Sentences with phrase «last year heading»

However, we have seen this movie before — spending was strong last year heading into spring and gas prices started to spike, effectively killing what was expected to be the start of a strong recovery.

What point of «House of Cards» were you at when the penny dropped and you realized that Christina Gallagher, the aide / lover to Corey Stoll «s tragic Congressman Peter Russo, was played by the same actress who last year headed up Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard «s gloriously enjoyable meta - horror «The Cabin In The Woods ``?

Not exact matches

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

Small business loans at Wells Fargo rose 18 percent last year, says Lisa Stevens, head of small business banking for the San Francisco - based bank.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

A new arena for the big club is the centrepiece of a plan from a Melynk - headed group that won the right to redevelop the capital's LeBreton Flats in last year.

Revenue was up 18 percent last year and head count 35 percent, and the company has been on the Inc. 5000 a remarkable nine years in a row.

After a hiatus last year, I'll be heading back to the Burn in a few days, so check Business Insider for full coverage.

For most of that time, he headed up marketing for Nintendo of America, before moving back north last year to take the reins of the Canadian operation.

The strategic review will be headed by Timothy Dattels, who joined BlackBerry's board last year and is a senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms.

David Lewis, head Americas trader at $ 800 billion asset manager Franklin Templeton, for example, found out that Russia had invaded Crimea last year well before the news hit major media because he'd been monitoring Twitter.

The group and a city councilman said at a press conference that they had uncovered evidence that Kushner Companies, the developer headed by Kushner until early last year, had falsified more than 80 work permits involving 34 buildings in New York.

Despite these challenges, Nakanishi is confident of surpassing last year's earnings result, noting that the direction the company is heading remains «very appropriate.»

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

It's the first car from Fisker Coachbuild, which was co-founded last year by Henrik Fisker, the former head of design at Aston Martin.

Last year, he was named head of the international Financial Stability Board.

In last year's, The Economist noted that the ranking had been conducted before the city's downtown riot, which it said was likely to cause the city to «head downward in subsequent iterations.»

Sagawa headed the ministry division that submitted the documents before he was tapped as tax agency chief in July, an appointment critics saw as a reward for his efforts to diffuse the issue with his statements to parliament last year.

Gilles Labbe, the former head of aerospace cluster Aero Montreal and CEO of F - 35 supplier Heroux - Devtek (TSX: HRX), last year warned that thousands of jobs would be at risk if lead manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman remove work destined to be completed in Canada by members of the global supply chain.

Formerly based in Portland, Ore., as vice president of North American brand marketing, Liedtke moved to Germany in 2006 and last year became global head of the brand, a huge step up.

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

The worst crisis in the 54 - year history of Le Château Inc. came to a head last June, when the only analyst still covering the company slapped a Sell rating on its stock.

New RBC head Peter McKay was chosen last December and takes over in August, while at TD Bharat Masrani will have had over a year to prepare to succeed Ed Clark.

Lawmaker Anatoly Aksakov, a member of the Duma finance committee and head of the Russian Banking Association, told TASS news agency Promsvyazbank «s bailout would not affect the wider banking sector, and was the last time such a measure would be taken this year.

Last year's budget was the «ostrich budget,» wherein Flaherty jammed his head in the sand while punting all the pain for dealing with the deficit down the road.

This wasn't a problem when the cryptocurrency was heading «to the Moon,» as enthusiasts were fond of putting it, but since late last year, Bitcoin has largely been heading in the other direction.

According to Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine's recently released list of the top - earning hedge fund managers, the top 25 hedge fund heads earned $ 11 billion in total last year.

Last year, Giles Keating, the former head of research and deputy global CIO at Credit Suisse, and his team reviewed data on major geopolitical events in the previous 100 - plus years and found that stocks generally bounced back up after these shocks.

Last year, the company added 70 employees to its roster (head count is one signal number crunchers say indicates growth) for a current total of more than 250.

The outbreak of Zika, a mosquito - borne disease, was detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems.

Questions swirled around Wheeler's lobbying past when he was first given the job last year; will anyone trust him now after his wrong - headed (and bull - headed) championing of a potentially devastating policy?

Last August, a 15 - year - old in Mountville, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot in the head by a friend who was showing him a 9 mm pistol he had swiped from a vehicle a day earlier.

The Obama administration's move last year to integrate women into front - line combat roles may get reversed by the next Pentagon head selected by President - elect Donald Trump.

Anthony Armstrong, who was a managing director and head of technology in the Americas, left the firm for Morgan Stanley last year, as first reported by The New York Times.

A second source with leadership ties said Wang's rise had been fast - tracked in the same vein as other allies whose careers had overlapped with Xi in Fujian, most notably the Beijing party secretary Cai Qi, and Huang Kunming, who was promoted to head the central propaganda department late last year.

Last year, the bank lost nearly $ 7 billion and its capital ratios have been headed in the wrong direction for the past few years.

The former chief strategist to President Donald Trump and former head of Breitbart News said last year during a book interview that he would have preferred Yellen stay on to run the central bank but held his tongue as the president looked elsewhere.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

Our proprietary installed base analysis shows that the installed base grew by over 35 % last year to 600mn and we believe that, with growth in the installed base headed towards 715mn by the end 2017, an average replacement rate of around 30 months, and high retention rates, units could grow 9 % to 232.7 mn in 2017.

«Depleting reserves in order to protect the current level of USD / MYR could prove expensive as we head into Fed lift - off later this year,» analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note last week, noting that the country has among the lowest coverage of external liabilities in Asia.

It reported over $ 22 billion in worldwide revenue last year and its CEO, Daniel Amos, has been heading the company for over a quarter of a century.

Trump has also butted heads with U.S. intelligence agencies over their conclusion that Russia interfered with last year's U.S. elections.

When he left Nike at the end of last year, some scratched their heads; they continued scratching them when he moved to a digital currency startup.

Despite heading the largest fitness chain in Canada, GoodLife's chief David Patchell - Evans launched this low - cost club last year, recognizing the market in no - frills fitness.

Both Sony and Microsoft released their respective new machines, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, in November with Nintendo getting a head start last year with the Wii U.

Erik Solheim, the head of UN Environment, said that while the last few years had seen an enormous uptake in renewable energy, a redoubling of efforts was needed «to ensure these new low - carbon technologies are able to thrive.

It is unclear what special projects Deneve will be overseeing at Apple, which is still looking for someone to head its retail operations following the ouster of John Browett last year after less than a year on the job.

Repeated head injuries such as these concussions have been linked to eventual brain damage — a fact that the NFL only publicly admitted last year.

Her promotion last year to head of merchandising for the retailing juggernaut's $ 37 billion apparel and housewares division means she may well have the largest shopping budget of any woman alive.