Sentences with phrase «from about a quarter»

The Supreme Court, in London's Parliament Square, is staging an exhibition that tells the story of its sister court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which at one stage could hear appeals from about a quarter of the world's population.

45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, the number of human bank tellers employed in the United States has roughly doubled, from about a quarter of a million to a half a million.

Not exact matches

CEO Rob Peabody said Husky cut back heavy oil production by about 5,000 barrels per day in the first quarter and substituted mainly blended bitumen bought from other Alberta oilsands companies to send to its U.S. refineries in Ohio and Wisconsin or to the refining complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Sales rose 7.9 percent to $ 3.45 billion in the first quarter from a year earlier, slightly above the average analyst estimate of $ 3.34 billion, with aluminum prices accounting for $ 109 million or about 40 percent of the increase.

Similarly, about a quarter of the respondents reported they intend to hire new employees, up from about 16 percent a year earlier.

About 2/3 of Apple's revenue comes from iPhone sales and Wall Street judges the company on how many iPhones it sells each quarter.

He officially started his job in January amid falling in - store sales, a host of analyst downgrades, revised fourth - quarter earnings projections (the company slashed net revenue estimates to $ 515 million from $ 537 million), and a once loyal fan base raising concerns about product quality.

Berkshire generates about three - quarters of its revenue from its non-financial operating businesses.

In early 2004, as American house prices roared higher and there came dire warnings from some quarters about the existence of a bubble — accompanied, of course, by strident denials from banks, most economists and the mortgage and real estate industries — Ben Bernanke (then still a governor before he became Fed chairman) addressed the problem of what to tell the American people.

Glenn Fogel, Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.

Google (GOOG), she says, lost share in China, dropping to 17 % in the third quarter, from about 19 % in the second quarter.

After two quarters, Borne says, the new system has elicited about 95 % of the effort he was hoping to see from his staff.

While Americans were buying their first cell phones, about a quarter - century ago, Estonians were shut off from the world as an outpost of the Soviet Union.

Analysts were looking for revenue of about $ 18.6 billion, according to analysts polled by Bloomberg, which would represent a decline from this quarter last year.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

On the first workday of the year, months away from the close of the quarter, you have a chance to think about and discuss how your company's efforts transcend money or shareholder value.

Icahn also revealed that he bought more than 45 million Apple (AAPL) shares during the second quarter, increasing his holdings in the tech giant from about 7.5 million shares to roughly 52.8 million.

According to data from the Investment Company Institute, about three - quarters of 401 (k) plans, covering 90 percent of Americans, have some form of employer matching policy.

Based on the IAB's numbers and public financial numbers from Google and Facebook, the two digital giants accounted for about 99 % of the $ 2.9 billion in advertising growth in the third quarter — with Google making up about 54 % of the total and Facebook about 45 %, leaving just 1 % for everyone else.

About a quarter of the money will be from private investors, the rest will be public funds.

Harrison pushed CN's ratio down to about 67 % over his tenure from a starting point of 76 % (about where CP's ratio sat in the third quarter of 2011).

Some market watchers buy that line, noting the two firms have used only about a quarter of the US$ 400 billion put at their disposal after Washington seized them in September 2008 due to losses from rising home foreclosures and falling home values.

Westfield's shares had lost a quarter of their value in the year to August amid increasing fears about disruption from e-commerce.

In 2016, Canadian exports to the U.S. stood at $ 454 billion, according to Export Development Canada, about three - quarters of all outward trade from Canada.

«They range anywhere from the million - dollar Sundance hit, all the way up to something on a much larger scale,» like Will Smith - starrer «Bright,» Sarandos said in an investors» interview Monday about Netflix's third - quarter 2017 results.

APPLE STILL «FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS,» the company's CEO Steve Jobs said in a news release about Apple's great sales numbers from the holiday quarter.

He predicts gold prices will reach 2018 highs of $ 1,400 an ounce before the fourth quarter — about a 6 percent gain from current levels.

