Sentences with phrase «large points base»

Building up a large points base quickly is doable with this card as spending $ 4,000 during your first three months as a cardholder will earn you a 50,000 - point bonus.

Not exact matches

At one point he owned 159 Little Caesars Pizza stores, making him the Detroit - based chain's largest franchisee.

The largest overestimate of real GDP growth occurred for Q3: 2007, where the January 2008 estimate was 219 basis points above the current estimate.

Even before Wednesday's decision, five of the country's largest banks hiked five - year fixed rates 15 basis points to 5.14 per cent last week.

In a recent research note, he pointed to the possibility, based on Apple's reported hiring of a large number of auto industry veterans, of Apple changing gears entirely and building a car.

The numerical index upon which the survey is based fell 28 points into negative territory — the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2010.

While Reddit's move is controversial — skeptics point out that salaries may be based on an applicant's previous pay, which may or may not have been fair — it's nonetheless a concerted effort to lessen the disparity, and one that seems to be raising awareness for the issue at large.

With the advent of the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS), the target for the overnight rate was defined as the midpoint of the band, or 25 basis points below the Bank Rate.

His pursuit of the Times certainly is, of course, but the larger idea that at some point in the not - too - distant future an absurdly wealthy Chinese citizen will become the proprietor of a U.S. - based media property, digital or otherwise, is a very real possibility.

Inman spoke to the CEOs of two large MLSs — Lisle, Illinois - based Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) and San Diego - based Sandicor — to discover the terms that were and were not sticking points in negotiations with the portal behemoth.

Indexed mutual funds averaged a cost of 13 basis points for all plans — ranging from 10 basis points to 26 basis points, the larger plans of course paying less.

He points to Santa Clara, California - based Intel Corporation's decision to build a large research and development (R&D) facility in DuPont, Washington, about 10 miles south of Tacoma, as an example.

The maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google's Android - based devices — Samsung, Motorola and HTC — for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing out «slavish copying» of design and «look and feel.»

For all plan sizes, total plan costs averaged 89 basis points in 2013, down from 102 basis points in 2009; larger plans experienced significantly lower costs than the average for all plans.

Data shows that while participants in larger plans clearly benefit from scale, some small plans managed to pay significantly less in costs than others: costs for plans in the $ 1 million to $ 10 million segment ranged widely, from 68 basis points to 153 basis points.

But while large - cap earnings have been dented by the dollar's strength, Bloomberg data show that the large - cap S&P 500 Index was outperforming the small - cap Russell 2000 by more than 300 basis points (bps) through late November.

Although this large North American industrial distributor might be «down from prior guidance of 300 basis points, the company stated that the reduced guidance implies fiscal year 2016 revenue growth of between 3 percent and 6 percent,» said Nicholas Wesley Yee, a certified public accountant and director of research at Gradient Analytics.

On May 17, the Dow Jones Industrial Index (which tracks 30 of the largest U.S. - based companies) fell about 370 points, or nearly 2 percent.

The Dow Jones Industrial Index (an index that tracks 30 large, established, U.S. - based companies across all sectors) fell more than 100 points after his speech.

In these types of ventures, the gross loan portfolio appears large — but consider that the actual net revenue or return from these businesses is anywhere from a tenth of a basis point, topping out at 1 - 2 percent.

«From a marketplace perspective we're scaling fast, adding 8 million SKUs over the last three months alone,» said CEO Doug Mcmillon, adding that e-commerce contributed 50 basis points to third quarter U.S. comparable sales — its largest contribution yet.

The yield's maturity rose 10.5 basis points for the week, the largest such gain since Feb. 2.

Stephen Tapp (@stephentapp) has < a href ="https://twitter.com/stephentapp/status/638833366888898561"> pointed out that a number of large industries (transportation, wholesale trade, construction, manufacturing) are also negative on a year - to - date basis.

An interesting fact about this trading approach is that a lot of financial institutions are basing their positions on the same pivot point and buying and selling large volumes, which has a direct impact on the price changes of the assets.

On a positive note, the largest tech giant's decline hasn't been a huge drag on the other crucial stocks like Amazon and Alphabet, and the resilience of the momentum leaders points could be the basis of another leg higher in the post-crash recovery.

The world's largest ETF, the SPDR Gold Shares, charges 40 basis points of the net asset value each year.

To alleviate the slowdown and offset the liquidity drain due to continuing capital outflows the People's Bank of China, the central bank, undertook further easing measures, cutting the reserve requirement ratio by a further 50 basis points to 17 % and 15 % for large and small banks respectively at the beginning of March.

