One agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he certainly wouldn't call Konrath's deal a game changer, but that it does say something interesting about the place of the midlist author in legacy publishing: «It's not necessarily clear that big corporate publishing is well structured to help low midlist authors with rapidly reducing print runs in an environment in which overall print sales are
falling week by week.
Not exact matches
Brent crude oil futures were up 31 cents at $ 73.44 a barrel
by 0900 GMT, after
falling nearly 3 percent on Tuesday to its lowest in two
weeks.
The renting program, called Express Drive, is already operating in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.. Now, it is expanding over the next couple of
weeks to San Francisco — Lyft's hometown — and
by fall will also be an option for drivers in Denver and Los Angeles.
Also on Friday, oilfield services firm Baker Hughes reported the total number of rigs drilling for crude in the United States
fell by 13 to a total of 400 in the previous
week.
The company's stock
fell 6.2 %
by Wednesday's close, its worst performance in 6
weeks.
The Harpex Shipping Index
fell by 1 to 371, another new 52
week low.
The four
week average
fell by 750 to 367,250, a little more than 1 % above its post-recession low.
Economists polled
by Reuters had forecast claims
falling to 230,000 in the latest
week.
Tesla reported in April that it had
fallen short of its target to produce 2,500 Model 3s per
week by the end of the first quarter.
If you do that, you
fall behind really quickly, and you're just wasted
by the end of the
week.
Bitcoin
fell by another $ 300 on Tuesday after the fallout of a Chinese ban on cryptocurrency crowdfunding methods saw the price of the digital coin slump earlier this
week.
At eight
weeks, Nike's plan
falls in between the lengths suggested
by Trump and Clinton (six and 12
weeks, respectively).
These nurses may collect a housing allowance and can have a say over their hours and choice of hospitals, which need these contract workers to fill in for staff out on maternity leave (normally for 13
weeks), or
felled by a bad flu season.
Despite the pain being felt
by many small investors, the Chinese - led stock market
falls of the past
week was a long - overdue correction.
Last
week, Sears reported that comparable sales last quarter
fell 7.5 % at its Kmart discount chain and dropped
by 9.6 % at its namesake stores.
LONDON, April 20 - Aluminium prices
fell on Friday for a second day as a rally sparked
by U.S. sanctions against Russia's Rusal, the world's second - biggest producer, appeared to stall, but the metal was still on track to end the
week up 7.5 percent.
On Wednesday, the Energy Department is expected to report that U.S. crude oil supplies
fell last
week by 1.5 million barrels, according to a survey of analysts
by Platts.
Short - sellers who placed bets that the shares of four big tech leaders, known as the FANG group, as spelled out
by their first initials, were due for a
fall have made more than $ 4 billion in profits over the last two
weeks and more than $ 1 billion during the first two trading days in...
Meanwhile, U.S. net imports of crude oil
fell last
week by 1.6 million bpd to 4.98 million bpd, the lowest level since the EIA started recording the data in 2001, reflecting further erosion in a market OPEC has been relying on for decades.
The new figures showed a
fall by 1 million barrels last
week, according to the Energy Information Administration, though stocks remained close to a record high.
Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this
week: balancing their budgets, as required
by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to
falling oil prices.
Last
week, the oil rig count
fell for the first time in four months,
by two to 441.
The US oil rig count
fell by the most in two months this
week,
by 21 to 524, according to oilfield services giant Baker Hughes.
Last
week, the oil - rig count rose
by 11, gas rigs
fell by three, and miscellaneous rigs were unchanged at two.
Positioning data shows net long euro positions
by speculators
fell last
week, albeit from a record high, suggesting investors remain overwhelmingly bullish on the single currency but are reducing those bets.
Of 300 offshore shell companies identified
by Reuters, 22 would typically have been required to have published the beneficial ownership information
by now because their reporting dates
fell in the
weeks since July 1, when the rules came into force.
The key uncertainty is how much the data has been distorted
by the
fall of China's annual Lunar New Year holidays, which were in February this year and in January in 2012 and which typically see factories shut up shop for two
weeks.
For
weeks, the Journal drove circulation
by denouncing dozens of newspapers — not just The World — who
fell for the con and had copied or reprinted the Journal's fake news.
