Sentences with phrase «big raise this year»

The average employee isn't getting a big raise this year — but apartment rents are growing more quickly than ever.

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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.

September's Ag Innovation Showcase in St. Louis was the biggest and most diverse in the 6 - year - old event's history; organizers tallied that presenting companies raised $ 430 million.

Mobli raised $ 86 million in venture funds in six years, some from some big names.

Perhaps most noteworthy, September saw the biggest IPO ever when Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) raised $ 25 billion, choosing to list in the United States during a year that has seen favorable performance for Chinese IPOs.

Since late 2012, the once high - flying charity — which has raised some $ 500 million over the years to help 2.5 million patients, caretakers, and survivors get access to services such as fertility preservation, clinical - trial matching, and insurance assistance — has lost some of its biggest sponsors, including Nike and RadioShack.

Eventually, the MDA presented Lewis with the idea of staging a bigger show, and in 1966 the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon debuted, launching a legendary 45 - year run that has raised billions of dollars for MD services and research.

If you're raising money for your startup (or keeping an eye on your own investment options), here are a few big trends to keep in mind next year.

If all shares are sold, the IPO will raise $ 2.09 billion, making it the biggest IPO for an Internet company since Facebook raised $ 16 billion last year.

The 2 percent increase for next year marks a significant jump over last year, which was just 0.3 percent, and the biggest change since 2012, when older Americans saw a 3.6 percent raise.

The Santa Clara, California, company landed a very big funding round earlier this year, raising a total of $ 130 million.

Big - data startup Databricks has raised another $ 140 million in venture funding, it announced on Tuesday, bringing the total raised for the four - year - old company to $ 247 million.

The biggest players — BuzzFeed, Vox Media, and Vice — each raised more than $ 100 million last year, while smaller companies like Mic and Refinery29 racked up respective $ 17 million and $ 50 million rounds as well.

Hootsuite also raised $ 20 million last year, but that was to buy back stock from early investors — for «a bigger win,» as Holmes explained it.

The deal, which is still making its way through Congress after an eleventh hour push from party bigs, has three main components: It immediately raises the debt ceiling, includes around $ 2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and creates a special Congressional committee to come up with long term deficit - reduction suggestions by this Thanksgiving.

«Pocketing raises through automatic contributions was one of the biggest factors allowing me to increase my savings rate from 35 % to 65 % in just a few short years.»

«One of the biggest mistakes I've seen people make is that they treat «getting a raise» as a once a year exercise,» says Krawcheck.

Silicon Valley executives like Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey are going on Buddhist meditation retreats, high - end spas in big cities are installing «meditation pods,» meditation app Headspace has raised $ 75 million, and each year hundreds of Wall Streeters are following Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio's lead and paying almost $ 1,000 to learn Transcendental Meditation.

For instance, battery startup Stem raised $ 45 million from investors last year, including from the energy trading arm of big German power company RWE Group.

Among U.S. tech IPOs, 14 of the 25 biggest fell in their first year, including nine of the 15 to raise at least $ 1 billion in their listings.

Morgan Stanley gave James Gorman the biggest raise yet among Wall Street chief executive officers for last year, boosting his pay 25 percent to $ 22.5 million.

TORONTO — Promotions meant big pay raises last year for the men taking the helm at three of Canada's biggest banks.

This year has seen an early surge in public offerings with $ 8 billion of new stock sold in the U.S. in January alone, the biggest month since Alibaba raised $ 25 billion in its September 2014 IPO, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

July was the biggest month for coin offerings, with 34 projects raising $ 665 million, Tokendata.io data shows — or twice as much money as was raised in the first five months of the year combined.

A C$ 1 billion IPO would be the biggest Canadian listing since Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd raised C$ 1.7 billion early this year, and would value GFL at nearly C$ 5 billion, the people said.

Financial firms are preparing to lavish this year's biggest raises on health - care bankers, who will probably see a 20 percent bump on average, according to an Options Group Inc. report projecting this year's biggest pay swings.

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While some investors have raised their eyebrows about the sustainability of mushrooming live streaming apps that secured less than 10 million downloads in China last year, the wanghong business itself is getting bigger and is now targeting for content - hungry niche audiences.

If one assumes Mr. Rosengren allows the economy to hum along at the current levels (a big if since he wants to raise rates), a average 2.5 % wage gain less 2 % inflation makes you wait three more years to get back to 2007 (a lost decade plus two) and five years to party likes it's 1999 (two lost decades, plus one).

- At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more, as it boosted output most in recent years: oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»: oil minister Bijan Zanganeh

The technology has already gained momentum, raising funds from blockchain investment companies including Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital and Fenbushi Capital and the release on the 28th is already tipped as one of the biggest Altcoin releases of the year.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

WeWork, which is said to be raising as much as $ 4 billion at a valuation of more than $ 20 billion, is still on its way to hitting $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year — though CEO Adam Neumann said at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 that it's not quite as simple as betting big on enterprise deals.

If you experienced a layoff, decided to take a long leave to raise your children, or took a year off to travel around Latin America, you will have a big gap in employment.

On Tuesday, Bank of America announced that after passing the Federal Reserve's latest stress test — an exercise implemented after the financial crisis that requires big financial institutions to prove they have the capital to sustain operations in a recession — it would raise its dividend to $ 0.48 per year.

The Bank of Canada has raised its key interest rate target twice this year, moves that have prompted the big banks to raise their prime lending rates.

Germany's biggest industrial union and employers have reached a wage deal that gives workers the equivalent of 3.5 percent annual raises over 27 months and the chance to work a 28 - hour week for up to two years.

Continuing Low Rates Risks Bigger Asset «Bubble» US Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, 54 anni, warns that keeping interest rates near Zero risks inflating asset - price bubbles, saying officials should raise borrowing costs this year as the economy improves.

«Over the years, funds raised through The Greater Interest GIC campaign have created or sustained more than 4,500 positive mentoring relationships,» said Peter Coleridge, National President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada.

So far it's been going well but by the end of the year I'm hoping for the big raise that puts me into a lot more disposal income to invest.

AXA Equitable Holdings, the U.S. arm of the French insurer AXA, plans to begin showcasing itself to investors next week for what would be the biggest U.S. - listed IPO of the year so far, measured by amount of money raised.

Indeed, world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years of hibernation, with a handful of monetary policy surprises — including the European Central Bank (ECB)'s bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.

«TD raised five of its fixed - rate mortgages, including a big 0.45 percentage point increase to the five - year term.

As the media have been reporting for over a year now, the action is all in the private markets, where companies that are big enough to be public can raise more...

There was a big drop in deals done in the fourth quarter and a survey of founders said they were more nervous about raising money this year.

It's a pathway that's been a dismal cul - de-sac since around 1990, which is why the frontal lyrical offense of Cee Lo Green's big hit last year (its music is pretty darn good) scarcely raised our eyebrows.

Our biggest initiative is the Great American Shake Sale, which raised over $ 300,000 this year for Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign.

Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, raised its forecast milk payout for the second time in a month, responding to signs a three - year global price slump is coming to an end.

He told the clubs months ago that he wanted a raise... the press only serves their own interest... and they keep giving him bad press on how Alexis spends romantic helicopter trips back in Chile... while the truth is that he flew to a part of the country where hundreds of families lost everything in the biggest forest fires in the last 50 years..

By having Thornton on a one - year deal, San Jose won't have to sweat nearly as much about the big raises going toward Vlasic and Jones next year, when their combined cap hits jump from $ 7.25 million to $ 12.75 million.