Sentences with phrase «still ended the year»

Elsewhere in commodities, the February gold contract was up 40 cents at US$ 1,060.20 an ounce, but still ended the year weaker.

Twelve of our companies, just over 20 % of our holdings, used their cash flow to achieve all four goals: they increased the dividend, reduced the share count, made an acquisition and still ended the year with a stronger balance sheet.

Even so, they still ended the year with $ 20 million in cash.

Come on, you can still end this year on a winning note.

Through August they are the second - largest format for adult books, only marginally behind trade paperbacks, and could still end the year as the biggest - grossing adult format.

Not exact matches

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

While it's natural to take a breath, reflect, and count your blessings during the holiday season, it's still possible to also end your year with a feeling of real accomplishment, so that you'll start 2018 on a high note rather than with a horrifically backlogged to - do list.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster but still anemic rate at the end of last year.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

But the firm still ended its 2015 fiscal year on an upswing, with revenues up by 10 %, earnings up 17 % to $ 70.2 million and the stock price back up in the $ 25 range.

The U.S. economy is still struggling more than three years after the Great Recession ended.

Any experienced retailer with a bird's - eye view of my first six months at Michaels might have wondered if we'd still be open by the year's end.

At the time, oil supplies for OECD nations had surged to near 400 million barrels above their five - year average, and were still running at about 300 million barrels above the average at the end of 2016.

«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.

-- Still, experts say that inflation isn't yet strong enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates — something that isn't expected to occur until the end of the year.

According to Sasha Poljsak, an analyst with Fusion Retail Analytics in Toronto, Le Château's unaided awareness among female clothing shoppers 35 - years - old and up — though still modest — has been steadily climbing, from 1 % in 2010 to 3 % in 2011 to 4 %, where it sat at the end of 2012.

Even though the average American's 401 (k) balance rose 2 % since the first quarter of the year, the average account was still down 2.5 % for the three months ending in June compared to a year ago, according to a Fidelity analysis of 14.2 million people through the end of June.

When, by a quirk of history, France installed Maximilian I as emperor of Mexico in 1867, Maximilian's three years of clumsy rule ended here — you can still see where he was executed.

Unfortunately, I still have hoarding habits, keeping everything from receipts to files to emails for years on end.

Our 2013 year - end target of 1600 implies a 10 % price return, where most of the appreciation can be attributed to earnings growth of 7 % next year, along with modest multiple expansion from 14.2 x to 14.7 x on trailing earnings, still below an average PE of 16x.

It may seem to some that we're still recovering from the Great Recession of 2008, but the reality is that we're nearing our 100th month of expansion at the end of this year.

Despite the 6.2 percent drop in the benchmark S&P 500 from its Jan. 26 high to Feb. 6, investors are still expecting mild to moderate gains by year - end.

Still, Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's school integration ruling, and long refused to visit South Africa while its white regime insisted on racially segregated meetings.

In fact, you actually still have time to start some type of business before the year ends.

Results from the SurePayroll survey showed that 47 percent of small business owners will not offer year - end bonuses because they are still taking a cautious, defensive approach.

However, users who still run Microsoft XP will still be left vulnerable as the company ended support for its 13 - year - old operating system earlier this year.

So while Libby did not end up serving time in jail, he was still on probation for 2 years and paid a fine of $ 250,000.

The fund, however, is still trailing the market this year, up just 1.9 percent through the end of April for 2017, according to company materials.

Buffett, whose Berkshire held an 8.59 % stake in IBM as of the end of last year and who has caught some flak for his stake, said his cost basis in IBM was around $ 170 a share and that he had still never sold a share.

If you still get the same dollar amount in matching funds, should it matter if you get it in installments or in a lump sum at year's end?

That still only works out to an ROE of 8 % by the end of next year.

After 16 years we still lack a coherent strategy, once that aligns ways and means to achieve realistic ends.

While the tax incentive sunset in 2014, it could still be available to businesses making purchases in 2015, but Congress and the White House need to act to extend the credit before the end of the year.

Nick Foles proved he could still play with a steady performance against the Giants in his first start for the Eagles this year after Carson Wentz went down with a season - ending injury, and the Philadelphia defense proved they're still fearsome when they essentially won Eagles» Christmas game against the Raiders on their own.

Dealmaking was still brisk last year, just on the more modest end of the scale.

Economists suggested that the Fed will still eventually scale back its bond buying, perhaps before year's end.

5:11 - Yahoo still expects to completely switch to MSFT algorithmic search by the end of this year.

Your graphs are interesting but at the end of five years they still seem to be tending down.

As it stands, TLRD recognized just $ 50 million in synergies over the past year, and while they still claim these synergies will eventually reach the lower end of that $ 100 - $ 150 million range by the end of this year, it's hard to trust those claims given the combined company's poor operating results.

An average of the results from the major surveys shows conditions were moderating in the second half of last year, after a strong first half, but they were still at a high level at the end of the year (Graph 12).

Yet volatility is still below its long - term average, and the low - volatility climate of the past few years is incompatible with a world marked by slow growth, unstable inflation expectations and a likely Federal Reserve rate hike before year's end.

Congress is still trying to pass aggressive tax reform prior to the end of the year to carry out campaign promises.

But believe it or not, the group doing the best at the end of the year — and which is still showing signs of strength as the page flips to 2018 — is none other than old - school commodities.

El - Erian (left) told CNBC the reason is that «the risks outweigh the rewards as the central bank tries to stimulate an economy that still is foundering three years after the financial crisis recession ostensibly ended.»

The number of homes for sale did increase slightly in February, which always happens as the busy spring market approaches, but supply is still down more than 8 percent from a year ago; supply is up on the high end and far lower on the low end of the market.

Despite slumping commodities prices affecting its oil, gas, and mining businesses, FLR still managed a 21 % ROIC in 2015 and finished the year with a larger backlog than it had at the end of 2014.

By the end October, Canadian companies were involved in more than 426 deals worth $ 68 billion, a three - year high, according to M&A analytics firm Mergermarket, and there was still more than a month left to go at press time.

Still to come are the end - of - year accrual adjustments, including the final estimates for tax revenues and valuations adjustments for assets and liabilities.

While I believe U.S. equities can continue to climb and post further gains before the end of the year, the best opportunities may still reside outside the United States.

I will not give up on this commodity as I still think we will be trading in the $ 20 range come year end, but at the current time, we are range bound.