Sentences with phrase «year over some crises»

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He launched Canadian Hunter Exploration in 1973, a year characterized by an oil crisis abroad that led to shortages at gasoline pumps in the U.S. Closer to home, confrontations intensified between the federal and provincial governments over managing Alberta's energy resources.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.&raOver 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.&raover 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

Over the past 15 years, the U.S. has gone through a tech bubble, a housing bubble, and a devastating financial crisis.

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.

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.

And water is a looming crisis: a recent McKinsey report forecasts that global water demand will rise 40 % over the next 20 years.

Either way, somehow eight years after the financial crisis, with the economy on the best footing it has been in years, the uncertainty that is out there over a Trump Presidency just doesn't seem so bad, at least for one day.

The relationship between homeownership and wealth held true even in the years surrounding the mortgage crisis, which wiped out trillions of dollars in home equity and caused over 4 million Americans to lose their homes, researchers for Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

He has brokered many deals for Buffett over the years, including the financial - crisis investment in Goldman Sachs in 2008.

Having put off the building of the hotel complex for a number of years after the global financial crisis, construction of the 307 - room DreamMore, which will be is next door to Dollywood, started over two years ago.

(This number has steadily increased over the past five years, since the turn of the financial crisis.)

Zuckerberg said during a press briefing on Wednesday that he takes responsibility for a series of crises plaguing his service over the past year.

Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.

As the chart shows, even though the dollar has shot up over the past year and a half, it could get much, much stronger in the next global financial crisis.

Derivatives were traded entirely over the phone until post-financial crisis regulations required the market to go electronic a couple of years ago.

BEIJING (AP)-- U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, who oversaw the handling of potential crises over the flights to U.S. diplomatic missions by a persecuted legal activist and a high - profile police chief, said Wednesday he will step down early next year.

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's third national security advisor in just over a year, started his new job Monday and already he has his plate full of crises and global tensions to deal with.

«The large increase in profitability over the past two years demonstrates that the industry can prosper with the regulations and consumer protections adopted after the financial crisis.»

The key driver of these income trends, besides lower employment and hours in the aftermath of the financial crisis, has been wage stagnation over the last dozen years.

The company's stock took a dive during the economic crisis to less than $ 10, but over the last year has gone from $ 21 to the $ 38 range.

The new finance chief of Spain also told CNBC that the southern European economy has been growing at a solid pace of about 3 percent in the last four years, but this doesn't mean that the problems raised during the euro zone sovereign debt crisis are over.

As Venezuela's crisis has reached new depths over the past two years, strikes and demonstrations against Maduro have become widespread.

Blankfein served in Goldman's top spot for more than 12 years and his tenure features both the 2008 financial crisis (and multimillion - dollar settlements with the government over allegations that Goldman had lied to investors) as well as all - time highs for its stock price.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

But just over a year later, it would be in crisis mode again.

Still, far - right parties have been gaining momentum in Europe over the last few years, and the recent refugee crisis has intensified their already strong positions.

The Nielsen report attributed waning confidence to brewing worries over Malaysia's economic outlook, a near 20 percent drop in the value of the Malaysian ringgit year - to - date and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

The Southeast Asian economy expanded 4.9 percent on - year over the April - June period amid uncertainties in global growth, persistent weakness in oil prices and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

News of the sale comes as North and South Korea hold their first talks in more than two years aimed at solving the crisis over the North's nuclear missile program.

«North Korea could create a conflict, a crisis, between the U.S. and China, which clearly would not have happened over the past year.»

This year it seemed, at times, that Germany was able to impose its will on other EU members, for instance over Greece's bail out or the refugee crisis.

Limited partners would receive a return ON investment in the form of monthly draws from the net income generated by the rental of the rooms, after expenses, and would receive return OF their investment, together with any capital appreciation, when the house is sold, in a five or ten years after the housing crisis blows over.

«Think about the political crises over the last few years — sequestration, fiscal cliff, debt ceiling — that all turned out to be non-events.»

The Chretien government, dealing with a fiscal crisis, set an explicit deficit target over a two - year period with a commitment to meet it, «come hell or high water».

The rouble has weakened some 30 percent versus the dollar this year, as Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis have made it harder for banks and companies to refinance foreign currency debts and as tumbling oil prices have hurt government revenue.

Looking back over the last 10 years, we can see that volume declined in the first few years after the financial crisis, then bounced up and down until 2015.

If the progress we have seen over the last several years is sustained, the incidence of financial crises in emerging markets will be lower, and the dynamics significantly different.

Over the years, his study of monetary history and current economic events has convinced him that it would be prudent to hold some gold as crisis insurance.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

Still, it was an unexpected fig leaf from a man who last year traded barbs with Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney over his calls for better bank regulation in order to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis.

You and your esteemed deputy governor have experience over the last few years in the house financial crisis.

If there's ever a major problem with your home country's currency or monetary system (which we've seen over the last several years from India to Iceland, Argentina to Zimbabwe) gold will maintain its value and survive the currency crisis.