The undertaking of funerals is, after all, an industry immune to most economic cycles.
Its dominance in the construction and mining markets makes Caterpillar an indicator of global economic cycles.
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Past economic cycles have been predicated on either isolated, autocratic vision or collaborative cohesion and innovation.
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Wal-Mart is not immune to economic cycles, but a general retail slump would demolish Amazon.
Economically, it would give time for the British and European economic cycles to move back into synch.
Those lenders are able to look back at consumer behaviour over several economic cycles for a reference point.
CEOs seek partners who have been through multiple economic cycles, restructurings and reorganizations.
In previous balance sheet recessions, economic cycles have been truncated, and recessions typically occur every two and a half years or so.
The fact is the financial crisis and the recession were not the result of normal economic cycles or just a run of bad luck.
By the late sixties, bank lending turned more aggressive in the country and real estate speculation became the third cyclical variable governing economic cycles.
However, the tech cycles were much deeper than the general economic cycles, and as a result, the company was really measuring relative volatility, not performance.
Leading a rich and satisfying life is far more meaningful than trying to guess whether your stock selections will go up or down, market movement or economic cycles.
One possibility would be simply to amend the ceiling on budget deficits, for instance raising it to 4%, or varying it according to countries' positions in their economic cycles.
American Capital, Ltd. ( ACAS), Apollo Investment Corporation ( AINV), and Ares Capital Corporation ( ARCC) all sport multi-billion dollar market caps and have been battle-tested through several economic cycles.
Britain's past three economic cycles have ended in recession.
One thing that has kept inflation modest in America is the availability of ample spare capacity overseas, because the economic cycles of the big economies have until now moved out of synchronisation.
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In essence, the pros acknowledge the rigidities in European labour markets, the differences in economic cycles and so forth, but believe that the creation of a single currency will cause these costs to diminish.
But the economic cycles of Australia and New Zealand have at times diverged substantially and could do so in future at a high cost to New Zealand, were its currency tied to the Australian dollar.
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We move through those approaches over a full business and economic cycles all with the goal of trying to keep client portfolios timely and appropriate and with that to provide outperformance over a lengthier period.
And while many call for the megabank to be unpacked and sold off in parts, Pandit isn't among them, arguing the company's size and broad base of businesses make it better suited to withstand economic cycles.
Mobility upwards through socioeconomic classes is not as simple was holding down a good job for a lifetime, it requires education, ingenuity, and the ability to break generational economic cycles that keep families from achieving financial independence over the long-term.
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In principle globalisation can help to stabilise economies if they are at different stages of the cycle, but the very forces of global integration are likely to synchronise economic cycles more closely, so that downturns in different countries are more likely to reinforce one another.
Incidentally, my economic indicator cycles predicted that as well.
According to the ASU website, Professor Prescott has altered the course of macroeconomic thinking over the past three decades with his research that spans such areas as business cycles, economic development and general equilibrium theory and finance.
To a bull, the market's enemy isn't boom-and-bust cycles, but bad economic policy.
"It's one of the painful ironies of business cycles that at high economic points, companies are often willing to overspend just to ensure they remain in the game, " said editor-in-chief James Ledbetter in a valedictory editorial.
In general, economic boom-and-bust cycles have become increasingly shorter over the last 30 years, and with the prevalence today of real-time information, instant trades, and inextricably-linked international markets, this bubble will rise and fall more quickly and under greater scrutiny from investors, regulators and consumers.
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This was probably due to economic weakness, elongated ad agency review cycles by advertisers and businesses holding back due to inaction by the U.S. Federal government.
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