Sentences with phrase «year by year almost»

For almost all corporations, NAV will grow year by year almost continuously.

Not exact matches

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

BEIJING, May 3 - Smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday, in what is expected to be the largest listing by a Chinese tech company in almost four years.

The free trade deal with the European Union took years and it was almost derailed by the Walloons.

The Taiwanese company, with revenues of more than $ 8 billion, was founded by the Wharton grad's father almost 50 years ago and now claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of athletic and casual footwear.

Bitcoin skidded a further 12 % on Wednesday, marking an almost halving in value from its peak price, with investors spooked by fears regulators could clamp down on the volatile cryptocurrency that skyrocketed last year.

Buried in statistics released by the Energy Information Administration this week indicating the United States is exporting more crude oil than it has in 15 years is a still more startling fact: «Almost all of the crude oil exported from the United States has been delivered to Canada.»

The couple have struggled over the years from almost getting shut down by the police, to losing their home and dealing with the wrath of angry customers, but stuck with it and became multi-millionaires!

And by the way, that particular partnership, which was closed with a handshake, has lasted for almost 20 years.

The Dead took the opposite approach, touring almost year - round and by the 80s only occasionally releasing new albums.

As for «peak earnings,» Michael Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist and CIO of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, said in a note to clients on Sunday that» [W] e think the market is digesting the fact that the tax cut last year has created a lower quality increase in US earnings growth that almost guarantees a peak rate of change by 3Q.»

After almost 100 years, one of the most dominant forces in American technology and communications is told by the government, «You're too big.»

HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday that could raise $ 10 billion and become the largest listing by a Chinese technology firm in almost four years.

Nokia paid almost $ 200 million for the company in 2016, but wrote down the value by $ 164 million last year.

Indeed, Vancouver's HootSuite scored a record - setting $ 165 million in venture capital last year, followed by another impressive $ 100 million going to Ottawa - based e-commerce firm Shopify — numbers previously almost unheard of in Canada.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Last year, downgrades outnumbered upgrades by almost 3:1, the agency said.

That's almost all coming out of Pavel Durov's pocket, and the figure is only getting bigger, rising to $ 100 million this year and $ 220 million by 2021.

Almost half of his 110 employees have stayed in the company for five years or more, which is hard to achieve in a sector that sees tempting new tech jobs multiply by the minute.

The numbers, as reported last month, back it up — this year's second quarter saw 48 home sales priced at $ 5 million or higher, the most activity in almost a year and a half, according to a report by Miller Samuel Inc. and Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

Household spending sank 4.6 % in the year to August, almost twice the fall expected by analysts.

It was recommended to me by Nelson Mandela almost 10 years ago when he asked me to rescue a chain of health clubs that had gone into receivership.

China «s consumer price inflation slowed to its weakest pace in almost a year in August, pulled down by abating food costs, although an encouraging moderation in producer price deflation added to growing evidence of a steadying economy.

In the few years it has lagged, it's almost always done so by a slim margin.

Over the years, the amount of change left behind by travelers at airports has been steadily climbing — jumping from about $ 489,000 in 2011 to almost $ 675,000 in 2014, and hitting $ 766,000 in 2015.

His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel.

By the looks of this year's North American Auto Show in Detroit, soon you'll be able to buy a KITT of your own: almost every dashboard boasted touch screens, voice control, real - time performance data and more.

Revenue of $ 29.8 billion slipped 7 % from last year and missed the average analyst estimate by almost $ 700 million.

These projects are so efficient in their conservation of heat in the steam that they have a similar life - cycle carbon output to the average of crudes sold in North America, and thus would almost certainly meet the standards to be unveiled by the California Air Resources Board next year, the company told The Calgary Herald recently.

Since 2010, Porsche has almost tripled its sales in China, where its sales trailed the U.S. last year by fewer than 100 vehicles.

The high - performing companies we looked at had one thing in common — they were almost all run for many, many years by their founders.

Over 90 % of its sales are exports, and the firm's top line has grown by almost 470 % in the past five years.

Characterized by sharp beaks and flamboyant horns and frills, these herbivores almost all lived in what is now Western North America right at the end of the Cretaceous period, 100 to 66 million years ago.

What's more, this change flies in the face of almost everything we've been told by so - called experts about raising successful kids — at least for the past 15 years or more.

«That great strength can be a weakness if you're not adapting to the environment that you're in,» says Jonathan Wellum, who worked side by side with Lee - Chin at AIC for almost 20 years.

So it decreased by almost 10 percent in eight years.»

Reviewed by local regulators for almost a year, that local marriage was only step one for the Brahma boys, who saw an industry ripe for consolidation and initiated a strategy to improve margins by buying up brewers, eliminating duplicative operations, cutting excess suppliers, and other steps that formed today's beer market, which is fragmented by brand but consolidated in terms of ownership.

If you look at the chart above you'll see that the amounts of pollen ragweed produces only went up by 1 gram per plant in almost 20 years.

Investors can participate in the potential of companies such as TIO Networks Corp. (TSXV: TNC), an expedited bill - payment processor, which recorded $ 36.5 million in revenues in 2011, an increase of almost 50 % over the previous year, and Verisante Technology Inc. (TSXV: VRS), a medical device company that commercializes cancer detection systems using a platform developed by the BC Cancer Agency.

A sell - off on Friday left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 260 points for the week and the blue chip index remains down 7 % on the year, while the tech - heavy Nasdaq composite is now off by almost 13 % this year.

«I think it will be huge... Almost all of it is profit and I think we will get 3 years of that or more,» Shkreli wrote in an August message highlighted by the committee.

The news caught almost everyone off guard because Netflix had previously set a goal of being available in most of the world by the end of this year.

U.S. stock indexes suffered their biggest losses in 3 months Monday, having finished 2014 on a fairly strong note, with the Dow gaining 7.5 % on the year, while the S&P 500 improved by almost 12 %, and the Nasdaq gained more than 13 %.

Almost two - fifths of businesses in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany have been hit in the last year by a ransomware attack, according to a survey by security firm Malwarebytes.

A separate report published by QSR earlier this year revealed that the brand, which is headquartered in Atlanta and specializes in chicken sandwiches, produced revenue of almost $ 4 million per store, blowing away its closest competition by over $ 1.3 million.

By 1967, Blue Ribbon Sports had revenues of almost $ 100,000 and was selling 10,000 to 12,000 pairs of track shoes a year.

Global assets under management are expected to almost double to $ 145.4 trillion by 2025, and the share of money managed passively will grow to 25 percent of that total, from 17 percent last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers predicted in an Oct. 30 report.

Since last year, the near - term price of WTI crude, in Canadian dollars, has dropped by almost $ 25 per barrel, and the long - term futures price by $ 10, when you take into account futures market prices for Canadian dollars as well.

Venture capital fundraising was down by almost half in 2009, the slowest year since 2003.

Fast forward five years, Avon's stock market value is down to $ 1.3 billion and McCoy is on her way out in March, having failed to improve the company by almost any measure.