Sentences with phrase «bank eked»

If any of the banks eked out the slightest of a beat, it was seen as positive.

Not exact matches

Banks and manufacturing names were mostly lower, while technology stocks eked out some gains.

By the time Waugh became CEO, Scotia had eked out just a 3 % share of the wealth - management market in Canada, the smallest of the Big Five banks.

There were genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians, midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.