Sentences with phrase «since boom years»

Keath says business in town has stalled somewhat since boom years in 2005 and 2006, and the strong relationship the store has with its customers has done a lot to help keep it afloat.

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Overall, 2014 has been a blockbuster year for IPOs, raising the most capital since 2000 during the dot com boom.

That could carry risks since the country's once - booming economy has been slowing and its markets have been volatile over the past year.

That policy change has since sparked a solar boom, setting up Japan to surpass Germany as the world's largest photovoltaics market by revenue this year, with sales nearly doubling to $ 20 billion, according to an IHS report.

Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road Holdings said its business is booming in Western Australia, with six additional branches emerging since the opening of its first Perth office three years ago.

It's been more than four years now since the giddily titled book Go Canada: The Coming Boom in the Toronto Stock Market and How to Profit From It hit store shelves, advising its hopeful readers that within a decade the Toronto Stock Exchange would more than double in value to 30,000 points.

But after the bust comes the boom: Expect soaring crude prices later this decade as demand from fast - growing Asia collides with greatly diminished supply — a classic bust - boom cycle with which the oil industry was all too familiar 100 years ago but may have forgotten since.

Since the children took over, Wölffer's sales have boomed, doubling in size about every two years.

The IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.

This year could be one of the best for the IPO market since the dot - com boom, according to IVP General Manager Sandy Miller.

It hasn't grown that fast in normal times since the early 2000's, a period that probably wasn't all that normal, as so much of the wealth generated during those years was from America's debt boom and China's once - in - lifetime rise from poverty.

As Boomers become Zoomers (A moniker meant to describe their continued momentum past the 65 year mark — and one I personally love since I'm smack in the midst of that cohort!)

«The Kentucky Bourbon Festival has been evolving right alongside the booming Bourbon industry since the festival's beginning 25 years ago,» said Executive Director Jill Hawkins.

China's exports rode a global trade boom last year, expanding at the fastest pace since 2013 and serving as one of the key drivers behind the economy's forecast - beating 6.9 percent expansion.

Indeed, a number of forecasters are now predicting that the expansion, which began in 2009 and has remained subpar ever since, might prove to be far more durable than the typical five - to - six - year growth cycle, in part because of the absence of the traditional boom, then bust pattern.

The past year saw the best environment for fund - raising since the pre-crash boom.

PureGym, which was recently acquired by US investor Leonard Green & Partners, has been one of the driving forces behind the budget gym boom since its launch eight years ago.

With the Nasdaq crossing the 5,000 threshold for the first time since the dot - com boom and the broader equity bull market entering its seventh year, many investors are once again anxious that stocks are in a bubble.

Tom's company survived two recessions and the dot com boom, but through it all, LaSalle has grown every year since inception and have never done a layoff.

This fund grew quickly during the boom years, but the value has since dropped from $ 17 billion to closer to $ 3 billion by fiscal - year 2013.

It wasn't long ago that economists were worrying about the threat of a populist takeover in the Europe and predicting an investment led boom in the U.S.. However, since the start of the year, ratings agencies have upgraded their growth forecasts for Europe's largest economies and slashed its predictions for the U.S. Moody's is expecting...

The boom has been building steadily since the end of the last decade, but it has grown exponentially over the past couple of years.

«The Blair years have been a boom time for: Ann Summers sex shops (up from 13 to 134 since 1997); free Viagra; CCTV cameras; wind farms; John Prescott; Peter Mandelson; Cherie Blair's lecture income; the prison population; Alastair Campbell; private security guards; sales of illegal drugs; binge - drinking; City salaries; Ken Livingstone; childhood obesity; and grossly incompetent management of the rail system.»

New York City's boom is one of its largest expansions since World War II, with employment increasing by 18.9 percent between 2009 and 2017 — reaching 4.4 million jobs last year.

Mulgrew said layoffs are unnecessary since the city has a $ 3.1 billion current - year surplus and revenue from a booming Wall Street is pouring into the city's coffers.

