Sentences with phrase «high of more»

The drastic reduction in stop - and - frisks from a high of more than 685,000 to roughly 46,000 last year does not mean that the correct standard is being followed, said Siegel.

Teacher's Choice received a 63.5 percent increase in the final city budget, passed on June 6, bringing funding for the City Council's popular program that reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies back up to its pre-recession high of more than $ 20 million.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

«[Crypto values] went too high, too fast... at the time I urged caution, saying an asset that goes almost vertically up should typically raise alarm bells for investors... Arguable, even before the frenzied peak in December, when the price of one Bitcoin reached an all time high of more than $ 19,000, the market was beginning to become frothy and overheated.»

Paid daily circulation in the United States fell from a post — 1940 high of more than 60 million in 1968 to just 40.4 million in 2014, with a similarly calamitous decline on Sundays.

In the two weeks since, it reached yet another staggering high of more than $ 8,300.

Simultaneously, the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new record high of more than 23,328 points.

Hedge funds» net long position on Brent hit an all - time high of more than 584,000 contracts recently, according to ICE Futures Europe and reported by Bloomberg.

The digital currency is down around 16 percent this year, having fallen from a record high of more than $ 19,000 in December last year.

It hit an all - time high of more than $ 800 billion in early January, before falling dramatically as a result of a huge cryptocurrency sell - off.

The move came at a crucial time in the company's history as recent times has seen its stock plummet from an all - time high of more than $ 27 in 2011 to a 52 - week low of $ 1.18.

In 2004, in anticipation of the quotas being lifted, Gildan's stock (TSX: GIL) began selling off, declining from a high of more than $ 22 in March to a low of $ 17 in September.

CEO pay has kept on climbing, to a recent high of more than 300 times what the average worker makes.

Bitcoin's price soared in 2017 — reaching a record high of more than $ 19,000 in December — but saw sharp declines at the start of this new year due to fears of regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies.

Not exact matches

In light of the stock market's recent decline, investors seem increasingly to be giving the tech sector the cold shoulder, with stunning drops in value of once high - flying stocks, among them the micro-blogging site Twitter, whose stock is down more than 50 percent compared to September of 2014.

And then (perhaps more commonly) there are more complex cases, in which lack of business skill (say, at providing high - quality service) results in a desire by some employees to engage in compensatory wrongdoing, and that wrongdoing is made easier by ongoing incompetent accounting.

Lockheed delivered 66 of the high - tech, stealthy fighters last year to the U.S. and allies, 40 percent more than in 2016, hitting its target.

DAKAR, April 24 - Congo's state miner Gecamines is starting legal proceedings to dissolve its Kamoto copper and cobalt joint venture with a subsidiary of Glencore, blaming the commodities giant for high debts that have weighed on the mine for more than 10 years.

The book tells their stories of growth, challenge, anguish, triumph, and more, interspersed with other big names of other basketball legends and high - stakes brinksmanship.

Bank stocks have benefited from both the anticipation of higher interest rates, which the Federal Reserve is expected to raise next week, as well as the belief that the Trump administration will roll back some of the more onerous financial regulations stemming from the Dodd - Frank Act.

To put the importance of the overseas box office into perspective, all of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2016 made more money overseas than domestically (the top film, Disney's Captain America: Civil War, made almost 65 % of its $ 1.15 billion total through international release).

Alternative lenders tend to charge much higher interest rates than banks do — sometimes on the order of 50 percent annual percentage rates or more.

Gamers use GPUs to play high - quality video games, but Nvidia's high - performing cards are also now used by those building machines to solve the complex math puzzles used to validate transactions and earn more of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and bitcoin.

Sandberg says many women are hesitant to push themselves forward — to pursue higher positions with more work and more responsibility — because they anticipate starting a family (even if they don't yet have spouses) and don't want to doom the possibility of work - life balance.

Ask, «If I had 10 less hours of low - value work each week, could I fill this time with higher value activities that would be worth more than the cost of an assistant?»

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

«If U.S. rates move too quickly, they will dislocate [high yielding] assets more broadly and the most liquid emerging markets will not be immune to a selloff,» he added, pointing to the 2013 taper tantrum as an illustration of this idea in action.

Shell is listed on the London Stock Exchange with a market cap of 193 billion pounds — more than any other listed corporation on the exchange and one of the highest of any company in the world.

The contract meant Thomas made more than some of the league's highest - profile QBs.

In fact, researchers have found that when people think they are more physically attractive, they believe that they belong to a higher social class, regardless of how good looking they really are or their actual social status.

Alternative measures of inflation that adjust for the more volatile components of the price basket, such as gasoline, were moderately higher than the headline number.

Many of those white - collar service jobs pay more than factory work, as they are occupied by people with higher educations, according to the Conference Board.

But the elder Rosenthal is more than just a figurehead: He remains an active participant in all facets of Raleigh's business and is a close observer of the technologies and trends that could shape the organization's future, name - checking everything from Instagram to Elon Musk's proposed Hyperloop high - speed transportation system.

«The more brains you can pick in the formation of your venture, the higher the chances of its success.»

With Verizon's modified à la carte pricing, broadcasters face the prospect of losing out on some of the money they make in carriage fees for all of the channels they offer, unless they can broker new deals with Verizon (possibly assigning even higher fees to more in - demand channels).

Pay off the newest ones first; that way you'll increase the average length of credit, which should help your score, but you'll also be able to more quickly avoid paying relatively high interest.

NEW YORK / LONDON, May 1 - London cocoa futures on ICE rose to the highest since 2016 on Tuesday, buoyed by the weak British pound, while robusta coffee surged more than 3 percent within one minute to a 5 - 1 / 2 - month high after a flurry of automatic buy orders were triggered.

Quite apart from the argument over OSFI - style oversight, the former federal official and others stress this segment of the market at least requires more transparency and clearer data so regulators and the Bank of Canada can better understand the credit landscape and the extent of high - risk loans issued by private lenders.

U.S. - based asset managers like Federated Investors Inc. and Franklin Resources Inc. pay high effective tax rates because they qualify for fewer deductions, so they will keep more of their income.

NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters)- Oil prices slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar remained near a four - month high, but worries that U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.

The government did pledge to close some tax loopholes, which could have an affect on high net - worth investors, and it also stated that it wanted more competition in the banking sector — that could reduce financial - related fees, says Sewell — but it's not clear how or even if any of this will happen.

The higher the oil price the Saudis (or OPEC) target and possibly reach, the more areas in the U.S. would be profitable to drill and add to the global oil supply, potentially wiping out the effect of the cuts and depressing oil prices again.

Almost all of the gains on the wireless side were due to customers upgrading to higher - priced plans or adding more devices to their plans, as opposed to an influx of new customers.

Studies have shown that more than 65 % of all competencies deemed essential for high performance in the workplace are related to emotional intelligence.

Additionally, they noted that those who were more likely to push back against their superiors as children «also have higher levels of willingness to stand up for their own interests and aims, a characteristic that leads to more favorable individual outcomes — in our case, income.»

Soaring U.S. shale production has been a nagging concern for OPEC and its allies, but the group's key players appear to be more fixated on the immediate benefits of high crude prices.

If you have a high potential employee who is too eager to climb the corporate ladder, for example, you can use the five levels to help them understand how they can gain more autonomy over time by first earning the trust of their manager.

Even though there are certain high - profile states where finding a home could be more difficult, «the best takeaway is that housing remains affordable in large swaths of the country.»

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.