Sentences with phrase «remain robust this year»

BRUSSELS (AP)-- Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.

BRUSSELS — Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.

Not exact matches

The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton reported a 25 percent rise in underlying half - year profit on Tuesday, helped by robust metals prices, and said its focus remains on cutting debt and boosting shareholder returns.

Everett isn't expecting S2's growth trajectory to continue exactly as it has the past few years, but says he's cautiously optimistic that renter demand for the company's apartments will remain robust for the foreseeable future.

But the third - quarter GDP number also revealed that consumption growth remained robust, and many observers expect growth to pick up in the year's final quarter as the rundown in corporate inventories that impacted the third - quarter data is taken out of the equation.

Indeed, there's no question that the Chinese love for Canada remains robust, and Vancouver is undoubtedly one of the hottest housing markets there with homebuyers from China — Vancouver retained its ranking as the second most - viewed Canadian city for Chinese buyers on Juwai.com last year.

Earnings remain robust but some fear peak With 53 % of the constituents of the S&P 500 Index having reported, blended earnings are seen up 23.2 % versus the same quarter a year ago.

We believe corporate activity will remain robust in 2017 and potentially increase as the year progresses.

Profits of non-farm unincorporated businesses fell slightly in the March quarter, but growth over the year remained robust at almost 9 per cent.

However, the equity market results have failed to respond to the robust numbers as the SPOOS have gained a mere 1.25 % and remain unchanged on the year.

Following a meeting with the Home Office last year, JCWI told Bolt that they «remain deeply concerned that no robust or adequate system for monitoring and evaluating the scheme's operation and measuring its success, cost - effectiveness and proportionality has been put in place, nor is there any plan to do so».

While some companies have been able to export their products despite the embargo on many goods that remains in place for both countries — agricultural commodities, for example, have been eligible for export since 2000 — there is a recognition that robust trade takes far more than a year to foster.

Eureka sapiens babies would remain in the womb for at least a full year and would be born with more robust digestive tracts, so they wouldn't need to cry so much.

As governors and lawmakers — many of them newly elected — polish ambitious new K - 12 spending plans on the eve of the 2007 legislative year, the latest reports about the health of state revenues and budgets suggest that policymakers should tread cautiously even though their economies remain robust.

But it's apparent that indie self - publishing remains as viable and robust a publishing option as it was a year ago, and an increasing number of authors — perhaps even the majority, according to Digital Book World's 2015 publishing survey — now see indie self - publishing as their first choice, and traditional publishing as a backup plan.

Despite the anticipated slowdown in prices, groundbreaking on new homes is seen remaining robust with housing starts forecast to stay at or above 200,000 until the fourth quarter of this year.

Since U.S. allies are similarly committed to the DOD's «too big to fail» project, Lockheed's strong backlog of orders ($ 103.6 billion at the end of 2016, with $ 46.9 billion in new orders last year), is likely to remain large and robust.

Meanwhile, with projected demand growth appearing robust, at least for the near term, a third straight year in 2017 of low investment in new conventional projects remains a worrying indicator for the future market balance, creating a substantial risk of a shortfall of new supply in the 2020s.

This will total $ 30 million per year by 2032, thus enhancing the ability of local businesses to remain competitive in the region, reducing the pressure they might feel to move out of the district, and helping them to maintain a permanent and robust presence in the city.

That a robust behaviour in models of apparent (effective) climate sensitivity being lower in the early years after a forcing is imposed than subsequently, rather than remaining constant, requires multiplying estimates of climate sensitivity by a further factor of ~ 1.25 in order to convert what they actually estimate (effective climate sensitivity) to ECS.

It expected the first half of 2010 to remain challenging and described last year's performance as «relatively robust given the depth of the global recession».

Though the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. says the five - county Los Angeles area recorded a lower level of major business expansion activity during the first half of 2002 compared to the same period last year, the economy in the southern half of the state remains robust compared to the northern half.

I think the real estate market in Canada will remain robust and active for many years to come.

A new report from NAR, Deloitte, and Real Estate Research Corp / SITUS — predicts markets will remain strong, but without the robust growth we saw last year.

Home sales dropped a bit over the last month but they remain strong compared to this time last year and price gains remain robust.

Despite the hit to consumers, most REIT executives reported that leasing activity during the RECon show remained healthy, though below last year's robust levels.

Overall, 2008 will prove to be a solid year in which residential sales shore up after two years of decline and commercial deals remain healthy, even if they're not as robust as they've been.

Keschl acknowledges that the consumer remains worried about debt overhang and less than robust job growth, but over the past five years, the industry has gotten used to operating in this new normal mode, he notes.

Thanks to strong demand from young, minority, and immigrant households — groups that helped boost first - time buyers to more than 40 percent of sales last year — the housing market was robust even as the broader economy remained sluggish.

Robust home buyer demand has put total home sales on pace for the best year since 2007 and look for that trend to continue as the MiMi purchase applications indicator remains on the upswing.