Sentences with phrase «year lows during»

Prices for metals like copper, of which China is a major buyer, fell to six - year lows during the past two days.

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«We grew a lot during those next three years because of our low fat» popcorn sales.»

During a public webcast on January 14 when the 10 - year yield was at around 3.0 % and when Wall Street said it would climb to 3.4 %, Gundlach predicted that it could fall as low as 2.5 % in the near - term.

Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in volatility have come amid relatively subdued trading volumes.»

Gov. Mitt Romney set fact - checkers scrambling during this week's debate when he stated that new business startups were at 30 - year lows.

To help keep some middle and lower income people from being hit by the AMT, Congress has enacted temporary relief during each of the past several years by passing what's called a patch.

During Zappos's early years, Hsieh decided that customer service was the most important function of his company and proceeded to craft dozens of counterintuitive policies that lavished benefits on the low - wage workers who answered the phones.

The government forecasts the economy will grow 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

For instance, Olavsrud at FBB Capital Partners said that it's more advantageous to do it during a year when your income is lower or when the market is down, lowering the value of the assets in the account.

The government forecasts growth of 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, putting Malaysia in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

The decision to take a year - long maternity leave can lower a women's income over her lifetime, even if government and employer programs maintain a steady income during that leave.

Delinquencies on bank card payments, which are not part of the composite, fell to 2.41 percent during the quarter, a 22 - year low.

But if your income has increased over what you estimated during the year or your expenses are lower than anticipated, you will need to pay the amount owed or be subject to penalties and interest when you finally do pay your taxes.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

Air Canada pilots complained during labour negotiations earlier this year that the low - cost carrier could threaten their job security and working conditions, and that pilots at the carrier would earn less.

Youth unemployment is actually pretty low by historical standards; the only time it was lower was during the boom years just before the recession.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

«We will follow the price of marijuana and help you buy and sell your products during peaks of the market to avoid highs and lows and at the end of the year.»

GameStop lowered its fourth - quarter and full - year earnings guidance after suffering declines in video - game sales during the holiday period.

During downturns, you would withdraw the lowest amount you would need in order to pay your expenses throughout the year.

For the past few years, Soho has been hosting «pop - up clubs» during the Toronto International Film Festival — the 2009 event transformed the ghostly, abandoned Lower Bay subway station into a sort of mod oasis with the help of Persian rugs, Grey Goose vodka and actor Michael Caine.

Thanks in part to the low - cost uranium coming from Canada, rising prices made the Swiss subsidiary tremendously profitable — it earned $ 4.3 billion during the six - year period ending in 2012.

«During the first eight months of 2016, Apple saw its smartphone market share remain at a record low compared to the last few years,» Counterpoint research director Jeff Fieldhack wrote.

«Mt Cuthbert is a low cost copper producer recognised by its ability to return profits during the recent twenty - five year low copper price slump.

But I had a 10 % 401k allocation and 9 % company match and profit sharing during the years I was making the lower salary.

In fact, over the past 35 years, the market has experienced an average drop of 14 % from high to low during each calendar year, but still had a positive annual return more than 80 % of the time.

First, has been the significant decline in terms of trade during the first half of the year due to lower commodity prices.

Volume was 21 percent lower than during the same week a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Payments are lower during the early years and gradually increase over time.

The fact that the bond market retreated during the first week of the year on «old» news and in the second week on very little new economic news, though Wednesday saw softer JOLTS (where job openings slid to a six - month low) and Import Price data barely rising at all, is revealing.

Claims remained near a more than 48 - year low of 209,000 touched during the week ended April 21.

It can also be a good idea to do a Roth conversion during years when your income is low.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index finished last week at a seven - year low before rallying 16 percent during the first two days of the week, the biggest surge since April.

The first reason, developed in that blog, was that the Fed should have signaled a desire to exceed its two percent inflation target during periods of protracted recovery and low unemployment and in this context to signal that a rate increase was off the table for September and quite likely the rest of the year.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

Analysts at investment research platform Seeking Alpha found that of all the months of the year, October has historically experienced the most 1 - percent swings in either direction for the S&P 500 index — and during election years, stocks have finished the month lower, on average.

Over the past 30 years, during which earnings growth hasn't been stellar, market values have instead been driven by Federal Reserve - induced low interest rates leading to corporate share repurchase strategies and merger and acquisition activity.

Similarly, we've avoided financial stocks during this market cycle, and missed the «private equity» enthusiasm early last year (though again, the decision was clearly vindicated as financials are now at multi-year lows).

During the year ended December 31, 2008, we had a gross loss of $ 1.1 million due to the lower pricing for our initial vehicles, the high materials and manufacturing costs associated with our first generation Tesla Roadster and limited economies of scale from low vehicle production volumes.

When an investment horizon begins at depressed market valuations and ends at elevated market valuations, the total returns of investors over that horizon are always glorious (for example, the total return of the S&P 500 averaged nearly 20 % annually during the 18 - year period between the 1982 low and the 2000 peak).

«The drop in revenues in light of shipment increases demonstrates that the servers that shipped during the period had lower average selling prices than those that shipped in the same time frame last year.»

On a historic basis, the value of bitumen in Alberta was at its lowest since 2008 during fiscal year 2012 - 2013, averaging just $ 52.78 / bbl, compared to $ 64.58 the previous year.

I live in a low almost deflationary enviroment (Europe) and was checking out some retirement software and something keep throwing me off, took me a bit to figure it out but it was inflation, like WTF is that and then I remembered I lived in Spain during the housing bust and now in Germany with negative real interest rates and I'm simply not used the idea that prices increase each year simply because time goes by.

2015.02.02 RBC Canadian Manufacturing PMI ™ drops to its lowest level in nearly two years during January January data indicated a sharp slowdown in the Canadian manufacturing sector, with overall business conditions improving at the weakest pace since April 2013, according to the RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers...

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

In my view, such a return would have been both satisfactory and reasonable, given the very low volatility and risk profile of the Fund during the year just ended.

During that initial five - year period, I could save more than $ 10,000 by securing the lower rate that comes with the ARM:

In this kind of scenario, a borrower could benefit from the lower interest rate during the initial period, and then sell the house a few years later, before the loan begins to adjust.

Let's take a look at some of the key fundamentals that have kept gold prices on a tight leash during the last few years against the backdrop of a sharp correction in the equities markets, rising inflation, geopolitical unrest and the likely end of an era of low interest rates.