Sentences with phrase «sharp declines as»

The Busch family ran the company for nearly 130 years, even after it went public, but the stock stagnated in the early 2000s when Michelob and Budweiser fell into a sharp decline as Americans gravitated to wine and spirits.

The expansionary period that followed the recession in 1960 - 61, which was a result of high unemployment and a shift to foreign - made cars, was met with another sharp decline as the Fed began to tighten monetary policy.

The price of a home in Calgary took a bit of a dip year over year but it wasn't as sharp a decline as many had feared.

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Perth has suffered the biggest drop in house prices, falling 2.4 per cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia decline by the sharpest rate in nearly than three years.

The results contrast with top rival Mattel (mat), which last month reported declining sales as it lamented sharp discounting during the key holiday season.

In addition to lower dealer inventories we've experienced tighter bid - ask spreads (which, interestingly, is a sign of the absence of dealers operating on a principal basis) as well as sharp declines in turnover.

European stocks finished Tuesday's trading day in negative territory, as a sharp decline in commodities weighed on investor sentiment.

PARIS, April 27 (Reuters)- Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows fell 18 percent in 2017 to $ 1.41 trillion, due partly to a sharp decline in flows into the United States as the prospect of tax reform reduced the incentive to engage in financial and corporate restructuring.

However, as we noted in our Financial System Review, financial vulnerabilities would usually translate into full - blown risks — with attendant consequences for the economy — only if there was a trigger, such as a widespread and sharp decline in economic activity and employment.

«Corporates» reticence to invest or deploy balance sheet reserves has resulted in a sharp decline in productivity growth, which acts as a headwind to developed market economies,» McQuaker told CNBC.

The increased availability of credit to lower income borrowers and the sharp rise in housing values contributed to the rise of consumption as a share of GDP and the decline of the personal saving rate3 (Chart 7).

He pointed to the sharp decline in oil prices, as well as manufacturing weakness.

Following the sharpest decline in crude oil prices in at least a century, as well as a six - year bear market in metals, the global environment could be ripe for a commodity rebound.

Some analysts said the sharp swings in offshore exchange rates and borrowing costs appeared to be engineered by the Chinese leadership, as a way to ease depreciation pressure on the renminbi and to discourage speculation — namely short - sellers, investors who bet on declines in the currency, often by using borrowed funds.

While US stocks were lower on Wednesday, the decline wasn't nearly as sharp as early February's market turmoil, when the Dow saw its biggest single - day drop in a day and the S&P 500 entered correction territory (a decline of at least 10 percent from its previous high).

This, combined with widespread moral hazard, had inevitably to result in both tremendous misuse of capital and a sharp decline in the consumption share of GDP (as the household income share declined)-- both of which of course happened to a remarkable degree in China.

Figure 1 shows how EBITDA gives the misleading impression that gas station operators CST Brands (CST) is increasing profits when its true profitability as measured by return on invested capital (ROIC) is in sharp decline.

A range of factors have driven this shift, including a sharp reduction in the cost to advance technology companies to proof of concept and business model validation — aided by declining infrastructure expenses, the rise of cloud - based software and service providers, and «pay as you grow» cost structures.

«There is a considerable negative impact on global growth from the energy sector due to the sharp decline in investments, mainly in the oil and gas sector as well as lower output values.»

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

As to the equity market this morning, as we start the second week of December, the mixed showing comes after overall declines in Europe earlier today (save for the Paris CAC - 40) and in Asia overnight, with the setback in China's equity market especially sharp at some 2 As to the equity market this morning, as we start the second week of December, the mixed showing comes after overall declines in Europe earlier today (save for the Paris CAC - 40) and in Asia overnight, with the setback in China's equity market especially sharp at some 2 as we start the second week of December, the mixed showing comes after overall declines in Europe earlier today (save for the Paris CAC - 40) and in Asia overnight, with the setback in China's equity market especially sharp at some 2 %.

Of particular note, prices of food such as egg, dairy and beef have seen sharp declines in recent months.

As of the end of 2000, U.S. equity dividends were at a 101 - year low (falling from 7.2 % in 1950 to 1.1 %) Moreover, there has been a sharp decline in the proportion of companies paying dividends to just 21 % in 2000.

With the growth of online and other marketing channels, it's no surprise that public speaking has declined in popularity, although the decline is not as sharp as other marketing methods.

