Sentences with phrase «last year we pointed»

Back in July of last year I pointed out that in a world where official short - term interest rates are close to zero, some short - term market interest rates are also going to be very close to zero, and that, in such cases, interest - rate dips below zero could occur as a result of insignificant price fluctuations.

«When handing Canada the Colossal Fossil last year we pointed to the unfair advantage in this competition that the carbon doping of the tar sands is providing for Canada since the Harper government's tar sands addiction determines its abysmal approach to climate policy.

We need 12 pts from the remaining 15 pts just to equal last years points tally.

In 2013 the Lord Speaker suggested that «if we don't reform and shrink our numbers, the Lords will collapse under its own weight»; last year she pointed out that debates are «coming under increasing time pressure as more members wish to speak, all to the detriment of our ability to hold the government to account» (pay wall).

In another notable case, a U.S. nuclear expert last year pointed to satellite images that appeared online showing China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine.

«The decision to run through 2012 was motivated by the good performance of the LHC last year pointing to the possibility of good physics by staying at this energy for two years of running,» he says.

A separate study published November last year pointed to the waning presence of the Neanderthal genes in modern humans because of the removal of weak, deleterious genes from humans during natural selection.

This is a marketing trend in which Chemistry started when they launched several TV commercials in the last year pointing out eHarmony only matches heterosexual singles.

Last year I pointed out that coal consumption is flattening all over the world.

Not exact matches

Craig Fehr, Edward Jones's Canadian investment strategist, points out that every other sector besides utilities and telecoms posted double - digit gains last year.

Cyran, the Reuters columnist, pointed to quarterly mergers and acquisition (M&A) statistics from PricewaterhouseCoopers, showing that Canadian M&A volumes retreated 21 % compared to the same quarter last year.

Last year, a CMB Consumer Pulse survey pointed out that only half of smartphone users had heard of mobile payments.Of that half, only 8 percent are familiar with the technology.

That has prompted investors to take another look at the widening interest rate differential trends between the United States and Europe which hit the highest in nearly 30 years at 236 basis points last week, and protracted weakness in the greenback.

An Angus Reid poll of 799 British Columbians last October suggested 75 % felt it should be taxed and regulated rather than prohibited, up six percentage points from a year earlier.

Furthermore, while The Guardian says that vodka sales showed an uptick of 1.6 percent last year, the Wall Street Journal points out that sales of Smirnoff brand vodka were down eight percent between June and December.

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

Twenty percent of those surveyed said that using all of their earned vacation days in the next 12 months was a top priority, up seven points from last year.

Forty - eight percent of them used all their vacation time last year, up three percentage points from 2015.

Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

It may be a moot point in the end because European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, last year agreed to take a majority stake in the jet program and the two plan to build the aircraft in Alabama, where Airbus makes narrowbody passenger planes.

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.

That's down 4 percentage points from last year.

«But over the last years, it's become this really popular trend to the point where now it's a buzzword.

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

Statistics published in Forbes last year show that 66 % of all POS (point of sales) transactions are now made with either credit, debit or gift cards.

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

Cook battled furiously against that narrative, pointing out that about 500 million simple feature phones were sold last year.

Noah Mintz, the owner of Lacquer Channel Mastering in Toronto, wrote in Professional Sound magazine last year that Landr «misses the point» of mastering.

For instance, in the 29 - storey Central Point towers, built three years ago, a handful of tenants finally moved in last fall, according to a property manager.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Similar articles appear every year (indeed, we at Fortune published one just last month) and while technically accurate, they strike me as missing the point.

The boiling point was due sooner or later, Diebert says, because eventually some insiders — such as the NSA's William Binney, who last year spilled the beans on Stellar Wind, and PRISM's Edward Snowden — would find that they could no longer stomach what they were doing.

Last year, she cut those costs by using credit card reward points and frequent flyer miles to book flights, hotels and rental cars.

The two - year yield touched 2.500 percent, which was last seen in September 2008 before subsiding to 2.483 percent, up 1 basis point on the day.

Last week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply - chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»

Last week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»

Last year, The Economist said Vancouver's fall from grace was due to increased congestion, a point of contention for many Canadians, due to the the magazine citing closures on the Malahat highway on Vancouver Island as an example.

Last year, when the Fed hinted that it was going to stop buying bonds, tapering its quantitative easing, bond yields jumped nearly 2 % points in just a few days.

«Last year from a reported revenue point of view, we had a positive revenue as a consequence of our credit spreads widening.

To get that point across, McDonald's spent roughly $ 1 billion in U.S. advertising alone last year, according to Kantar Media.

Others pointed to Dallas Cowboys rookie Jaylon Smith, who was projected to be a first - round pick before tearing his ACL in last year's Rose Bowl with Notre Dame.

That's a 12 - point improvement from last year's poll.

At some point, he said last year, we will all «have AR experiences every day, almost like eating three meals a day.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

«The global M&A frenzy from last year, along with all the bitcoin hype, really pushed these stocks into the stratosphere, to the point [of] five - year earnings growth forecasts of 25 percent.

He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».

There is an even greater jump in holiday party planning: 49 % are going to throw a party this year, a six - point increase from last year.

«The industrial capacity utilisation rate in the first three quarters reached 76.6 %, 3.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.»

Triggertrap has decided to do things a bit differently in 2015, designing a new four - point approach to vacations that significantly tweaks the simple «no tracking time off» policy that didn't work so well last year.