Sentences with phrase «high point last»

But medical genetics hit a new high point last week, when two groups working independently announced that they had isolated the first gene for a common form of cancer.

However, from a high point last year when the Tory lead over Labour was more than 20 per cent, the gap between the parties has narrowed with most recent polls suggesting there will be a hung parliament.

But annualized spending on buybacks has dropped by at least 15 % from its high point last year, according to Silverblatt.

Not exact matches

That has prompted investors to take another look at the widening interest rate differential trends between the United States and Europe which hit the highest in nearly 30 years at 236 basis points last week, and protracted weakness in the greenback.

(We live at the highest point in town so the last half - mile is at a 9 % grade.

This last point makes sense for some more than others, says Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of Hightower Advisors, San Diego, who advises high - net - worth business owners.

During the most recent 3 - day government shutdown my Facebook feed had several requests seeking help renewing passports, proving two points — there is a high demand as renewals are up and most people wait until the last minute to handle it.

«The industrial capacity utilisation rate in the first three quarters reached 76.6 %, 3.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.»

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

The S&P 500 Volatility Index, or VIX, surged higher, rising above 50 at one point last Tuesday, one of the highest levels ever recorded.

Constellation Brands paid almost $ 1 billion for craft brewer Ballast Point late in 2015 and spent $ 160 million last year for High West Distillery.

To reach that line, Worth said, the S&P 500 would have to fall 222 points, or 7.7 percent from its all - time high hit last Friday of 2,872.87.

That's the highest in the same time period since 2007, and more than double the $ 189 billion we had in withdrawn deals at this point last year.

1/5 Late last night I read Talia's medium contribution and want to acknowledge her point that the cost of living in SF is far too high.

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

As Moody's points out, last year's deficit of 3.4 % of GDP was the highest of any industrialized nation except Japan, and the shortfall is headed skyward.

The chief exec then drove his point home, telling Strober, «If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 % you got last year... you can sell your shares in Starbucks.»

Ruger has bested the market by almost 17 points in each of the last five years, a period which has coincided with a rash of high - profile shootings.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

This week the average interest rate on 1 - year CDs rose to 0.42 percent, 1 basis point higher than it was last week.

The 30 - stock index also briefly entered correction territory for the first time since last month, falling 10 percent from its 52 - week high at one point late in the day.

Case in point: China's gross savings rate has been high for decades, averaging around 45 percent of GDP for the last 20 years, per the World Bank.

In July of 2015, Koch drove home the point in his testimony before a Senate committee about how the country's high corporate tax rate is driving U.S. businesses into the arms of foreign buyers, adding that he'll probably be the last American owner of Boston Beer.

For example, U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields closed in on 2.50 percent last week, roughly 50 basis points (0.50 percent) higher than their late April levels.

The Maryland attorney general's office ordered Towson - based High Point Wealth Management to halt a business it runs from the former offices of a financial management company that faced penalties last year for fraudulently misrepresenting investment risks...

The Chicago - based airline generated about 39 percent of last year's revenue abroad, about 10 percentage points higher than Delta or American, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Currently, 22 % of consumers say they have bought Tide in the last 30 days, one percentage point higher than where it reached after the Super Bowl.

Food and beverage expenses were 45 basis points higher than last year on a percentage of sales basis.

Depreciation expense in the quarter was 27 basis points higher as a percentage of sales basis compared to last year due to increased new units and remodels.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

In year ended June 30, 2014, gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6 %, half a percentage point higher than projected last April by the Asian Development Bank's Outlook (ADO) 2014.

Most newsworthy in this year's edition, the 87 - year old billionaire pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway now has a $ 116 billion war chest to spend on a deal, but that prices were too high for him to spend any of it in a big way last year.

The benchmark 10 - yr yield, for instance, finished at 2.95 % on Thursday — which is about eight basis points below the more than four - year high it hit last week.

Compared to last quarter, net income available to common shareholders increased 3 %, reflecting the combined positive impacts of 9 % higher other income and very strong loan growth, partially offset by an eight basis point reduction in net interest margin.

After reaching a multiyear high last month, the prices paid index fell seven points to 49.1, pointing to ongoing input price increases, though such increases were not quite as widespread as last month.

As shown in the 2016 mortgage rate chart below, home loan rates in three categories have risen for the last seven weeks in a row and are now at their highest point of the year.

Hey guys in the last couple of weeks the stock market set one all time high after another, the Dow Jones is currently almost at 21 000 Points and it does not look like that -LSB-...]

Altcoins are leading the charge higher, as the switch in relative strength that we pointed out several times seems to be a lasting phenomenon, with the ETH / BTC pair confirming a short - term uptrend.

A breakout could point to a significant upside, taking the stock back to last year's high.

Since then, high yield spreads have widened by approximately 40 basis points (bps, or 0.40 %), the largest jump since last August.

It is important to point out the fact that last year, bitcoin transaction fees skyrocketed to a new all - time high, as people saw fees as high as $ 55 for relatively small transfers of value.

S&P finished on Thursday within 2 S&P points of last Friday's close, and NFP data could very well prove to be the catalyst that results in the surge back to new all - time highs.

UBS analysts pinpointed a key abnormality in last week's correction: «a U.S. equity decline of 7.4 %, as seen over the last five working days, has historically been associated with a high yield spread widening of 75 — 80 basis points... The actual move has only been 21 basis points.»

Indicator rates on variable - rate housing and business loans are 50 basis points higher than at end October, having increased in line with the 25 basis point increases in the cash rate in November and December last year (Table 12).

Here, every altcoin is paired with Bitcoin; apart from that, there are details on every pair's 24 - hour volume, its pricing, and the highest and lowest point for a cryptocurrency in the last 24 hours.

Futures pointed to a higher opening as investors found reason to be positive in the House's passing of the budget agreement last night.

The median climbed to $ 222,000 last month, reaching its highest point ever (even higher than the last housing bubble).

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

In this line which constantly moves upwards Christianity occupies the highest and last point and it is called «revealed religion».

And each is an anticipation, pointing ahead to the Last Adam who is elevated beyond the garden, beyond even the peak of Eden, beyond the clouds and the firmament, all the way to the right hand of the Father in the highest heaven.