Sentences with phrase «by end of the last quarter»

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By the end of last year, Big Ass Solutions» revenue had grown to a quarter of a billion dollars and our payroll to a thousand.

At the end of last week, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup both reported 17 per cent first - quarter profit jumps, buoyed by the election of Donald Trump and higher interest rates.

Unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to the transaction, if substantially all of the assets of the Company are acquired by another corporation or in case of a reorganization of the Company involving the acquisition of the Company by another entity, (i) stock options and stock appreciation rights become exercisable immediately prior to the transaction; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

In the first quarter ended March 31, the consolidated cash cost per pound of copper produced, net of by - product credits, was $ 0.98, an increase on the $ 0.88 / lb in the same period last year.

They were also knocked out of the Champions League at the last - 16 stage for a sixth successive year while they saw their hopes of winning a third FA Cup in a row ended by Watford at the quarter - final stage.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

High January 26th: End of the recession - But this good economic news, anticipated for so long by those in government, was dampened by the sad fact economic growth in the last quarter of 2009 only amounted to 0.1 % of GDP.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Make plans to kick - off the last quarter of 2010 as productively as possible by attending Thursday's September 30, 2010, end - of - month book coaching call.

Raising up on one knee, she found the shot no more difficult for her than sinking a pool ball in a corner pocket: tracking with the end of her rifle and the crosshairs of the scope, the cleft formed just behind his right shoulder as he quartered away from her, she did not allow herself to be distracted by the magnificent crown of antlers atop his head — and when he stopped, in his last moment, and swung his head to face her, having sensed her presence, she squeezed the trigger as she had been taught to do back when she was a girl.

That was up 7.7 per cent from $ 1.42 trillion at the end of 2013, including a 1.1 per cent increase in the latest quarter.Compared with the same quarter last year, Equifax says national consumer demand for credit was driven mainly by credit cards.

By the end of 2015, the site funded nearly $ 16 billion worth of loans, including more than $ 2.5 billion in the last quarter of the year.

In this case I would expect that Microsoft shipped less than the 2.4 million combined units they sold during this quarter last year and whilst it's hard to pinpoint an exact number it's fairly clear that Microsoft are still on track to hit our forecasted 20 million plus shipments for Xbox One by the end of the year.

In a poll released last November by the Public Religion Research Institute, fewer than half of them were willing to link extreme weather events to climate change, whereas more than three - quarters thought these events were signs of the «end times» predicted in the Bible.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

It is by the end of the last financial quarter that you are expected to have paid the amount of tax due from you as either a salaried person or a business person.

Smartphones released by the device maker accounted for around 48 percent of the total high - end smartphones sales in that Asian country in the fourth quarter of 2017, and that represents a huge growth for OnePlus in India compared to the same period last year.

This would line up with a report that was published back in November of last year, which cited an earnings call from Qanta Computer, said that the Apple Watch 2 would debut sometime by the end of the second quarter of 2016.

In comparison with the last quarter of 2015, there is more than a five-fold growth, accompanied by an equally dramatic rise of the average virtual currencies investment deal size (from $ 2.6 million at the end of 2015 to $ 11.5 million at the beginning of 2016).

It's no secret that Microsoft is getting out of the phone hardware business; in fact, during its last earnings call, the company said that it should be completely done selling its handsets by the end of June, after reporting just $ 5 million in phone revenue last quarter.

Last year, regional and super regional centres achieved only marginal increases while smaller neighbourhood centres have continued to deliver solid performances with vacancies dropping from 9 % during 2016 to 5.2 % by the end of the first quarter of 2017.

MPF's forecast for 2015 called for occupancy at the end of the first quarter the percentage of vacant apartments to rise by about 40 basis points, and for rents to keep growing, but less quickly than last years, at an average rate of about 3.6 percent to 3.9 percent a year.

The number of underwater borrowers has declined by 11 percent since the end of last year, from 12.1 million in the 4th quarter of 2011 to 10.8 million in the second quarter of 2012.