Sentences with phrase «at the second highest»

The threat currently stands at the second highest level «severe» which the website states means that «an attack is highly likely».

At the second highest it returned 2.19 %!

February pending home sales flattened with limited buyer choices, but remained at the second highest level in nearly three years, according to the National Association of Realtors ®.

«September home sales bounced back solidly after slowing in August and are now at their second highest pace since February 2007 (5.79 million),» he said.

WASHINGTON (April 6, 2016)-- Vacation home sales cooled off in 2015 but remained at the second highest amount in nearly a decade, while investment purchases increased for the first time in five years, according to an annual survey of residential homebuyers released today by the National Association of Realtors ®.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, says vacation sales took a sizeable step back in 2015, but still came in at the second highest amount since 2006 (1.07 million).

Home sales have bounced back solidly and are now at their second highest pace since February 2007.

According to a recent survey by the National Association of Realtors ®, international home sales in the U.S. are at their second highest level in recent years, signaling that owning property in America continues to be a great investment.»

Not exact matches

Oil - and - gas companies will be big winners because they pay the second - highest effective tax rate of any sector, at 37 percent, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

Western Australians take home the second highest average annual wage in Australia at $ 71,706, beaten only by the residents of Canberra, according to new data.

«When we look at the world, there's plenty of things to worry about, so we would anticipate there could be episodes of higher volatility in the second half or even next year,» cautions Bruce Cooper, chief investment officer at TD Asset Management.

That correlates with an increase in student - loan debt, which has become the second - highest consumer debt in the country (behind mortgage debt, currently at $ 13.8 trillion).

The bank offered a loan at a low rate to pay off her high - interest credit card debt, and she ended up taking out a second mortgage for $ 80,000.

Buddemeier said that at his basement-less condo, he'd move to the center of the middle floor after a blast «because the fallout is going to land on the ground around my house, and that first floor would have slightly higher exposure than the second floor.»

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

Some, too, dangle free accommodations at a luxury hotel to lure you into a high - pressure sales pitch for timeshares or vacation clubs, while others make good on that free cruise for you, but require you to book a second guest at a grossly inflated price.

TNR's high - speed aluminum security door, for example, boasts a photoelectric sensor to detect vehicles and can open at a rate of 54 inches per second.

The second - highest risk of death is trauma from hitting a tree, boulder, or another stationary object at a high speed.

The numbers, as reported last month, back it up — this year's second quarter saw 48 home sales priced at $ 5 million or higher, the most activity in almost a year and a half, according to a report by Miller Samuel Inc. and Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

Despite that 55 % pay cut, Papa still easily bested the second - highest paid CEO on the list, Magna International's Donald Walker, at $ 28 million.

The second - highest worry of survey respondents, at 43 percent, was making a bad first impression.

A second and third installment of Avatar are in the works, and at a recent comic convention Cameron said the films may be shot at a higher frame rate than the industry standard to make the film seem even more real.

Barney Harford, the former chief executive officer of online travel site Orbitz, has been named chief operating officer at Uber Technologies Inc., making him the second - highest ranking executive at the ride - hailing company.

She started selling beer and chicken wings at Hooters in Jacksonville, Fla., her second job, when she was still in high school.

Shares in gold miner Ramelius Resources have risen for the second time in a week after the company announced it had struck a significant amount of high - grade gold at its Blackmans project in the Murchison region.

If it can seal the deal on this new round at the reported $ 24 billion valuation, it will be the second highest - valued startup out there today, ranking only behind Uber.

Still, with the second - highest average annual income on our list, at $ 1.28 million, Kerrisdale's residents have the resources to soundproof their basement against undergraduate shenanigans.

It's the first time an executive at the nation's second - largest bank has publicly laid out how it will deal with gun - industry clients following Feb. 14 shootings at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

According to reports, OnLive's games require at least five megabits a second of dedicated bandwidth for high - definition quality and chew up about three gigabytes of monthly usage per hour.

Looking at the Toronto Blue Jays this season, the team has seen the highest attendance tally for its first three home games since 1994 — the year after the Jays won their second World Series (not counting years with weekend games, because they always draw larger crowds).

Check out the key chart on page 2 — as usual, Canadian carriers have the highest average revenue per user at $ 57.09 and the second highest profit margin at 46.4 %.

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

Seven of the top 10 highest salaries go to pitchers this year, with hurlers Zack Greinke of the Arizona Diamondbacks and David Price of the Boston Red Sox coming in second and third place at $ 31.9 million and $ 30 million, respectively.

That's how Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer introduced his second - day keynote presentation at this week's F8 conference, where he revealed cutting - edge products like high - flying drones and artificial intelligence that can learn, and gave a real explanation for where the Oculus Rift fits into the social network.

A Chinese government think tank has identified 35 major cities at «high risk» of a residential property price correction, including China's major first - and second - tier cities.

The shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school put gun control high on Obama's second - term agenda.

Walker's 2015 compensation of $ 26.6 million is the second highest pay package among all executives at publically traded Canadian firms.

On Ash Whitaker's second to last day of high school, he learned that he had won a major civil rights case at a federal appeals court.

The second way to look at CEO compensation is to ask whether CEO salaries are, in some sense, too high from a social point of view.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the combined government debt held by the world's advanced economies is at its highest point since the Second World War.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 845 chip will allow Android phones to record 4K video in HDR (high dynamic range) at a smooth 60 frames per second (fps).

What is somewhat of a shock, however, is that the second highest effective property tax rate — calculated based on a percentage of a home's value — was for houses at the extreme low end of the value spectrum, assessed at under $ 50,000 or less.

Sotheby's said sales of high - end homes worth at least $ 1 million were up in major Canadian urban markets in the first half of the year compared with the second half of 2012.

«The first part is to find a broker with a high success rate, the second is to be willing to spend the money to go with that broker, and the third is to give that broker every lick of cooperation that you can,» says Blackburn, even if it means scheduling appointments at inconvenient times or reviewing the minute details of your business.

The Bank of Nova Scotia's Brian Porter was second - highest paid at $ 10.86 million in total direct compensation, marking a 7.4 per cent increase from fiscal 2016.

South Dakota's GDP grew at an annualized rate of 5.8 % in Q2 2015, the second - highest growth rate among the states and DC, and its unemployment rate of 3.0 % was third lowest.

For online merchants who sold during the 2013 holiday season, when asked which types of discounts were most effective, 48 percent indicated that «limited time sales and discounts» drove the highest conversions, with «free shipping» ranking second at 39 percent.

Google's high - speed network, known as Fiber, delivers the internet at speeds of up to one gigabyte per second, 100 times faster than average broadband

The ruling marks the second time the high court has rendered an opinion in the case, in which the state is seeking to hold Greenberg accountable for sham transactions at the insurer.