Sentences with phrase «during the second half of the year»

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Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

Twitter received only 2 % more government requests for user information during the six months ending in June of this year than it did in the second half of 2015, the company said on Wednesday.

But BlackBerry smartphones make up only 2.9 percent of the global smartphone market, down from 4.9 percent during the second quarter last year, says Framingham, Mass. - based research firm IDC.

US oil giant Chevron says it expects to «sanction» the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project during the second half of this year.

The episode led to a 2 percent fall in sales during the second - quarter of this year.

The network equipment company said the deal would likely close during the second half of 2013 and it expects the acquisition to be slightly dilutive to non-GAAP earnings in fiscal year 2014.

Indeed, as labour economist Jim Stanford recently pointed out, our GDP growth fell behind six of the G7 in the second and third quarters of last year, beating only Italy with an average advance of 1.7 % during the six - month period.

The two companies expect to finalize the agreement during the second half of the year.

The two companies expect to finalize the agreement during the second half of the year, but a source familiar with the matter told CNBC the deal could happen sooner rather than later.

During a webcast presenting his 2017 outlook, Gundlach, the founder of DoubleLine Capital, said certain «second - tier» managers were focusing on 2.6 % as an important level for the 10 - year Treasury yield — a threshold beyond which the bull market in bonds would end.

The slowing of China's growth and manufacturing sector during the past year has hit investor sentiment towards the world's second - largest economy, causing volatility in its capital flows, putting pressure on its yuan currency and forcing the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

The company had 2.9 % of the market as of the second quarter, down from 4.9 % during the same quarter last year.

The food, beverage and tobacco industry came in a distant second on the list, with women comprising 21.2 % of sitting board members on average during that roughly six - year period.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

To put that last number into perspective, Crash the Super Bowl, a 2008 Doritos contest in the U.S. that awarded the creator of the best 30 - second chip ad US$ 1 million and showed the commercial during the big game this year, generated fewer submissions with a population 10 times the size.

Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language, irrespective of whether they had learned that second language during infancy, childhood or their teen years.

China's President Xi Jinping waves to delegates as he is elected to a second five - year term during the fifth plenary session of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 17, 2018.

Consumer - powered social - review site Yelp exceed analyst expectations this week, posting a net revenue of $ 55 million during the second quarter — almost 70 percent year - over-year growth compared to the same period in 2012.

During a call with analysts, Chipotle executives were noncommittal when asked about earlier discussions of a price hike of 3 percent to 5 percent in the second half of the year.

Click - through rates reached a new high of.88 % during the second quarter, while at the same time costs per click slipped to $ 0.46 from $ 0.53 in the first quarter of the year.

During the first third of the year, from January through April, the average temperature for the contiguous United States was 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th - century average, making this period the second warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

by the personal finance site found that the average household credit card debt was $ 7,996 during the second quarter of 2017, up 5 percent from a year earlier.

It was also the deepest Canada's real GDP plunged into negative territory in nearly six years, when it fell by 3.6 per cent during the recession - battered second quarter of 2009, Statistics Canada said.

Gross revenue increased to $ 86.7 million during the second quarter of 2017, up 25 % year - over-year and driven primarily by higher interest income.

«There is a good chance the euro would weaken again,» he said, saying the currency could reach $ 1.12 - 1.15 during the second half of the year, likely bolstering corporate earnings, although any lift could be delayed by hedging policies.

In second - term election years, then, equities dipped an average 4 percent, compared to an average increase of 7 percent during all election years.

The fact that the bond market retreated during the first week of the year on «old» news and in the second week on very little new economic news, though Wednesday saw softer JOLTS (where job openings slid to a six - month low) and Import Price data barely rising at all, is revealing.

The services business, notably, including offerings like Apple Pay and iCloud storage, registered a 31 % year - over-year revenue advance during the fiscal second quarter, and continues to be a highlight of the growth story here.

So if the annual interest paid during the second year of the loan is $ 10,000, the prepayment penalty would be $ 9,000.

Patel expects the number of Irma suits against his company to peak late in the second quarter or during the third quarter of the year, he said.

Dividends also took a hit with the insurer declaring a final dividend of 4c per share, down from the 33c payout a year ago, after catastrophe claims contributed to a $ 632 million after tax cash loss during the second half.

The rebound in overall workloads should boost business confidence within the manufacturing sector during the second half of the year.»

At Wharton, 45 percent of the classes are electives, and each class has the opportunity during the first year to select the electives offered to them in the second year.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — a member of the court's liberal wing during his 35 years on the bench — called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in an op - ed piece published in the New York Times Tuesday.

The zygote to Facebook's fully developed foetus was a service called FaceMash, a «hot or not» ripoff for Harvard students created by Zuckerberg during his second year of college.

You might own none of them during the first year you participate, 20 % the second year, and so on.

Curry, point guard for the Golden State Warriors, debuted his fourth signature shoe on June 1 during Game 1 of the NBA Finals, on the way to the team's second NBA championship in three years.

The key question is whether the economy will slow substantially during the second half of the year.

During the second week of June, the 30 - year average rose above 4 % for the first time since November of last year.

Amazon plans to nearly double its spending on digital video during the second half of the year as it expands the offerings of its Netflix - like streaming service, he said.

Real (after - inflation) wages recovered during the second half of the year.

While I expect that gold bullion and the HUI will rise to much higher levels during the second half of this year, I don't have a strong opinion on whether they will break above their nearby resistance levels within the next few weeks.

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This could lead to stock and bond market volatility during the second half of this year that dwarfs what we've witnessed over the past two months.

Second, the strong upward trend in the exchange rate seen during the first half of the year has not continued.

Assuming no further change in the exchange rate, it would be expected to remain around that level during the second half of the year before edging up slightly in mid 2005 as the effects of the appreciation on prices begin to dissipate.

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This was a result of several factors: solid business investment in the second half of the year, some further growth in housing construction, and particularly strong growth in household spending during this period.

Global equities advanced solidly during the second quarter, capping a strong first half of 2017 and a similarly strong one - year period.