Sentences with phrase «year of crisis»

2017 was a year of crisis for many, and 2018 is the year that we must resist.

Sales to consumers have already decreased, falling 3.7 % in value and 3.3 % in volume according to Kantar Worldpanel, making 2016 the 5th consecutive year of crisis for the sector.

The MRP document states that it would fund farmers through a mix of a state crisis fund, penalties for farmers increasing their volumes and a producer levy as and when required, limited to the year of the crisis.

«This is something we haven't seen in a while in terms of the growth backdrop» both in the US and around the world, he said, adding that European economies «are doing really well» after years of crisis conditions.

After some seven years of crisis management at the Federal Reserve, Chairman Ben Bernanke is rumoured to have had enough.

European equities have garnered a fair share of attention lately as leading indicators suggest economies in the region are starting to recover from years of crisis and austerity - induced recessions.

Unfortunately, agencies such as UNAIDS are wary to call on individuals and communities to focus on behavior change and have spent the last thirty years of the crisis avoiding the real issues.

Rather, the Commission's efforts to pursue donor harmonisation during the years of crisis have buttressed the politicisation within EU aid.

After two years of crisis, we began to restore what had been reduced and repair what had been broken.

Lesson 5 - Year of Crises Lesson 6 - Hitler and the Munich Putsch

After two years of crisis, European stocks are cheaper than their American rivals, and they tend to pay out a higher percentage of their profits as dividends.

Covering the early years of the crisis through to the present day

In the earliest years of the crisis, AIDS was spoken of as the «gay cancer.»

I was the victim of a number of traumatic events in my life, and after many years of crisis including domestically violent situations, I was diagnosed with a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which manifests itself in anxiety, panic and depressive events.

Not exact matches

Only two years ago they were rating AAA all the toxic bonds that created the crisis,» said Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, adding that the downgrade was executed «not because of what Greece is doing but because of the decisions being taken by the EU that are not considered as going far enough.»

Following years of economic troubles in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis of in 2011, Portugal, Spain and Italy have managed to turnaround their economies.

Alongside a Canadian Press investigation last year that revealed a «crisis» in faulty elevators, expect there to be plenty of opportunity as landlords scramble for qualified contractors to maintain aging systems.

The seeds of Greece's current debt crisis were sown years ago.

• Typically, this action emerges within one year of a recession; a similar development appeared ahead of the 2000 recession and the financial crisis.

Kapoor's arrest comes a day after President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency and nearly a year after former Insys CEO Michael Babich and five other onetime executives were arrested as part of an alleged «nationwide conspiracy.»

In the depths of the financial crisis in 2011, Brian Moynihan — who'd been the unexpected pick for CEO a year before — predicted that Bank of America would soon be earning well over $ 20 billion a year.

When those prices collapsed anew a few years later, the central bank dropped the benchmark interest rate back to its crisis - era setting of 0.5 per cent %.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

The global economy is set for one of its best years since the financial crisis, but recession risks are increasing, said UBS Chairman Axel Weber.

Now, he says, the experiences of the past few years suggest that central banks will need more room to maneuver in future crises.

In the absence of decisive, quick action to tackle this slow - motion crisis, the best - case scenario for the next few years is that America becomes a much riskier place to do business.

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.»

Brimmer: I think the future of agencies is in serious crisis right now, and I think just kind of seeing a little bit of what's happening with WPP and Martin Sorrell recently and the way that that model has changed — is really going to be interesting to watch how things unfold over the coming years.

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In 2009, Canada's exports fell 28 % from the year before because of the crisis in the U.S., yet at the same time our exports to China actually rose 7 %.

The banking system has been weak for years as most institutions have failed to deal with the high level of bad debt in the wake of the financial crisis.

Lauren Sato joined RealSelf a year ago, not to solve an existing crisis, but to get ahead of scaling the culture as the company prepares for significant growth.

All of which flies in the face of a chorus that has been growing louder over the past three years, that Canada faces a retirement income crisis.

After years of economic crisis, Centeno wants to make it clear to European citizens that the efforts they made were worth it and now it's time «to reap the benefits.»

The BoJ has been the least expansionary of major central banks since the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis, Evans said, adding that its planned balance - sheet increase this year pales by comparison with the $ 1 trillion of assets that the U.S. Federal Reserve is slated to purchase.

Since the Italian crisis is likely to grind on - with another round of elections a near certainty over the next year - the euro will remain under pressure because the ECB will continue to maintain easy credit conditions while signs of the Fed's less accommodative stance will become increasingly more evident.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

The household name had logged four consecutive years of consolidated net losses, punished by the global financial crisis in 2008 and losses in its consumer product divisions such as the flat - panel TV units.

Real estate site Trulia said more than six percent of last year's home sales were flips — the most since before the financial crisis.

With unemployment falling steadily through the year, there has been less justification for crisis - era policy, and a sense among policymakers that they could balance the higher rates sought by «hawks» with a slow pace of subsequent increases.

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

After years of strong German leadership in the EU, Chancellor Angela Merkel now faces various political and economic challenges including ongoing domestic dissatisfaction with the refugee crisis, corporate crises such as Deutsche Bank, and the rise of populism.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

Although Spain's borrowing costs have fallen over the past two months on the back of the ECB's new rescue plan, the Spanish 10 - year yield is still hovering just below 6 percent - a level that has been seen as unsustainable since the crisis escalated in 2011.

Despite a mixed Friday jobs report — the US economy added only 156,000 jobs against expectations of 175,000 — the labor market has come on strong over the past few years after the financial crisis.

The big automakers are also running leaner operations — they closed a number of underperforming plants during the crisis — and their balance sheets are the cleanest they've been in years.

A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office last year found the six largest financial companies, including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, lost nearly $ 16 billion in their proprietary trading units in just over 12 months during the crisis.