Sentences with phrase «ended the year up»

Guangzhou ended the year up 97 percent while Geely gained more than 265 percent.

Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (^ GSPC) gained 6.6 % in the fourth quarter, ending the year up 21.8 %.

The yellow metal ended the year up a little more than 13 percent — its best year since 2010 — while gold stocks, as measured by the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index, gained more than 11 percent.

Yet the S&P 500 made back all its early losses and managed to end the year up over 8 %.

If you had put an equal dollar amount into each pick, you would have ended the year up 99 %.

In anticipation of that, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is ending the year up by 12.4 %

Meanwhile, the S&P 500 gained 6.6 % in the fourth quarter, ending the year up 21.8 %.

2014 was quite a different year in terms of returns and individual stock contributions to index returns: the S&P 500 ended the year up 14 % and it required 176 stocks to account for the market's total return.

With markets continuing to rally through the fall, the Sleepy Portfolio, which is mostly invested in broad - market Exchange - Traded Funds gained a further 4.55 % and ended the year up 9.56 %.

This year saw positive returns from all currency selections other than a short position in the Japanese yen, which ended the year up against higher interest rate currencies.

Carry strategies yielded positive returns from all currency selections other than a short position in the Japanese yen, which ended the year up against higher interest rate currencies.

Rents for industrial properties ended the year up 6 percent from year - end 2013, with an average asking rate of $ 6.50 per sq. ft. triple net.

«This is not a robust recovery, but I feel confident that we are not sitting here lingering,» says Zelman, who predicts that home prices will end the year up about 1 percent.

Not exact matches

Maple Leaf Foods, currently under the stewardship of Wallace McCain's son, Michael, continued tying up loose ends on a seven - year overhaul of the company's operations.

And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

«In academia, you can end up doing research for years.»

They ended up at Celebration 6 1/2 years ago when they got off the road and started a family, but the drive to do something in the arts continued.

Jonathan Crandall, who runs J.C. Landscaping in Danvers, Mass., is a big believer in holding out for financing deals that pop up at the end of a model year.

SSL, which also owns Scholl, said sales were up 22 per cent to # 320million in the half year to the end of September.

For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.

Her products ended up in this year's Golden Globe swag bags!

It's also important to remember that funding comes in at the end of the four year competition, if you win — so it's up to competing teams to fund their entries up to that point.

For Roundarch, they ended up hiring Paul Tebsherany, a person with deep knowledge of their business whom they had known and worked with for two years while employed at competitor, Razorfish.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

And yesterday he was at it again, offering up his own version of that seasonal stand - by, the end - of - year best books list.

That valuable background includes an explanation for why R2 - D2 wakes up at the end, as well as a brief history of the galactic government now in place 30 years after «Return of the Jedi» and the Resistance's relationship to political powers.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the first quarter of 2015, real hourly compensation was up 1.8 % over the previous year and jumped at an annualized rate of 5.5 % compared to the last quarter of 2014.

The front office ended up agreeing to a four - year, $ 13.5 million deal that made Thomas the richest running back in the NFL.

Spending on this type of software was already projected to hit US$ 2.5 billion globally at the end of last year, according to Deloitte, up 52 % from 2012.

Strategists up and down Wall Street are bullish on stocks through the end of next year, and a big part of that stems from optimism around tax reform.

And although Evans, now a humanitarian, was too young to remember the event, it ended up being the inspiration behind the «enormous» poverty awareness concert in New York's Central Park that he organized almost 30 years later.

Optimism is up to 63 percent from 57 percent at the beginning of the year, and Main Street businesses are reflecting their increased optimism and cash flow with an increased amount of year - end bonuses.

Think long term, he advises: «If you don't get retirement fully funded, you're going to be on your kids» payroll for 15 or 20 years,» which could end up being more expensive in the long run than student loans would be.

«Roll the tape forward eight years, and that conversation ended up becoming the founding vision of Ripple.»

Adjusted book value per share of $ 84.54, up 1 % from year - end 2017.

I ended up 20 years ago working on the very first version of what would become MeMoves.

He ended up spending 18 years at AT&T, rising through the ranks of its accountancy program and running installation and maintenance in the Mountain States aged just 28.

Spotify said it had 170 million active monthly users at the end of March, up 30 percent from the year - ago quarter.

Whether this is an extremely busy time for your business, or not, there are many efforts you can make to drum up some sales before the end of the year.

But the firm still ended its 2015 fiscal year on an upswing, with revenues up by 10 %, earnings up 17 % to $ 70.2 million and the stock price back up in the $ 25 range.

«There is a lot of catch - up that needs to happen between now and the end of the calendar year.»

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

I just ended up deleting mine last year because I felt pressured to perfect it.

Revenue in China was $ 17.96 billion over the quarter ending in December, up 11 percent from a year ago.

You connected and then a year and a half later she remembered you and whispered your name to the person who needed to hear it and you ended up on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Thanking your team for their contributions during the year is a great way to end on a high note and gear up for 2012.

Because so many entrepreneurs devote themselves to their businesses and end up neglecting health, here are five wholesome habits to swap in for the New Year.

UBS also notes that year - to - date buyback announcements are nearly double their post-financial-crisis average, suggesting a «big pick - up» ahead through the end of the year.

At the end of our first year, our total marketing expense was about $ 800 because we made up that difference by selling burritos.

«The Fed has moved up the short - end rate up to 2 percent, and the 2 - year note yield has moved up to the 2.5 percent level... It doesn't seem there's any significant slowdown in the economy.»