As the youngest designer to be carried
by Nordstrom — her
fall 2014 juniors collection is now available in 10 stores and online — Taylor ticked another item off of her bucket list yesterday when she showed her Spring 2015 collection at New York Fashion
Week.
After
falling steadily since April, U.S. crude stocks rose
by 15 million barrels in the first three
weeks of September, according to the Department of Energy.
The question has been asked
by nearly every Apple watcher following a brutal two -
week stretch that began with a worse than expected earnings report, quickened after the ouster of a high - profile executive and culminated with news this
week that it had
fallen behind competitor Samsung in the smartphone wars.
Its stock
fell as much as 12 percent in the four
weeks after it agreed on Sept. 8 to pay $ 185 million to settle charges
by regulators and a Los Angeles prosecutor regarding the sham accounts.
July Brent futures were down 29 cents at $ 72.84 a barrel
by 11:06 EDT (1706 GMT), after
falling nearly 3 percent on Tuesday to their lowest in two
weeks.
Vancouver region prices have spiked to all - time record highs over $ 1.61 but will likely
fall by four to six cents per litre over the next few
weeks as two refineries in Washington state start up after maintenance shutdowns, said GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Dan McTeague.
But as of the last
week of February, that number has
fallen to 71.1 %, according to a new analysis
by athenaInsight.
The deficit for the current fiscal year that ends in two
weeks is projected to be $ 25.9 billion — exactly as forecast in the
fall fiscal update but up significantly from the $ 21.1 billion posited
by Flaherty in last March's budget.
«Since the
fall of»08 we have lost one community bank a day seven days a
week... as a result, quite truthfully, of, obviously competition from nonbanks, but most particularly
by a huge regulatory burden, some 12,000 pages of proposed and final rules in Dodd - Frank,» Frank Keating, president and chief executive of the American Bankers Association, warned in a television interview on Tuesday.
The deal hatched
by Canadian and US and negotiators this
week might do much to ease the concerns of Canadian and US governments and corporations, although many observers agree that they might just as likely hate it once they
fall under it.
Seeing the DOW rise and
fall by triple digits for several
weeks straight has definitely given us some better buying opportunities as of late.
One trick my step - dad used when his young (druggy) hand to mouth tenants started
falling behind is that he would show up and collect the rent
by the
week.
Mark Zuckerberg and his data - hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this
week as scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica profile - scraping scandal continues to mount, with the social media giant's stock price
falling by over 13 percent this
week.
Prices pared losses after the Energy Information Administration released data showing U.S. crude inventories
fell by 4.6 million barrels in the latest
week.
Gasoline production averaged 9.5 million barrels, compared with 10.6 million bpd a
week earlier, with inventories
falling by 3.2 million barrels in the
week to September 1.
NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- Shares of Yamana Gold Inc (AUY) were sliding, lower
by 0.49 % to $ 3.06 in midday trading Friday, along with other gold - related stocks after spot gold
fell to a three
week low level as the euro
fell against the dollar ahead of the Greek bailout talks this weekend, Reuters reports.
Two
weeks ago, the fund estimated that Greek debt would peak at 177 % of GDP and
fall to 142 %
by 2022.
The EIA rejected the API's gasoline figures: according to it, gasoline stockpiles
fell by just 2.1 million barrels last
week, with average daily production at 9.8 million barrels, down from 9.9 million barrels in the
week before.
The authority reported a draw of 5.4 million barrels for the
week ending August 25, a day after the American Petroleum Institute estimated these inventories had
fallen by 5.78 million barrels in the period.
Still, the current return / risk profile features highly «unpleasant skew» - in any given
week, the single most likely outcome is actually a small advance, yet the average return in the current classification is quite negative, because those small marginal gains have typically been wiped out
by steep, abrupt market plunges that erase
weeks or months of gains in one
fell swoop (see Impermanence and Full - Cycle Thinking for a chart).
After hitting at over 35 times early last
week, gold prices
fell sharply
by Thursday, bringing the ratio down to about 33.9.
U.S. crude inventories likely rose
by 1.3 million barrels last
week, while gasoline and distillate stockpiles
fell, a preliminary Reuters poll showed on Monday ahead of data
by the Industry group the American Petroleum Institute later in the day.