Sentences with phrase «second year in the past»

In January, Miller said a rise in the 10 - year Treasury yield above 3 percent «will propel stocks significantly higher, as money exits bond funds for only the second year in the past 10.»

«The good news for 2015 is that the U.S. economy appears well - poised to sustain about a 3 percent growth rate in 2015 — only the second year in the past decade with growth at that pace or better,» says Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac's chief economist.

«The good news for 2015 is that the U.S. economy appears well - poised to sustain about a 3 percent growth rate in 2015 — only the second year in the past decade with growth at that pace...

«The good news for 2015 is that the U.S. economy appears well poised to sustain about a 3 percent growth rate in 2015 — only the second year in the past decade with growth at that pace or better.

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The Arctic policy is a consolidation of the world's second - largest economy's activities in the Arctic for the past five to 10 years, according to Zhang Zhixing, a senior East Asia analyst for geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor.

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

For the past two years, the company has announced an extra $ 50 billion for buybacks and dividends in conjunction with fiscal second - quarter earnings.

Netflix stock is up around 790 % in the past two years, with profits jumping to $ 71 million in the second quarter of 2014 compared to $ 30 million the year before.

Huawei Technologies, the globe's second - largest equipment telecommunications supplier by revenue following Ericsson, has increased its annual R&D expenditures fourteen-fold in the past ten years, from $ 389 million in 2003 to $ 5.46 billion in 2013.

But as we approach the eighth birthday in March of the second - longest bull market in modern times, recency bias can lull us into a false sense of security, especially given the very good returns of the past three or four years.

The cost of the state government's Aubin Grove train station project has increased for the second time in the past year, with the cost now revised to $ 120 million.

Apple said the segment generated $ 7.04 billion in revenue this past quarter, the second straight quarter it's crossed the $ 7 billion threshold, and a $ 1.05 billion rise year - over-year.

We have lost almost four seconds of our attention span in the past 15 years.

North Carolina — second only to California in installed capacity — powered 371,000 homes with solar energy this past year, and it is expecting a drop in solar output from 2.5 GW to 0.2 GW for 1.5 hours around the time of the eclipse.

In the exclusive interview, Goldner said that while Hasbro doesn't «have perfect clarity» on what will happen with Toys R Us» non-U.S. business, the pain from its bankruptcy would not extend past the second quarter of the 2018 fiscal year.

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

According to surveys by J.D. Power (published in The Wall Street Journal), United Airlines has come in last or second - to - last over the past four years, when compared to other traditional network carriers.

As in elite U.S. programs, CEIBS students undertake in their second year an experiential learning course, working in groups to solve strategic issues for companies that in the past have included Dow (DOW), Bayer, BP (BP), Siemens, MasterCard (MA), Nike (NKE), and Coca - Cola (KO).

Nate Alder, a student at Brigham Young University, has won first or second place in 11 competitions over the past year for his company, Klymit, which has developed a way to insulate outerwear and outdoor gear using argon.

The slowing of China's growth and manufacturing sector during the past year has hit investor sentiment towards the world's second - largest economy, causing volatility in its capital flows, putting pressure on its yuan currency and forcing the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

Second, that Saudi Arabia, the driving force within OPEC and the shock absorber in oil markets for the past 40 years, would cut production if necessary to keep prices from falling too low.

Austin - based insurance agency owner Ashley Hunter was upgraded to first class on Delta Airlines twice in the past year, happy results that she credits to tweeting the airline — once when her seat was taken by another flier and a second time for praising service at the gate.

As for «challenged,» CNN just finished its second highest rated first quarter in the past nine years.

The central bank bombarded markets in the past week with the message that it could raise interest rates for the second time in nine years as early as June, if the economy continues to improve as expected.

«China's economic growth has slowed over the past few years... but economic growth has rebounded this year, with GDP reaching 6.9 % in the first half, and may achieve 7 % in the second half,» Zhou was quoted as saying at the G30 International Banking Seminar in Washington on Sunday.

Kantar Media said the average price of a 30 - second Super Bowl commercial jumped 87 percent the past decade, from $ 2.7 million in 2008 to $ 5.05 million a year ago.

