Year to date (YTD) refers to the period beginning on the first day of the currentcalendar yearorfiscal yearup to the current date. YTD information is useful for analyzing business trends over time or comparing performance data to competitors or peers in the same industry. The acronym is often...
Unlike the ISM report, the Markit services PMI improved from50.9 to 51.5. The May reading was a 39 month low. This index had a big improvement in the 2ndhalf of the month as the flash reading was 50.7. That means the index was 52.3 in the 2ndhalf. That’s a 1.6 point improvement. ...
What the YTD Sales Calculation Means The year to date return represents the amount of profit that an investment has generated since the beginning of the calendar year. Investors like the analysis because of its simplicity in providing a snapshot of a company's performance. When interpreting the ...
It made its debut on Nasdaq in 1996, attracting investors such as George Soros along the way. By the end of the decade, Viatel was ploughing $1 billion of high-risk junkbond finance into an 8,700km-long fibre-optic network that connected more than 40 cities across Europe. Yet this was...