Sentences with phrase «nearing a year from»

Nearing a year from its initial launch, we're still waiting for the ZenFone Zoom to drop, and today the manufacturer further whets our appetite with a new teaser, showing off some of the engineering that goes into the handset.

Not exact matches

Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

These traders are «looking for the VIX index to continue declining from its recent year - to - date high and settle back nearer its 10.79 July / August average,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3, wrote in a client note.

Riedl, of the Manhattan Institute, reckons that doubling the top two personal rates to 70 % and 74 % respectively (politically a near - impossibility) would close just one - fifth of the projected shortfall from Medicare and Social Security over 30 years.

But despite the Trump administration's call for urgency, data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests for illegal border crossing has been falling for years and now hovers near the bottom of a 40 - year low.

Apple was in third place with 2.7 million of its smart watches shipped, a 52 % increase from last year, and Huawei was fourth with 1.6 million devices shipped representing a near tripling of its shipments, IDC said.

IPO proceeds totaled $ 7.3 billion in the third quarter, down 81 percent from a near record $ 38.1 billion in the period last year, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers» IPOWatch.

CEO Randy Eresman noted in the Calgary - based company's 2011 year - end results: «For the industry as a whole, near - term natural gas prices are at levels below what it costs to add most new production, and in some places, may even be below what it costs to produce from existing wells.»

British inflation stood at 2.3 percent in annual terms in the month of March, unchanged from the near four - year high seen in the February reading.

Instead, Plait wrote in a post for SyFy, it's «going near Mars,» specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit, a highly elliptical path that goes out to Mars orbit and back to Earth orbit on a nearly endless loop - hence the «billion year» detail from Musk.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

The lab's primary focus is working on ways to use artificial intelligence for applications in its products today — or the near future — and not just a moonshot like self - driving vehicles that would be ready years from now.

Eight years before Protective Edge, Shalit, an Israeli soldier, was smuggled from Israeli territory into the Gaza Strip through one such tunnel, after Hamas operatives killed three of his tank crewmates and abducted him in a surprise attack near the border.

The availability of dear old Dad has been an issue since September, when the 47 - year - old quit his former gig as head of Microsoft's business division in Redmond, Wash., and moved to snowy Espoo, near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, where he is currently trying to save the world's largest mobile phone company from itself.

Over years of hard work, the famed pastry chef has developed near - fanatical devotion from customers.

ZTE, which shipped 35 million smartphones last year, posted a mere 16 % profit margin on them, which is a far cry from the likes of Apple's near - 60 % margin on the iPhone.

«I'm talking about... the possibility of what could happen — not in the near term, but in a few years from now — with a consumer application in which there's trust and legitimacy with regard to a digital currency.»

It may seem to some that we're still recovering from the Great Recession of 2008, but the reality is that we're nearing our 100th month of expansion at the end of this year.

JBS, which paid $ 1.5 billion from Moy Park two years ago, is near completing an asset sale plan unleashed by the Batistas» admission to bribing 1,893 politicians in Brazil.

Normally, both consoles would be looking at their golden years right around now — finally low enough in price for anyone to buy, large libraries of great games from years of availability, and even better stuff coming in the near future.

Navient said the CFPB filed suit because the company rejected an ultimatum from the agency to settle a near three - year investigation into it by Friday, when President - elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated.

She knew something was fishy and, sure enough, within a year, Enron's stock price had fallen from US$ 60 to 60 cents, and the end was near.

Not only are realtors facing new competition from people like Arora within their own ranks, but also deep - pocketed companies including Power Corp. are moving in on the for - sale - by - owner (FSBO) space, at long last creating a nationwide alternative to the MLS, which for years has been a near - monopoly marketplace.

Identify the peak times of year that attract folks from near and far.

Lumzag debuted at this year's CES; the company has yet to set a price, and it plans on launching a crowdfunding campaign in the near future, so it's likely a ways away from getting to market.

What companies can measure «in or near real time,» she says, differs from the quality of data they can collect if they survey their customers once a year.

Short - term yields turned positive, with the two - year note yield near its highest level of the year after comments from the Fed's Stanley Fischer.

Mylan, already the most dominant maker of epinephrine auto - injectors, now enjoys a near - monopoly on the market since Auvi - Q's withdrawal: After the recall, EpiPen's market share immediately jumped from 85 % to 95 % at the end of last year.

It's going near Mars,» Plait wrote, specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit: an elliptical path that goes out to the orbit of Mars and back to Earth orbit on a near - endless loop (hence the «billion years or so» detail from Musk).

Hodgkinson was a 66 - year - old man from Belleville, Illinois, which is in the southern part of the state near St. Louis, NBC News reported, citing federal law enforcement officials.

In the provincial public and near - public sectors, pension plans have been moving away from the classic DB structure for nearly 20 years, led by the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan (OTPP).

Opening new franchise stores is not a significant part of our near - term store growth strategy, and we therefore expect that revenue derived from our franchise stores will eventually comprise less than 10 % of the net revenue we report in future fiscal years, at which time we will reevaluate our segment reporting disclosures.

The interest rate environment has hovered near zero in recent years, likely deterring investors from entering the market.

Although its early investors got Quincy through those near - death experiences, the struggling fashion startup couldn't gain enough traction to secure a Series A round of funding from venture capitalists and the young company — barely a year old — shut its doors in January 2013.

Officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials told us.

Treasuries extended declines from October, pushing 10 - year yields to a five - week high, as the probability of a Federal Reserve interest - rate increase by year - end hovered near 50 percent.

After McDonald's backed away from its Dollar Menu a few years ago, «we weren't as competitive as we needed to be on value and so what you're going to see from us next year is us being really fully competitive with our near - in competitors with a value program,» Kempczinski said.

Most Federal Reserve officials have signaled that they think this year is the appropriate time to raise interest rates from near zero, where they have been since the depths of the financial crisis in late 2008.

And finally, there has been near - limitless demand for 30 - year paper from pension funds and insurance companies.

Higher growth rates are not impossible, of course, but to get the arithmetic to work for me it would take some fairly implausible assumptions — mainly that Beijing engineers the transfer of 2 - 3 % of GDP every year from the state sector to the household sector — for China to achieve growth rates anywhere near 6 % for the next decade.

The price of insulin has skyrocketed in recent years, with the three manufacturers — Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly — raising the list prices of their products in near lock step, prompting outcry from patient groups and doctors who have pointed out that the rising prices appear to have little to do with increased production costs.

As a result of this transaction, shareholders are expected to benefit from a number of outcomes, including enhanced competitive positioning; low - to mid-single digit accretion in the second full year after the close of the transaction, including the ability to deliver $ 750 million in near - term synergies; and a platform from which to accelerate growth.

Before then, it had kept its policy rate at a record low near zero for seven years in an effort to help the country recover from the deepest recession since the 1930s.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

In January of this year, Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. announced its intention to mine gravel and placer gold from 13 claims covering nearly 1000 hectares in the Chehalis River watershed near Mission.

While it's certainly possible that a market selloff could find tech stocks as a lower percentage component of the near - term overall pie, where do you think we'll be 10 years from now?

Lionsgate and Starz have much to gain from a get - together — both stocks are off significantly year - to - date and are trading near their respective 52 - week lows.

INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.

Using daily levels of the S&P 500 Index, an index of 10 - year Treasuries, nearest - month gold and oil futures and the Federal Reserve Nominal Trade Weighted Effective Index for the dollar from January 1985 through October 2009 (nearly 25 years), they find that: Keep Reading