Sentences with phrase «sectors of the past year»

Not exact matches

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

The Pilbara housing market and the South West unit market were two of the strongest regional property sectors over the past year, a report released today has found.

But such is the breathless language of luxury goods, a sector that has taken a beating over the past year.

Project Jasper, a joint effort between the private sector and Canada's central bank and payment systems operator over the past two years, is a good example of this type of work, and is a blueprint that the U.S. should follow if we ever want to see blockchain become a viable Social Security number replacement.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

Membership in private - sector unions has fallen steadily over the past 25 years and now represents just 17 % of the private - sector labour force.

Maybe that's why socially responsible investments in the United States actually grew 4 percent faster than any other sector of U.S. stocks in the past few years.

Sales in that sector have risen an average of 20.5 % over the past two years, according to Sageworks.

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.

Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than does Riddell.

Some of the best - performing stocks in the sector over the past year include Nvidia and Micron, both of which are up more than 100 percent in that period.

It's actually one of the few beverage sectors to show sustained growth over the past five years.

Over the past few years, this tech stalwart has positioned itself as a leader in one of its sector's up - and - coming areas: information technology services.

The public sector has shed over 800,000 jobs over past four years, 700,000 of which were at the local and state government, according to the Federal Reserve.

Said Poloz: «That comparative advantage has been strengthened by the decline in the Canadian dollar in the past couple of years — a symptom of falling resource prices, and a facilitator of the rotation of growth from resource production to other sectors.»

Sales in the manufacturing sector have improved in the past 12 months, and the companies surveyed reported that strengthening U.S. demand is perking up their view of the next year:

The map below links to profiles of the 20 largest job markets, each with their own ranking of the top 10 sectors driving job postings in that city over the past year.

Picking a stock, sector or actively managed mutual fund because it recently outperformed over the past year is a case of hindsight bias and chasing returns, he said.

By far the biggest revision, on a percentage basis, came in the mining sector, which isn't surprising; the oil and gas industry, which is part of the mining sector, has been extremely volatile in the past year due to tumbling oil prices.

This past year, the information technology sector and other growing areas of the market have benefited from optimism about the global economic recovery and improving corporate earnings.

In the past six years, it has morphed into a business juggernaut that now holds stakes in nearly every sector of Iranian industry, including finance, oil, telecommunications, the production of birth - control pills and even ostrich farming.

This ought to mean that unless there is a very severe slowdown in the world economy, the trade sector of the economy should still do pretty well, even if the growth rates are not quite as high as in the past year.

The company claims to have captured over 60 per cent of the organised retail sector (over the past 4 years) to become the largest retail CRM provider in India.

In the past 13 rising - rate environments over the past 64 years, tech and health care sectors gained an average of 20 % and 13 %, respectively during the 12 - month period following the first rate hike of each cycle.

The smartphone sector saw shipments fall 2 per cent in the past year, according to Strategy Analytics, so the company must evolve beyond its reliance on a device that still accounts for more than 60 per cent of revenue.

We look back across various events of the past year in our sector.

It's no surprise then that the tech sector has been at the forefront of the bull market over the past year.

In the past ~ 2 years, NVP has invested in a number of vertical - specific solutions across a variety of sectors, including The Retail Equation (brick and mortar retail); The Rainmaker Group (multi-family housing); as well as CareCloud and Health Catalyst (healthcare).

Over the past 40 years to the mid-1990's America's private - sector net saving averaged 2.5 % of GDP; it remained positive virtually throughout.

The Bank estimates that over the past two years the level of investment in the oil and gas sector alone has declined by almost 50 per cent (Chart 3).

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

After being one of the worst - performing groups in each of the past two years, energy, the S&P 500's seventh - largest sector weight, is one of the best - performing segments in the S&P 500 this year.

During the past year, companies in the energy sector have experienced a wide variety of investment outcomes.

Approval of Trump's stance on trade slipped over the past year throughout the U.S. Plains as the administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports weighed on the agricultural sector.

Continued strong growth in the household sector's assets, however, has resulted in the ratio of household liabilities to assets remaining roughly stable for the past few years.

Wymer: The health care sector has not kept up with information technology over the past year, but I think that new types of medicine, often coupled with new diagnostic techniques, have the potential to extend lives.

Private - sector services prices have increased at a consistently faster pace than private - sector goods prices for most of the past six years (Graph 39).

«Tech has been the leading sector of the market for years, and while it took a backseat over the past few weeks, it is now reasserting its leadership and the market is following,» Nolte said.

Conclusion The two key problems facing the developed economies over the past seven years since the crisis of 2008 - 09 have been the inter-related issues of balance sheet repair in the private sector and the lack of money and credit growth from the banking system.

Growth in the United Kingdom has begun to moderate as the housing sector has responded to the tightening of monetary policy over the past year or so.

Both the Tankan survey and the Shoko Chukin survey of small business suggest conditions in the manufacturing sector are as strong as at any time in the past 15 years or so.

Domestically - sourced inflation has been running faster over the past couple of years and there has been a significant pick - up in domestic producer prices recently, associated with rising materials costs and strong demand pressures in some sectors.

The ratio of household sector interest payments to disposable income has fallen steadily over the past year and is now below 6 per cent.

The industrial and resource sectors have both shown relatively small increases over the past year; stocks of financial companies are up by 15 per cent (Graph 35).

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Jeff Sutton, for one, has purchased $ 2.96 billion worth of prime Manhattan retail properties in 18 deals over the past five years, according to RCA, which found that he was the most active investor in the sector during that time period.

Like many companies in the mining sector, Glencore's shares have fallen over the past few years as commodities prices have weakened, due to a glut of new supply.

Over the past year, the strong pace of debt accumulation has outstripped the growth in the household sector's assets, despite further significant gains in housing wealth (Table 9).

The exclusion of health services, as well as a number of other services provided by the public sector, largely explains the relatively modest increase in the market goods and services excluding volatile items measure of underlying inflation over the past year.