Sentences with phrase «near a record high of»

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Honey bee death rates went up in places where higher levels of naled were recorded near hives, according to a National Center for Biotechnology Information study.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

PayPal's stock continued to plummet Thursday, while shares of eBay rose near a record high.

The collapse of Mt. Gox was seen as a test for bitcoin, which roared to a record high near $ 20,000 last year but has pulled back significantly since.

Hedge fund managers have amassed a near - record position of 1.405 billion barrels in petroleum and show no signs of rushing to take profits despite the rise in prices to their highest level since 2014.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 9 - Denmark's current account surplus swelled to a near - record high and the trade surplus rose in August, signs its economy was holding up well in the face of recession across Europe.

In the third quarter, the ratio of household debt to disposable income rose to another record high of 165 %, nearing the peak of U.S. borrowing prior to the financial crisis.

Rating service Moody's tracks covenant quality, essentially a measure of standards that bond issuers must meet, and reported Thursday that the latest reading remains near record highs, which indicates weak restrictions.

Facebook (FB) investors and staff probably let out a collective sigh of relief on Thursday, after the social media giant reported stronger - than - expected earnings that sent shares rebounding back to near - record highs.

Powell has been a reliable supporter of the consensus forged by Yellen on the policy - setting Federal Open Market Committee, and likely will be seen as a less risky choice with the economy growing solidly and U.S. stock markets near record highs.

Gold prices, which hit a record highs near US$ 1,900 an ounce back in August, have been falling since beginning the year and stock prices of miners have come down with them.

The following may be true of a potential takeover: • the company has fewer than 50 million shares outstanding; • management is dominated by persons near retirement age; • management's record on innovations and improving returns has been poor; • the company owns assets whose market values are potentially higher than those shown on the balance sheet; • outside investors have been steadily buying the stock.

«Given that home builders are already grappling with 20 percent tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber and that the price of lumber and other key building materials are near record highs, this announcement by the president could not have come at a worse time.

OPEC oil output is rising in March, a Reuters survey found, as higher supply from Iran after the lifting of sanctions and near - record exports from southern Iraq offset maintenance and Continue Reading

The case advances as foreclosures remain near record highs as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, which was set off by a collapse in subprime real estate financing.

The stock hit a record high of $ 147.17 / share in 2017 and is currently trading near $ 85 / share.

U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index near a record, as investors weighed economic data for clues on the timing of higher interest rates amid optimism that a deal on Greek aid is within reach.

For example, weekly NYSE new lows have averaged about 4 % of traded issues recently, with nearly 6 % last week, even with the S&P 500 near record highs.

According to some market watchers, gold has yet to fully adjust to the reality of tapering, and is vulnerable to further weakness when the central bank finally begins to wind down its monetary stimulus — a major pillar of support that has driven gold to record high near $ 1,920 in September 2011.

When the stock market is near a record high, interest rates are headed much higher and the market fear index, the VIX, suddenly shoots up, this is a clear sign of an overvalued market for conventional intangible assets.

Sergei Guriev, a former advisor to the Russian government, told CNBC that, should oil prices stay at their near - record lows of around $ 82 a barrel, Russia, which is basing its economic forecasts on a much higher oil price, would face a «serious problem.»

The euro late last week was trading as high as $ 1.3576, near its December 2004 record of $ 1.3539.

22nd Century Group, Inc. (XXII), a plant biotechnology company that is a provider of tobacco harm reduction and development of proprietary hemp / cannabis strains, broke out above multi-year resistance near $ 1.50 in 2013, rallying to a record high a few months later at $ 6.36.

It also contains the extremes near 20 in 1929, 1972, 1987 and the then - record high level of 21 in 1996.

The very high levels of production in the world's top crude exporter for March were not a one - off as the Kingdom continues to produce near record levels.

In spite of weak economic news coming out of virtually everywhere, stocks, while volatile, still remain near record - highs.

This has helped markets remain near their record - highs despite a weak global economy and a weak economic outlook — and despite poor fourth - quarter and year - end results and an even weaker outlook for the first quarter of 2016.

If those assumptions disappoint and it becomes clear that profit margins will not be forever sustained at record highs, it doesn't only imply near - term earnings disappointments - it implies that the whole stream of future earnings impounded into stock prices is wrong.

From my perspective, the record M&A activity that we've seen this year has created the most attractive opportunity we've seen in the last 10 years, with merger spread investments near all - time high rates of returns.

The stock just hit a record high of $ 70.10 / share in 2017 and is currently trading near $ 48 / share.

