Sentences with phrase «sector business investments»

Programs that provide skills development, mentoring and clear pathways to success from cradle to college and career, can generate benefits that are more than three times their costs, exceeding the rates of return seen in many private sector business investments.

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The boom might be over but mining remains an important sector that will continue to employ thousands of people and provide many investment opportunities for business.

«A lot of new jobs are generated by small and midsize businesses, and if the interest rate increases dramatically, it could slow investment to this sector,» Cooley says, adding that the increase in interest rates is also likely to further strengthen the dollar.

Longer - term, businesses in these sectors are still incredibly valuable investments, says Ryan Bushell, vice-president and portfolio manager with Leon Frazer & Associates.

Outside the energy sector, we are beginning to see the anticipated sequence of increased foreign demand, stronger exports, improved business confidence and investment, and employment growth.

That sector has been weak since the recession, and between 2015 and 2017, business investment actually declined in Ontario.

Growth in household spending has been moderate and the housing sector has shown some improvement; however, business fixed investment and net exports stayed soft.»

VistaVu's decision to move closer to the decision - makers located in the Texas oil capital offers some valuable insights on how to establish a profile and grow your presence in a dense business hub like Houston, which is for the oil industry what Manhattan is for the investment banking sector.

An investment company chaired by Perth businessman Farooq Khan has made an off - market $ 8 million cash bid for full ownership of Strike Resources, and may seek opportunities for the business outside the resources sector.

Companies across all sectors need investment to grow their operations and bring their businesses to a new level.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

«We've had the pleasure of consulting with both the SAIL Capital Partners team and the investment banking team at Stifel Nicolaus in the U.S. on various deals,» says Rob Peterman, Head of Business Development for the technology sector for TSX and TSX Venture.

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

Danish conglomerate AP Møller - Maersk has delivered a damning assessment of the state of the container shipping sector by signalling it will switch investment to its other businesses.

Business investment, however, remains soft, despite some stabilization in the energy sector.

Many businesses view Russia as a hostile market because of its much - publicized moves to restrict foreign investment in economic sectors considered strategic to the state.

While Riot says on its website that it maintains its Bioptix business, the company intends to «gain exposure to the blockchain ecosystem through targeted investments in the sector, with a primary focus on the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.»

The endless debate over the «hollowing out» of Canada's business sector is but one symptom of anxieties surrounding our investment relationship with the Americans.

The 49 - year old Clement has a prominent place in Stephen Harper's government; he is arguably the most ambitious industry minister in a decade, pursuing new copyright legislation, anti-spam legislation, strategies to improve Canada's online business acumen and exploring more foreign investment in the wireless sector.

The case for expanding investment in entrepreneurs and small businesses is clear: small businesses create two out of every three new private sector jobs and half the people who work in America own or work for a small business.

... including consideration of the case, post-Brexit, for a new national investment fund to channel long - term capital via private - sector managed funds, into high growth, innovative businesses, to continue and extend the work that the European Investment Fund investment fund to channel long - term capital via private - sector managed funds, into high growth, innovative businesses, to continue and extend the work that the European Investment Fund Investment Fund has begun.

Economic activity decreased in several categories, including business investment, exports, construction and — most of all — the important resources sector, which sank 2.7 per cent compared to the previous quarter.

About First State Investments First State Investments is a global asset management business with experience across a range of asset classes and specialist investment sectors.

However, business investment continues to be weighed down by cuts in resource - sector spending.

However, overall business investment remains very weak due to retrenchment in the resource sector.

In contrast, dwelling construction continues to pick up, the period of business - sector deleveraging looks like it has come to an end, and investment in the resources sector is at very high levels.

Two decades of «miracle» levels of investment - driven growth, the role of the financial sector in that growth, and the unrealistic expectations that Chinese businesses, banks, and government entities had consequently developed, reinforced by sell - side cheerleaders, made it obvious that the interlocking balance sheets that make up the Chinese economy had added what was effectively a highly «speculative» structure onto the way economic entities financed their operations.

