Sentences with phrase «less than the gains»

It's not much less than we gained from the whole 2005 to 2010 effort.»

The sometimes - D schools experienced year - to - year changes in FCAT math scores that were only 2.4 points higher than all other Florida public schools, significantly less than the gains in both voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools.

Not exact matches

While he would have liked to have seen more investor - specific changes — «it's always nice to have more rather than less,» he says — he thinks it's unlikely we'll see any reductions in capital gain taxes or major increases in TFSA room until at least 2015, when the government says it can balance the budget by.

But she also stresses creating the environment for long - term economic growth, which is why a significant increase to the capital - gains tax for investments less than six years in duration is at the center of her plan.

After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.

As president of Y Combinator, of which he was part of the first class, Altman has gained popularity through a nuanced, founder - focused personality, less brash than many founders and venture capitalists, and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham famously said that «Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder [he] refer [s] to most when... advising startups.»

Judge writes that women essentially face a «no - win» situation: their pay is lower than that of their male counterparts to begin with, and they also have less to gain by adopting disagreeable behaviour.

Students pay less than $ 5 a month to gain access to all of Descomplica's content, with a free, less extensive model, also available.

Wednesday saw Facebook's only single - day gain for the week — shares closed up less than a percent after CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke days of silence and apologized for the incident.

Those posts also gained significant attention, though clearly were less damaging to Yelp than the post by Kim has been to WrkRiot.

Correction: Less than 0.04 percent of federal tax returns prepared and filed so far this year through Credit Karma have filed a Form 8949 for cryptocurrency gains and losses.

The study, titled «Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,» found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»

Revenue from Family Dollar — which has more stores than Dollar Tree — accounted for about 90 % of that gain; without that, Dollar Tree grew revenue by less than 9 %.

«Those monthly gains are simply unsustainable in an economy with a potential economic growth rate of less than 2 percent.»

When the market drops and some of your stocks are worth less than you originally paid, you can sell them and buy a similar (but not identical) fund, and this loss can be used to offset capital gains on other holdings — or even reduce your regular income taxes.

Consider this: In one recent study of more than 7,000 study participants, researchers found that those who ate high - protein diets had a 90 % greater risk of gaining more than 10 % of their body weight during the course of the study than those who ate less of the stuff.

That's because their investments, including those in their 401 (k) s and mutual funds, will gain far less than the investments from the past 30 years.

After reopening, it continued to climb and jumped as much as 22 percent before paring its gains and finishing the day up less than 9 percent.

«Stocks certainly look more attractive than bonds, but the case for stocks versus other asset classes is less clear... «So while returns may compress from the outsized gains we have seen over the last several years, we remain constructive on equities.

Nintendo's stock looks relatively affordable despite its recent gains, with its American depositary receipt trading at a price - to - earnings ratio that's less than half its five - year average.

Sales at restaurants open at least 13 months rose 8.1 percent, but less than the 9.5 percent gain expected by analysts polled by Consensus Metrix.

If the holder of an applicable partnership interest is allocated gain from the sale of property held for less than three years, that gain is treated as short - term capital gain and is taxed as ordinary income.

The ETF tracking gold miner stocks (trading under the ticker symbol GDX) is up 14 percent year to date while gold has gained less than 2 percent.

While Internet Explorer lost more market share than Chrome gained, Chrome's nearly 100 percent gain represents less than a 10 percent drop in Microsoft's total.

Not bad for an app that nearly tanked less than a year after it launched, only to survive by the skin of its teeth with an app launch party that gained it the much - needed users that make it now one of Silicon Alley's hottest startups, and an incredibly viable competitor to Tinder.

The Pittsburgh area also saw a population decrease while the Milwaukee metropolitan area squeaked by with a gain of less than 100 people, Frey said.

Gain on sale was $ 0.3 million during the second quarter of 2017, primarily reflecting the Company's decision to reduce the percentage of term loans sold through OnDeck Marketplace to less than 5 %, as announced last quarter.

Short - term capital gains apply to investments held less than one year and long - term capital gains apply to investments held longer than one year.

Wall Street forecasts for the S&P 500 for 2016 look for single - digit percentage gains and are less optimistic than last year's forecasts.

The S&P 500 and the Strategic Growth Fund have both gained a bit less than 2 % since the late February market peak (though with differing levels of volatility), while the Russell 2000 is roughly unchanged.

If you buy a bond for less than face value on the secondary market (known as a market discount) and you either hold it until maturity or sell it at a profit, that gain will be subject to federal and state taxes.

Meanwhile, business owners still profit more from lower labor costs than they lose from either lower sales or less robust productivity gains.

Since then, the arbitrage strategy has declined in a nearly linear fashion to the point where there were no years where the strategy yielded more than $ 200 between 1959 and 1974 and in 11 of these 16 years an investor either lost money or gained less than $ 100.

It will not maximize gains in rising stock markets, but it can capture a substantial portion of the gains over the longer term, with less volatility than just investing in stocks.

Since 1953, whenever the 10 - year Treasury yield was higher than the 500's yield by less than 100 bps, the S&P 500 gained an average 12 percent in price during the subsequent 12 months, and recorded positive results nearly 90 percent of the time.

Given the volatility of bitcoin, he could gain or lose money within days, essentially getting more or less for his home than he intended.

This was just a bit less than the usual 20 to 25 % gains we typically seek to achieve with breakout momentum trades.

The economic gains and market returns that emerged during the Reagan Administration began from a starting point of 10.8 % unemployment, a current account surplus, and market valuations that - on the most historically reliable measures - were less than one - quarter of present levels.

Gain more insight on candidates in far less time than a traditional phone interview.

When withdrawing from a taxable account would require selling investments held less than a year, resulting in short - term capital gains, which are taxed at ordinary income tax rates.

Last week (May 17), we sold a breakout swing trade in Pandora Media ($ P) for a net gain of 14 % with a holding period of less than three weeks.

What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

-- Goethe What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

That's a 41 % gain in less than 10 months.

The funds were from Y Combinator's new Continuity Fund, which supposedly would be making pro rata investments at < $ 250 million valuations in all of Y Combinator's startups gaining additional funding, but the question as to whether or not Y Combinator has reversed its previously stated policy for the fund is less interesting than the fact the firm is also moving up market.

A currency - hedged take on German equities, the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale, with gains of 15.4 percent in less than two months.

If the capital gains tax is 15 % — less than Bob's income tax rate — his after - tax balance comes to $ 38,236.

For short - term capital gains — for assets held for less than a year — people pay taxes at the same rate as they do on their ordinary income.

Individuals who earn more than that but less than $ 418,400 a year pay a 15 percent rate long - term capital gains rate and people who earn more than that pay a 20 percent rate.

Over 80 % of the gains over the past five years in this example came from the contributions made in the red shaded area of the chart (underwater) while less than 20 % came from the green area (aboveboard).