Sentences with phrase «largest point gain»

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On the London Metal Exchange, it was nickel's turn in the spotlight as it soared 12 per cent at one point to a more than three - year high of $ US15, 875 a tonne, before closing up 7.5 per cent at $ US15, 275, its largest daily gain in 6-1/2 years, Reuters reported.

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

But that small probability of a large loss matters here, particularly because as I've noted in numerous weekly comments, whatever gains that the market generates at this point are unlikely to be durable.

Reis» preliminary forecast for 2014 calls for office - vacancy rates to decline by roughly half a percentage point by year's end and asking rents to increase 2.8 %, the largest gain since 2007.

Now, to be fair, as Michael Sivy points out, it is precisely the large, bluechip stocks in the S&P 500 that have gained the most in the bull market's latest surge, which makes them vulnerable now.

The largest bonus earnings come from the 5 points per dollar you gain from money spent at office supply stores, including Staples, Office Max and Office Depot.

To a large extent this is an extension of the first point; one enjoys one's work if it gains the approval, appreciation, and respect of others, and seems to contribute to their well being.

This theme of gaining unexpected points against some of the larger teams was also demonstrated with home draws against both CSKA and Zenit.

While pointing out that the Commission was mindful of the enormous task of conducting elections in a country with the largest database in Africa, Prof. Yakubu also revealed some of the steps already taken by the Commission to consolidate democratic gains.

In 1966, also in Physical Review Letters, H. Boersch, J. Geiger and W. Stickel published a demonstration of electron energy gain spectroscopy, at a larger length scale, and pointed out that the measurement should depend upon the temperature of the sample.

The scientists also point out that this pattern of delayed development appears to have increased over evolutionary time, with our hominid ancestors presumably slowly gaining larger, more plastic brains relative to modern chimpanzees.

At some point, when it looked liked we were doing well, Pangar entered a rage - state where he somehow gained ice attacks and would call forth large ice crystals to box you into certain zones trapping you with Pangar with no room to escape.

English and Maths saw some of the largest falls, with the proportion of pupils gaining A * - C in English falling 5.2 per cent to 60.2 per cent and maths dropping 2.3 percentage points.

The national gain, at 7 points (or about 0.19 standard deviations), was only slightly larger than half Florida's rate.

In 2004, the first full year after flagging was abolished, «special» verbal scores jumped by eight points, the largest one - year gain since such scores were reported.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

This is greater than the two - point gain we found in Iceland and Greece, but it is within the standard error of these estimates, suggesting that the actual effect of reducing class size in Iceland and Greece could be as large as Krueger found in the United States.

As a result, schools in the smallest decile were much more likely to be among the top 25 schools at some point over the period: Even though their mean gains were not statistically different, the smallest schools were 23 times more likely to win a top - 25 award than the largest schools.

Since the employment gains attributable to each first - wave reform were roughly 2 percentage points larger for black males than for white males, states that implemented them closed the black - white employment gap by roughly 11 percent.

Likewise, in ongoing work using a larger sample of schools from around the state, preliminary results point to larger gains in urban schools, most of which embrace key elements of the No Excuses paradigm.

For an appreciation of just how large a gain this is, on the NAEP 10 points roughly equates to a grade level worth of progress.

In the meantime, the Bloomberg administration has some positive test scores under its belt already, including an impressive 9.9 percentage point gain for 4th graders on the state's most recent reading tests, the largest jump since the test was initiated in 1999.

Montera's Academic Performance Index — the state's primary metric for evaluating student achievement — had increased by 94 points in the previous three years, with the largest gain coming from black students.

Age 9 math: the largest gains in the past were from 1986 - 90 (8 points) and 1999 - 2004 (9 points)-- both 2 points per year gains.

Looking at a 4 - 5 point gain in Reading will look very small as it should given the large scale score range.

Eighth - and ninth - graders gained 4 percentage points in math, a significant shift in a district so large.

King was quick to point out that LA Unified's gains were among the best of any large district.

This past school year, Oak Hill had the largest gain in Guilford County Schools, increasing its student performance score by almost 20 points to over 65 percent.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

For charter school students in New York City, the gains in Math are particularly notable — over nine percentage points in proficiency (the largest gain for any group or sector)-- and underscored by data showing that 15 of the 20 highest gainers among New York States» high - poverty schools were charters (most located in NYC).

He also pointed to a series of studies that showed some substantial gains at New York City's small schools, which operate on the premise that they can give more attention to struggling students than the large schools they replace.

Until last year's flat scores, the city was experiencing gains of up to 7 points and 8 points a year, a trend the schools chief called «extraordinary» for a large, urban district.

Democrats also pointed out the pay scale seemed to slight newer and more experienced teachers, bundling some of its largest gains for teachers in the mid-ranges of experience.

The Broad plan points to three of LA Unified's largest charter operators that have received Broad largess — Green Dot Public Schools, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP Public Charter Schools — and says, «These organizations have turned our investments into significant academic gains for students.»

Three - peat: Chevrolet's Retail Share Grows for Third Consecutive Year — up 1 point since 2015 Buick and GMC Buck the Industry to Post Double - digit Retail Sales Gains in December GM December retail sales up 2 percent; retail share tops 18 percent Best Commercial and Government deliveries since 2008 and largest 2017 share gain of any automaker DETROIT — General Motors (NYSE: GM) delivered 3,002,241 vehicles in the United States in 2017, including more than 1.3 million trucks and 965,090 crossovers.

and that's why we've gained 1.2 points of market share this year in the large car segment.

GM gained 0.5 percentage points of U.S. retail market share during that timeframe, the largest retail share gain of any full - line automaker.

Of course as I pointed our earlier this month, as ebook sales increase the have to overcome larger hurdles to show such large percentage gains.

At this point, you have a large chance of gaining a blog following.

A key point to remember is that if an investor were to use stop losses some the of the larger losses could be avoided (large gains could potentially be avoided as well if a positions gets stopped out just before making large gains).

The largest decline this month was a 20.6 point drop on Oct. 8, which was followed by four days of gains totaling 55 points.

The huge difference between growth and value gains is the largest ever recorded, but the wide outperformance enjoyed by growth stocks will end at some point, and now might be the turning point where value stocks develop a winning streak of their own.

They hope to buy stock at low price points in order to reap the largest gains when the tide turns in favor of these stocks.

But by adroitly investing mostly in large, dividend - paying firms, Brian Rogers drove T. Rowe Price Equity Income (PRFDX) to a gain of nearly 4 % annualized over the period, an average of 5.4 percentage points per year ahead of Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index.

Also, the large cap energy equipment and services gains 54.5 basis points versus the gain of 34.9 basis points from large cap oil, gas and consumable fuels for every 1 % rise in oil price.

Large - caps have gains for the year, while many small - caps are barely positive, and, as Janet points out, this has led us to make some changes to NoLoad -LSB-...]

According to the index data from 1995, using the S&P GSCI Crude Oil index as the oil price proxy, for every 1 % rise in the price of oil, the large cap energy sector only gains about 37.5 basis points on average, while the mid - and small cap energy sectors gain 61.8 and 64.1 respective basis points.

A large and friendly, blue - eyed pointed cat with many color / pattern variations and an interesting and colorful history, Ragdolls have gained a lot of momentum in the last ten years or so.

Pet stores have earned every point of market share they've been able to gain — in large part by honing their product mixes to have very little overlap with competitors in other channels.

There has been a limit of 150 Qantas Points per month, so it has never been a way of gaining a large point balance.