Sentences with phrase «year led investors»

The prospect of better results later this year led investors to overlook disappointing second quarter results this week.

Not exact matches

«Strong economic momentum and accelerating price and wage gains should lead to three more Fed rate hikes this year,» Kathy Bostjancic, head of U.S. macro investor services at Oxford Economics USA, wrote in response to the survey.

Corporate America has led the way in passing on the problem of its surplus capital to investors via share repurchases, with around $ 530 billion spent on U.S. buybacks last year and $ 800 billion expected in 2018, according to JPMorgan.

The 69 - year - old railroad veteran stormed into Canadian Pacific in June 2012 after a proxy battle led by activist investor Bill Ackman and has made good on his promise to repair the underperforming company.

Strong demand from overseas investors has led companies including Lloyds Banking Group Plc and KPMG to sell and lease back their London headquarters in the past year.

Fears that Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton would win the election and limit gun sales led to record purchases last year, but Trump's surprise victory has had a reverse effect, with 2017 sales falling and investors selling gunmaker shares.

«The fact that we have seen over # 1 billion worth of venture capital investment into London fintech companies since the EU referendum vote offers further proof that global investors still believe London will remain a leading fintech hub for many years to come,» Rajesh Agrawal, London's deputy mayor for business, said in a statement Thursday.

Furthermore, many institutional investors close their books at the year - end, a deadline for taxation and performance reporting, a time seen leading to dollar selling pressure, analysts said.

Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.

After years of anemic growth and brain drain, Puerto Rico has been left with a 12 % unemployment rate and stagnant wages, leading Padilla to come clean and ask investors for mercy.

Elliott Management, the hedge fund that Singer launched 40 years ago and still leads today, was then a large investor in Samsung's construction division.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

This has led Wall Street investors to assume, rightly so far, that there really only four «live» meetings per year, sharply reducing policymakers» flexibility to take action.

That's reportedly why he sold control of Cirque du Soleil to a group of investors led by TPG Capital this year, and even they have big boots to fill.

This is apparently the same gear that Magic Leap execs showed investors, such as Alibaba (baba) and Google (goog), in the lead - up to its $ 793 million Series C round of funding earlier this year.

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

Floreani's company has raised nearly $ 30 million in funding thus far, including $ 21.2 million in Series B venture capital funding last year that came from a group led by DCM Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, along with other investors including Discovery Communications and World Wrestling Entertainment.

Millman's company has helped 445 female - led companies connect with angel, venture and corporate investors to raise about $ 5.5 billion in equity financing over the last 11 years.

Bengaluru - based online photography startup Canvera Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd has raised Rs 20 crore ($ 3 million) led by existing investor Info Edge (India) Ltd, less than a year after it became one of the first startups to report a «down round».

Since 1989, U.S. Global Investors has been led by CEO Frank Holmes, who purchased a controlling interest in the company that same year.

And so when I read Ben Graham, sort of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could about what he had written, both security analysis and the intelligent investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort of the rest is history, it's a very good age, you know I was younger than 21 at the time you know junior year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my life.

In September last year, budget hotels marketplace Oyo raised $ 250 million (Rs 1,600 crore) in a Series D round led by existing Japanese investor SoftBank Group Corp..

For the last couple of years, Musk had led investors to expect the Model 3 to reach an annual production rate of about 400,000 cars by the end of 2017.

Bond indexes have declined this year, as the growing economy has led the Fed to raise interest rates and investors have grown increasingly concerned about the potential for accelerating inflation.

In the United States Lyft is telling investors it «will have boosted its share of U.S. ride - hailing business some 61 percent by the end of the year, climbing to about a third of the market»; what is even more damaging is Lyft's partnership with Waymo, which made Lyft the best way to invest in Google's self - driving technology — Google apparently agreed, leading a $ 1.5 billion investment that Lyft announced this week.