The below chart illustrates U.S. oil production (in gold) vs. FED's balance sheet (in blue), and how overproduction from accommodative monetary policy resulted in the sharp decline in oil prices, creating a systemic risk that was again transmitted from financial and commodity markets to the real economy (in job losses and slow growth in Texas and other oil producing states, as well as the decline in headline inflation, pushing the Federal Reserve further from the price stability objective):

On the other hand, the sharp increase in interest rates is likely to serve as a serious headwind to Russia's already declining economy.

With the province's economy growing but unemployment rates remaining unchanged, he faces the challenge of proving the government's job creation plan is working as the provincial economy recovers from the sharp decline of international oil prices.

However, given the sharp declines in import prices, the value of imports has fallen over 2003 as a whole.

Simulations suggest that as markets make a sharp decline the volatility in the SPY puts rises, it is not uncommon to see a 0.25 Cent OTM SPY Put rise to $ 3 or even $ 4.

Thus I would advise potential and current income investors to look at any sharp share price declines in 2015 as a potential long - term buying opportunity.

In their September 2013 paper entitled «Time Variation in Precious Metal Safe Haven Status — Evidence from the USA», Brian Lucey and Sile Li compare and contrast the effectiveness of four precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) as safe havens from sharp declines in U.S. stocks (the S&P 500 Index) and U.S. bonds (a 10 - year U.S. Treasury note index).

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

One of the primary reasons it appears as though «American Christianity» is experiencing a sharp decline is because the nominals that once made up (disproportionately) Mainline Protestantism and Catholicism are now checking «none» on religious affiliation surveys.

As Australian food exports as a whole continue to grow, this overall increase has hidden the sharp decline the food sector has experienced in the market share in ChinAs Australian food exports as a whole continue to grow, this overall increase has hidden the sharp decline the food sector has experienced in the market share in Chinas a whole continue to grow, this overall increase has hidden the sharp decline the food sector has experienced in the market share in China.

The newly merged dairy co-op Royal FrieslandCampina has reported a sharp decline in the profitability of its ingredients business, as selling prices plummet.

He's seen a sharp decline in his fortunes this season, but will still go down as one of the greatest midfielders the Premier League has ever seen.

The sharp decline in Chinese tourists has been widely expected as Beijing has banned its travel agencies from selling package tours to Korea since mid-March in apparent retaliation over Seoul's deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.

Views of the US have shown some sharp declines among the citizens of its allies the UK (46 %, down from 60 %), France (52 %, down from 62 %), and Germany (35 %, down from 44 %), as well as in Egypt (24 %, down from 37 %).

From the world opinion dot org poll taken in May: Views of the US have shown some sharp declines among the citizens of its allies the UK (46 %, down from 60 %), France (52 %, down from 62 %), and Germany (35 %, down from 44 %), as well as in Egypt (24 %, down from 37 %).

Recent data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, had showed that a sharp decline was recorded in revenue accruable to the Federal Government from the petroleum sector, as the country's earnings from crude oil export dropped to N5.271 trillion for the nine month period, January to September 2015.

National polling trends have painted a grim picture for the Trump campaign, as a sharp decline in strength against Clinton has made Republicans anxious about his appeal outside the Republican base.

The decline has been so sharp that even cars bought in the past 10 years are breaking down as often as some that went into service 25 years ago.

The data - driven approach has been credited as one of the factors in the sharp decline in the city's crime rate over the past two decades.

Hein also noted rising personnel costs and a sharp decline in revenues generated by boarding out - of - of - county inmates at the Ulster County Jail as challenges in developing the 2017 spending plan.

Labour's corresponding decline has not been as sharp, and its share of the vote is now shored up by the post-2010 exodus of centre - left Liberal Democrat voters, a reverse of the SDP effect 30 years ago.

Previous studies linking neonicotinoids to sharp declines in honeybee populations, known as colony collapse disorder, prompted the European Union in 2013 to pass a two - year ban on the use of the pesticides, though bee experts now believe a parasitic mite, poor nutrition or both may also weaken or kill the insects.

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.

The analysis also revealed a «genetic bottleneck» in Western dogs — a reduction in genetic diversity typically tied to a sharp decline in a population's numbers, as can occur when a small band of individuals splits off from the main group.

A new study shows that becoming a father leads to a sharp decline in testosterone, suggesting that although high levels of the hormone may help men win a mate, testosterone - fueled traits such as aggression and competition are less useful when it comes to raising children.