Sentences with phrase «weak performance»

There isn't a single weak performance in the cast and it is all accompanied by the signature musical score and the atmospheric tone that The Walking Dead games are known for.

Stock selection in the healthcare and materials sectors added to returns, but the contribution was offset by weaker performance from our industrial, IT, and consumer positions.

With weak performances from large - cap stocks, small - caps have become more favorable investments with better returns and stronger trading multiples.

Some consider international investing to be a wise move, both as a way to offset weak performance at home and to take advantage of strong potential returns abroad.

Experience tells us that in weak performance periods like last year, good opportunities often arise and that our patience is typically rewarded.

If we consider the energy and raw materials sector as an example, we have seen some very weak performance over the last five quarters.

There are a few weak performances to be found in the supporting cast, but the main characters are all very well voiced.

The phone has just about the same software experience as the Note 8, but it gets slightly weaker performance hardware and a smaller screen size.

And given how many strong actors there are in the cast, it's disappointing how weak their performances are.

The only thing you can do to make things worse for yourself in the long run is to change your allocation in response to weak performance from certain assets.

«The relatively weak performance of some REIT IPOs has definitely raised the guard of private companies that have been considering heading down the same path,» Sullivan points out.

Investors were cautious after a largely weak performance on Wall Street on Thursday as some disappointing earnings reports offset strong economic data, while bond yields slid after a surprising slowdown in eurozone inflation.

In one of 2018's marquee tech IPOs, Dropbox's stock pop showed a high demand for tech IPOs, despite weak performance by some major tech stocks, including an 11 percent decline for Facebook in the past month as revelations of a data scandal erupted last week.

Centered around holiday characters, «Guardians» opened to the studio's weakest performance since 2006.

Although the energy sector XLE, -0.23 % has climbed 11.6 %, outperforming other sectors in the past month, financials XLF, -0.85 % which were expected to benefit from rising rates, have lagged, producing the fifth weakest performance among the S&P 500's 11 sectors, according to FactSet data.

Growth at HBO provided a boost that made up for weaker performance from some of Time Warner's other TV operations.

One of the main reasons for the under performance is that the criteria are quite broad and include many weaker companies that have cut their dividends after being included in the index, and have seen weak performance as a result.

Economic activity accelerated in March, signaling stabilization after weaker performance earlier in the year.

He did well in Thursday's debate, but that was largely in comparison with two much weaker performances earlier.

After months of relatively weak performance and decline, the November over-the-counter (OTC) forex trading volume of GMO Click Securities — one of the Japanese GMO Click Holdings» (TYO: 7177) forex, CFD and binary options brokerages has posted a spectacular recovery to become the second highest this year so far and the best since February.

The Iconia delivered weak performance on synthetic tests.

Claire's Stores, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 19, defaulted on $ 1.9 billion in debt, «after struggling with persistent weak performance because of declining mall traffic and an increasingly competitive retail landscape,» Moody's said.

Claire's Stores Inc. filed for Chapter 11 after struggling with persistent weak performance because of declining mall traffic and an increasingly competitive retail landscape.

But any turnaround in the weeks ahead may depend on a reversal of fortune in three of the very same factors that led to the sharply weaker performance in the first half: Valuations, oil prices, and sector exposures.

«We haven't seen weaker performance in the attached housing market.

Investors were cautious after a largely weak performance on Wall Street overnight as some disappointing earnings reports offset strong economic data, while bond yields slid after a surprising slowdown in euro zone inflation.

(Although the recent weak performance of GBP does not support that.)

The exchanges at PMQs today saw a painfully weak performance by Ed Miliband, with an assured David Cameron thinking on his feet to throw in a couple of good one - liners at his opposite number's expense.

Subsequently they compared the abilities of these people in linguistic tasks — and noticed a considerably weaker performance only in those which demanded word analysing.

While I won't claim Mirren, Clarke or any of the others offer weak performances, they seem a bit flat and don't seem engaged by the material.

Weak weak weak performance....

Given that the Google Nexus 6P is over a year old, it is no surprise that it has weaker performance specs.

Constituents traded on Asian exchanges offset weak performances from their western peers.

WA house prices fell one per cent in July according to the latest RP Data - Riskmark Hedonic Home value index, continuing WA's weak performance compared to other states.

Coles and Bunnings were the top first - quarter perfomers among Wesfarmers» retail businesses, with the Perth - based conglomerate also reporting weak performances by its Target and Kmart divisions.

This followed an already weak performance in the March quarter, due to subdued external demand and domestic - led weakness in Korea.

That is pretty weak performance.

With its amazingly weak performance in attracting EU funds, along with backdrop of Britain's outflow (a net donor) from the EU, Romania could be put in a precarious negotiating position, if Brussels does not help it through various exceptional measures to improve absorption rate.

, as Kubrick, working from his own screenplay, delivers a meandering midsection that's riddled with padded - out and pointedly needless sequences - with the decidedly (and continuously) far - from - engrossing atmosphere exacerbated by O'Neal's often stunningly weak performance (ie the actor delivers a bland and thoroughly forgettable turn entirely devoid of charisma or presence).

Others in the cast, including such excellent actors as Christopher Walken and John Turturro, give surprisingly weak performances.

This approach is good for kids — protecting them from bad schools — and it's also good politics — safeguarding choice programs from criticisms about weak performance and shoddy quality.

While the states vary somewhat across the columns, it is clear that several states stand out as having particularly weak performance as measured by the NAEP.

Maybe it wouldn't have been much of a problem if they used Mediatek's quad core ARM Cortex A7 CPU, at the same clock speed (a bit weaker performance wise, but 4x more efficient) with that kind of battery, but they are using Cortex A9, so the 3250 mAh battery seems pretty small.

Pros: Colorful display Cons: Uncomfortable keyboard; Inaccurate touchpad; Weak performance Key Specs: Intel Atom x5 - Z8350 CPU; 10.1 - inch / 1280 x 800 screen; 2 GB of RAM; 1.26 - pound weight

Most investors adopt a process for evaluating managers and investment strategies based on the past two to three years of relative performance versus a capitalization - weighted market benchmark.4 Strong past performance attracts strong inflows, and weak performance leads to outflows.

Considered together with the observed weak performance persistence for top - performing funds in Australia across three - and five - year periods, finding funds that beat the benchmark for several consecutive years may appear an inconceivable mission.

SIA has at the same time taken the difficult decision to suspend services to Sao Paulo in Brazil as a result of the sustained weak performance of the route.

Activision says that Guitar Hero Live and Skylanders Superchargers both fell short of expectations, with Skylanders» weak performance attributed to increased competition in the market.

Charles Barker might not give them much meat to sink their teeth into, but there's no truly weak performance among the group, aside from perhaps a few moments of over-the-top screaming.