Sentences with phrase «year long global»

A feature of the 165 - year long global temperature series in recent years is that new records highs have not been rare at all.

AuthorImprints Services: eBook conversion, distribution About the book: Former standup comedian and humor columnist Wood sold his condo in Seattle and set out on a year long global golfing journey.

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AbbVie's Humira, the anti-inflammatory drug which has long reigned supreme in all global prescription drug sales (it brought in a cool $ 16 billion last year) may actually become even more lucrative.

Speaking on the sidelines of the 19th Edition of Naseba Global WIL Economic Forum in Dubai, Sophie Le Ray, co-founder and CEO of Naseba, a business facilitation company specializing in emerging markets, looks back on her 15 - year - long entrepreneurial journey.

There's no longer any question that an education which equips a new graduate with the tools and technologies that it takes to join today's tech - and - data - centric workforce is far more likely to lead to solid earnings and long - term employment in our digital global economy than an expensive, traditional 4 - year program.

The findings correlate with an uneven year for business in 2015, due to stock market volatility in the third quarter, which ended a long bull run in the wake of weakening global economies and a devaluing of China's currency.

A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally early in the year, boosting long futures positions to a record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.

Samsonite is open to the prospect of manufacturing in the U.S. after a 16 - year long hiatus, according to global CEO Ramesh Tainwala.

In the last couple years, the global sales for snack products has reached $ 374 billion, dethroning the time - old tradition of three square meals a day from its long - held spot.

Oil prices continued their months - long decline Monday, with the price of crude briefly falling below $ 50 per barrel for the first time in more than five years earlier in the session on account of global oversupply.

Cards were mostly responsible for the change as they grabbed a 39.4 percent market share last year compared to 33.4 percent in 2014, mirroring a global trend that has long taken hold in many other countries including Sweden and Britain.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

A global focus on climate action and the increased use of renewables is set to provide a robust long - term tailwind for First Solar for many years to come.

Xerox has long assigned numbers to its employment objectives, which is perhaps why the company is setting its sights even higher: It is aiming for 34 % of the executive leadership team to be female within the next five years (up from 28 % currently), according to Damika Arnold, global diversity and inclusion leader at Xerox.

All told, global gross domestic product (GDP) is on track to increase an estimated 3.8 % next year, the strongest showing since 2011, and a few ticks higher than the long - term average of 3.5 %.

In other words after almost six years the global economy has not only not recovered from the so - called great recession it appears to be entering a potentially long period of stagnating growth.

Result: In 2007, the collapse of the housing market triggered the subprime mortgage crisis and a three - year - long global recession.

«Our Government's sound economic management and unwavering commitment to balance the budget this year — while creating jobs, growth and long - term prosperity for Canadians — has resulted in a resilient economic performance in a challenging global economy.

By Claire Milhench (Reuters)- Investors raised their equity holdings in April from March's five - year lows, taking the view that the global stock market rally will continue as long as central banks maintain their loose monetary policies, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.

John Stopford, portfolio manager of the Investec GSF Global Strategic Income Fund and co-head of the Investec multi-asset team, says 2014 may be a difficult year for corporate credit and a modest one for emerging markets debt, «but there may be an attractive long - term buying opportunity later in the year.»

We have already seen significant flows of global assets into US Treasuries this year, and in doing so, the level of long - term interest rates is being held down.

But the IMF forecasts better growth in 2016, and even its forecast for global GDP growth of over 3 % this year is still not far off long - term trends, with annual real GDP growth hovering around 3.5 % throughout the mid-1980s and again in the mid-1990s, according to the IMF Data Mapper.

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Wymer: The market's strong rally following the November 2016 general election has continued, as global earnings expectations improved during 2017 — a sharp contrast to the weakness in recent years — and have accelerated recently, spurred by reactions to the long - term impacts of the corporate tax cuts.

«Despite an estimated $ 3 trillion of art assets in the world, only $ 44 billion trades in a given year — and less than 2 percent of qualified buyers participate in this market due to high transaction costs, long lead times, and limited transparency on pricing and value,» Artsy will bring this last major consumer category online and thereby substantially expand the size of the global art market.

