Sentences with phrase «stronger performances of the year»

It's that lack of a highlight clip scene that will cost Bale a nomination, but this was among the strongest performances of the year.

But coming from The Guard's John Michael McDonagh and featuring one of the strongest performances of the year from Brendan Gleeson, it's so much more.

Not exact matches

Its performance comes following a string of strong tech IPOs this year, including that of Zscaler and Dropbox.

Limitedbrands has shown solid growth and profitability over the past year and a lot of that has to do with their strong performance in the Canadian marketplace.

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

«We experienced strong Medicare Advantage enrollment growth and solid performance across all segments in the first quarter, with early positive indicators of medical utilization allowing us to raise guidance for the year,» said Brian A. Kane, Chief Financial Officer.

The economy has registered one of the strongest performances in the euro area in the last few years — after the troubles seen during the sovereign debt crisis.

Looking at particular stocks, the French firm Carrefour reported a stronger performance for the second quarter of the year on Thursday and kept its 2017 sales growth outlook.

In its most recent earnings report, Mattel said Hot Wheels» performance this year has been strong, as the brand is one of its three most important along with Barbie and Fisher Price.

The two biggest gainers in the past year were Wang Wei, who added $ 22.7 billion to his fortune as the founder and majority owner of China's largest package delivery company, and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, who boosted his fortune by $ 21.9 billion thanks to Amazon's strong performance.

A STRONG performance from its Binduli gold operations has underpinned anunaudited profit of $ 1.3 million for the 1999/2000 fiscal year for Croesus Mining NL.

More than 40 years ago, the Magna founder decided his company would experience higher productivity and less labour strife — and, as a result, faster growth — if its workers got some of the financial benefits of strong performance.

High - yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.

They lagged in the first three quarters of 2017, but ended the year in positive territory after strong fourth quarter performance.

Several of this ETF's components made strong contributions to its performance over the past year.

But we're able to hold the line on operating profit in China and with the strong performance of our brands outside of China, in aggregate, we have line of sight to at least 15 % core operating profit growth for the full - year.

Despite a perception among some investors that impact investing necessitates a concessionary return, the Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30, 2014.

«Our first quarter revenue represented the strongest first quarter performance in Stifel's history, as net revenue of $ 750 million increased by 11 % from the same quarter a year ago.

Between the start of the year and June 30, the Bloomberg Commodity Index contracted 4.03 percent, with energy weighing down on the mostly strong performances of precious and industrial metals and agriculturals.

Strong EM equity performance has largely followed a broad - based earnings recovery over the past 18 months, after earnings of MSCI EM Index companies had slid 7 % a year since 2011.

According to Bloomberg data, EM debt is offering yields of above 4 %, and despite a strong year - to - date performance (more than 13 %), we see potential for significant income with lowered spread risk, given the diminished expectations of a near - term Fed move.

It's abandoning formal annual reviews and its legacy performance management system for its 300,000 - strong workforce over the next couple of years, instead opting for a less regimented system of more frequent feedback via an app.

The strong export performance of 2015 gave us new confidence, but this was shaken again in the first half of this year when we experienced a sharp decline over five months.

Mac — in a declining PC industry, we expect Mac to continue its market share gain and support our forecast for its strong performance of 7.3 % revenue growth in FY 2015, followed by 3.6 % in FY 2016, and 4.6 % in FY 2017 on flat average selling prices over the three year period of $ 1,230.

We are now at the seasonally strong time of year... I expect that the next couple months will continue to have strong performance.

My own thinking is much more geared to five year performance, preferably with tests of relative results in both strong and weak markets.»

2017 was a positive year for most factors Quality, Growth and Momentum showed the strongest performance Value, Dividend Yield and Size generated negative returns INTRODUCTION We present the performance of seven well - known factors on an annual basis for the last 10 years and the full - year 2017.

2018 started negative for the majority of factors Momentum, Quality and Growth showed the strongest performance Low Volatility, Dividend Yield and Value generated negative returns INTRODUCTION We present the performance of seven well - known factors on an annual basis for the last 10 years and the

Consider that despite the stellar performance of gold mining stocks this year that have been, by far, the strongest performing asset class of 2016 (along with silver mining stocks), and that even with the massive growth in market cap of PM stocks during H1 2016, the total market cap of all the mining stocks that comprise the HUI Gold Bugs index, as of 2 August 2016, is still barely larger than 1/3 the market cap of Facebook and Amazon.

But for 2013, it may be a big help to them, accounting experts said, a factor of the year's surge in interest rates and strong stock - market performance.

After Japan's strong performance this year, some believe the market will soon run out of steam.

EGCH Pakistan Stock Exchange — April 15, 2016 Despite strong performance in fiscal year 2015, this KSE 30 index member is restructuring its holdings in the Engro Group, which includes disposing all of its shares in Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited («Engro Polymer») and disposing up to 24 % of the shares of Engro Fertilizers.

U.S. optimism in the face of uncertainty Strong financial market performance and hiring activity are providing a steady backdrop for another year of solid consumer spending.

However, thanks to the strong performance of the stock market this year, dividend yields are actually lower than they were in 2016.

March 08, 2018 — CWB today announced very strong operating performance with record common shareholders» net income of $ 62 million and record pre-tax, pre-provision income of $ 107 million, up 25 % and 14 %, respectively, from the first quarter last year.

Emerging markets — After almost two years of strong performance, the outlook for emerging markets is slightly less bright.

Those expectations are based on analysis of historical precedence, including the average market gains in the third year of the presidential election cycle, strong momentum, earnings growth, seasonal trends, accelerating economic growth, and the normal market performance around the first Fed rate hike.

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This is its strongest monthly performance since February of this year.

This strong performance is also likely to have encouraged net equity inflows into Australia, after several years of net equity outflows.

Fortunately, high correlations with oil since earlier this year have meant strong performance for most of these riskier assets.

In our experiences strong sales leaders are more willing to give up some salary for a big performance - based payday, so a good rule of thumb is to negotiate a salary that is an average of their last three years «guaranteed income.

The index is up 11.1 % over the first 174 days of 2017, which is the strongest year - to - date performance through this time since 2013.

The labour market, meanwhile, continues to benefit from the economy's strong performance over 1997 and early 1998, and unemployment remains below the levels of a year ago.

«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.

The Fund's calendar - year performance was strong in absolute and relative terms, returning 29 % versus the MSCI World ex U.S. Index's return of 21 %.

Eight consecutive years of strong U.S. stock market performance (Russell 3000 ® Index) no doubt contribute to some of the popular skepticism about the value of advisors.

Arguably a pretty conservative investment approach, the historical performance of the Coffeehouse portfolio has been strong over time — generating 5 % + over the past 10 years, but it still falls short when compared to investing in a total stock market index fund or S&P 500 fund that track those market indexes.

The determination this year reflected the Committee's assessment of Mr. Iger's strong leadership and vision in achieving strong overall financial performance while driving the Company toward the attainment of long - term goals including:

TCA Cork Tainted Wines Remain Low, but Screwcaps Stay Strong: Now that we've finished our annual look back at cork performance in Wine Spectator's Napa office blind tastings from the past year, it appears the incidence of cork taint has remained near last year's all - time low...