Sentences with phrase «higher readings in»

Chicago PMI came in at 59.4, the highest reading in 2 1/2 years.

The indicator rose to 102, the highest reading in 14 years.

Empire manufacturing survey came in at 18.7, above the 7.5 expected and the highest reading in two and a half years.

The most recent monthly Index of Small Business Optimism, conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), came in at 107.6, the second - highest reading in the survey's 45 - year history.

So much for the high reading in builder sentiment.

The 30 - year fixed averaged 3.40 percent, its highest reading in eight weeks.

In July, pending home sales expanded in most of the country and reached their second highest reading in over a decade.

While occupancy for all assisted living properties fell during the first quarter, stabilized occupancy in the fourth quarter reached 91.1 %, tying it for the highest reading in the market cycle.

The August reading is the best since March 2017 and the second highest reading in nearly 17 years.

Not exact matches

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

I was assigned to read The Glass Castle in high school and it's a huge part of why I love reading (and writing) non-fiction today.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

Last month, conservative news outlet Daily Caller published a story with a headline that read, «It's High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He's In the White House.»

While the literacy rate in Ethiopia is 50 percent for males and 23 percent for females, 100 percent of people in most high - income countries, such as Canada and Norway, can read.

«These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently, or at all, to offset these higher expenses,» the filing read.

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

«This is the highest reading since 2007 and suggests that employers will continue to face wage pressure in order to attract and keep good employees.»

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

What's more, the news - reading public has grown accustomed to announcements of multi-million-dollar investments over the last 15 years, a period of extremely active venture capital funding, which reached new highs in 2015.

British inflation stood at 2.3 percent in annual terms in the month of March, unchanged from the near four - year high seen in the February reading.

Youth in higher - income homes spend more time than disadvantaged kids in reading the news and searching out information online.

Sounds like a must - read for everyone who's struggled with awkwardness, in high school and beyond.

I read it in high school and have always carried the core ideas with me regarding the balance of power between nations, companies, industries, value chains, and people.

Jobs read «Autobiography of a Yogi» by Indian yoga guru Paramahansa Yogananda when he was in high school.

«A very high bar is set by using the word «Favorite,»» he wrote in a blog post that suggested several changes to Twitter's interface — including pictures and videos that are double - clickable to heart (à la Instagram), receipts when Tweets have been read, and a «Thank you bomb» feature that enables users with lots of followers to send mass gratitude notifications all at once.

A couple of weeks ago I read about the pillow online, which claimed to be so cool thanks to a knit fabric that has a higher heat transfer than most materials (ultra-cool knit polyethylene), and asked Helix if they could send us a pillow to try out in person.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

The doctor came up with the ground - breaking technique in 1974 after reading about the high rate of choking deaths in restaurants.

He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

Other amenities in the suite include seats that are wider than the average of 21 inches on existing Delta One classes (for competitive reasons, the airline did not release the specific width); roomy stowage compartments for shoes, headphones, and laptops; two consoles so passengers can comfortably spread out their drinks, reading materials, and laptops; and an 18 - inch - high resolution entertainment monitor, the largest among United States - based carriers, according to the airline, and bigger than the 11 - to 15 - inch monitors in Delta One classes.

After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high - tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille.

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.

Memory retention is also higher: Details of a memo read while treading will stick in your mind longer than they would if you glanced at them slumped at a sitting desk.

High - quality content remains one of the top ways to reach consumers in 2015, improving search rankings and bringing customers back to read more.

«We agree with her remarks about the high costs of living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where we will pay the same wage,» read a company statement, echoing CEO Stoppelman's comments on Twitter over the weekend that the cost of living in San Francisco was excessively high.

He remembered that when he read TheCatcher in the Rye, he didn't realize Holden Caulfield was in high school because he kept referring to his «prep» school.

As high - profile and as high - minded as My Brother's Keeper is, though, it is also sprawling in scope, from early - childhood health screenings to reading programs to efforts to reduce community violence.

«But it is hard to get a clear read on the market in a week defined by high absenteeism and low volume,» State Street's Arone added.

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.

Because I read about high levels of unemployment and watch the occupiers protest in city after cit, but see countless «help wanted» signs at fast food restaurants and elsewhere looking for unskilled labor.

However, readings have regularly exceeded 500 micrograms since mid-December, with fireworks to help celebrate the Chinese new year driving PM2.5 concentrations to their second highest level in five years at the end of January.

IT WAS no surprise to read in January that an international survey has rated Perth's quality of living among the highest in the world.

When buying one, we suggest going for Paperwhite version over the original because it features a higher screen resolution, a built - in adjustable light for night or day reading, and a no - glare screen.

«And while the index hit highs of 53.5 — readings over 50 indicate expansion in activity while readings below indicate contraction — in both January and June, the index has been on a steady march lower through the summer,» he adds.

(By the way, as you read the conclusions keep in mind the authors are not talking just about high - tech entrepreneurs.

The 104.7 March reading, down from 107.6 in February, remains among the highest in survey history and for the first time since 1982, taxes received the fewest number of votes as the number one problem.

(Update, Nov 2015: I am now the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, a seed investment fund that backs high - potential, underrepresented startup founders:) Read more about my journey in my other medium posts...)

My top three indicators include: a widening of high yield credit spreads; consecutive negative readings in the Chicago Fed National Activity Index; and a negatively sloped, or inverted, yield curve.

Bankrate's Financial Security Index itself has rebounded slightly, from 105.3 in July to 105.8 this month — the third highest reading ever.