Sentences with phrase «worse off a year»

Still, you can't take away what Gordon did last year from this calculation, so the Dodgers might be a little worse off this year at second.

Around 18 million families will still be # 150 worse off a year due to tax changes by the treasury, according to research by an independent think tank.

The Women's Budget Group has estimated that by 2020 women will be # 1003 worse off each year, compared to # 555 for men.

Research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research for ASDA - quoted in The Telegraph - shows that the average family is # 400 worse off this year.

Despite the huge cost of living crisis engulfing most families, with people on average nearly # 1,500 worse off a year under this Government, Clegg told the Lib Dems yesterday that they should «feel proud that country's fortunes are turning».

A number of prominent Conservative MPs, including the chairman of the 1922 committee, Graham Brady, are expecting Greening to review the plans which will see schools in their constituencies are thousands of pounds worse off every year.

According to the report, a self - employed worker who earned # 9,750 and received UC would be # 630 worse off each year than someone on benefits under the new system.

Not exact matches

While more than half of employees forfeited paid time off at year's end, some bright spots in the survey results hint that Americans may be in the process of reversing their bad vacation habits.

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

If your business anticipates more significant revenue in 2016, it's wise to collect income this year and delay deductible expenses until 2016 in order to head off a bad situation for 2016.

Japanese government bonds skidded in their worst sell - off in more than three years, despite weaker stocks, accelerating a slide begun in the wake of last Friday's Bank of Japan easing steps that disappointed many investors.

While Black Friday is a diluted event, with sales starting earlier in the month at most major chains, it still anchors the biggest shopping weekend of the year and can get a retailer's holiday season off to a good, or bad, start.

The major indexes also capped off their worst weekly performance in two years on Friday.

«When inDinero ran out of funding and I had to lay off our staff several years ago, I learned to never read or believe your own headlines, good or bad.

In spite of the logical need to modernize the 23 - year old agreement, we may end up with no deal or worse — the very real prospect of President Trump posing for the cameras to show off his signed executive order declaring America's intent to withdraw from NAFTA.

It's way weirder than that, detailing Lindell's rise from a 47 - year - old crack addict with a problem so bad even his dealer cut him off to the owner of a sprawling pillow empire that pulled in $ 280 million last year.

If Hillary Clinton is elected, that will likely spell a continuation of the status quo, with a Republican House of Representatives thwarting Democrats from accomplishing the goals that run counter to the interests of much of the business community, leaving free - market enthusiasts no worse off next year than they are today.

Less than a year later, after a bad quarter, the company cut off funding for most of the initiatives.

How much does the business write off each year for bad debts?

This is the worst showing in two years, and not far off the abysmal sentiment that prevailed in April 2009.

Both buyers and sellers are worse off than they were 15 years ago.

With increased job opportunities and fatter paychecks, Americans may be better off then they have been in years, yet they are doing worse when it comes to paying off their loans every month.

The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year's industry average.

The result is that by that year, when the individual cuts expire, most Americans will be worse off due to higher taxes and lower health care coverage, while rich people who own shares in corporations will continue to benefit.

Getting remote communities off diesel (p. 81, 122, 127 and 150): It's been clear for years that relying on diesel fuel for power is bad news: it's dirty, noisy and expensive.

U.S. equities are coming off their worst weekly performance in more than two years on political upheaval stemming from President Trump's trade war.

Allegations of endemic companywide sexual harassment got the year off to a bad start.

BEIJING Aluminum Corp of China Ltd, known as Chalco, said on Monday that first - quarter net profits fell by 19.4 percent from a year ago due to lower aluminum prices but one - off gains helped it avoid a much worse result.

Worries about China's slowdown infecting the global economy sent stock markets steeply lower Friday as U.S. equities got off to one of the worst starts to a year ever.

By «clean exit» the EU means that Greece must sell off enough of its assets to pay the ECB for the money it used to bail out bad loans of French and German banks and bondholders who financed tax evasion and capital flight to Switzerland and elsewhere for over 25 years.

This includes days beyond term, your business's worst payment status on all trades in the past two years and evidence of any nonfinancial transactions (i.e., payments to vendors) being delinquent or charged - off for two or more billing periods.

Adding to the sense of panic, Chinese stocks plunged another 4 % on Friday, closing off one of their worst weeks in years.

A little more than half (51 percent) think that actions taken by the new president and Congress next year will make their businesses better off, 17 percent think their businesses will be worse off and 26 percent think the actions will have no effect.

U.S. health insurers just posted their best financial results in years, shrugging off worries that the worst flu season in recent history would hurt...

Several years ago the racing industry looked into the idea of privitisation and it was agreed that as long as WA racing was not worse off under a private ownership, it should support the sale.

Energy stocks and exchange - traded funds are rebounding off their previous lows, but the sector remains the worst - performing group in the S&P 500 this year.

When the day arrives that you begin taking money from savings to finance your golden years, you will be worse off if your nominal returns didn't beat the inflation rate by a healthy margin.

A 10 % drop for Walmart, its worst loss in 30 years, took 73 points off the Dow and caused selling in other retailers like Target.

The ECB said in its October guidelines that euro zone banks should write off all bad loans after seven years, if originated after the new recommendations came into force.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump, who has called the North American Free Trade Agreement «the worst trade deal» ever signed by the United States, appears to have backed off his threat to abandon the deal and is instead proposing keeping major planks in place when he begins renegotiating it later this year.

With 10 bank branches in Maryland and Delaware, Delmar lost $ 2.9 million after charging off some bad loans, the first loss in Thomas» 22 years there, he said.

In the worst case scenario, where the kid doesn't get any money for college, you always have the option of taking 4 years off from investing for retirement and plowing the money instead right out of your paycheck into school costs.

Credit strategists are increasingly disturbed by a sudden and rare contraction of U.S. bank lending, fearing a synchronized slowdown in the U.S. and China this year that could catch euphoric markets badly off guard.

«Fundamentally, it makes a lot of sense that the fourth quarter of this year looks particularly bad because refining demand drops and driving season drops off... if you get through the fourth quarter and you still have this oversupply, then maybe it's the second quarter of next year when you have this drop off in demand again.»

Some call the data from the survey «dangerous» because lower response rates obscure who is faring better and who is worse off — which could lead to misguided policy decisions in the years ahead.

The dollar posted negative returns in 2017 and in January was off to the worst start to a year in over three decades.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Now what: Biotechnology stocks are off to an an awful start to the year, as the IBB is down more than 24 %, but Novavax's stock has faired even worse.

A false sense of security has prevailed over the last few years because the consumer debt service ratio (denoted by the red line) collapsed from 6 % to 5 % after the onset of the last recession, as bad debts were written off and interest rates collapsed.