Sentences with phrase «year growth targets»

Use this report to view student growth in math and reading relative to end - of - year growth targets.

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In recent years, however, Noise Solutions has adopted a much more targeted and directed approach to growth, a strategy that depends on a lot of advance work and then a direct sales effort.

Comments: «The path to our 2013 year - end S&P 500 target of 1600 is not a straight line, and we remain somewhat cautious on US equities in the near term, as the US Fiscal Cliff and the growth outlook for Europe and China remain overhangs.

On a full - year basis, 2013 same - store sales growth of 1.1 % in the Canadian segment was below our original target range of 2 % to 4 %; we believe this was due to ongoing challenging economic conditions and increased competitive intensity in our industry.

It said this would support its target of 5 percent per year on average output growth between 2016 and 2022, even though Total noted that the global environment remained volatile with persistent uncertainty around the evolution of global supply.

Most analysts expect the first rate hike to come in September of this year, but that the pace of subsequent rate hikes will be slow, taking into account continued middling economic growth and below - target inflation.

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defence spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fuelling an ambitious military modernisation programme amid rising concerns over its security.

BEIJING, March 5 - China unveiled its largest rise in defence spending in three years on Monday, setting an 8.1 percent growth target compared to 2017, fuelling the country's ambitious military modernisation programme amid rising Chinese security...

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defense spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fueling an ambitious military modernisation program amid rising concerns over its security.

«For the rest of the year, as the export situation may deteriorate, fiscal stimulus and further monetary easing will likely take place so as to protect the 6.5 percent growth target, which in turn will underpin growth for commodity demand,» Lau said in a note.

«While there are risks on the horizon, if these positive conditions persist, adjusted earnings growth for the full year may exceed our medium - term targets.»

Our 2013 year - end target of 1600 implies a 10 % price return, where most of the appreciation can be attributed to earnings growth of 7 % next year, along with modest multiple expansion from 14.2 x to 14.7 x on trailing earnings, still below an average PE of 16x.

The data «explains the recent policy tightening as policy makers are getting more and more comfortable with reaching the growth target this year and have shifted towards risk management,» wrote Goldman Sachs analysts led by Maggie Wei in Hong Kong today.

Throughout the years, Volkswagen has proved that designing a company around thoughtful values, effectively communicating them to a target audience and maintaining them over time can drive long - term brand loyalty and growth.

«As a result, today, we are raising our full - year 2016 targets for same - store sales growth and earnings per share,» Shaich said.

The French facilities management group Sodexo dropped almost 6 percent after cutting its full - year sales growth target for this year and closed at the bottom of the European benchmark.

We helped Uber in a similar way last year by finding out why its new digital platform to sign - up new drivers wasn't working in their target growth market of Egypt.

Inflation is expected to breach its target this year as a tightening labor market boosts wage growth.

Despite indicators showing that the economy can in no way be growing at an annual rate of 7 % (for example, in the first seven months of this year, power consumption grew barely 1 % while rail freight fell 10 %), Chinese officials continue to insist, with a straight face, that growth is meeting the 7 % target.

If China manages to hit its economic growth targets this year, it will do so at a huge long - term cost.

Last year the PR agency scored with about half the target media on the top 10 list; that led to a record number of inquiries from potential customers who had read about the company, helping to fuel 32 % sales growth in 1991.

Our 12 - month forward target for year - end 2015 is 2275, offering about 10 % upside to today's price, based on 7 % earnings growth in 2015 and 2016 and modest further multiple expansion to near 17x forward earnings... Multiple higher?

«Our 12 - month forward target for year - end 2015 is 2275, offering about 10 % upside to today's price, based on 7 % earnings growth in 2015 and 2016 and modest further multiple expansion to near 17x forward earnings.»

In anticipation of expected future growth, we continued to increase our hiring efforts, and we raised our year - end headcount target to 520 employees.

The figure includes the unemployment rate, the Fed's estimate of the «natural rate» — the lowest unemployment rate they believe to be consistent with stable inflation at the 2 % target — year - over-year wage and price growth (using the core - PCE deflator, the Fed's preferred inflation benchmark right now).

