Sentences with phrase «as a surprise move»

NEW YORK, March 6 - Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers, has cut staff by more than 30 percent in one of its stock - picking units in what several people with direct knowledge of the layoffs described as a surprise move.

Stocks rose sharply in the United States and Europe on news the referendum plan had been scrapped, as well as a surprise move by the European Central Bank to cut interest rates.

Atletico Madrid could be set to join their rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid in making some «Galctico» signings of their own before the end of the summer, with Fichajes.com reporting that four big names are on their list of potential attackers to come in, as well as a surprise move for a former Barcelona star.

The press is being used so much this season that most teams are prepared — at least mentally — for it, and its value as a surprise move has diminished considerably.

In what can only be described as a surprise move, Konami will officially relinquish all ties to the Metal...

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I was stunned by the surprise move, as was the entire organization.

The move comes as a surprise about - turn for a company whose Chief Executive Akin Akinfemiwa told investors in Lagos in August that he wanted to aggressively pursue...

Should the House succeed in creating pressure on the Senate to act on a version of the FORM Act, it would not be surprising to see the discussion move away from the Taylor rule to NGDP targeting - with advocates selling its broad appeal as its leading virtue.

The move comes as a surprise about - turn for a company whose Chief Executive Akin Akinfemiwa told investors in Lagos in August that he wanted to aggressively pursue M&A opportunities along the energy value chain and acquire marginal oilfields to boost its upstream business.

Should the Justice Department move to block the deal, it would come as something of a surprise, especially considering that the Justice Department's top antitrust regulator, Makan Delrahim, even said earlier this year that he did not think the deal presented a «major antitrust problem» due to the fact that neither of the two companies directly competes in the same spaces.

The investment bank is as Wall Street as you can get, but the rationale behind its move to lend to Main Street isn't surprising.

With Snapchat recently amping up its streaming music and entertainment content, Spiegel's rumored eyes for his ex's record label comes as no surprise and could prove to be a smart move.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the recent return to stability has brought with it a wave of job - hopping: everywhere from North America to Asia to eastern Europe, there have been reports of an uptick in the number of workers that are either considering or making external moves.

Near 7:50 p.m. ET, S&P 500 futures were down as much as 9 points to below 2,100 on Thursday evening after having moved higher earlier tonight following surprising results from Newcastle and Sunderland.

In a move that comes as a great surprise to just about everyone, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has announced he will be stepping down to take the same position at the Bank of England in 2013.

The Chinese central bank cut interest rates again in a surprise move as the nation pursues ever more aggressive measures to rev up economic activity.

«I've given up anticipating what their next move is going to be,» she says, nodding to surprise steps from the Trump administration such as the implementation of a sweeping travel ban in January of 2017.

The move is hardly a surprise given the recent mania that has seen companies use ICOs (also known as token sales) raise tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars even though, in many cases, their business consists of little more than grand ambitions and a white paper.

Begun back in 2011, the quarterly parleys with reporters rarely provide any market - moving news, instead serving as an opportunity for central bank chiefs to carefully convey monetary policy direction without dropping any surprises that could jolt investors.

So it comes as no surprise that Bettman moved player salaries to the forefront of yesterday's talks.

While I can't say how well they'd hold up over time, I was surprised at how little they fought me as I moved around.

The move by Georgia's statehouse was not a complete surprise as earlier in the week Casey Cagle, Georgia's lieutenant governor who presides over Georgia's Senate, said in a tweet he would «kill any tax legislation» that helps Delta unless the company continues ties with the NRA.

Given the strong correlation between oil prices and energy company earnings, it is not surprising that earnings estimates for the energy sector are moving closer together as well.

So it comes as no surprise that the atmosphere Hsieh has created around himself in Las Vegas, where he moved the company from San Francisco in 2004, is aggressively festive.

I expect not even about the «surprising» second wave of credit distress that we can expect as we move into 2010.

