Sentences with phrase «sector companies made»

In 2010, several private sector companies made bold commitments to remove deforestation from major commodity supply chains by 2020.

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That disruption is omnipresent because there are now tech companies everywhere in the economy — companies whose central missions are technology - centric, and those in other sectors that are making technical innovations central to their business models.

Global sales were projected to top $ 24 trillion in 2015 and are expected to grow another 3.2 % this year, making the magnates who run the sector's largest companies even wealthier.

The company also made waves as part of the insurer exodus from the individual insurance sector (including Obamacare marketplaces), which led to almost $ 700 million in losses between 2014 and 2016, according to Aetna.

This sector is usually among the most vulnerable to rising rates, which make the companies» large dividend yields less attractive to the regular investors.

The inexpensive valuations, plus a gradual change in company attitudes, have made this sector attractive again.

The mistakes have made much of the sector cheap, including one company that's actually been a bright spot among the yellow metal miners.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private 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.

While the auto - parts sector is cyclical — companies make most of their money earlier in the year, while automakers are assembling cars for September launches — many companies pay a dividend to get you through the slow times.

While these companies are unsurprisingly out of favour with many investors — a lot simply won't buy these companies on moral grounds — they think the sector's high yields, low correlation with market cycles and steady earnings will make investors give them another look, and then stock prices will appreciate.

One of the leading lights of Canada's tech sector, e-commerce platform Shopify makes design a core company value, and its Ottawa headquarters reflects that.

Mylan spokeswoman Nina Devlin said in an emailed statement that the tax credits are available to any interested company, and often «made outside of a company's ordinary course of business, and companies involved in such projects range across a variety of non-energy related sectors.»

«The future of the company is to make sure that we diversify, go heavily into private sector work, and grow nationwide and internationally,» says the entrepreneur, who's been able to focus his talent for construction and engineering on building a thriving business.

Making the sector even more attractive is the 3.5 % to 5 % dividends many of these companies pay.

Matt McIlwain, the managing director at Seattle - based investment firm Madrona Venture Group, says the city's relative strength in the grocery and retail sectors make it an attractive location, especially as the company continues to experiment with its Amazon Fresh delivery service.

A new study revealed the most diverse players in the tech sector as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and minorities.

The only reason governments don't want a private company managing lotteries is that the private sector will do it better and probably make more money at it.

Take the private - equity marketplace, a broadly defined investment sector that includes venture capitalists, large and small angel investors, hedge funds, private investment pools, and even insurance companies and other institutional players that either participate through money - management funds or make direct capital investments in growth companies.

Still, Paul Boothe, director of Western's Lawrence Centre, points to some intriguing ongoing research he's overseeing into Ontario's manufacturing sector, which strongly suggests Canada could be making it far easier for foreign companies to sort out the wide range of federal and provincial programs and policies that might lure their investments.

The Bank of Canada's Q2 Business Outlook, which surveyed about 100 representative companies across economic sectors, did not make for happy reading in general.

The company admits that it's taking longer than expected to make inroads in the health - care sector, for example.

He says the fact that the Greater Toronto Area has a huge food - processing sector didn't make much of a difference for a company like his, which deals in raw goods.

Some of the newer guilds are trying to speak for contingent workers of all kinds, making it far more difficult to organize and apply pressure against any one company or sector.

Utilities, telecoms, and financial sectors tend to make up the majority of dividend paying companies.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

Regardless of the sunk costs, though, how much more growth can the sector really take when current prices are telling companies it would make more sense to shut in mines as opposed to build new ones?

And a pattern has emerged in its strategy: target the largest company in every sector and make large - enough follow - on investments to cripple the competition.

And our sector, small and medium - size businesses, makes up the vast majority of this revenue — 99.7 percent of U.S. companies have less than 200 employees.

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.

CVC's decision to sell Continental Foods comes amid a wave of deal - making in the packaged food sector where large companies are looking for ways to boost profits in a weak market.

Our coverage of the travel and leisure sector continues as we focus on the steadily growing cruise industry and the three publicly - traded companies that make up its oligopoly: Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line.

While the world's largest companies often dominate headlines, small businesses remain the lifeblood of our economy, employing nearly 58 million Americans and making up almost half of the nation's private sector jobs.

I also am looking at the utility sector this month with potential buys in The Southern Company (SO) and Dominion Energy, Inc. (D) being made.

Beijing says that opening up some services sectors would improve the efficiency of the Chinese economy as well as make money for foreign companies.

That could be all - important for consumers, because without the deal, AT&T and Time Warner separately could be left weaker, compared to competitors such as Comcast and Disney, and less willing to deploy new services or green - light new movies and TV series — an argument made by the companies and analysts covering the sector.

Comparing PE (price - to - earnings) multiples for companies in the same sector helps investors make sound investment decisions.

Every now and then I'll take a thematic approach to the asx, for example, go through all the companies in a particular sector, see if their story resonates and then see whether they are making any money.

With nearly 20 years of investing experience, Kossow has leveraged his expertise in multiple sectors to make strategic investments and serve as a dedicated partner to portfolio company executives.

«what makes this offering especially compelling is the fact that [Protocol Labs] has found a way to run an initial coin offering (ICO) that [the company] suspects will satisfy Wall Street's rule - makers, even though they haven't really written rules for this sector yet.

Interesting enough, relatively small companies in the utilities and financial sectors have made their way onto this prestigious list while rarely making the Bloomberg finance first page.

China's tariffs in the automotive sector, for example, have already been successful in getting foreign companies to shift a large part of their supply chains to China, where they make most of the cars they sell in the country.

Way to many different segments and sectors within a single company makes it hard to figure out the bear / bull cases.

Indeed, businesses in the service sector employ five times as many people as companies that make goods.

Having recently received a $ 250,000 federal grant and made its first investment in a female - founded Austin business, True Wealth Ventures is one venture capital fund that's ready to lift the under - funded sector of women - led companies in Austin and across the nation.

Our favorite strateges will be shorting or defensive Market Neutral Hedging: Buying a strong stock while shorting an appropriate index (SPX or Nasdaq), or Pairs Trading - buying a strong company and selling a weak one in the same sector usually makes money whether the market moves up, down or sideways.

Penny Stock Millionaire gives you a unique trader's perspective on the hottest, most aggressively - expanding companies in the tech and biotech sectors, before they start making headlines.

80 companies in the Information Technology sector have an Attractive rating and make up 33 % of the sector's value.

Macroeconomic conditions and political events may affect an individual company's valuation, but we do not make top - down sector or geographic positioning decisions based on an expected event outcome.

58 Very Attractive stocks make up 41 % of the Information Technology sector's value and represents 10 % of the companies in the sector.