Sentences with phrase «first base this year»

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The Denver and Montreal - based company said its sales fell 4.8 per cent to US$ 2.33 billion in the first quarter compared to the prior year quarter.

«Arkema has made a very strong start to the year, with a 33 % year on year increase in adjusted net income despite a high basis of comparison in first quarter 2017 and the very strong appreciation of the euro.

«We expect the ECB to extend QE again towards the end of next year, ahead of finishing the program in December 2018, paving the way for a rise in interest rates in the first half of 2019,» said Azad Zangana, senior European economist with London - based fund manager Schroders.

The chairman and co-chief executive of a Melbourne - based toy company has become the first Australian to be selected as global winner of EY's Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Options Group's forecasts are based on public and proprietary data about revenue for the year's first nine months, and bonus expectations from a survey of about 3,000 Wall Street workers.

The Milwaukee, Wisconsin - based company said its net income fell to $ 174.8 million, or $ 1.03 per share, in the first quarter ended April 1, from $ 186.4 million, or $ 1.05 per share, a year earlier.

Henderson - based contractor Civmec lifted profit to $ S10.4 million ($ A10 million) for the first half of the financial year, up 59 per cent, on the back of a big surge in revenue.

«For the first year or so, we traveled from military base to military base in our trailer and wrote proposals, made phone calls, filled out loan applications, and conducted payroll with a post office box as our corporate address,» Latshaw recalls.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note added roughly 60 basis points this year, topping the 3 percent mark this week for the first time in four years.

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

On Tuesday, Calgary - based Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported it more than doubled its first - quarter revenue compared with the same period last year and is reactivating equipment it parked over the past three years.

In the first six months of 1998, Dan Maude took his employee base from 40 to 70, with a goal of having 100 staffers by year - end 1998.

First - quarter net revenues increased 11.7 percent, when compared to the prior year period (up 3.3 percent on an organic basis).

& # 9660 Earlier this year, when Microsoft killed its new line of Kin smartphones in less than two months, its own employees were among the first to admit the Redmond, Wash. - based company had screwed up.

In June 2013, The Guardian reported the first leak based on top - secret documents that then 29 - year - old Edward Snowden stole from the National Security Agency.

Last year he shared his career - transformation experience online — «How I got my first Valley - based product - management job in five weeks» — which has gotten him thinking about his personal brand.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's major policy moves over the course of his first year in office have had a common denominator: They either overtly favor his base of support — the roughly one - third of voters who solidly back him — or they appear to penalize those states that vote Democratic.

(The 2016 total is a projection based on numbers from the first half of that year.)

Perth - based IT firm ASG Group posted a near - 3 per cent fall in first - half profit but maintained its revenue guidance for the full year.

Perth - based financial services group Pioneer Credit has delivered full - year profit of $ 4.6 million in its first year as a publicly - listed company on the back of strong gains in customer payments.

It's not just Comcast either: Time Warner Cable (TWX) recently announced that it added 32,000 TV customers in 2015, the first year the company has increased its subscriber base since 2006.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

At least 13 states, including Alaska, Illinois and Kentucky, have indicated they will be awarding funds on a first - come, first - served basis for the 2018 - 19 school year.

The Chicago - based company raised more than $ 400,000 on Indiegogo this year for what it says is the world's first rideable luggage.

After years of snubs, Steven Spielberg rightfully won his first Oscar for «Schindler's List,» based on the true story of a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

Still, Wall Street has continued to lower its estimates for growth this year and next, with GDP now expected to be 1.95 percent for 2016, 19 basis points lower than in March and below 2 percent for the first time since the question was first asked a year ago.

In a lengthy post titled «On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber» Fowler alleges that during her first few weeks at the San Francisco - based tech firm her team manager propositioned her for sex.

At its core of this first hackable product will be a durable aluminum profile, made of 40 percent recycled material, which creates a flexible base to build seating or bedding «where comfort and functions can be altered to meet the changing needs in a home,» IKEA said last year.

If you realize within the first few years of your business that there's a more optimal name based on how consumers view you, then there's nothing wrong with making a change.

Earlier this year, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich announced his commitment to space exploration with a rather unexpected proclamation: «By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American,» he promised.

For a business plan, the income statement should be generated on a monthly basis during the first year, quarterly for the second, and annually for each year thereafter.

In 2015, New York - based competitor Bounce Exchange filed a suit against Yieldify in a New York federal court, accusing it of copying its code and infringing its patents, in a case that first came to light earlier this year in a report from The Financial Times.

According to Yipit, a New York - based company that redistributes collected daily deals, during the first half of the year there were 362 «deal» websites, but of those, 132 have already shut down.

I consider the content strong, based on my first Harvard talk a couple years ago.

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

The state's first early stage venture capital limited partnership is one of three funds announced by Western Australian money managers this year, and one of two in a joint project by Cottesloe - based View Street Partners and Nedlands - based Mac Equity.

The reality is that every woman's pregnancy is different, as science writers Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham make abundantly clear in their meticulously researched book, «The Informed Parent: A Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years».

The Hawthorne, California - based company is also readying its first privately crewed spacecraft to fly around the moon next year.

In the first half of this year, Elon Musk's Hawthorne, California - based SpaceX unveiled both an experimental reusable rocket stage and a new crew vehicle for carrying humans into orbit.

I quickly learned that Turkey is the envy of many with several programs to help new businesses including tax credits to angel investors and grants to technology - based entrepreneurs to support their first year of operation.

That may be down about 1 % year - over-year, but it still keeps the industry on track to hit an annual rate of 17.3 million vehicles based on the first five months of the year.

LG Electronics also announced in January that it will decide on whether to build a manufacturing base in the United States within the first half of the year and warned of risks from the Trump administration's trade policies.

Users of digital currency bitcoin more than doubled in the Philippines in the first half of last year from a year earlier, Espenilla said, while bitcoin transactions purportedly passing through registered companies in the country range from $ 2 million to $ 3 million per month based on available estimates.

After the trial: Hulu recently got rid of its free, ad - supported model, and lowered the rate of its base membership to $ 6 / month for the first year.

Oculus Rift, the San Francisco - based VR startup that Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, is finally set to launch its consumer headset in the first half of the year.

The vow came as the Calgary - based company blamed clogged export pipelines for its worst heavy oil price discounts in five years during the first three months of 2018, contributing to a higher - than - expected $ 914 - million net loss in the first quarter.

In November, the central bank raised the base rate by 25 basis points, its first tightening in six years.

On a pre-tax basis, it was the bank's first year in the black since Thiam launched the turnaround plan in 2015.

At first they claimed Austin - based computer - network consultancy NetForce was too small; a few years later they passed again on NetForce, because it was already saddled with a Small Business Administration loan.