But it has been more than 40 years since Concorde's first flight, and engineers at NASA and elsewhere now have some nifty ideas for making booms less shocking.

But a raft of mine expansions during the boom years and weak demand caused by the global economic slowdown pushed prices to a 3 - year low near $ 80 a metric ton in October 2012, and they have stayed below $ 100 since.

Since the invention of agriculture 11,000 years ago, human population has trended up — but the boom may be drawing to an end.

The Chinese government enacted a ban on the commercial sale of elephant ivory last year, and the legal mammoth ivory market has been booming since.

However, since a diet can not be patented, mainstream medicine has instead focused on pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to combat diseases like Alzheimer's, as such drugs are seen as a financial windfall for pharmaceutical companies, with so many Americans in the «Baby Boomer» age group entering into their senior years.

But then, that reminded me that I have a red midi skirt in my closet that I've had for YEARS (READ: since college)-- and I thought it would be fun to pair my BOOM sweatshirt with my red midi skirt.

If your love life is in a dry spell and it's been awhile, maybe even years since you've been out on a date or shared romance mate companionship, it can feel daunting to delve back into the baby boomers dating pool.

Since you are reading this, you probably already know that online dating has boomed over the past several years.

white only dating sites In spite of this, since the site is G - rated, you will need to possibly be a mature (20 years and years and or senior) to undertake a Senior Dating Site For Baby Boomers and Senior Singles.

The education technology sector chalked up $ 1.42 billion in investments last year, the most amount of dollars booked since 2000, the peak of the dot - com boom, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource.

According to Anuriev, since 2011 the market has increased by almost 200 % and there is a possibility that the boom will continue over the next several years.

A certain amount of adult edginess is good, since if anything manga in America has always risked being categorized as «kid's stuff» since the Pokemon boom 10 years ago, but I'd hate to see manga fade out into something for middle - aged fanboys and fangirls, even if the greying market comes with some really great Grant Morrison and Alan Moore style nerdy intertextual narratives.

I don't know if you've noticed but stocks have been booming ever since the year started.

With the Nasdaq crossing the 5,000 threshold for the first time since the dot - com boom and the broader equity bull market entering its seventh year, many investors are once again anxious that stocks are in a bubble.

That hot Texas sun might feel particularly strong in El Paso, since the booming city enjoys well over 300 days of sunshine each year.

For myself, I have a small portion invested in Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund (TAREX), which happens to be my third best mutual fund investment in terms of returns, thanks to the real estate boom in the early years of the decade (following chart shows the performances of DJ Equity REIT Total Return Index, DJ Industrial Average, and S&P 500 since 2001).

Jaipur / / India Ever since we saw @anniset and @drcuerda's #WHPperfectpair submission late last year, we've been inspired to try a colour - blocked geometric couple shot... and then we stumbled across this ancient step - well from the 9th Century, and BOOM Opportune time for such a shot.

In the years since the market has boomed, and McGee is eager to return himself and his studio — Spicy Horse — back around after finishing Alice.

It's been years since the DOA cast has been on the scene of the fighting game realm and the timing couldn't be any better with the current boom of titles in the genre.

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice by Sanzaru Games has been carrying a heavy weight of sour expectations by its name alone since its unveiling last year.

If you've read last year's interview with me here on Creative Boom, you might know I've been on the road since the end of 2014.

The low price for gas now, after the boom years since 2007 or so in other states (which produced the problems and anger distilled into the film «Gasland «-RRB-, will insure that any drilling effort plays out at a pace that will be manageable.

While prices for electricity from renewable sources have fallen sharply in recent years, coal remains the cheapest source of power, and India's coal industry has embarked on a building boom, doubling installed capacity since 2008.

Although the first Nespresso machine appeared in 1989, sales of coffee pods have boomed in the last few years — doubling in Europe since 2010 to # 3.3 billion.

Export growth accelerated after the recession, with consecutive post-2009 growth of more than 20 million tons per year, a level of growth not seen since the 1979 - to - 1981 export boom.