While the economy has rebounded from the Great Recession, Biz2Credit found big banks still only approve about a quarter of the small - business - loan applications.

Local advertising accounts on Yelp rose 32 % to about 111,000 in the fourth quarter that was in line with estimates from market research firm FactSet StreetAccount.

By the third quarter of 2012, consumer licensing — from rabbit emblazoned apparel to Coty perfume and just about everything imaginable in between — accounted for 74 percent of Playboy's profits.

Talk about being under fire from every quarter.

Forecasters expected first - quarter earnings for the sector would be up about 69 percent from a year ago, the highest percentage gain of any S&P 500 sector, according to Thomson Reuters data.

The company's net revenue increased to about $ 1.1 billion in the second quarter from $ 960 million in the first quarter, while bookings rose to more than $ 5 billion from more than $ 3.8 billion in the prior quarter, Bloomberg said.

He talked about the potential of such an option after Cineplex reported a fourth - quarter profit of $ 28.8 million, up from $ 23.3 million a year earlier, that was boosted by concession stand sales.

Eliminating the state and local tax deduction would raise about one - quarter of the $ 4 trillion in revenues that some Republicans say they need to prevent tax cuts from creating a massive increase in the federal budget deficit.

And while nearly 30,000 families are now receiving benefits from Colombia's Comprehensive Program for Illicit Crop Substitution, that's only about one - quarter of the families who have signed collective agreements, which is just the first step in a long process to get aid.

«The book reflects growing anxiety in some quarters about the possible negative impact of automation on jobs, from manufacturing to professional services,» explains the FT write - up of the award.

By contrast, the average size of the loan from the nation's leading SBA lender Wells Fargo was about a quarter that size.

For the previous quarter, the company said it had diluted earnings per share of 76 cents, an increase of about 114 percent from the prior - year period.

North American brand capacity in the third quarter is 38 % in the Caribbean, slightly up from a year ago; 24 % in Alaska, slightly higher than a year ago; and 25 % in Europe, which is about the same as last year.

Like last quarter, Michael Dell was absent from the earnings call, and a Dell spokesman said the other executives would not take questions about Dell going private.

But to achieve this, Tesla will need to increase Model 3 production from a rate of about 2,000 vehicles per week at the end of its first quarter to its target rate of 5,000 vehicles per week in about two months.

Third quarter total operating expenses were below last year at $ 1 billion including about a $ 26 million benefit from foreign exchange.

The second quarter is an outlier as I have a once yearly dividend from Novartis of about $ 280 and I also had a twice yearly dividend from DEO.

The company's growth does not appear to have been stalled by privacy concerns, although the revelations about Cambridge Analytica and a #DeleteFacebook campaign that followed from some irate users did not occur until late in the quarter, and could be reflected in future earnings.

In the second quarter, they reached an average of about 291,000 per day for bitcoin and nearly double that when other major cryptocurrencies are included, from about 60,000 per day in 2013, according to researcher CoinDesk.

The final lesson from Soros is quite similar to the lesson we wrote about a couple quarters ago in #NotDifferentThisTime on the wisdom of Sir John Templeton who said that investors would always ask him where is the best place to invest, and he would respond to them that this was exactly the wrong question and that they should rather be asking where is it the most miserable?

Second is the fact that it went to the Trump Foundation — which came under scrutiny during the presidential campaign for its shady practices, specifically documents that showed Trump pulled about a quarter of a million dollars from the foundation's budget to settle lawsuits related to his business.

The first quarter's sales growth came mainly from international business, which makes up about a quarter of total sales and grew 27 percent, and from online and branded store business, which accounts for 30 percent of total sales and grew 17 percent.

If I was Greenspan, I would at least cut the Fed Funds target by a quarter at about 10:15 A.M. on Monday, giving the markets just enough time to digest any initial sell orders and providing something of a base from which to rally.