Winners also enjoy: National recognition as one of Canada's foremost Dealmakers Heightened market interest thanks to extensive media exposure in The Globe and Mail, Lexpert and Thomson Reuters publications Media coverage stemming from Deloitte's national media relations efforts The opportunity to engage in the high - level industry networking that fuels M&A transactions - Recognition at the gala awards ceremony, which is attended by leading investors, advisors and financiers - Year - round networking and educational opportunities, including access to valuable research, insights and best practices

Japanese shares hit a two - month closing high on Tuesday with financials leading gains after U.S. bond yields spiked to four - year highs and as investors remained optimistic about upcoming earnings.

Although the reduced 2015 earnings outlook will likely be on investors» minds for a while, easing generic pressures and a promising new product cycle should lead to a turnaround over the coming 3 to 5 years.

Indeed, investors have cause to celebrate, as global stocks are up over 20 % for the year, with emerging market stocks leading the way.

The Chinese conglomerate led a $ 1.1 - billion (Rs 7,174 crore) round into the homegrown firm in October last year, along with Japanese telecom and Internet conglomerate SoftBank Group and other investors.

«The energy sector posted stronger returns in September due to a rebound in oil prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

U.S. markets have led the world for years, which has many investors calling foreign markets more attractively priced.

Unfortunately, as I noted earlier, investors have earned an «F» for vigilance in recent years, so our lead time on new difficulties may be shorter than we might like.

This big pop leads to a few years of undistinguished performance and investor impatience — where the manager may very well be doing exactly what their fund is supposed to and what their process requires — but to the casual buyer, none of that matters.

In March this year, the company raised $ 150 million (about Rs 1,000 crore) in an expanded round of funding led by the UAE - based private equity investor Abraaj Group.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

For 30 years, SVN has been the leading peer - to - peer network of mission - driven business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors who are leveraging the power of business to solve social, economic, and environmental problems.

True was the lead investor in our Series A earlier in the year.

So investors looking for large - cap value stocks to lead strongly on the upside will probably have to wait roughly until the year after the next bear market is over.

We are confident that the strength of our two industry - leading brands, under the sponsorship of Roark Capital — an experienced restaurant and food service investor — will enable us to capitalize on significant growth opportunities in the years ahead.»

Denton told POLITICO Media that he is not concerned about giving up some control to an outside investor — which is a reversal of virtually everything he's said for the past dozen years — because having to justify his decisions to someone outside Gawker would lead him to make better decisions.

Many investors worry about laws passed last year that increase the government's role in managing the pre-salt assets, closing them off from open bidding and mandating that Petrobras be the lead operator in exploiting them.

Scale start - ups — the leading engine of job creation — are staying private longer, on average 11 years in 2014, and, in some cases, are even going straight from venture to private equity ownership to provide liquidity to early investors and employees.

Some investors also placed bets that corporate tax cuts would keep the current economic expansion going, but skepticism remains as to whether the GOP - led Congress will be able to pass a bill before year - end.

Similar to the Yellowstone experience, investors are increasingly forgoing risk - hedging in broader asset markets following years of policy - led volatility dampening, and the BIS highlighted the following in regards to signs of market complacency:

For four years, the lighthouse event was part of the world's largest IT convention, marking the hotspot for startups, corporate innovation managers, politics, media and investors — leading to numerous successful partnerships.

In GMOs most recent letter, Jeremy Grantham leads off the piece with, «At GMO these days we argue over three very different pathways to a similar dismal 20 - year outlook for pension fund returns... A problem for investors following GMO's writing is which of these three alternatives to choose»

Good luck can certainly lead to a great fund (and the opportunity to raise larger amounts of capital in subsequent investment funds); there clearly are some investors (or dart throwers) who in the past few years invested early in what became decacorns (including Uber and Airbnb) and are managing larger pools of capital as a result.

Applying the 71 - year old Howey Test, this qualifies as an investment in a «common enterprise,» in which investors are led to «expect profits» that are «generated from the efforts of others.»