Sentences with phrase «gain about a quarter»

The women in the study only gained about a quarter of a pound.

To put these units in context, the average middle school student gains about a quarter of a standard deviation per year; for elementary students, the average gain is between a third and a half of a standard deviation.

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Prior to the market correction, which has reduced Tesla's 2018 gain to about 3 % ahead of earnings, there was no real major dip, so you could argue that the staggering losses and the capital obliteration — over $ 1 billion per quarter at his point — are, well, somehow rationally priced in.

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.

This after Asian shares extended gains on Monday as tensions in the Korean Peninsula eased and first - quarter earnings shone, although some investors were cautious about the outlook amid the backdrop of a simmering U.S. - China trade dispute.

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.

As the overall market gained on the last day of the quarter, Apple underperformed Wednesday, closing up about 0.8 percent while the S&P rallied 1.9 percent.

The «Squawk on the Street» crew talk about Big Blue's mixed quarterly results as sales decline for the 20th consecutive quarter despite gains in cloud service and Watson AI operations.

For example, over the past three months, payroll gains have averaged about 150,000 per month, as compared to an average of more than 200,000 per month over the course of 2015 and the first quarter of this year.

In the first quarter of this year, consumer staple stocks, the best performing group, gained 5.6 percent while technology stocks shed 2.5 percent, leaving a spread of about 8 percent.

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It looked like their luck was about to run out when Saints quarterback Drew Brees hit his wide receiver Willie Snead for a 22 - yard gain with just over five minutes left in the second quarter.

Thereafter, the Russian went about turning the West - London outfit into a European powerhouse, and it has been his latest bold attempt to gain the upper hand on his rival competitors which has sparked intense media interest, enticed opinions from all quarters, but, more importantly, turned a seemingly routine meeting between Chelsea and Liverpool into one of the most eagerly - anticipated fixtures for years.

But I renegotiated this, and the university is saving about N2million per quarter which means the university gains about N8million from what they used to pay before in a year.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

Out of more than two dozen studies conducted since 2000 comparing the effects of differing loads on muscle gain, about one - quarter reported that heavy weights are still more effective — but only slightly at best (the findings weren't statistically significant).

The site saw a 94 % increase in traffic from June 2008 to June 2009. eHarmony.com has seen a 48 % gain in traffic since last year and Match.com saw its strongest fourth quarter in about seven years in 2008.

The U.S. Department of Education looked at about 700 of the schools in their second year of the program and found that a quarter of them posted double - digit gains in math during the 2010 - 11 school year.

Now that the ebook market has plateaued at about a quarter of the overall book market, we're starting to see how the gain in efficiency of ebooks can also mean a loss of deep comprehension.

One of the only positive things about the quarter was that the Nook business generated an EBITDA gain of $ 1.62 M.

What should be of more of an aggravation to the iPad camp is that the Kindle Fire has gained by about a million more Kindle Fires during the last quarter compared to what was projected earlier.

About $ 3.3 billion in deposits were made in this category in Puerto Rico last quarter, a gain of 248 %.

The cryptocurrency market lost about half of its market cap in the first quarter of 2018, thus undoing a significant portion of the gains made in the previous year.

The economy posted a modest but psychologically significant net gain of about 50,000 manufacturing jobs in the second quarter of 2004, the first net gain in manufacturing jobs in seven years, NAR analysts say.