Sentences with phrase «robust years of»

As expected, the rate of growth has slowed after several robust years of double - digit percentage growth.

December's mergers and acquisitions were fitting for a robust year of major business deals.

Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Robust Year of Eating Locally Author: Smith, Alisa & JB Mackinnon.

Not exact matches

We have operated this field for over 20 years and have developed a deep knowledge of the geology and strong operational expertise to deliver robust value from this asset.

Robust consumer spending will be necessary just to tread water, and the Bank of Canada hopes consumers will spend slightly more this year.

The German 10 - year Bund yield ended at 0.84 percent last Friday, down from Thursday's high of nearly 1 percent, following robust U.S. employment data.

For fiscal 2014, Hitachi delivered an operating profit of 600.4 billion yen ($ 4.89 billion), its second year of record - breaking profit, on the back of cost - cutting, alongside strong demand for its lifts in China, as well as robust sales of auto parts and electronics products.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

A global focus on climate action and the increased use of renewables is set to provide a robust long - term tailwind for First Solar for many years to come.

They noted in a jointly issued statement that it «pinned its hopes on revenues growing at a robust average rate of 5.6 per cent over the next five years while holding program spending increases to an average rate of 1.6 per cent.»

I'd say earlier this year we were thinking that this second half of calendar 2012 would be a little bit more robust for enterprise infrastructure customers, just because the spending levels have been so low.

But after years of robust expansion, Shoppers has started to slow the pace; there are, after all, only so many drugstores one country can take.

So, the statistics are unanimous: Not only was the Clinton presidency after the bill's passage a time of vigorous economic growth, but that growth was also demonstrably more robust than what occurred during the first two and a half years of the recovery.

Crude consumption is also being supported by robust automobile sales, which set a six - month record in the U.S. following six straight years of growth.

On Friday, the Labor Department announced the U.S. economy added a robust 209,000 jobs in July, beating the consensus, while the unemployment rate dropped even further to a 16 - year low of 4.3 percent.

China's online education industry has witnessed robust growth over the past few years and shows no signs of slowing down.

Despite lingering uncertainties, global markets have posted robust gains so far this year, and a number of factors suggest more upside to come.

«For the last three years, the consensus has been that the U.S. economy was on the verge of a robust and self - sustaining recovery that would restore above - potential growth,» Roubini wrote on Friday for the Project Syndicate website in a piece called «American Pie in the Sky.»

These healthcare brands will have the effect of soothing out the inevitable fluctuations that occur on the pharmaceutical side, though right now, Glaxo's portfolio is boasting robust growth from small - scale HIV drugs Triumeq and Trivicay (which, as the CEO noted in the last annual report, sport year - over-year sales growth of 41 % and 43 %, respectively).

For more than 25 years, Anago's robust business model has stood the test of time.

It is my view that crowdfunding will be introduced in most provincial jurisdictions in Canada later this year or early next year as both regulators and government would like to ensure the environment for capital formation for seed and early stage innovation is robust and the introduction of crowdfunding will have low budgetary impact for provincial governments.

Shares of ARRIS International plc (NASDAQ: ARRS), a media entertainment and data communications solutions provider, lost more than 12 percent of its value over the past year and doesn't reflect the company's «robust growth opportunities» ahead, according to one Wall Street analyst...

By then it was starting to emerge that demand in Australia was in the process of moderating — though it is worth noting that domestic final spending still rose by 1 per cent in the June quarter of 2008 and 5 per cent over the year to June, both very robust outcomes.

But because corporate revenues grew by a robust 13 percent last year — even faster than the year before — R&D intensity, or the percentage of sales that companies spend on innovation, actually declined to traditional pre-recession levels.

Consumer spending is up, optimism is high and we have a robust labor market with unemployment at a 17 - year low of 4.1 percent.

The 18.1 % growth expected this year for US display advertising is down somewhat from more robust rates of increase in 2011 and 2012, but eMarketer continues to be bullish on the prospects for digital display advertising — especially at social media properties like Facebook and Twitter, as well as at Google, which has dramatically increased its overall share of the display market in recent years.

Canada should be welcoming the robust moves that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been making since the start of this year to re-vitalize the Japanese economy.

830,000 Chinese tourists visited Cambodia last year, a 19.5 y - o - y increase17 that was followed by another robust 40 % y - o - y increase to reach 529,967 Chinese arrivals in H1 2017, accounting for 20 % of all foreign visitors in Cambodia so far.18

Using these big data metrics, we were able to more accurately predict that consumption in the U.S. was not as robust in the fourth quarter of last year and so far has not picked up this year despite expectations to the contrary.

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.

But 2012 was the year he got serious about using the powers of the American central bank to engineer a robust recovery, rather than just stave off an economic collapse.

While recognizing that revenue and gross margin are weighted towards the second half of the year, we are pleased to say that GoPro is off to good start in 2018, with robust sell - through, proving there is were strong global demand for our products.

While that isn't impossible, anyone calling for even higher returns after years of robust gains in stock markets around the world needs to look for loopholes in his or her logic.

The robust rate of spending by US households and businesses has resulted in a sharp increase in imports into the US, with the volume of imports increasing by 9.2 per cent over the year to the December quarter.

A sustained market rally and robust client activity in 2017 translated into a year of gains for Asia's private banks, whose combined assets under management (AUM)-- excluding China onshore — surged past US$ 2 trillion for the first time.

After a few years of divergent outcomes, robust growth was recorded in both the goods and services sectors of the economy in the second half of 2003 (Graph 36).

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.

Imports of goods also expanded at a firm pace in the second half of 2003, particularly consumption imports, which rose in line with robust consumer spending to be around 12 per cent higher over the year; imports of capital and intermediate goods were also sharply higher over the year.

The appetite for IPOs has picked up since mid-September this year, with a robust pace of new filings.

Kinnaras has been pushing the Board to «take advantage of the robust M&A market for both newspaper and broadcast television and to sell all operating units of MEG in order to retire existing corporate and pension debt and achieve a share price shareholders have rarely seen in recent years.»

It should be noted that the Company has improved certain aspects of its corporate reporting over the last year, providing more robust disclosure of its corporate political spending and the environmental initiatives undertaken by its Amazon Web Service division.

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.

People talk about robust inflationary environments in China, Asia and emerging markets In America the Fed's game of lowering interest rates and increasing money and credit and monetizing paper will end over the next two years, maybe three.

@IanH has highlighted that this section of the book is based on Simba's spreadsheet that has data for only 27 and 40 years, so it's less robust than other parts of the book.

Trailing earnings for the S&P 500 ended 2017 at nearly 22x, significantly above the 10 - year average multiple of 15.7 x. Stocks have been expensive for some time, and while earnings have been robust of late, price advances have more than kept pace.

In turn, this has allowed the Portuguese economy to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the eurozone's robust recovery, with the IMF forecasting 2017 could be the country's best year of growth in more than 20 years.

So while employment and wage growth in the resource sector is presently robust, it is possible that this may start to reverse in the next couple of years.

The US economy continued to expand in September of this year, with some of the key economic data in October pointing to robust economic activity that could well extend into the last three months of 2017.

The United States has had legislation promoting business owners to adopt ESOPs for more than 30 years, and as a result, there is a robust movement of business including some of the country's largest private companies who wholeheartedly praise the model as leading to better business outcomes.