But people who move to Sacramento to buy a home might be surprised by just how hot the local housing market is, as we approach the summer of 2017.

This is not overly surprising, as we would not be very surprised if we did not see any major moves ahead of this week's Federal Reserve announcement.

On another note, crude oil also extended its recent bullish move, with the WTI contract rising above $ 65, for the first time since early February, helped by the surprise inventory draw in the US as well.

«I would be surprised if the move higher is as aggressive as last time as there isn't the same euphoria this time around and many speculators will have been burned on the way down, but it could be more healthy if, of course, it happens.

As with all market - moving news, surprises could upend mortgage rates, leaving consumers with opportunity or regret.

As we move further into 2018 without the economic acceleration and boom (hysteria aside, the inflation scenario never got very far in junk markets), and with liquidity risk rising again, it can't be surprising that junk markets struggle.

In a move that came as a surprise to most of her colleaguesÂâ $» including the party whipâ $» NDP MLA Karen McPherson, 50, (Calgary - Mackay - Nose Hill) announced on Wednesday that she was quitting the govâ...

The global stock markets were cascading lower as the Nikkei and German DAX took out their lows made the night of the BOJ's surprise move to a three - tiered negative interest rate policy.

As the Socialist Republic of Vietnam opens its markets to outside investors, it is not surprising that westerners are moving in to make a profit on this new market.

Being competitive in a crowded market takes bold — even surprising — moves By Linda Hasenfratz and Rebecca MacDonald, as originally published by Financial Post.

The Turkish rate hike, which pushed the overnight rate to 12 %, followed a surprising increase in India on Tuesday, as Delhi moved to dampen rising prices even as the South Asian giant faces its slowest growth in a decade.

Investors who buy ETFs that use commodity futures contracts are sometimes surprised to see that the ETF does not move in lockstep with the price of the commodity as seen in the news, oil being a good example.

But if they are moving away from the Bible, as some of you have pointed out, then I'm not surprised Ken Ham calls them apostates.

It really does nt matter what my beliefs system was, let's just say it was based on chaos theory and science as applied to occult arts, I have since moved on to more pragmatic beliefs but I clearly recall how oppressive they were and surprised at how much propaganda they spread that was based on their ignorance.

In a move that surprised some, former President Jimmy Carter was announced as the keynote speaker for Liberty University's upcoming commencement ceremony.

In a surprising move for a mathematician turned philosopher, Whitehead explicitly eschews the deductive method as the key procedure to be followed in elaborating metaphysical truth.

By the end of the third season — and particularly in the infamous Christmas Day 2012 episode, which featured leading man Dan Stevens» surprise departure — Downton had moved from being a programme loved by people who like period dramas to being viewed as a national treasure.

Large segments of Methodism have moved into the post-Vatican II era, as the surprising success of the Supplemental Worship Resources series indicates, but these churches are certainly matched by status quo congregations.

All of them were caught by surprise as swiftly moving fire devoured the brittle collections of oddities and the surrounding dry wood structure.

As we cruise to the end of yet another year — barring any Mayan surprises — many of us will inevitably take stock of our lives and think about tweaks we want to make moving forward.

So when Thom got off the bus in search of some oranges, assuming he had about the same amount of time at stop # 2 as he did at stop # 1, you can imagine my surprise when — after five minutes — the bus driver pulled away and I was sitting there trying to figure out if he was actually pulling away or just moving the bus (like he did at the first stop).

Moving in to my 8th year as a vegetarian / vegan, this was a delicious surprise

Meanwhile, City are ready to make a surprise move for free - agent keeper Keiren Westwood as Joe Hart's new No. 2 — Daily Mirror

Mourinho does not strike one as a person who lets go of grudges easily, so that might explain this obsession with what is otherwise an arguably surprising move considering Ozil's relative lack of impact at Arsenal, especially this season.

It came as quite a surprise at the time, in a move that would see him switch sides in the Premier League.