Not exact matches
When all was said and done, the 10
years ending 2010
saw an average of
less than 2 % GDP growth per
year.
In recent
years, the statuette has gone home with
lesser -
seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.
Quantopian's founder and chief executive John Fawcett said its membership has surged to 60,000 from 35,000
less than a
year ago, while QuantConnect's founder and CEO Jared Broad
saw a jump in its membership to 17,000 from 6,000 a
year earlier.
It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much
less master: over the course of about five
years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has
seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.
Rationale: Home Depot and Lowe's
saw increased demand last
year after Hurricane Irene, a relatively
less damaging storm than Hurricane Sandy.
I'd like to have
seen more of the former and
less of the latter, but perhaps they're just iterations that will be improved on with the inevitable Galaxy S6 next
year.
It's rare for any stock to
see a 188 % return in a
year, but it's even
less common to
see that same stock obliterate market returns for a second
year in a row.
If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 -
year oil sands project is a lot of risk for
less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can
see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.
«This slowdown has been most notable in the chocolate category (about 75 percent of Hershey's sales), which has
seen higher price elasticity and
less significant innovation in recent
years.»
Ten
years ago, many consumers would have shuddered at the idea of putting personal and career information where anyone could
see it, much
less preferences and opinions.
«Restricting to two
years means
less flexibility for consumers, so it remains to be
seen how they'll respond,» Pasquini said in an email.
Given the figures in the table, it's easy to
see why United's productivity gains have been recognized by investors since it does more with
less and it has
seen its stock price rise 45 % in one
year as of April 26, 2017.
It's a risky strategy, but one that many
less - experienced and
less - educated investors have adopted — both during the epic bull market
seen earlier this
year and in recent months following its equally amazing collapse.
I think [BCI] is
less likely to be an area where we
see commercial successes over the coming two or three
years because we still don't have the underlying tooling.
That's an all - time high, and 6 % higher than last
year's fall season, but it's
less of an uptick than the pumpkin products
saw the
year before (10 % growth).
«Stocks certainly look more attractive than bonds, but the case for stocks versus other asset classes is
less clear... «So while returns may compress from the outsized gains we have
seen over the last several
years, we remain constructive on equities.
Less than a
year after launching the program, the company was already
seeing impressive results.
If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50
year oil sands project is a lot of risk for
less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can
see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.
For those looking for me on cable news... You'll
see less of me on MSNBC as, after a bunch of
years, they decided not to renew my contract.
You can
see that the two track fairly closely and if you extended these graphs to 20 or 30
years, there would be even
less variation between the two.
This
year has even
seen a 401 (k) plan with
less than $ 10 million in assets get hit with a lawsuit, a development that garnered the attention of many players in the small plan universe.
Even though their effectiveness rating is higher than those we've
seen in North America and Australia, UK marketers rated themselves
less effective at content marketing versus last
year (48 % vs. this
year's 42 %).
Highly - aligned organizations achieved an average of 32 %
year - over-
year revenue growth - while their
less aligned competitors
saw a 7 % decrease in revenue.
This group of super spenders is expected to
see its population double over the next five
years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but
less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a
year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.
«What we've
seen in the last two
years is
less defense from an» 08, ’09 standpoint.
For this reason I have no doubt that over the next few
years we will
see the imbalances I have identified over the
years in this newsletter reverse themselves, but whether they reverse in more orderly or
less orderly ways will depend on policy decisions.
With the continued dollar strength that we
saw in this current
year 2015, as we layered into additional hedges for fiscal»16 they were at
less favorable rates.
We do
see less scope for upside growth surprises as consensus expectations have mostly caught up with our GPS for G7 economies over the past
year.
It takes
less money to start companies than it did 10
years ago and these VC's had
seen the best deals get done by über - wealthy angels.
However, the volume growth was
less than half of what the Brewers Association
saw in
years past when craft beer volume increased by 17.6 % and dollars sales surged by 20 % between 2012 and 2013, according to IRI data.
As you can
see in the following chart, VF's price growth has more or
less mirrored its dividend growth over the past 10
years.
We've been
seeing a shift, however, for the last couple of
years where entrepreneurs are
less and
less likely to be starting up their own small business.
Beginning with a Launch Pad site rather than a full - blown «set and forget» site that will remain static for the next 1 — 2
years, its
less common to
see ideas morphing into something unmanageable.
Now that the loans are beginning to deteriorate and subprime buyers are no longer in the market or tapped out, we're beginning to
see the real picture — which is much
less rosy than it seemed just a
year ago.
In fact, in the S&P 500 Cumulative Advance - Decline Line
seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing
less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few
years has been flat (purple area), this
year it has broken to all - time highs.
I predict we will
see American clinics installed in Canada as Jean will realize it is
less expensive to bring the clinics to the customer, Then, there will be price increments the government can't cover because there is no money and within 2
years we are totally involved in a US Republican style health care.
Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site: «But there has also never in the history of the market been a time when we went to a P / E10 level in the 30s and did not
see a price crash of 50 percent to 65 percent» And there have never been two such crashes
less than 80
years apart.
With inflation of up to 3 % you would remain on track for achieving the target income floor from the state pension alone in 18
years or
less — the # 300K or so required to buy an index - linked annuity in your scenario would certainly
see your relative through those 18
years comfortably.
Revolut, the digital banking alternative, has today raised an additional $ 250m in funding that will
see the London - based fintech increase its valuation 5x in
less than a
year to $ 1.7 billion - becoming one of the fastest tech companies in Europe to reach unicorn status.
In a study by Aberdeen Group, highly - aligned organizations achieved an average of 32 %
year - over-
year revenue growth - while their
less aligned competitors
saw a 7 % decrease in revenue.
The same is true, though on a
less spectacular scale, for the smaller east Asian economies, a number of which have bounced back strongly from the weakness
seen in the first half of last
year.
As such, over the past 15
years, we've
seen considerably faster jobs growth in skilled positions than in
lesser skilled ones, as shown in the chart above.
Could we
see some of the world's largest corporations — some
less than 20
years old — fall to Darwinian forces as they fail to adapt?
As you
see in the exhibit, at least 70 % of the investors we surveyed would only tolerate underperformance for three
years or
less.2
2015 has been a rough
year for this heavy machinery company as weakened economies in Asia and Europe
saw less demand for CAT products as well as depressed commodity prices affecting sales as mining activity has been curbed.
As a result, the most historically reliable valuation measures now suggest that the S&P 500 will experience a net loss over the coming decade, while including broader (if slightly
less reliable) measures results in projected S&P 500 10 -
year annual nominal total returns of about 1.4 % annually (
see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle for the arithmetic behind these estimates).
While I have championed the cause of women in ministry through the
years, I've run across an inordinate number of women pastors whose demeanor was
less than appealing (
see Sister Marie's comment above).
In 50
years African Americans are slave of white people and now we have African American president... and I am so happy for that... you will
see a day coming may be in 100
years more or
less Americans will accept Islam and will become a Muslim majority country... the way Americans are reverting to Islam...
It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as
less than human, stoning people to death, 60
year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18
year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (
see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.
I look at this event, and others that have gained attention just in the past few
years, and what I
see is behaviors that are even
less morally upright than that of the folks who hung out in the bars I used to frequent.