Sentences with phrase «weak year on»

Thomas DiNapoli said the overall weak year on Wall Street will be felt throughout the city and state.

More than the return of Samus or the revival of Beyond Good and Evil 2, it's this renewed emphasis on gameplay that saved E3 2017 from going down as one of the weaker years on record.

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India — the second - largest gold jewelry consumer after China — reported its weakest quarter since 2008, falling 12 percent year on year to 87.7 tons.

Another weak year for commodity prices took its toll on Caterpillar.

On Wednesday, JCPenney also reported weak sales at stores open for more than one year.

This year has offered opportunities on both sides, and although this summer is shaping up to be weaker than usual, we expect it to provide opportunities on both sides, too.

After pulling back on its holiday season hiring in anticipation of weaker sales this year, Macy's (m) said on Friday it will hire another 7,000 temporary workers, citing a strong number of shopper visits so far this Christmas period.

In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average and broader S&P 500 both continued under pressure on Friday following data which showed the economy grew at its weakest pace in three years.

«The verdict is in: relative to expectations, the cycle is weak, and total iPhones sold are likely to be flat for the third straight year,» Sacconagahi wrote in a report on Friday.

Gold got a boost Friday on weaker - than - expected inflation and retail sales figures, casting doubt on the Federal Reserve's ability to continue normalizing interest rates this year.

The German bank has struggled over the last few years due to weak earnings, a low - interest rate environment and penalties on past misconduct.

Add an anemic projected economic growth of 0.5 % next year, due to the weak rube, and Ukraine - related sanctions, and Russian consumers may be pulling back on everything from Pepsi to Hugo Boss suits.

A better - than - expected reading on GDP was accompanied by the weakest performance in consumer spending in nearly five years.

After all, for years we've been subjected to a relentless assault on our civil liberties, with the War Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!»

Canada has endured consecutive years of some of the weakest growth on record.

Interviews were conducted before the announcement on April 28 that weak consumer spending had slowed economic growth to a three - year low.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

In Chappelle's recent stand - up special «The Bird Revelation,» which premiered on Netflix New Year's Eve, the comedian did an extended bit on the women who accused Louis C.K. of unwanted masturbation, calling them «weak» for letting C.K.'s behavior affect them — or in one woman's case, stopping her from pursuing a career in comedy.

HOUSTON, Jan 26 - Oil prices settled higher on Friday after hitting three - year highs, with crude also posting a weekly gain as a weaker U.S. dollar underpinned prices.

The British bank reported Thursday a loss on its full - year 2017 profits, due in part to the tax overhaul in the U.S. and a weaker dollar.

U.S. data on Monday showed that consumer prices accelerated in the year to March, with a measure of underlying inflation surging to near the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target as last year's weak readings dropped out of the calculation.

This alarms many in academia, as business majors have «the weakest gains during the first two years of college on a national test of writing and reasoning skills.»

A few Fed policymakers worry the U.S. economy, which has delivered strong job gains but worryingly weak rates of inflation, could be stuck on a low growth path that requires low rates for years as well as new policy tools.

The export bounce is, at face value, a sign that China's modest economic revival is intact and suggestive of global demand being on the mend, but imports were surprisingly weak, falling 15.2 percent from a year earlier to 13 - month lows and highlighting vulnerability lurking in the domestic economy.

That's significant because weak international sales have been a drag on the Canadian economy for years.

Gold hit its highest in over a year on Friday as the dollar sagged after weaker - than - expected US jobs data and as tensions over North Korea.

The department store company, which has reported sales declines in its last 11 quarters despite closing dozens of weak stores, said on Thursday, that comparable sales rose 1 % in November and December, a modest increase to be sure, but one that puts Macy's on track to report its first quarter of growth in three years.

Coupled with the Brazilian economy's weak fundamentals, a safer bet might be Germany, which places third on Goldman's win probability chart at 11.4 % and is expected to achieve solid growth of 2 % this year.

China's surprise decision to revalue the yuan as it tried to contain the stock market turmoil caused the currency to drop the most in 21 years last month, triggering exchange - rate declines elsewhere in the emerging world on concern that a weaker yuan will hurt countries exporting to China.

The weak economic performance in the first half of this year means that Canada has more excess capacity, which is increasing the downward pressure on the underlying trend in inflation.

Weak residential construction has also weighed on aggregate demand over the first half of this year, although building approvals and liaison reports point to some stabilisation in the period ahead (Graph 5).

One of the many surprising aspects of financial market performance over the past year has been the weak performance of the US dollar, which has fallen by close to 10 per cent on a trade weighted basis and by more than 10 per cent against the euro.

Malaysia's ringgit sank to the weakest level since 1998, while the Singaporean and Taiwanese dollars slumped to five - year lows before rebounding on Thursday.

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Treasury bond prices rallied and yields on the 10 - year fell to between 2.8 % and 2.85 % following the release of benign inflation data and weaker - than - expected retail sales figures.

It rallied a bit today on some weak European data, but a closely watched dollar futures index is close to a 4 - year low.

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The Fed has made good on two interest rate hikes so far in 2017, but based on weaker - than - forecast inflation and growth numbers, it will likely fall short of the four rate hikes it planned late last year.

A survey showed that its manufacturing sector is on track in August for its weakest month since the dark days of the global financial crisis more than six years ago.

Emerging market currencies have been hit by a sell - off in the first week of trading this year after weak economic data in China rekindled worries over global growth and halted trading on Chinese equity markets on two days.

Beyond a weak yen, there are tentative signs local inflation may be picking up, with the biggest month - on - month spike in headline inflation seen in 25 years in October.

Another surprise: U.S. equities have outperformed non-U.S. ones year to date, reflecting the risk - on backdrop, tax - related earnings upgrades and a weaker dollar.

So, generally, the biggest deltas are, one, a little bit weaker on the handset side; two, a little more conservative modeling of what happens later in the year than what we had, which frankly is not, again, just to drive that point home, nobody knows how many people are going to buy a new handset when it's launched on the market — not us, not our customers, not analysts, or you name it.

Cirrus depends on the iPhone for the bulk of its sales, so the company's weak guidance for fiscal 2019 reflects a pessimistic view of how that product will perform in the coming year.

Removing the seasonal impact of Chinese New Year on the NBS data for March therefore suggests that the underlying growth of China's manufacturing sector remains weaker than the published data suggest.

The stronger yen has been threatening weaker profits for exporters, leading to downward pressure on wage negotiations typically conducted in spring ahead of the new fiscal year starting in April.

Data from sources such as the Metals Economics Group (MEG) in Canada and Price Water house Coopers suggest that global spending on exploration has been relatively weak in recent years, following a sharp fall in the late 1990s.

Power production in April was slightly positive on a year - over-year basis, but still remained weak.

Expenditure on engineering construction has been particularly weak since the beginning of 1999 and is nearly one - quarter lower than the level a year earlier.

Shares of BMW AG were losing around 2 percent in the early morning trading in Germany after the luxury carmaker reported Friday that its first - quarter pre-tax profit edged down on weak revenues due to currency effects, while net profit increased from last year.