Cairngorm Capital's investment, made in 2017 from its second fund Cairngorm Capital Partners II LP, is the first in a series of planned investments in timber processing and merchanting businesses, designed to combine specialist sector operational expertise with financial support from Cairngorm Capital.

Cairngorm Capital's investment, from its second fund Cairngorm Capital Partners II LP, is the first in a series of planned investments in timber processing and merchanting businesses, designed to combine specialist sector operational expertise with financial support from Cairngorm Capital.

While at GenNx360, he focused on the firm's investments in the industrial and business services sectors.

The budget checks off some of the requests on the clean tech sector's wish list, starting with «nearly $ 1.4 billion in new financing, on a cash basis» for clean tech (a mix of equity investments, working capital, and project finance to come from Export Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada.)

Aquiline Capital Partners, founded in 2005, is a private equity firm based in New York investing in businesses across the financial services sector in banking and credit, insurance, investment management and markets, and financial technology and services.

ATG is a fund managed by Aquiline Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in businesses across the financial services sector in banking and credit, insurance, investment management and markets, and financial technology and services.

Ramsey is an Associate at Alpine Investors, where he focuses on originating, screening, and conducting diligence on potential investments in the business software, business services and consumer services sectors.

The agreement also opens nearly all service and investment sectors to businesses from any TPP countries.

However, lower prices for oil and other commodities since the summer have further lowered Canada's terms of trade and are dampening business investment and exports in the resource sector.

The downward revision reflects further downgrades of business investment plans in the energy sector, as well as weaker - than - expected exports of non-energy commodities and non-commodities.

Although the collapse in investment was as acute in Canada as it was in other advanced economies, Canadian business investment bounced back relatively quickly, as the oil and gas sector benefited from a sizable rebound in commodity prices (Chart 1).

While investment in the energy sector now appears to be stabilizing after a painful adjustment to the decline in oil and other commodity prices that began in 2014, overall business investment in the economy remains weak.

His involvement in the firm's consumer portfolio included investments in multinationals within the food, health and sustainable business sectors.

Restricted / Closed Defense sector (except weapons production) Traffic information systems (air, maritime, land) Alcoholic beverage production Marijuana cultivation Casinos Historical and sacred sites Chemical material industry that can damage the environment Pre-design and consulting services Architectural design services and architectural services Utilisation of natural coral for aquariums, souvenirs and accessories Small and medium enterprises Any business with investment value of less than 10 billion rupiahs

While many companies in less economically sensitive industries, particularly those in the consumer staples sector, meet our criteria for potential investment, we believe that investors are currently assigning excessively high valuations to companies that offer non-cyclical business models.

European PMI sector data meanwhile add to signs that business investment is rising strongly in the second quarter.

The latest capital expenditure (Capex) survey continues to point to solid growth in business investment in 2004/05, concentrated in the manufacturing, mining and property & business services sectors.

In the business sector, conditions are very favourable and are driving an upswing in investment (Graph 4).

The recent improvement in the outlook for world growth and the recovery in the prices of oil, gold and base metals, three sectors that comprise almost half of total mining investment, have contributed to an improvement in the mining sector's perceptions of business conditions and expected profitability.

Additionally, business investment saw an 8.2 - percent drop, marking the ninth consecutive quarter in which a contraction was recorded in that sector.

We believe that Comcast has the potential for ample growth across all business lines, and we are especially optimistic about future results from its commercial - services sector, which is Comcast's most rapidly growing segment and could be one of its highest return investments.

What is most encouraging, though, for the greater good, and should result in higher - quality job creation across most sectors of the economy, is the record level of business investment, the highest since 2011.

With nearly 25 years in investment banking, Adam has successfully led the execution of middle - market M&A, restructuring, and debt and equity financing transactions across a myriad of industry sectors including business services, consumer products, retail, general industrials, telecommunications, and technology.