The number of New Yorkers in city shelters now approaches 58,000, a near - record high.

The levels of dioxin measured in the air near the smoldering pile «were the highest ambient measurements of dioxin ever recorded anywhere in the world,» levels at least 100 times higher than those found downwind of a garbage incinerator, according to an analysis published by EPA scientists [pdf] in 2007.

«A near - record area was expected because of wet spring conditions in the Mississippi watershed and the resultant high river flows which deliver large amounts of nutrients,» said Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D. executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), who led the July 21 - 28 survey cruise.

Several stations in the North Slope of Alaska and the Brooks Range had record or near - record high temperatures in the permafrost at depths of about 65 feet, showing how much the warming is affecting the Arctic environment.

«A cooperative weather station near Tribune, Kan., which set an all - time record high of 109 on Sunday, turned around and beat the new record by a full 2 degrees on Monday.»

For example, a carbohydrate - rich meal in the evening was found to delay the circadian rhythm of core body temperature and reduce nocturnal melatonin secretion.30 This is relevant, since sleep propensity and quality are highest near the declining limb of the core body temperature curve when melatonin levels are increased.31, 32 Although body temperature and melatonin were not recorded in the current study, these effects would be consistent with an increase in SOL on night 5 and the association with nocturnal arousals observed here.

Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm «s Star Wars: The Last Jedi drew in a near - record $ 220 million in the domestic box office, the second - highest opening weekend of all time behind 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

After a near record - breaking opening weekend in China, Avengers: Infinity War is now the fifth - highest grossing movie of all time and the 11th highest - grossing film of all time and the highest - grossing superhero movie ever with over $ 1.6 billion in global gross.

Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, a high school in Newark, New Jersey, run by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey, has recorded a near 100 percent college - acceptance rate for their predominantly African American and Latino young men — a rate that soars well above the average for the city.

Despite a mediocre track record of school improvement, Ohio was a winner, partly for its «simple, yet bold, long - term aspirations,» including «a near - 100 % high school graduation rate from schools teaching at internationally competitive standards,» elimination of achievement gaps, and higher - ed completion rates «that are among the highest in the nation and world.»

«In 2011 Alabama moved from near last to 25th in the nation in overall grades and scores [Education Week assessment]... 12th in the nation for standards, assessments and accountability... data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a historic gain of eight points in fourth grade Reading for Alabama public school students — the... highest gain ever in NAEP recorded history.

Sadly, the neighborhood school near our Grand Rapids home lacked the record of academic achievement that instills confidence, and we faced the all - too - common reality of an urban district with too few high quality options.

In 2014, Louisiana achieved record - high levels of high - school graduation — 75 percent — and was still near the bottom of states.

The Land Rover LR4 and the Jaguar XJ, both of which formerly recorded poor TQI scores, also were ranked highest quality vehicles in the near - luxury SUV and luxury car categories, respectively.

No. 3 Corvette C6.R Continues Hot Streak in High Desert SALT LAKE CITY — Corvette Racing's final warm - up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was run in near - record temperatures as a heat wave in Utah's high desert tested America's premier production sports car tHigh Desert SALT LAKE CITY — Corvette Racing's final warm - up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was run in near - record temperatures as a heat wave in Utah's high desert tested America's premier production sports car thigh desert tested America's premier production sports car team.

Embellishing high - line vehicles from General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Lexus, and Toyota, as well as building custom creations like the World record holding Venom GT, HPE has evolved into a state - of - the - art facility that includes the world's first state accredited Tuner school, a 40,000 - square foot workshop and showroom, and the Lonestar Motorsports Park with an International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) sanctioned quarter - mile dragstrip on 143 - acres near Houston, Texas.

I also wouldn't expect anywhere near the build quality of an Apple iPad Mini, for the fact that the iPad Mini is made of aluminum, and this is made of plastic, alone, but also because Acer doesn't have the best track record in building the highest quality devices.

Among all existing Tablets of any size, the iPad mini 4 takes first place and breaks performance records in many of the most important test categories including: lowest screen Reflectance (2.0 percent), highest contrast rating in high ambient light (225), a near perfect log - straight intensity scale and gamma of 2.22, and the highest absolute color accuracy (average / maximum color errors of 1.9 and 4.2 JNCD — tied for first place with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4).

While the overall manga market declines, fanboys looking for a silver lining like to point to record - breaking high sales of the biggest titles, like One Piece, which sold six times as many copies in 2011 as the nearest competitor, Naruto.

With student loan balances at near record highs and university tuition having tripled since 1978, college students across the country are turning to student loans to help finance the enormous cost of higher education.