Sentences with phrase «terms of a few years»

The literary agency agreement is usually for a term of a few years and states that during the term of working together, the literary agency is entitled to its commission on deals the agency performs for the client.

Not exact matches

«We've really had a great last four to five years in terms of a few trends that have worked really well for us,» Moddelmog said.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

«Exploration expenditures in the N.W.T. have languished over the past few years and could therefore limit the territory's options for growing its mining industry in the long term,» noted a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada.

In its first few years, App Store popularity — in terms of purchases and profits — grew slowly.

Because in the past few years, a competitor has arrived to challenge Google in terms of advertising value.

If they want to survive these next few years, Twitter needs to find some way to supercharge growth, both in terms of active users and revenue.

Apple's long - term debt has grown to almost $ 100 billion over the past few years partly because it needs a source of funds to buy back stock and pay dividends.

«I'm talking about... the possibility of what could happen — not in the near term, but in a few years from now — with a consumer application in which there's trust and legitimacy with regard to a digital currency.»

«This stock is still making lower highs for the past few years, I am very skeptical of this move, and if it's truly marking a change in the long - term trend,» Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

In dollar terms, though, a few of Buffett's picks with more modest returns were actually the most lucrative for the investor's portfolio this past year, in large part because Berkshire Hathaway owns massive quantities of their shares.

«There has just been a shift in the last few years in thinking and you're seeing it now in terms of capital deployed.»

But it has lost ground the past few years in terms of smartphone sales.

But the impact of a stronger dollar on trade terms has not followed a set pattern in the past few years, Citi said.

Over the past few years, Facebook has been gaining on YouTube, the leader in the digital video space, in terms of winning over advertisers, and Watch should help solidify its position, said Paul Verna, a senior analyst with eMarketer.

Equities really have had the best of all worlds these past few years, with earnings growth in the double digits and financial conditions remaining very accommodative, despite the recent rise in both short - and long - term interest rates.1 The combination of rising earnings growth and benign financial conditions is a powerful set of tailwinds which usually drives stock valuations higher.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

Bridge loans usually have terms of between a few months and a year, although terms can sometimes exceed a year.

Some private lenders offer a variety of repayment terms (i.e., 5, 7, 10 years) and others offer fewer choices.

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.

The standard advice from financial advisors to 20 - somethings is to invest as much as they can in stocks — regardless of periodic market swings, however wild, like those seen over the past few days — and watch long - term compounding do its magic for the next 40 - plus years.

«It's one of those moves that will quiet critics, will win some short - term praise and maybe will even work for the next few years,» Tusk said.

On the other hand, if you'll need the money in just a few years — or if the prospect of losing money makes you too nervous — consider a higher allocation to generally less volatile investments such as bonds and short - term investments.

All told, global gross domestic product (GDP) is on track to increase an estimated 3.8 % next year, the strongest showing since 2011, and a few ticks higher than the long - term average of 3.5 %.

It doesn't mean that stocks have to fall in the short term, or even over a period of a few years.

Also, while payrolls continue to chug along posting numbers that are about 2x of most economists BLs from a few years back, in percentage terms, their growth is decelerating, from around 2 % back in 2015 to around 1.5 % now, much as we'd expect as we close in on full employment, whatever that much - sought - after state looks like.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

Reports indicate revenue sharing has been declining over the last few years — both in terms of the percentage of plans including it and as a portion of the expense ratio.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

Cook acknowledged that in terms of the iPhone itself, Apple's market share globally is low and its sales are low compared to the full market of smartphones even though Apple sells quite a few phones across the course of a year.

«It's one of those moves that will quiet critics, will win some short - term praise and maybe will even work for the next few years,» he said.

Still, many of these people may see Vegas as a short - term place to get some funding and perhaps live for a few months or years, but once they get funding, they often leave.

Usually, a 15 - year home loan is amortized in such a way that the borrower pays mostly interest during the first few years of the term.

While there is no doubt that a cooling of Chinese demand for commodities over the next few years will have an impact on Canada (as well as other resource exporting countries like Australia), China always takes the long term view and so should Canada.

The discount - point strategy is best suited for long - term housing scenarios, as opposed to a short stay of only a few years (learn more).

Beyond the reasonably favourable outlook for the next few years, growth in productive capacity and exports in the resources sector over the longer term will depend on future mineral discoveries (though existing reserves could support production and exports of some commodities, such as coal, for a considerable time).

Thus it would seem quite possible that at some stage in the next few years, there could be some retracement of the current strength in resource commodity prices and Australia's terms of trade.

Home buyers use these loans to minimize their monthly payments during the first few years of the repayment term.

In case you've been living under a rock for the last few years, Japan's PM, Shinzo Abe's «Abenomics» (which is just Japan's colloquial term for our own QE that Bernanke put in motion), has caused the Yen to devalue by over 50 % against the dollar since the beginning of 2013.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 percent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

Also, interest - only borrowers can face a marked step - up in their required repayments once they come off the interest - only period (after the first few years of the loan term).

«I'm positive and optimistic in terms of the progress we've made over the last few years to continue to improve the business.

So much has changed over the past few years in the credit card industry, what with new regulations, the disappearance of easy credit, the reduction of credit card offers and advertisements through the mail, and not to mention, the expiration of lifetime balance transfer programs (and awesome card terms).

In percentage terms, 2014 is starting with fewer downgrades than in 2011 or 2012 (62.7 % and 60.0 % respectively vs. 59.2 % in 2014), but these years both had very quiet starts in terms of the total number of ratings changes.

In terms of the volumes of reserves expended and the extent of capital controls imposed, few countries in recent years have done as much to try to prop up their currency as has China.

Then I would structure your investments to throw off a decent amount of divends and also a few years of living expenses in low risk investments like CDs or short term bonds.

In the past few years, we have seen the term user experience bulldozing its way into the heart of digital and, more broadly, the business world.

This indicates a relatively solid earnings per share growth rate of 184.23 % over the next few years, which is an optimistic outlook in the near term.

During the past few years, we have seen a rise in the use of the term buyer personas.

The Bank also made substantial use of foreign exchange swaps during the past few months to manage domestic liquidity, though in net terms the swap position (at $ 30.1 billion) has not changed much since the start of the financial year.