Sentences with phrase «last year we fixed»

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«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a failure.

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.

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Even last year, despite all the efforts by Beijing to rein in its stimulus efforts, investment in fixed assets was the fastest - growing segment of the economy.

«I don't want to set it aside and explain it,» she told Fortune's Geoff Colvin last year, «because I think it has uncovered some things in our company that it's critical we challenge ourselves to change and to fix.»

The figures reveal that the number of fixed - period exclusions rose by 12 % last year, with permanent exclusions up 15 % year - on - year.

Apple supported it with new versions of MacOS through 2015 and issued software fixes to it through the end of last year.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation's survey, turkey dinner and all the fixings will cost about $ 49.48, or just 28 cents more than it did last year.

A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed mortgage applications last week rose to their highest level in nine weeks as interest rates on 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages hovered at their lowest level in more than a year.

Today the company has fixed it convincingly: Mobile represented two - thirds of Facebook's $ 12.5 billion in revenue last year.

Fixed - asset investment, the principal driver of Chinese growth, recorded anemic growth at 1.05 % and 1.03 % in January and February, respectively (compared with 1.49 % and 1.42 % in the same period last year).

The sentiment echoes comments from Apple's CEO Tim Cook, who said last week that U.S. tax reform is sorely needed and should have been fixed years ago.

The market mostly reacted positively to Crown's latest results on February 22, for which it stressed the recovery in its VIP business in Melbourne and its interim 30 cents dividend is now regular policy after an announcement last year that it will now pay a fixed full - year dividend of 60 cents per share.

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday the average for the benchmark 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage was 3.46 percent, up from 3.43 percent last week.

Last week: After six months of short - term fixes, Congress finally passed a bill to fund the government through the remainder of the fiscal year.

Consumer complaints to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom - television Services (CCTS) increased by a whopping 73 % compared to the same period last year — an increase that must be investigated and fixed, said the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) today.

The fees on 30 - year and 15 - year fixed - rate mortgages were unchanged from last week at 0.5 point and 0.4 point, respectively.

The average rate on the 30 - year fixed at its highest level in more than four years and is not expected to fall back as it did last year.

With the spring buying season underway, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgages slipped to 4.55 percent from 4.58 percent last week.

Let's suppose he's been running a portfolio of 25 % US stocks, 25 % international stocks and 50 % fixed income (I can't tell you how many portfolios have looked like this in real life for the last few years).

Last year, fixed annuities tended to be the beneficiaries of product tweaks and it will be «interesting to watch» to see if product development shifts back to VAs in 2018, he said.

Traditional fixed annuity sales in the fourth quarter were $ 755.0 million; down 4.8 % when compared to the previous quarter, and down 27.1 % when compared with the same period last year.

Athene announced it would reinsure $ 19 billion worth of fixed and fixed indexed annuity liabilities from Voya Financial in December, and earlier last year also entered into a flow reinsurance deal with Lincoln Financial.

The apparel market's evolution is evidenced by the fact that both Amazon and the apparel subscription service, Stitch Fix, were among the top 10 retailers last year in terms of online apparel wallet share, according to NPD's online receipt mining service, Checkout TrackingSM E-commerce.

Moka, the Bengal tiger cub rescued from a smuggler last year, underwent surgery Tuesday to fix an intestinal obstruction, adhesions and other complications that apparently arose from his earlier life.

Global fixed income trading revenue declined 11 pct last year, Coalition data shows.

According to Freddie Mac, the government - controlled buyer and seller of mortgage securities, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed mortgage dropped to 3.48 % last week (ending July 1, 2016).

At Societe Generale, named this year's global Best in Interest - Rate Derivatives, sales of these products grew substantially in 2016, making them the biggest contributor to a 42 % increase in revenues from fixed income, currencies and commodities trading during the third quarter of last year.

According to the weekly market survey conducted by Freddie Mac, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed home loan has been hovering below 4 % for the last few weeks.

Last week, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed home loan rose to 4.04 %, up from 3.87 % the week before.

While variable lending rates have remained unchanged since the end of last year, fixed housing and fixed small business lending rates have both fallen from their peaks late last year, by around 20 and 15 basis points respectively.

The average rate for a 30 - year fixed mortgage dropped by 0.11 % from last week to this week, according to Freddie Mac's long - running industry survey.

Coking coal and iron ore prices, which are mostly fixed in US dollars, fell in SDR terms as the US dollar depreciated late last year.

Today's 15 - year fixed mortgage rates are also slightly higher than last week, according to Freddie Mac's weekly market survey.

This plan enables you to have fixed or graduated payments, and it can last up to 25 years.

Despite a drop in fixed indexed annuity sales last year, the president of American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. said Friday the company has no intention of steering sales away from the independent agent channel.

Last week, the Bankrate.com U.S. Home Mortgage 30 - year fixed rate national average stood at 4.50 %.

Almost seven in 10 homeowners responding to an online survey said they have fixed mortgages and are paying a lower interest rate (3.52 per cent) than last year (3.64 per cent).

Since the 1970s when the Bretton Woods fixed - currency regime ended and currencies began floating, a typical dollar rally has lasted roughly six to seven years.

These nearly zero interest rates is what drove many U.S. and European fixed income investors towards higher income opportunities in their own home countries — so, they bought more equities, REITs and dividend growth stocks over the last 5 years, driving up valuations (though the February correction has brought back some sanity.)

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate was 3.54 percent just before last November's election.

We'd talked with Lonsdale last year about 8VC, whose mantra is simply «The world is broken; let's fix it.»

«I'm sure he will have even bigger following» after last year's call, Rod Davidson, the head of fixed - income at Alliance Trust Plc, an HSBC client overseeing $ 5.2 billion, said by telephone from Dundee, Scotland.

In August of last year, China shifted the market mechanism for setting its daily fixing, saying it would set the spot rate based on the previous day's closing, theoretically allowing market forces to play a greater role in its direction.

Last week, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed home loan shot up by nearly 40 basis points (0.40 %).

Over the last few months, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed mortgage loan has been hovering below 4 %.

A notable trend change occurred in corporate bond ETFs (the leading fixed income category last year), which saw an $ 8 billion net outflow during the first 3 months of 2018.

30 - year fixed - rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.32 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week ending February 8, 2018, up from last week when it averaged 4.22 percent.