Sentences with phrase «strong rise this year»

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French food group Danone kept its guidance for a further rise in profits and sales this year after first quarter underlying sales growth beat market expectations, led by strong demand for baby formula products in China.

Last year the sales numbers came in strong for the fourth quarter, but there was only one problem: as revenues rose, profits plummeted.

Smurfit Kappa, which operates in 34 countries in Europe and the Americas, recorded a slight rise in full - year earnings to 1.24 billion euros ($ 1.5 billion) last year after a strong fourth quarter.

After years of strong German leadership in the EU, Chancellor Angela Merkel now faces various political and economic challenges including ongoing domestic dissatisfaction with the refugee crisis, corporate crises such as Deutsche Bank, and the rise of populism.

«A strong economy and labor market are generating rising incomes and higher consumer confidence, fueling a strong year for the travel industry, which will continue into the holiday season,» said Bill Sutherland, a senior vice president for the travel organization AAA.

Sales of the Envision have been strong in China since and the popularity of the SUV helped Buick sales in October in China rise 42 percent year - over-year and set a record of more than 100,000 sales in a month for the first time.

Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker — a known proponent for raising rates and a non-voting member of the FOMC this year — said Tuesday there was a strong case for raising interest rates, arguing that borrowing costs may need to rise significantly to keep inflation under control.

Inditex showed a net profit increase for its 2017 fiscal year thanks to a strong performance in all stores, causing shares to rise 3.8 percent.

«The rise of 10 - year U.S. Treasury yields in tandem with a stronger dollar have been the key drivers of this downturn,» the IIF said.

Kostin also outlined three strategies: Secular growth, or companies where sales growth is expected to rise at least 10 percent for multiple years without high valuations; firms that are investing in capital expenditures and research and development; and companies with a strong chance to be acquired.

Riding a strong oil price tailwind amid rising oil and gas production in the US, Perth - based Amadeus Energy Ltd is powering towards a record year.

Shares of Caterpillar rise after J.P. Morgan upgrades the stock, citing another strong year ahead.

A strong statement, yes, and one particularly welcome by a LGBT community that, while on the rise in recent years, needs as many icons as it can muster.

Profits: After - tax corporate profits growth is expected to remain strong, rising 6.7 percent next year after expanding by 3.8 percent this year.

With strong cash flows and EBITDA growth of about 18 % year - over-year in Q1 2015, Lane thinks this stock could rise to $ 65 by 2017.

That beat expectations for a 5.6 percent rise, and marked the strongest pace of quarterly growth in eight years.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

China and Germany have a strong economic relationship, with bilateral trade rising to $ 186.6 billion (US$ 227.9 billion) last year from $ 170.2 billion in 2016.

Orders also remained strong, with combined net orders in the third quarter for the Model S and Model X rising 68 percent from the same period a year ago.

He said the central bank's rate rise talk could restart the negative feedback loop that took place this year, when a strong dollar leaned on emerging markets currencies, including the Chinese yuan, and commodities prices, creating tight financial conditions and economic weakness.

Global growth has slowed more than investors had previously anticipated and political risk has risen; yet over the past four years flows into emerging markets funds have remained very strong despite their underperformance.

The result: the Somali Shilling rose 52 % this year versus the dollar, making it the strongest currency out of the 175 that Bloomberg tracks.

«Within our new Environmental Services segment, incinerator utilization in the first quarter was seasonally strong at 87 %, while landfill volumes rose 58 % from the same period a year ago, driven by a large project and higher base business,» McKim said.

The company's gold division, despite the strong rise in the bullion price, remains second - rate and most of this year's forecast pre-tax and pre-interest profit of $ 132 million (up 12 per cent on 2003) will come from tantalum.

Revenue rose 16 percent during the half year to $ 21.78 billion, with copper revenues jumping nearly 52 percent, backed by stronger prices and higher production from the Escondida mine in Chile.

