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Rather more focus on the league may be wise, though — Real are as close to the relegation zone in terms of points as they are to Barcelona.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

Some professionals wear a heavy workload as a kind of badge of honor, considering it a point of pride or evidence of job security, but that isn't a valuable long - term strategy to deal with the increased load.

If you don't have time to analyze the transcripts of conference calls, as Loumioti does, there are other signs to watch for that point to a short - term focus.

AgileHealthInsurance.com, which sells short - term health insurance plans that are allowed to exclude benefits guaranteed under the ACA, expects the law to allow more choice so that insurers can design cheaper plans to hit a certain price point of $ 100 per month or $ 200 per month, as they did before the ACA, according to executive director Sam Gibbs.

It pointed to the continued presence of fragile fixed - income market liquidity as a key vulnerability in the overall financial system, while it repeats the risks of a sharp increase in long - term interest rates, stress from emerging markets like China and prolonged weakness in commodity prices.

As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

Whitman did not rule out «smaller» future acquisitions, pointing to HP's acquisitions of 3Com, 3Par, and Aruba as examples of purchases that have paid off big in terms of expanding HP's networking and storage businesses.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

But he added that thinking in terms of incremental changes may miss a larger point: As wearables and home devices become more important to the way we use our phones, the design of the phone itself may become less critical.

The two companies said as many as 100,000 terms will no longer produce search results; in addition, at the top of search results for more than 13,000 entries, warnings will appear making it clear that the associated content is illegal, pointing users towards websites where they can receive help.

What's more, as Buffett points out, he's a long - term investor, so looking at the year - to - year investment and return on a given business doesn't make a lot of sense.

But in terms of fundamental motivation, it's also worth pointing out that staying in business as long as possible can be a great way to build goodwill.

But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.

He also points out that the cost of copying DNA material is almost free, as is the cost of long - term storage.

The note says that «the Apple Watch is a very modest threat this year as current interest in the running community appears low, but Apple's product positioning, the likely addition of GPS and likely lower price points in future versions are significant long - term headwinds.»

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Other potentially suitable spots exist here, such as the Tradepoint development at Sparrows Point and some potential redevelopment sites in the city, but none can match Port Covington in terms of both the speed with which Amazon could move forward and the attractiveness it presents for potential employees.

«Quite frankly my understanding was this was business as usual and normal practice for companies to write broad terms of service that didn't provide specific examples,» he said after being pressed on the point again.

At some point, if these policies are inflationary, then the vigilantes or those that hold dollar reserves, such as China and Brazil and Mexico, they will be in the driver's seat in terms of longer - term Treasury debt, 10 years and 30 years Treasury debt in terms of their yield.

The Federal Reserve has lowered short - term interest rates by 100 basis points in a month — an action they describe as a «rapid and forceful response» of monetary policy both to the changing circumstances and the changing behaviour of the US economy.

He has been pointed over the past several quarters to the fiscal side and pointing to Washington as opposed to the Federal Reserve in terms of what they can do going forward with tax reform with some type of stimulative fiscal policies that propel the real economy forward as opposed to monetary policy.

Soros describes one of the ways to tell when a trend is exhausted as «short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.

As some of my colleagues have pointed out previously, a floating exchange rate regime has several advantages in the face of a terms of trade and investment boom.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

Thus, the long - term target incentives for the NEOs who head these significant business segments are determined based on a blend of peer positions with similar titles at peer group companies and CEO positions among smaller companies, using the 75th percentile for peer - company positions and the median for CEO positions at smaller companies as competitive reference points.

But even that figure is ludicrously large in terms of its impact on deficits and outstanding Treasury debt, as the CRFB points out.

From a search volume point of view Leadpages is the clear winner as per trends data below, so you can see why brands are hitting the terms hard --

As we've pointed out already, his written testimony is pretty selective and self - serving in terms of what he does and doesn't include in his version of events.

As Frank Armstrong III, founder and principal of Miami - based Investor Solutions points out, long - term care costs are not covered by insurance: «Once a hospital releases you to any kind of long - term care facility, your medical coverage quits paying for your care.»

The increased prison terms for Canadian nationals including officers and directors of Canadian corporations, the elimination of territorial jurisdiction test by explicitly providing for a «nationality» test, the increased risk exposure to CFPOA penalties by adding a books and records provision, and the elimination of exceptions and defences such as those for facilitation payments and businesses not earning profits, all point towards continuing vigorous enforcement by the Canadian government of the CFPOA.

At one point I had a 100 % success rate with my submissions, but have only made 1 submission in the past 12 months as a result of what I know is an overwhelming backlog of poorly written submissions and websites with almost no value in terms of content or concept.

But the point is simply that in meeting the challenge of securing growth in the near term, the stability of future economic performance can't be dismissed as a consideration.

The Barron's article pointed this out as well, citing London - based «G+E conomics» head Lena Komileva: «A surplus of investment funds looking for returns in low - yield global markets results in a cap on longer - term yields and a flat yield curve.»

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This week is proving to be a critical turning point for the financial services industry, which is described in the terms of reference for the Hayne royal commission as systemically strong with the world's best prudential regulation and oversight.

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

And the lower price point items, are those, as in the past, engineered to protect margins or do you feel like you need to offer a little more to the guests in terms of portion size or quality elements that you're not able to trim back some on those areas to protect margins?

If you somehow earn a link from a high - authority national site like Huffington Post while you're still in your infancy as a brand, you could easily move up several points in terms of domain authority, resulting in a kind of «rising tide» that increases all your ranks significantly.

As we pointed out yesterday in early trading «Ethereum got smashed below $ 200 in what might have been the last panic move of the long - term correction that started almost a month ago».

Famed investor Warren Buffett has pointed out that the true long - term holder should think of this $ 868,686 as an interest - free loan from the Federal and state governments.

France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

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).

In VFC's case, that basic estimate is based on reference point price - to - earnings ratio (P / E) of 15, which is the long - term average P / E of the stock market as a whole.

According to Bloomberg data, U.S. equities, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, barely budged; long - term U.S. Treasury rates are currently trading within 10 basis points (bps) of where they were on January 1; and, with the exception of the last two weeks of the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) sat on its hands.

Reuters cited «a disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO)» as one of the factors weighing on the market this morning, but as I pointed out in my review of Cisco's fiscal second - quarter earnings, the outlook wasn't disappointing and today's decline in the stock looks like a buying opportunity for long - term, value - oriented investors.

Back in July of last year I pointed out that in a world where official short - term interest rates are close to zero, some short - term market interest rates are also going to be very close to zero, and that, in such cases, interest - rate dips below zero could occur as a result of insignificant price fluctuations.

Employment has risen over the past year and forward - looking indicators, such as the ratio of job offers to applicants, point to further gains in the near term.

As an example of my bad timing, barely couple of days after we bought D, the company announced that 2017 would not be as good as projected due to lower import contract revenue at its Cove Point Terminal in Maryland and other near - term causeAs an example of my bad timing, barely couple of days after we bought D, the company announced that 2017 would not be as good as projected due to lower import contract revenue at its Cove Point Terminal in Maryland and other near - term causeas good as projected due to lower import contract revenue at its Cove Point Terminal in Maryland and other near - term causeas projected due to lower import contract revenue at its Cove Point Terminal in Maryland and other near - term causes.