Sentences with phrase «with sharp declines»

Sales of new U.S. homes plummeted in March, as the spring buying season opened with sharp declines in the Northeast and South.

For long - term investors like me, the returns would have been far worse than with the sharp declines our markets actually incurs.

Likewise, historical curve inversions have also been associated with sharp declines in stocks, given the risk to earnings when the economy hits the skids (see the chart below).

The expansionary period that followed the recession in 1960 - 61, which was a result of high unemployment and a shift to foreign - made cars, was met with another sharp decline as the Fed began to tighten monetary policy.

A preliminary glimpse of what is what is needed to turn the tide for the gold market occurred in the 3rd quarter with a sharp decline in all global equity markets.

The price of gold fell by 2.4 per cent in SDR terms over the three months to January, with a sharp decline in January.

With this sharp decline in play, is it time for Palmer to call it a career?

Following years of teacher layoffs, the welcome arrival of new funding has collided with a sharp decline in the pipeline of new teachers.

With the sharp decline in sales of the Ultimate Comics line, it didn't take a genius to see that its days are numbered.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Not exact matches

The results contrast with top rival Mattel (mat), which last month reported declining sales as it lamented sharp discounting during the key holiday season.

This sharp decline in investment is worth 2 per cent of GDP, with the full force of this shock across the country likely to be felt in 2016.»

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

The port city of Tianjin saw the sharpest fall in its livability score among the eight Chinese cities surveyed, with the drop compounded by a decline in its environment score following an explosion at a chemical factory a year ago.

In this respect, it is worth noting that the sharp decline in trading costs over the last four decades has not been associated with higher returns to investors, but rather to a more than proportionate increase in trading volume.

At a time when «gamification» was hot, Silbermann and Sharp declined to feature any elements that might encourage pinners to compete with one another.

However, as we noted in our Financial System Review, financial vulnerabilities would usually translate into full - blown risks — with attendant consequences for the economy — only if there was a trigger, such as a widespread and sharp decline in economic activity and employment.

Fears about cord cutting combined with worries about sharp ratings declines and weak advertising sales prompted the mass sell - off.

This, combined with widespread moral hazard, had inevitably to result in both tremendous misuse of capital and a sharp decline in the consumption share of GDP (as the household income share declined)-- both of which of course happened to a remarkable degree in China.

In this case, expect a sharp decline in the purchasing power of all «this newly printed fiat money, with inflation mounting, perhaps significantly, in due time.»

Netflix, the best performer in the S&P 500 this year with a 133 percent rally, slid to $ 112.49 in New York, the sharpest decline for the shares since October 2014.

With Monday's sharp downturn, the Dow Jones has lost about 2,200 points since Jan. 26, a decline of nearly 10 percent.

Indeed, with trend uniformity and valuations both unfavorable here, a sharp decline in Treasury bond yields would actually worsen market conditions.

As to the equity market this morning, as we start the second week of December, the mixed showing comes after overall declines in Europe earlier today (save for the Paris CAC - 40) and in Asia overnight, with the setback in China's equity market especially sharp at some 2 %.

Wall Street suffered a sharp drop on Tuesday, with major benchmarks posting substantial declines in response to a combination of economic factors.

According to the World Gold Council (WGC), demand for gold slipped by 7 percent in 2017 compared with a year earlier on the back of a decline in central - bank purchases, a sharp slide in inflows into gold ETFs (exchange - traded funds) and a 10 - percent fall in coin investments.

Microsoft and Nokia previously looked at buying RIM but were scared off by sharp sales declines in the United States, a source familiar with the matter previously told The Globe and Mail.

There's already been a sharp decline in the number of people maxing out with the lower limit.

A further sharp decline in employment was recorded in August, with the rate of job cuts slowing only marginally from July.

Chapman also agrees with Conway that when the liquidity bubble bursts, the decline in world stock markets could be sharp and severe, possibly even reaching crash magnitudes on the downside.

With the growth of online and other marketing channels, it's no surprise that public speaking has declined in popularity, although the decline is not as sharp as other marketing methods.

However, its stock price, even with its recent rebound, is down about 50 % since last summer, reflecting the fact that both the spot and futures markets for natural gas still show sharp declines on a year - over-year basis.

With the province's economy growing but unemployment rates remaining unchanged, he faces the challenge of proving the government's job creation plan is working as the provincial economy recovers from the sharp decline of international oil prices.

Not only are these uncertainties still with us, they have likely prompted central banks to roll out even more monetary stimulus, which in turn has likely lifted asset prices and given the false impression of a backstop against further sharp declines.

Changes in the flows of interstate migration are generally associated with relative employment opportunities and housing affordability; consistent with this, the sharpest fall in population growth in NSW coincided with a pronounced decline in the state's relative housing affordability and employment growth.

«A short, sharp break off of all - time highs is never how bear markets begin» adding they tend to fall by 2 to 3 percent a month over their entire duration, with most of the decline coming in the last 40 percent.

United States By Gordon Platt Goldman Sachs: Fraud allegations hit its reputation The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman Sachs with fraud on April 16, causing a sharp decline in equity prices, particularly for financial shares, and especially...

The University of Michigan did this big study on 14,000 college students and what they found was, with the rise of social media and technology, there's actually a sharp decline of empathy and compassion.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Improved America's Image Abroad: With new policies, diplomacy, and rhetoric, reversed a sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. (and the corresponding loss of «soft power») during the Bush years.

Bets are fairly evenly split, but some early sharp money has taken Hawaii, with the line declining slightly.

Others have a problem with his age and predict a sharp decline from now onwards.

Meanwhile, the CBN Governor met with the Senate, yesterday, to discuss the sharp decline of the Naira in the parallel market in recent times.

Cuomo has returned to the effort to oust de Blasio with a vengeance, bolstered by the impact of state and federal probes into the mayor's official conduct and fund - raising activities, a newly disclosed state Board of Elections memo accusing the mayor and his allies of «willful and flagrant» violations of state law, and polls showing de Blasio's popularity in sharp decline, the sources said.

While on paper the city of Saratoga Springs had a 5.9 percent, or $ 200,000, decline in sales tax revenue, taking out adjustments made for errors in previous tax years would show the city with a surplus, said Mike Sharp, the city's deputy commission of finance.

«Carnivorous conchs to blame for oyster decline: High water salinity, coupled with, a conch population outbreak is the cause of a sharp decrease in oyster populations on Florida reefs.»

Even with this year's sharp decline, for example, Dartmouth's Helble has almost six applicants for each one of the MEM program's 50 slots.

«People with MCI are on a very sharp decline in their memory function, so being able to improve their recall is a very big step in the right direction,» Smith states.

Globally, rates of child deaths have been declining since 1990, with a sharper rate of decline in many countries observed since the Millennium Development Goals were established in 2000.

Behaviorally, the mice with 110 CAG repeats showed a sharp decline in both rotarod and open field performance from around 4 weeks of age whereas the 240 CAG repeat mice displayed a 2 - 3 week delay in the onset of behavioral decline with a much slower progression of decline in both tasks as compared to 110 CAG repeat counterparts.