Sentences with phrase «hit another benchmark by»

The film will also hit another benchmark by the week's end as Last Jedi aims to surpass Spider - Man: Homecoming «s $ 880 million and enter the Top 5 global earners of 2017.

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NEW YORK, April 25 - The dollar hit a four - month high on Wednesday, boosted by the benchmark U.S..

NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters)- The dollar hit a four - month high on Wednesday, boosted by the benchmark U.S. Treasury yield, which continued its rise after breaking through 3 percent on Tuesday for the first time in four years.

«The cycle can be very slow,» says Sweet, who predicts we'll see consistent bumps of about 25 basis points each quarter in 2016, and that, ultimately, the Federal Reserve's benchmark rate will hit about 2 percent by the end of 2017.

With the government removing fuel subsidies and oil marketers refusing to sell diesel at pump prices, the cost of doing business in Nigeria is expected to double over the next three months especially as oil hits a benchmark price of $ 38 per barrel with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicting a further drop to $ 20 per barrel by mid-year.

Fiscal watchdogs have questioned this practice, but the Cuomo administration has countered their claims by noting it hit its benchmark for five consecutive years.

While the Connecticut - based firm was ordered by the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to expand access to 145,000 underserved homes statewide as part of their merger agreement with Time Warner, the firm didn't hit the mandated benchmarks and was subsequently fined last September.

The percentage of Hispanic students hitting the literacy benchmark by grade three increased from 63 to 73 percent, English Language Learners jumped from 68 to 75 percent and students eligible for free and reduced lunch rose from 57 to 67 percent from 2014 - 15 to 2015 - 16.

In mathematics, internal assessment revealed that 36 percent of students hit proficiency benchmarks in the beginning of the year, and by the spring, 84 percent were proficient.

Music units delivered by Pearson and AQA both hit this benchmark.

The Korean - built hatchback is powered by an 85 - bhp 1.2 - liter 4 - cylinder engine that promises to hit the 40 mpg highway benchmark set by others in the class.

Of course, this puts the Rapide S in a slightly higher horsepower bracket than the Spur, which means the Rapide S will beat the Spur to the 60 mph benchmark by 0.1 seconds and is said to be able to hit 203 mph — 13 mph faster than the Spur.

It's been nearly a year since the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX line of tablets hit the streets, and if leaked benchmarks are anything to go by, it looks like a next - generation Fire -LSB-...]

Profit - taking by passive investors could lead to the leadership stocks being sold and benchmarks falling, leading to more selling when stops are hit.

Since 2008, ClearCircle's been hit by a reduction in waste volumes, volatile & declining benchmark metal prices (even iron ore pricing is relevant, as a raw material input for steel), and a decline in margins as market competition's intensified.

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Intel's Navin Shenoy released the results of several benchmarks done internally, and the performance hit from the deeply rooted processor problem disclosed by Google researchers is mercifully small for modern chips.

Nearly a year ago Microsoft revealed that it had bested IBM by hitting a word error rate (WER) of 6.3 % (in the industry - standard Switchboard speech recognition benchmark), dropping that to 5.9 % just a month later — and at the weekend the firm announced that it's now achieved a WER of 5.1 %.