Sentences with phrase «slow year on»

Even if it was a slow year on the home front, it's a new year so I hope you'll take a little time to set even just a few goals for this year.

Not exact matches

The upheaval at Ford underlines pressure on all three Detroit automakers to prove they can avoid losses as the U.S. market begins to slow from last year's record sales.

On Thursday, it announced it would reduce its production guidance for the year by about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to an average of about 315,000 boe / d, with exit production of about 335,000 boe / d, to account for lower heavy oil production, an advanced schedule for maintenance at its Tucker oilsands project and a slower ramp up in liquids - rich natural gas output from its BD Project in Indonesia.

Much of the growth in recent years has come from household spending, which must slow eventually because so much of that spending was done on credit.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Mobile e-commerce — shopping on a smartphone or tablet while on the go — is also expected to rise next year, although it may see somewhat slow growth in Canada.

For the study, researchers analyzed a a sample of more than 340,000 job interview reviews posted anonymously on the site to determine whether hiring is moving faster or slower today compared to previous years.

More than once in the intervening years, Minhas has faced challenges she describes as anything but fair: regulatory hurdles slowing her products» spread, retail monopolies denying access to their store shelves and larger competitors muscling in on her turf.

But every five years, the governor and the government agree on how the monetary authority will approach its duty of keeping inflation advancing at a pace that is neither too fast nor too slow.

Emerging economies are set to slow this year as the U.S. Federal Reserve begins raising interest rates and there's a rising protectionist rhetoric in advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund warned on Monday.

In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

In the U.K., economic growth slowed to a one - year low of 0.3 percent from 0.7 percent in the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

Earlier this year, Dorsey revealed a five - pronged plan, which includes a focus on streaming live content, to the pleasure of investors, but the execution of the proposal has been agonizingly slow to follow.

Under Armour warned investors that sales growth would slow over the next two years, and the news sent shares down sharply on Tuesday.

Wolfgang Kiener, senior analyst at BayernLB, told CNBC via email: «Given only a slow increase of core inflation, we expect the ECB to reduce QE from October on to 15 billion euros per month and to stop it altogether at the end of year.»

STOCKHOLM / LONDON, March 26 (Reuters)- Spotify, the world's top selling music streaming service, expects revenue to grow 20 - 30 percent this year as currency swings slow the pace from 2017, it said on Monday, as it gears up for a highly anticipated stock market listing next week.

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.

And, on Thursday, new factory activity data is expected to show that the manufacturing sector grew at a slow pace in September, while U.S. automakers are expected to report a 12 % increase in monthly sales year - over-year.

«We've been looking at our growth week on week for the past year saying at some point real soon, it's going to slow down,» says Cal Henderson, Slack's CTO and a co-founder.

In a separate report focusing on larger integrated oil companies, Moody's came to a similar conclusion — that the substantial improvement in the financial position of the oil industry over the past year is poised to slow down.

The Paris Agreement — the most significant accord on the issue — will take effect next month after an intense ratification process that lasted less than a year after negotiations concluded, an unprecedented speed in the often slow - moving world of climate diplomacy.

Facebook is adapting better to the shift toward mobile and video than social media rival Twitter Inc., which reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in three years on Wednesday.

Thirty years ago, before software began «eating the world,» much of the information in industry was stored on spinning disks — those relatively slow but inexpensive devices reminiscent of record players.

«If they had introduced clones a year earlier, it could have been checkmate on us,» says Bouton, citing the slower demand back then and the company's trouble filling orders.

LONDON, April 13 - The United Nations shipping agency reached an agreement on Friday to cut carbon emissions, following years of slow progress.

LONDON, April 13 - The United Nations shipping agency reached an agreement on Friday to cut carbon emissions, delegates said, following years of slow progress.

Next year, growth in the region is expected to slow to 5.2 percent, AMRO said in its report released on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank's four - day annual meeting.

Interviews were conducted before the announcement on April 28 that weak consumer spending had slowed economic growth to a three - year low.

Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

She predicts greater profitability next year as it slows its spending on original content and moves toward cash flow positive territory.

Losing the lease on his Manhattan storefront left men's clothing and costume designer Michele Savoia scrambling for funds last summer, traditionally his slowest time of year.

The latest example came on Thursday, as Facebook shared how it worked with the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox teams over the last two years to tackle a problem that was slowing down the whole process of loading many common web pages, Facebook included.

Mobile apps have been gaining popularity for years... but unlike Starbucks, many retailers were slow to jump on the bandwagon.

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.

After years of massive returns the classic car market is slowing, with collectors focusing on provenance, rarity and condition of automobiles, an expert from a major auction house selling classic cars told CNBC.

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.

Depending on the type of business you run, the December holiday season can either be the busiest time of the year or the slowest.

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.

Progress on wage equality for women in the United States has been demonstrably slow in recent years — but a number of companies have taken matters into their own hands.

After a slow and grudging response to the initial revelations, Cameron finally published six years of personal tax returns at the weekend, and for good measure Monday promised new legislation to make companies criminally liable if they fail to stop their employees laundering money on clients» behalf.

That's not to say sales have been slow; of third - party estimates that put the value of transactions on BuildDirect between US$ 100 million and US$ 150 million this year, Booth says: «That would be in the right range.»

«It might be a better place to be in the next year or two rather than in the U.S. if the global recovery continues its slow grinding pace upward, and you are particularly focused on total return potential,» Fennell said.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

Euro zone inflation slowed to 1.2 percent year - on - year in April, down from 1.3 percent in March, and core inflation fell even more, raising questions about the ECB's plan for withdrawing its monetary stimulus.

The group acquired Misfit in November of last year for $ 260 million in a bid to get the company back on track after slow earnings earlier in 2015.

After years of downward forecast revisions that strained the central bank's credibility, the Fed finally settled in 2016 on expectations that maybe the economy's growth rate would not exceed 2 %, having been permanently affected by the Great Recession, slowed by changing demographics, or a combination of the two.

«While overall price growth slowed, gains in core price measures remained firm, leaving the Bank of Canada on track to lift interest rates two more times this year,» Alicia Macdonald, the Conference Board of Canada's principal economist, said in a statement.

Yields on 10 - year Treasurys spiked to their highest level in roughly 10 months after Chinese officials recommended slowing or halting purchases of them.

Apparently, they're filling in for their Chinese counterparts, who aren't feeling particularly chipper this year, with the economy there slowing and Beijing cracking down on lavish gifts to corrupt officials.