Sentences with phrase «scaled back investment»

While consumers are spending at a moderate pace, businesses have scaled back investment amid a decline in profits.

Reagan achieved this objective while reducing top marginal rates because he raised capital gains rates, scaled back investment incentives, increased corporate tax collection, curtailed shelters and left estate and gift taxes alone.

In October, Toyota said it would scale back investment in a planned plant in Mexico by 30 percent to $ 700 million and cut planned annual capacity in half to 100,000 vehicles as it shuffles its production plans to meet market demands.

Sewing also confronts a decision on scaling back the investment bank — both Deutsche Bank's biggest source of revenue and a perennial laggard against U.S. giants — and winning over long - suffering shareholders.

Oil and gas companies scaling back investment.

«Businesses are scaling back their investment and borrowing due to the wider economic uncertainty, contributing to the decline in the Index.

On Monday deputy Bank governor Ben Broadbent was forced to defend the bank's policies against MPs who said employers were scaling back investment and limiting wage rises in response to the growing burden of larger occupational pension scheme deficits.

Deutsche Bank's leaders may have worried that scaling back its investment bank would cause too much financial pain.

Amid a June rally and healthy stock market, early stage and late stage investors scaled back investments in real estate tech companies.

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White and partners bought back the company at a fraction of the investment cost, but had to scale back from 60 employees to 3.

That would signal a scaling back of the investment bank.

The investment tap ran dry; Griffith says, «We had to scale back pretty dramatically to survive.

Venture - capital investment into the sector fell 75 % from $ 3.2 billion raised in 2015, and money managers cooled on purchasing loans the companies made, forcing them to scale back.

The trading business more broadly has shrunk since its heyday, pressured by a decline in active investment, an increase in low - cost electronic trading and a scaling back of proprietary trading.

College - savings plans also have added federally insured certificates of deposit, bank savings accounts and age - based options that scale back stock investments for older children.

NEW YORK, NY, October 9, 2017 — Despite widespread criticism regarding the heightened regulatory environment that has pervaded since the introduction of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as well as the Trump administration's promises to scale back regulations, the alternative investment industry doesn't foresee any lessening of current regulations or regulators»...

However, ironically, the unprecedented scale of human suffering and misery caused by harsh mega competition, liberalization of trade and investment, in the era of globalization motivates millions of victimized people to resist and fight back for survival and human dignity.

Jose Manuel Barroso warned the plans, which would scale back the 2007 - 13 budget, provided insufficient investment in an enlarged EU and were unfair to new member states.

[11] Rather than limit investment in other needed services to pay for the circuit breaker, the state should generate additional revenues by fixing some of the problems related to last year's corporate tax reform, eliminating or scaling back many of the state's smorgasbord of business tax credits, rejecting the proposed Education Tax Credit, and limiting the increase in the estate tax exemption.

DOE presents a good distillation of the Administration's general approach to science and technology: a particular skepticism of federal technology programs and hostility to climate research; a general interest in scaling back even fundamental science; and a desire to increase investment in defense - related activities.

Diverse investments in innovative approaches to scale, such as back office and data management services, leadership training, and technology platforms for promising stand - alone charter schools, might have vastly increased the quality and number of new schools throughout the country.

A lot of states are thinking of scaling back on early childhood investments, but this analysis suggests the opposite, Reynolds said.

GM India sales have plummeted to the lowest in the company's history as the company scaled back all their plans and plans no new investments until there is a clear strategy for the Indian market ahead.

Even if we eventually decide to scale back the time we put in, and go with an advisor or put all our investments in index funds, we'd still be better educated and more involved because of our experiences.

So, for example, if the combination of withdrawals from your nest egg plus lousy investment performance puts a big dent in your savings balance, you might forgo an inflation increase for a year or two or even scale back your withdrawals.

For the NAV investments at discount prices, long - term performance ought to be good enough if the issuer can continue to increase NAV, or if the company engages in resource conversion activities such as getting taken over, liquidating assets, or buying back common stock on a massive scale.

Companies have spent almost a decade now scaling back their cost structures & capital investment, while investors have vainly tried to call the bottom nearly every single year.

And research & investment could obviously be scaled back significantly without any serious or immediate impact.

While large - scale professional investors may swing back and forth between favoring domestic or foreign stocks, the question for most individual investors is what role, if any, international stocks should play in a long - term investment strategy.

While policies and regulations differ greatly from country to country, the entrepreneurs came back to common themes that informed two key recommendations about how changes to policy and regulation could help scale up — and unlock investment for — distributed renewable energy:

California has increased its Renewable Portfolio Standards from 20 % by 2020 to 33 % by 2020.57 Germany has made a post-Fukushima commitment to increase its already leading levels of investment in renewable energy generation.58 In China's most recently released Five - Year - Plan, a majority of the «strategic industries» that are emphasized are «clean technology» industries.59 Brazil is moving ahead aggressively with building its local renewable fuels economy.60 None of these pioneers have started and then scaled back.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Note that many of these steps would have limited impact: Coal plants have already made costly investments to curb mercury pollution, so scaling back that Obama rule wouldn't do much.

Last week, at the FOWT18 conference in Marseille, France, plans for the world's first commercial - scale floating wind farm, being developed off Japan by technology pioneer Ideol with backing from investment house Macquarie, were announced, building on the switch - on of Statoil's landmark 30MW Hywind Scotland last autumn, and progress on array projects in Europe, the US and Asia.

Acutely aware of the car industry's recent sales plunge and weaker domestic demand, government officials are hoping this new initiative will boost sales and new investment once again and discourage carmakers from scaling back their production by shifting to a new market.

By demanding a halt to all new fossil fuels — projects and investments — and commitments to 100 % renewable energy for all, we will take back local power and build a movement on scale with the crisis.

«Instead of expanding their graduate vacancies in 2017 as planned, the country's best - known accounting and professional service firms, financial services companies and investment banks scaled back their recruitment targets by 17 % following the Brexit vote,» Birchall said.

JHM, a subsidiary of John Hancock, is an «off Wall Street» investment boutique that manages over $ 2 billion of mortgage - backed securities and operates full - scale mortgage banking and servicing operations, including a publicly - traded MLP.

A majority of business leaders think the vote for Brexit is bad for them, and as a result plans for investment and hiring are being put on hold or scaled back.»

While most countries — including the United Kingdom, Mexico, and China — have pledged larger investments in early childhood education, the United States is scaling back its programs.

At the same time, the Trump administration and many social conservatives in Congress are seeking to limit the federal funding streams on which these providers rely, to roll back the coverage advances of the ACA and to scale back federal investment in Medicaid.

Combined with a decline in retail investment overall and retailers scaling back physical locations, brick and mortar shopping centers are under relentless pressure to stay competitive.

Buying from these kinds of investors underscores how even as the Fed scales back from the market, others will fill the void, and in the near term at least there may be less disruption than many money managers had feared, said Jason Marshall, chief investment officer at Invesco Mortgage Capital, a REIT.

Some investment funds have already scaled back on purchases, still moving ahead but at a more cautious pace.