Sentences with phrase «it in the past year»

Cryptocurrency trading saw a massive uptick in the past year as bitcoin's price skyrocketed to new highs.

The restaurant chain joined a handful of other small - cap stocks that have pushed up their stock price by announcing a link with Bitcoin or blockchain in the past year.

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds of precipitous declines seen in past years.

In the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percent.

Global stocks have been a hot trade for investors with the iShares MSCI emerging markets ETF (EEM) surging more than 15 percent in the past year, outperforming the S&P 500, which is up just 10 percent in that time.

In fact, 41 percent of the on - demand workers we surveyed had faced a personal financial hardship in the past year (such as a job loss, health emergency or unexpected major expense).

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

I think only in the past year or so, I've been like, no, everyone has their own journey, and they're doing their own thing.

He'll tell you how the insurance on his yacht has skyrocketed in the past year, or how he wishes his girlfriend would stop buying Birkin bags.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

Carbon Business Group has announced the purchase of Pursuit Group, adding to a number of acquisitions in the past year worth more than $ 2 million combined.

«We are losing count of the number of intraquarter guidedowns that the company has had in the past year plus, which is not what we, or anyone else, wants to see in what is ostensibly a growth stock.»

Although the set of indicators used is somewhat different than in past years, there is enough overlap to allow for some comparison.

I've always been an early morning person but in the past year I've taken my wake ups to pre-dawn.

Adding to this «modest growth» environment is the fact that Canada's retail market has become much more competitive in the past year.

Others, like Gosu.AI, have launched in the past year.

Sometimes that trouble makes for a grim longer - term outlook: General Electric, for example, has seen its stock fall 51 % in the past year, but stalled growth and a tangled web of liabilities from its former GE Capital unit make it a stock to be wary of.

In the past year, she notes, Bombardier allocated $ 1.3 billion to capital expenditures for expanded manufacturing facilities.

«That's why, in the past years, we have invested a lot of effort to communicate with operators, distributors, and partners.

But in the past year, the company has been dropping more and more hints that men will play a much larger role in its future.

Still, the stock is down 15 % in the past year, and the broader market hasn't yet been won over.

In the past year, the rumor mill has sputtered out names including entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, and rapper Kanye West.

Time Warner has been slimming down, shedding both AOL and Time Warner Cable in the past year to focus on creative content rather than the businesses that deliver it to customers.

He also illustrates how in the past year the stock has held a series of lows around the $ 300 level before finally breaking «on heavy volume» down to $ 252 earlier in April.

He was wrong: The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has rallied more than 20 percent in the past year.

Alibaba's U.S. - traded shares have climbed more than 50 percent in the past year.

Although it sounds like this story is still far from over, here are some of the key moments in the rise, fall, and pivot Theranos has gone through in the past year.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

Writer Max Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

Weston said his family, who also controls Loblaw's parent company, George Weston Ltd. (TSX: WN), has undergone some major changes in the past year, including the $ 12.4 - billion blockbuster acquisition of the Shoppers Drug Mart chain.

In fact, Dovden's 35 lawsuits account for more than a third of patent litigation filed in Federal Court in the past year.

Is it necessarily the currency that justifies the same status as it has in the past years?

Media exposure via national, local, and industry / trade outlets — in past years, the Inc. 5000 list has received over 35 million media impressions

In the past year, for instance, Berkeley, California, passed a law taxing sugary drinks, and San Francisco now requires warning labels on bottles.

Google's stock has made some impressive headway in the past year, gaining 19 % over the 12 months ending in September 2013.

One of the reasons the IMF has changed its tune on fiscal policy is because research it has done in the past year shows that borrowing to pay for infrastructure pays for itself over the longer term by generating faster economic growth.

In the past year we landed several major national accounts, and our top client this year to date has been American Express.

In past years, many other stores have taken the marathon shopping route.

McCaughey is the fourth CEO from Canada's Big Five banks in the past year to announce his retirement, following Gordon Nixon of Royal Bank (TSX: RY), Rick Waugh of ScotiaBank (TSX: BNS) and Ed Clark of TD (TSX: TD).

(On the other hand, Berkshire's biggest loser, Liberty Media (lmck), down 53 % in the past year, was Weschler's doing as well, according to the same analysis.)

In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of people who did sell in past years because they thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch from the sidelines as prices continued to march upward.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

Unlike in past years, says Stewart, most were just getting off the ground in 2005, with baseline revenues that barely surpassed the minimum requirement of $ 50,000.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

Lunch container sales in Canada have seen double - digit increases for each of the past four years and more than a 40 % hike in the past year alone, says Hugh McDonald, executive vice-president of sales and marketing for Canadian Thermos Products.

Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

The Canadian drugmaker has faced intense political and investor scrutiny in the past year for its steep drug price increases and unorthodox use of a specialty pharmacy.

OnDeck Capital (NYSE: ONDK), a company that issues loans to small businesses, has plummeted 65 % in the past year.

Demandware's shares, which have fallen about 21 percent in the past year, were up 52.1 percent at $ 73 in premarket trading on Wednesday.