They have either fallen off the proverbial patent cliff (Novartis» Diovan, which lost US exclusivity in 2012) or succumbed to a stronger U.S. dollar against European and Asian currencies despite rising sales (Novo Nordisk's NovoLog, which also missed this year's list).

National hotel performance has been strong over the past several years, driven by solid leisure and individual «transient» business demand, which has risen nearly 40 % since 2007.

In all, auto sales rose 27 percent from the same month a year before, with General Motors posting particularly strong gains due to sales incentives.

LONDON Royal Dutch Shell reported on Thursday a 42 percent rise in first - quarter profit to its highest in more than three years on stronger oil prices and production, but its shares fell as the oil major's cash flow missed forecasts.

Indeed, the strong growth of investor housing loans has driven the growth in household debt (as a share of disposable incomes) over recent years and contributed to a rise in both housing prices and dwelling construction.

Here at home, our economy is relatively strong and interest rates are expected to rise later this year.

For example, Alibaba and Tencent — both on the forefront of the e-commerce wave in China — have risen by 98 % and 111 %, respectively, so far in 2017.2 Companies such as Sina, a global Internet media company, and Baidu, which operates an Internet search engine, have also generated returns this year that are nearly as strong or stronger than those of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google.3 As the world's second - largest economy, China is rapidly evolving from its former status as a noteworthy emerging market to an economic powerhouse on the rise.

The improving outlook is one reason the stock market has risen so sharply this year, even if street - level evidence for a turnaround, like strong job growth and income gains, has been scant so far.

For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Australian - British multinational Rio Tinto and Melbourne - based BHP, two of the world's top aluminum producers, were both upgraded to «BUY» this week by CLSA, partly in response to rising aluminum prices but also because they maintain strong balance sheets and are expected to generate favorable free cash flow (FCF) this year.

For franchises that were open before the end of 2007, revenues over the past year rose an average of 29.4 percent, a strong indication that CMIT Solutions» services satisfy a nearly insatiable demand.

Home prices rose 5.5 % in the 12 months ending last November, a strong showing following a 4.3 % year - over-year increase reading the month before, according to the S&P / Case - Shiller home - price index.

The core price index's 1.9 % year / year rise in March was up sharply from 1.6 % in February and the strongest pace since February.

Despite the outflows, Price's net income rose nearly 19 percent in 2013, a year marked by strong U.S. stock performance and difficulties for bond investors.

Domestically sourced inflation was a little stronger in the March quarter, with domestic inflation at the final stage of production rising to 4.1 per cent in year - ended terms.

Domestically - sourced inflation has been running faster over the past couple of years and there has been a significant pick - up in domestic producer prices recently, associated with rising materials costs and strong demand pressures in some sectors.

After adjusting for the timing of New Year's Day and Easter, same - store food and liquor sales rose 1.3 per cent — the strongest growth in six quarters but still well below that at Woolworths, where same - store food sales are forecast to grow 3.8 per cent.

The Employment Cost Index rose by 1 per cent in the June quarter and has increased by 4.4 per cent over the past year, driven by a particularly strong increase in growth in the private sector component.

Business investment rose by a further 1.7 per cent in the March quarter, following strong growth in the second half of 2003, to be 9.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.

But there's also a strong chance the 30 - year average will rise above 4 % by the end of this year.

A notable shift in the economic landscape will see infrastructure activity and rising business spending play a more dominant role next year, taking on some of the heavy lifting from consumers and a still - strong housing market, according to Wright.

In the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, in the fourth quarter of 2016, the aggregate price of a home in the region rose 16.1 % to $ 720,761 year - on - year and, unlike Vancouver, are set to continue strong growth throughout 2017, says Royal Le Page.

U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in January, recording their largest gain in more than four years amid increases in the cost of energy products and some services, but a strong dollar continued to keep underlying inflation tame.

While I expect that gold bullion and the HUI will rise to much higher levels during the second half of this year, I don't have a strong opinion on whether they will break above their nearby resistance levels within the next few weeks.