Their business model is a digital advertising business model, and the reason why Facebook and Google had more than a 90 percent share of growth in the digital advertising space last year is that they can target advertising in a way that no other site can because they have a 360 - degree view of user activity, meaning they're tracking users across the web and therefore know much more about their users than anyone else.

Average annual inflation — one yardstick of economic growth — hasn't hit the Fed's 2 % target in years.

I mean I do not fully get the statement «a year of 2 % NGDP growth actually just brings you back to the natural rate, back to macroeconomic equilibrium» as I think targeting the change (0 %) here seems to be enough to tame the shock slowly without AD deficiency?

Simply delaying the target for deficit elimination by one year and eliminating unjustified and ineffective tax preferences could free up as much as $ 10 billion annually, or $ 50 billion over five years to support economic growth and job creation.

In 2018, bankers say they expect another big year of investment, targeted more at sectors considered important to future economic growth like high technology and renewable energy.

After assuring us Tuesday that China's economy — which is growing a little slower than the 7.5 % target and, is expected to slow further over the rest of the year — was nonetheless «operating within a reasonable range», in his Tianjin speech on Wednesday Premier Li suggested again that the China's 7.5 % growth target is not a hard target, and that there may be «variations» in China's growth relative to the target.

The central scenario for the Australian economy is a positive one, with growth over the next couple of years at, or above, average, a relatively strong labour market, and inflation consistent with the medium - term target.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

Our research, and years of investment and operating experience in Canada, highlights a persistent imbalance between the large number of technology companies seeking emerging - growth financing and the amount of capital targeting companies in their initial growth phase.

In a sign that the U.S. shale patch is boosting output that has been keeping a lid on oil prices, four U.S. shale companies reported second - quarter production that beat targets and increased their respective full - year output growth guidance.

The company raised its full - year 2017 U.S. crude oil growth target to 20 percent from 18 percent and total company production growth target to seven percent from five percent, keeping capital spending plans intact.

On the short - side of the yield curve, the consensus seems to interpret the Federal Open Market Committee's recent use of the word «gradual» as an indication that it will allow inflation to run higher than 2 % in order to make up for the last 20 years of below - target growth.

Growth is still lackluster because of the sequester, and the unemployment rate is still not 6.5 percent, the Fed target, so they may talk about it but not do anything until early next year.

This is why countries like China, whose economies are not subject to these two constraints, are able to achieve GDP growth targets that for many years exceed the underlying growth of the economy.

The company shared on Thursday that it's targeting U.S. same restaurant sales growth of 2 % to 4 % over the next five years.

Otherwise, the FY2015 - FY2017 LTI plan (including the three - year average annual EPS growth rate goals described above and the threshold, target and maximum payouts) for the named executive officers is consistent with the terms of the LTI program as described above.

The document projects the government to set the growth of program spending at two per cent per year, a target it says would be far below the 4.4 per cent annual average increases of previous Liberal governments.

While Tim Hortons still dominates Canada's coffee market, the company has weathered uneven same - store sales growth this year, and expects to fall short of its target ranges.

Based on the outcome of the corporate results, the SPX is on target to post double - digit earnings growth for the second quarter in a row, the first time in nearly six years.

The LendingCrowd Growth ISA has a target rate of 6 % * per year, the LendingCrowd Income ISA has a target rate of 5.6 % * per year and rates for the Self Select ISA start from 5.95 % **.

Officials repeatedly downgraded forecasts for economic growth last year to 1.4 %, a far cry from the average annual pace of about 7 % during the early 2000s and well below the medium - term target of 5 % set by President Vladimir Putin.

While, it's not clear whether the growth and deficit targets are achievable, it is clear that keeping the growth target the same as last year means the government is not interested in risking slower growth by advancing economic reforms more rapidly.

Target's dividend has remained very steady, increasing for 49 straight years thanks to consistent growth in revenue.

Over the past couple of years, the prevailing concern was to limit the risk of an abrupt decline in growth, and to facilitate a return of inflation to the target.

When the year began, many investors anticipated strong earnings growth mostly coming from the energy sector, and many oil analysts had targeted crude prices in the upper US$ 50s to low US$ 60 / barrel range over the course of 2017.