocketed, rising sixfold from 2002 to 2012.

Capitalization rates, despite a recent uptick in some markets, have declined steadily for several years.

«What they should know... is that when QE and QE2 lapsed in recent years, stock prices declined by 10 % — 15 % until magically they came back to live another day.

The declines in recent weeks is part of a pullback from the optimism that has defined markets in recent years, said Fehr, though market fundamentals remain strong.

ORACLE CORP's earnings per share declined by 22.5 % in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago.

And despite recent declines in oil prices, the federal deficit will be eliminated in 2015 - 16 and possibly even one year earlier.

The company's ROIC declined over the past several years, but it seems to have reached an inflection point, especially as global remittances look to reverse their recent downtrend in 2017.

The EU's pollsters have discovered a «striking» decline in acceptance of GM foods over recent years even though Europeans are expressing support for other uses of biotechnology.

«The leg - up in the US 10 - year yield since April 18 has lifted the US dollar and caused most of the major - economy exchange rates to decline, and test the lower - end of their recent ranges against the US dollar,» he noted.

Most significantly, CBO believes recent weak revenue collections will continue for several years before gradually declining.

Pushing past even 2 % on a sustained basis will require the avoidance of any recession in the years ahead, along with a continued decline in the unemployment rate below 4.1 %, or an acceleration of productivity growth beyond anything we've observed in recent decades.

They note, for example, that the size of large trades of US investment grade corporate bonds (so - called «block trades») has continuously declined in recent years.6 Furthermore, in most corporate bond markets, trading appears to be highly concentrated in just a few liquid issues, and concentration appears to be increasing in some market segments.

Subsidies as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) have declined in recent years, as shown in the chart below.

Total CPI inflation in Canada has been around 1 per cent in recent months, reflecting year - over-year price declines for consumer energy products.

NOVARTIS AG's earnings per share declined by 30.3 % in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago.

TIME WARNER INC's earnings per share declined by 26.7 % in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago.

PFIZER INC's earnings per share declined by 6.7 % in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago.

Volume has been low during the recent price decline and one would expect it to remain there as Chinese New Year approaches.

According to a recent survey by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, the median sale price for an East Bay luxury home declined 1.8 % in May compared to the same time last year, dipping slightly to $ 1,780,000.

The recent strength in employment growth contributed to a further decline in the unemployment rate to 6 3/4 per cent in the June quarter, compared with almost 7 1/2 per cent a year ago (Graph 21).