Sentences with phrase «slow start a year»

U.S. economy off to a slow start this year.

Our garden got off to a bit of a slow start this year, as «Summer» didn't really kick in until late July.

I hope that the front office doesn't cave to the vocal fans who are (understandably) frustrated by the slow start this year and the lack of a true 3rd DP (all respect to Ozzie).

This group got off to a slow start a year ago and they are determined to not make the same mistake twice..

SSM: The team got off to a slow start this year with a few wins that weren't as crisp as the team would've preferred.

After a slow start this year, home sales are predicted to play catch up for the remainder of 2014, according to the Freddie Mac U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for July.

I am off to a slow start this year and I have only written down a few goals but have a ton in my mind.

Not exact matches

Brewer Molson Coors suffered its biggest one - day loss in 13 years after it said the U.S. beer industry got off to a slow start in 2018.

Canada's economy was due to slow from its torrid pace at the start of the year, and that's what is happening.

New car sales in Western Australia started the 2018 financial year in the slow lane, falling 8 per cent in July as national sales continued to rise.

At the time I was actively pursuing a BS in Business Management, but the pace was too slow for me — I didn't have another three years to wait and learn, so I started using all the resources available to me on line and in the classroom.

«While energy inflation should pick up again towards the middle of this year, it should start to slow towards year - end... And with wage growth still muted, a marked pick - up in service inflation is not on the cards,» said Marcel Thieliant, senior Japan economist at Capital Economics.

It always starts out slow because my clients are figuring out their needs for the year, but it always ends insanely busy because everyone is rushing to make up lost time from the holidays.

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

Because of the slow start to 2017, Kellogg now sees a full - year sales decline of about 3 %, worse than its prior estimate of a 2 % drop.

I started out taking one week of vacation per year and gradually worked up to four, timing my breaks to coincide with the periods when business was slow.

Virtual reality is certainly a big advancement, both technologically and for the entertainment industry, but analysts warn that despite the anticipated media blitz and proclamations that 2016 is the year of VR (and, perhaps, augmented reality as well, depending on what Microsoft does with Hololens), it's going to be a slow start.

TD's Alexander also thinks housing starts will slow next year and in 2014, which will affect the construction industry and weigh on our economic growth.

Housing: is expected to continue its slow recovery next year, with starts climbing from 920,000 units last year to 1 million units in 2014 (unchanged from September's survey results) and to 1.15 million units next year from 1 million this year.

The Sotheby's report says the high - end condo market in the Greater Toronto Area has rebounded after a slower start to the year, a trend that is expected to continue into the fall.

Sondhi noted that while the pace of starts has held up so far this year, TD expects that cooling demand in the face of restrictive policy measures and higher rates will ultimately slow starts going forward.

But after years of robust expansion, Shoppers has started to slow the pace; there are, after all, only so many drugstores one country can take.

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

AWS had the unusual advantage of a seven - year head start before facing like - minded competition, and the team has never slowed down.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Closures have been off to a slow start as large numbers of shutdowns are rare in the early months of the year.

Compare that to America's sluggish start to 2017 with growth at 0.7 percent, the slowest quarterly rate in three years.

So will 2013 be another year of painfully slow and steady improvement in the employment situation, or will we finally start seeing life in the labor market that will put a serious dent in our unemployment crisis?

«We expect demand to outstrip supply for iPhone X over the next two quarters, but demand could potentially slow down starting in the June 2018 quarter due to anticipation of new devices later in the year,» wrote the analysts.

Much like this year's Michigan summer, which got off to a slow start before this week's projected sweltering temperatures, the Q2 earnings season is about to kick into full swing as well.

Fund willingness to stomach slow starts in January to begin the year — especially in light of the proliferation of «tight stop» multi-managers with a massive institutional AUM concentration, and a pod / center book structure which exacerbates crowding — can «turn wrong - way fast» when CRO's become de facto heads of trading into potential deleveraging.

Analysts at Oppenheimer tempered their expectations for United Therapeutics Corp's (NASDAQ: UTHR) first - quarter citing the Maryland - based biotech's historic propensity to log seasonally slow sales during the start of the year.

The metro Vancouver market has already started slowing down, with sales in September off by about 33 per cent from a year ago.

The person who has spent the past 30 or 40 years carefully building his / her slow and steady pension pot will have a good sense of risk tolerance and is unlikely to adopt a gung - ho strategy by starting with a 6 % withdrawal rate for the coming 30 or 40 years of retirement.

We could see a scenario where the economy rapidly slows in the second half of the year, and the Fed could start cutting interest rates.

Lumens may have had a stellar 2017, but things have not slowed down at the start of the year.

The year started with an abundance of negative «macro noise,» including continued structural issues in Europe, slowed growth in the emerging markets, and a questionable reform plan in Japan.

Philips said currency volatility in emerging markets such as Turkey, Argentina, and Indonesia and weak orders for healthcare equipment would mean a slow start to the year.

The For - Hire Truck Tonnage Index from the American Trucking Association (ATA) finished 2014 at a record level, up 3.5 percent for the year, despite a very slow start.

To start, interest rates are likely to move higher at a slow and moderate pace that could keep bond yields well below historical averages over the next five years, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII).

The Asian crisis that sent the Emerging Countries into a tailspin and collapsing stock markets over the 1997 - 99 period may have been due to a liquidity shortage as the US deficit pushed towards closer balance starting in 1993 and reaching an apex in 1996 with world output (excluding US) for three years between 1994 and 1997 was 3 %, but as the US fiscal stimulus from our trade deficits declined over those years, and without alternatives to replace the extra liquidity, raw material prices growth collapsed and world output slowed dramatically from 3 % to 1 %, and 2 % in the following year.

The reason children require a number of years to develop mastery of certain basic concepts, according to some child psychologists, is not that they are slow in learning the words — they actually know the words quite early — but that they have to start experiencing the world in a new, more simplified way that corresponds with the classifications suggested by these words.4 For example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classifications.

Grillin» Fools all around the world have been grilling year round but for many this is the start of the smoky season where succulent and savory slabs of sustenance are slow cooked or seared fast all Summer till Labor day.

Years ago when I first started blogging, I posted about slow cooker ribs.

But while this year may be off to a slow start, I ended last year in the best way possible — flying around the country, visiting those that I love.

I've had a Vitamix for 40 years and it's starting to slow down.

I got a slow cooker for Christmas about ten years ago, and it took me forever to start using it!

Cambridge Companies SPG only started looking at the food and beverage space in 2015, a few years after its initial investment targets - distress real estate - slowed down.

The reason for our slow start is the music that our stars (who make more in a week than some of us do in a year) listen to before games.

Like, probably, every other Gooner, I worshipped Wenger and Arsenal (same thing, in practise, in many ways) for much of his 21 years but recognised that his slow mental decline started around a decade ago.