Sentences with phrase «first moves this year»

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Walmart, coming off a year of acquisitions like those of Bonobos, Modcloth and Moosejaw, will likely continue to buy hip digital - first brands as it looks to counter Amazon's moves in the fashion world and attract more well - heller shoppers to Jet.com if not its own site.

«I'm really confident that as we move into the second half this year and into the first half of 2019, we're going to be seeing very material volumes of oil moving by rail,» he added.

First National — Canada's largest non-bank mortgage lender, originating $ 22 billion in loans each year — reacted swiftly, announcing Tuesday that Morneau's moves will impact about 41 % of its insured residential mortgages and that it anticipates a drop of as much as 10 % in originations of this kind, because its loans will no longer qualify for insurance.

It was a first - of - its - kind move from the streaming giant, which may have taken its inspiration from the traditional TV networks that have used the post-Super Bowl time slot to promote new TV series or special episodes (such as last night's long - awaited This Is Us installment on NBC) for years.

Michelle Obama began her «Let's Move» initiative about a year into her husband's first term.

The company was founded in 1977 by Ron Ball (Eppel was an early hire, just 18 years old when he started), and it expanded quickly — first with a plant in Buffalo, then to Europe and, as the industry moved east, to China in 1996.

He borrowed another $ 35,000 and a sewing machine from his mom, and got to work making his first product — a process that took two years, while he lived with his dad in Sausalito and Jill moved to Santa Monica.

While Walmart has been offering in - store pick up for several years now, this is first year the retailer is pushing the service this hard, in a move aimed in part at preventing stores from being overwhelmed by panicked last - minute shoppers.

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.

He thinks the US economy will expand by 2.9 % in 2018 and inflation may breach 2.5 % in the first half of the year because of the short - term moves in oil and the dollar.

Fuyao is not the first Chinese business making the move across the Pacific in recent years.

The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country.

After two years together, the couple have welcomed a dog, moved into their own home at Kensington Palace, and are now preparing for the their first child this summer.

«Each morning for the past 15 years, I've carved out the first 15 minutes of my day to hand write my «top five» for the day — the things that I need to get done to move my larger goals forward — on a new page in a bound notebook.

His family first moved to the US when he was a year old, but they moved around the world a few more times before settling in Foster City, south of San Francisco.

The move marks the first time in more than five years that Verizon, the nation's largest carrier in terms of total subscribers, will have an unlimited offering.

During President Obama's first year, the average index moved 1.47 percent a day.

Black Friday is so named because it is the first day of the calendar year that many retail stories start to make a profit, or move from the «red» to the «black.»

The deal is Albertsons» first big strategic move since Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods Market earlier this year.

But many of the people who had been at Rent the Runway for years weren't capable of moving it forward, she felt, because Rent the Runway had been their first job.

It did first move to what it described as a more «guarded» view in 2015, which proved prescient with 2015 being the worst year for stocks since 2011.

Addressing the golf landscape, Hainer said on «Squawk Box» it still makes sense to sell its brands that include TaylorMade, despite recently strong 7 percent revenue growth, as well as Nike's moves and golf's return to the Olympics for the first time in 104 years.

After a three - year stint there, she moved to one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley: Google, first as a «pre-sales engineer» and finally in a business development role, working with Google product and engineering teams.

The increase in domestic production barely moved the supply needle during the first few years of the shale boom because it was merely offsetting the production shut - ins from war - ravaged Libya and Iraq.

They quickly took significant market share in the first year in football and baseball cleats, but decided to slow down their move into the category after investing heavily in the training and running shoe markets and not making as much noise.

And here's a sign of how quickly things move in neuroscience: Earlier this year, another paraplegic man, Rodrigo Hübner Mendes, became the first person to drive a race car solely with his mind.

The first tranche of money, about $ 75 million, moved last year.

Moving up a rank since last year, the southern city has a 95.6 percent startup growth rate: The number of employees at a Nashville company grows an average of 95.6 percent in the company's first five years.

Fed policymakers began this year with the wind at their backs, having pushed through a rate increase in December, the first such move in nearly a decade.

The first quarter is typically the most important period of the year for trading desks, as asset managers move into new positions.

In China, the grandparents move in with new parents for at least the first 3 years after they have children.

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I'm in more of a unique situation because this is our first year [in Boston] and my wife, we all moved in the middle of the pregnancy.

After seven years as an investment banker in Calgary, Scott Burrows welcomed his first child and started contemplating his next move.

They've since sold more than 600,000 copies of Microsoft BASIC, and the company, which they moved first to Albuquerque, N.Mex., and then to Seattle, had revenues of $ 15.8 million last year.

The decision to sell the retail arm of the business to focus on mining follows Harry Winston's move late last year to acquire BHP Billiton's 80 % stake in Ekati for $ 500 million, Canada's first and largest diamond mine.

Neither central bank is expected to move this week, although the ECB is likely to hint that it will follow up April's rate rise — the first in nearly three years — with another increase in June.

The move came after benchmark 10 - year Treasury yields last week reached 3 percent for the first time since January 2014 on concerns about rising inflation and government borrowing.

The move marks another first for the site that opened its doors last year.

Low volatility had been replaced by high volatility — Q1 had 23 days of daily moves greater than 1 % in the S&P versus seven such days for all of last year, and the first few weeks of the second quarter have seen similar swings.

For example, the moving average consists of a forecast of nominal GDP for the first year (t) of the budget plan, an estimate for the previous year (t - 1) and a preliminary estimate by Statistics Canada for the first year of the moving average (t - 2).

Twitter, the online messaging service, first spoke up about the issue last year as it was considering a move to bigger offices.

The 4,000 - member First Baptist Church recently moved from a conventional church building in downtown Lakeland — where it had been for 95 years — to the former Lakeland Mall, a 400,000 - square - foot complex on Lake Parker.

Both moves come after ZX Ventures opened the first of its new Kaiba Craft venues in Tianzifang, after acquiring the Belgian beer bar brand from founder Rudy Wimmer at the beginning of the year.

That's twice the average 74 % return for those who moved out of stocks and into cash during the fourth quarter of 2008 or first quarter of 2009.3 More than 25 % of the investors who sold out of stocks during that downturn never got back into the market — missing out on all of the recovery and gains of the following years.

As you can see, $ GLD rallied to close above major resistance of its 200 - day moving average (on August 22) for the first time since March of this year.

He and Diane first retired to Ecuador's northern coast for a couple of years before making their move to Cancun.

Going into the holidays, the gold market may be caught in a holding pattern until the first of the year when investors may look to move assets around.

Still, this looks generous compared to Europe, where 10 - year German Bund yields reached a new all - time low of 0.28 % and seven - year yields moved below zero for the first time.

«For the first time in weeks, the 30 - year mortgage rate moved with Treasury yields and jumped 11 basis points,» Freddie Chief Economist Sean Becketti said in a release.