Currency markets are some of the most active markets for speculation and arbitrage — they're open every day in the business week for 24 hours per day all year long, and they regularly see global trade volumes of more than $ 5 trillion on a daily basis.1

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

Ikea consolidated its agency roster two years ago, retaining long - running indie agency Mother for creative and bringing its global media buying into two networks — WPP and Dentsu Aegis.

Barbara Ann has kept her focus on value since striking out two years ago to launch Wincrest, where she runs a global long - short portfolio built around a foundation of in - depth research.

Given my outlook for stabilization in oil prices by year's end, global integrated oil companies seem like a good long - term value.

For example, the dollar has started to correlate positively with global equities on a two - year rolling basis, reversing a long - standing negative correlation.

While our global macro fund coverage is scarce compared to our long / short equity focus, we have in the past covered how global macro funds have struggled this year.

I've long wondered that after four years of unprecedented monetary policy with still very tepid at best economic growth, just whether investors would lose faith in the Fed (and really global central bankers for that matter) and politicians.

However, should slowing global economic growth or recession result in a long - term reduction (three to five years) in energy prices, then U.S. Silica and its peers will face the prospect of their current lucrative contracts expiring and themselves sitting atop literal mountains of frac sand, while demand may have fallen off a cliff.

You forgot self - extermination by way of global heating which is actually in the process of happening now... so that should be first on your list... the sun expanding won't happen for another 5 billion or so years... we'll be long long gone by then.

The global turn toward capitalism began not long after, in 1989, and within twenty - five years some two billion people had begun moving from communism and socialism toward capitalism, and thence out of poverty and into steadily advancing standards of living.

As long as mankind is what they are, there will NEVER be peace among us, certainly not global peace in any meaningful sense, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either dangerously naïve or pathetically stupid, frankly.Knock the dust off your Bible, Benedict!The great Apostle Paul predicted today's situatio perfectly over 2,000 years ago, and I quote: «But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loversof pleasures rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power»... (2nd Timothy 3:1 - 5)- Hello!

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

He hopes to use his week - long trip to Chile and Peru to put the issue on the global agenda and set the stage for a church meeting next year on the Amazon and the people who live there.

The nine finalists from around the world competed for a grand prize of $ 10,000 and a year - long contract as Angostura's global brand ambassador.

Emotion Furniture owns iconic brands such as Pegar which has supplied retailers and department stores throughout Australia for the past 45 years and has built long term commercial relationships with leaders in the global furniture market such as Berkline (USA) and Simmons (USA).

Despite reports of potential global wine shortages, the market ends the year 2013 in a balanced to long position.

A megatrend is defined as a substantial shift in social, economic, environmental, technological or geopolitical conditions that may reshape the way a sector operates in the long - run.5 CSIRO has identified five megatrends evident in global F&A that will have significant impact on the sector over the next 20 years.

Their twenty years» experience in the global onion market has taught them that the key to success is logistics, together with quality, competitive pricing and a long shelf life, to ensure quality for the end user after extended shipping times.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

For example, in April 2000, after a year - long campaign by the human rights organization Global Exchange, Starducks decided to carry our best fair - trade best Kona coffee in its stores.

Now in its 29th year, the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation is the industry's longest running, global, independently judged celebration of innovation and collaboration throughout the value chain and is recognized globally as the leading awards program in the sector.

The partnership includes a long - term global agreement under which Barry Callebaut will supply Hershey with a minimum of 80,000 tons per year of chocolate and finished products.

This year, our MMU Sport team will be taking part in Movember, growing (and in some cases, attempting to grow) moustaches all in aid of the Movember Foundation; a global charity committed to men living happier, healthier and longer lives.

Thank you for you honest analytical viewpoint ken and backing me up on the punctuation my phone is problematic and to get all the marks right takes three times or more as long but i feel the content is there, and rsh i was not hiding behind referee decisions i said clearly that you do nt win or lose based on the refs you have 90 minutes to win a game i was meaning overall across the league this year its been bad almost as bad as our honor as club supporters we made to a final and win ir lose that looks good to people across the globe but the fans embarrassed the club on a global stage by walking out no honor in defeat.