The value of the second - largest cryptocurrency in circulation is around $ 72 billion, challenging bitcoin in the past year.

In hindsight, the stock market has followed this typical post-war pattern, and we clearly could have captured some portion of the market's gains over the past year had I ignored the risk of a second wave of credit strains (which I remain concerned about, primarily over the coming months).

If the Fed does indeed hike, it would be the second boost seen in the past year, albeit one that has been in the offing for months.

I'm so - so as a writer, and am currently finishing up my second book (just write as a hobby), and in the past made about 30 - 50 dollars an hour as a free lance writer but that was a couple of years back, it was only for about 10 - 20 hours a month, and the gig just dried up.

I've owned it for the past three years with a cost average of $ 4.64 - it's the future of cancer treatment in my opinion, with brain cancer patients living 7 plus years on its lead drug and impressive results in its second drug candidate for triple negative breast cancer.

For the past two years, the company has announced an extra US$ 50 billion for buybacks and dividends in conjunction with fiscal second - quarter earnings.

In past years, LinkedIn was the top contender for B2B brands but has since taken second place to Facebook (43 % versus 37 %).

Where it became very valuable is in your turf, Kara, in your domain, because what we did in the course I started teaching, a second - year course, 450 MBAs took it in 1993,» 94,» 95, is try and understand the rhymes of past industrial revolutions with what was then being called «the computer revolution» that became the smartphone revolution that became the digital revolution.

The $ 1.8 trillion in liquid assets — the line item most people are referring to when they talk about «corporate cash» — accounted for 5.4 % of all assets held by nonfinancial corporations in the second quarter, down from 6 % in 2009 and pretty much flat for the past two years.

Congressional turnover is common in a U.S. president's second year in office — with the party in control losing ground in five of the past six midterm elections.

While this represents a 37 percent increase over 2016, it was the second - lowest investment level in the past 10 years, and is 15 percent lower than the past 5 - year average investment of $ 109.8 billion.

On the final night of second quarter fundraising period for Alberta's political parties, I thought it would be useful to take a look back at the past year in political party fundraising.

The decline in the energy sector seen in the second half of 2014 and into 2015 has caused Fluor's stock price to drop 26 % over the past year.

Second, the Chinese economic model of the past 40 years has incentivized officials to support market reforms by letting them help themselves in the process.

This outcome means that the increase in the volume of retail trade over the second half of 2003 was the fastest in any six - month period in at least the past 20 years.

Profits after interest have tended to decline over the past couple of years, reflecting the impact of the 1994 interest rate increases and a tendency for corporate leverage to increase, but they remain at high levels compared with historical averages; they can be expected to receive a further modest boost as interest - rate reductions in the second half of last year begin to feed through into profit results.

The events, that have transpired in the past two years, have culminated together to usher the world's second most populous nation into the digital...

If the past few years are anything to go by, this growing interest in strong relationships between the LCMS and other confessing Christian churches is likely to continue into President Harrison's second term.

Over the past 40 years, since the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), the Catholic Church in the U.S. has become increasingly divided over liturgy, theology, catechesis, ministry, sexuality and a host of other issues.

The Protestant bishop of Karachi, for example, has been stopped twice in the past year by Christians who object to his plan to develop commercial space around the outer wall of St. Andrews, the second - largest Protestant church property in Karachi.

Back in Hyderabad, Kumar started Calvary Temple 11 years ago with 25 people; today it claims to be the second - largest church in the world (150,000 members) as well as the fastest - growing (80,000 joined in the past three years).

A second change in the workplace is that in the past ten to 15 years a technological revolution in transportation and communications has made it possible for large multinational corporations both to manage and to produce on a global scale.

State lawmakers passed the second - highest number of abortion restrictions ever this past year, with 19 states enacting 43 measures in 2012 that limited access to abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Second, we need to become conscious of the themes, language and gestures of governance that have emerged in the past 200 years in the savagery of extinguished publics and broken covenants, whether in Nazi Germany, Chile, Czechoslovakia or the Trail of Tears.