Sentences with phrase «higher than a week»

A week after the Parkland shooting, search interest stayed higher than the week after any other recent shooting.

For eHarmony, the number of registrations was 3.5 times higher than the week immediately before Christmas.

The average price nationally was $ 2.06, half a cent higher than a week ago.

The average rate on the 30 - year fixed is three basis points higher than a week ago.

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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?»

Trump's move comes less than a week after a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead.

Two more years of economic pain Australia faces a longer period of low growth, higher debt and higher unemployment than predicted just four weeks ago as the wave of job losses gathered strength, with clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands axing 1850 staff across the country.

Federal Labor MP Pat Conroy will demand to know why Australian banks have higher returns on equity than those in other countries when he questions bank chief executives attending a Canberra hearing next week.

The Dow, S&P 500 and Russell 2000 hit record highs this week as investors put the congressional testimony of former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the back burner and await what could be the fourth rate hike in more than a decade on Wednesday.

Sterling fell more than 1 percent against the dollar to $ 1.25 after reaching a seven - week high in early European trading.

Several high - profile entrepreneurs, such as Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson, have publicly declared that they can get all the work required for their start - up to succeed done in a moderate 40 hours a week, leaving, presumably, enough time for exercise, family, friends, and fitness (or at least more than two of those).

But even with the sharp drop, the stock's price remains higher than it was just six weeks ago.

Canadian rock icon Neil Young's Pono digital music device has garnered rave reviews since a high - profile launch at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, last week, and more than doubled its fundraising goal of US$ 800,000 on Kickstarter.

As Fortune reported last week, the nation now has more breweries than ever before: 4,144 in 2015, exceeding a historic high set in 1873.

In the week after receiving a refund, the overall level of health care spending was 60 percent higher than in a typical week over the 100 days before.

U.S. jobs data lit the fire at the end of last week, with higher - than - expected wage increases prompting inflationary concerns.

Shares in Tim Hortons have been trading sharply higher in recent weeks after reporting better than expected financial results and raising its outlook for the year.

Poland's 10 - year government bond yield rose 7 basis points to 3.14 percent, its highest level in four weeks, rising more than U.S. and German yields which it often tracks.

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.

Bitcoin has been bottoming out over the last week, $ 500 higher than its lows in February of $ 6,000.

Wages in Gildan's factories are still higher than those paid in Chinese factories: the average wage of a garment worker in Honduras is about $ 100 a week — four times what a Chinese worker makes.

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.

A study published last April suggested that in less than a week, a diet high in saturated fat can reduce your muscles» ability to turn the sugar in food into energy.

This week's stock market plunge is potentially more serious than these other events, as stocks are now down 12 percent compared to the market high reached in May.

Overall, the deal values EMC around 27 % higher than where it was trading before news of Dell's interest first broke last week.

By the end of Monday, with the S&P 500 itself down, more than one - fifth of the stocks in the index were down at least 20 percent from their 52 - week highs, while two - thirds were off more than 10 percent.

The attack shut down most of the studio's network for more than a week and hackers have released sensitive data over the Internet, including employee salaries and Social Security numbers along with high - quality digital versions of several unreleased films.

The count, up for a fourth straight week, is more than 80 % higher than the low reached in May 2016.

U.S. filings for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week to the highest in almost three months amid holidays that may have played a role in the increase, Labor Department figures showed Thursday.

Apple's stock hit correction territory Friday after falling more than 10 percent from its 52 - week high, but the massive tech company isn't alone in its gloomy performance.

Several weeks after his comments, in early February, stock markets stateside fell more than 10 percent from recent record highs, with major U.S. and global stock indexes moving into correction territory.

The count of active oil rigs in the US for the fourth straight week last week and is more than 80 % higher than the low reached in May 2016.

Several major U.S. companies have dropped their associations with the National Rifle Association in the last few days, less than two weeks after a 19 year old with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people in a high school in Florida.

Last week, the Labor Department reported a much higher - than - expected jump in consumer prices for January.

A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed mortgage applications last week rose to their highest level in nine weeks as interest rates on 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages hovered at their lowest level in more than a year.

There have been many studies published over the years that working less results in higher productivity (hint: the optimal number is less than 40 hours per week).

In just the last week, stellar has leaped more than 300 percent, climbing into the top 10 coins and rising as high as sixth place.

Open - and - reply rates were markedly higher on the weekends than during the week: a 45.8 percent reply rate overall, versus 39.1 percent during the week, across all emails.

Nutanix (ntnx), which makes cloud - related software, went public last week at $ 16, more than doubled in the first day of trading, and hit a high of $ 46.78 on October 3.

Lower low than last week's hit intraday Monday, then higher highs each day ending in weak close.

The question has been asked by nearly every Apple watcher following a brutal two - week stretch that began with a worse than expected earnings report, quickened after the ouster of a high - profile executive and culminated with news this week that it had fallen behind competitor Samsung in the smartphone wars.

Applications to refinance a home loan, which usually fall when rates rise, eked out a 1 percent gain for the week and were nearly 2 percent higher than a year ago, when interest rates were lower.

The Saudi exchange has eased off from a more than two - year high hit last week and has been consolidating at current levels.

But because it was a smaller loss than a year earlier, showing the shrinking retailer is at least cutting costs efficiently as its core business dwindles, shares went up 5 % though they remain down 70 % from their 52 - week highs.

Volume was 5 percent higher than the same week a year ago.

Platinum was up 0.11 percent to $ 970.50 an ounce after touching a more than 3-1/2 - month peak at $ 970.50 and palladium was 0.8 higher percent to $ 1,098.97, off last week's record high of $ 1,105.70.

(Users pay back the advance on their next higher - than - normal check; using the app costs $ 3 per week after a 30 - day trial.)

Tantech Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ: TANH) priced at the bottom of its $ 4 to $ 6 expected range and more than doubled to post an opening day high of $ 9.50 before closing the week at $ 6.79.

The Florida state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school.

This week's survey showed money - market accounts, which are savings accounts that often pay higher rates than conventional savings accounts and come with limited check writing privileges, are currently paying an average of 0.14 percent interest.