Similarly, the Swedish Riksbank has cut its policy rate by a total of 75 basis points (in two steps) to 2 per cent, in the face of a larger - than - expected fall in inflation.

The weighted average of the MERs charged by the component ETFs works out to about 21 basis points per year, which means the Sleepy Portfolio costs about $ 275 every year or about 75 cents a day — less than half the cost of a large double - double these days.

This fall has been larger than the fall in the United States so that the spread between 10 - year yields in the two countries has narrowed from about 60 basis points to about 20 basis points.

Point Loma is highly undervalued and has a large concentrated land base with a large, multi-zoned drilling inventory to fuel growth for many years.

Coal fell to just 27.6 % of US utility - scale power generation in December, and the spread between it and natural gas - fired generation widened to 616 basis points, the largest yet seen, Continue Reading

For example, one of the largest sudden increases in mortgage rates occurred after the 2016 US Presidential Election — 37 basis points, or.37 percent in one week.

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

Perhaps your deferred taxes have grown so large as a result of a very small cost basis that selling and switching into an investment you expect to earn even three percentage points or more over the next decade will actually cost you money as a result of the principle value lost to the IRS.

It has beaten the S&P 500 by three full percentage points a year, on an annualized basis since inception, making it the number one fund in its Large Blend category which includes over a thousand other funds.

Together with other factors — such as strong underlying demand based on demographic trends, favourable employment conditions, and the large amount of work still in the pipeline — this points to the current downturn in dwelling investment being relatively mild compared with past experience.

Yet when the markets have not performed as well — such as during the 2000 - 2002 tech - market bust and the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis — our research shows that US large - cap active managers outperformed their passive peers by 471 basis points and 100 basis points, respectively.

The iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSE: EWZ) is up more than 5 percent year - to - date, putting the largest Brazil exchange traded fund ahead of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index by nearly 400 basis points.

Previous analysis illustrated how monthly increases of rates on purchases of newly built homes in excess of two basis points, considered large in historical terms, were associated with, on average, a decline in sales of new homes over the same month.

My point is that those opposed to terminating a small group of cells, or even a larger fetus that is not even yet self - aware will base their opposition on the supposed views of some mythological creature that, according to their Iron Age Palestinian mythology, caused a grown adult to be tortured and killed in a grotesque, barbaric fashion.

It doesn't seem that there is any point of view that Muslims should be accepting of Americans (or maybe I just never get to see that media because I don't live in a nation that has a large Muslim base).

At least in part to deal with such points, Eigen more recently pointed out that each biological genome is not a single sequence of bases on DNA (a unique «point in sequence space») but rather a fairly large number of variant sequences that have quite similar — even indistinguishable — biological functions.11 b, 11 c Most of these functionally similar sequences differ from the «wild - type» sequence in only one or a few locations, but some have fairly large discrepancies.

When the list is complete, a large majority of the selection will have an impressive rating of 90 points or higher — based on Suckling's own 100 - point scale.

I usually go the pavlova route when I have leftover egg whites, especially because they work with anywhere from 5 - 8 egg whites by adjusting the sugar (you could use more, but at that point it's better to layer than have one large base).

From September to mid-October, the farmers» markets of Vladivostok were filled with fresh peppers: green, red, and yellow bells; large green and red tomato - shaped peppers, with a mild but rich flavor; long, sweet peppers much like Hungarian ones, pale yellow - green or bright yellow in color; very dark green peppers, similar to small bells but pointed at the base; triangular - shaped peppers like Spanish pimientos de piquillos, ranging in color from pale green to dark green to bright red; long, wide, red and green peppers, similar in size, shape, and taste to New Mexico ones; long, thin, very hot, medium - green peppers; and long, pointed, bright red or jalapeño - green peppers, very much like de Aguas.

Sure, you could gamble on boring things like the point spread or the game MVP — bets that can be based on stuff like «stats» and «logical reasoning» — but it's way more fun to risk large sums of money on the wholly unpredictable: the number of times the announcers say «12th Man,» the color of the postgame Gatorade shower, whether Michael Crabtree mentions Richard Sherman on Twitter.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

It's got to the point where we can't even have and Arsenal, web based fans forum without dissent rearing it's head and growing what's already a large wedge.

Big 12 teams are often stereotyped — because of the sheer number of plays and max - tempo offenses, defenses have no choice but to give up large numbers of raw yards and points — but on a per - play basis, they often check out well.