Sentences with phrase «of early gains»

Although students in the Southeastern region of the United States appear to have made some of the greatest academic strides over the long term, the overall picture of student performance in the nation is one of some early gains followed by a recent stabilization, a new U.S. Department of Education study reports.

The stock pared some of its early gains, but was last still trading more than 4 percent higher.

But those feverish buyers soon got a bitter lesson when Valeant shares came crashing back down more than 10 % on Thursday, erasing much of their earlier gains, after a report that the company was under criminal investigation for potential insurance fraud.

The U.S. Dollar is trading higher at themid - session but giving back some of its earlier gains.

Not exact matches

Look to the case of Tim Romero, a Tokyo - headquartered entrepreneur who, earlier this summer, «gave up» and closed ContractBeast, a startup that produced software for people who make software, when it hadn't gained a significant following after just seven months in business.

«Thanks to the magic of compounding, the earlier in your life you start investing in the market, the bigger your long - term gains can be,» Cramer said.

Tasmanian company Gunns is moving towards gaining control over several of Great Southern's early timber schemes, according to proxy numbers, although later schemes are still under a question mark.

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- Brent crude futures eased on Wednesday, surrendering early gains after evidence of further increases in U.S. shale supply and a rise in Iranian exports ahead of a possible renewal of U.S. sanctions on Tehran.

Conrad spent six months teaching himself to code the software underpinning the earliest iteration of the Zenefits platform before applying to Silicon Valley's Y Combinator and gaining entry into its winter 2013 incubator.

Seed and early - stage investments have accounted for the majority of investment gains in every year since 1995, suggesting that despite the deep pockets of late - stage investors, early - stage investments hold their own on an apples - to - apples basis (total gains).

In early 2006, just as the concept of cloud computing was gaining traction in tech circles, Amazon's cloud offering went live.

Icahn, holding roughly 19 % of the company, launched the bid after talks to gain board representation broke down earlier this year.

Suncor Energy Inc., the world's second - largest oil - sands producer, said first - quarter profit fell 23 percent on lower output, higher costs and absence of a gain from insurance settlements a year earlier.

We are at the very early stages of this movement but it is gaining traction and going to get better and better.»

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

Right now, Canada's early - stage investors benefit from a lifetime capital - gains deduction limit of $ 375,000.

While the company has gained attention as an early adopter of implanted microchips in humans, it will be interesting to watch how it plays out and helps shape the practice for other companies going forward.

US stocks rose early on the second day of a holiday - shortened week and held onto those gains for the rest of the session.

As for Jobs, reports of Zuckerberg's relationship with him resurfaced last year, in the wake of news that Zuckerberg, early in the Facebook era, had gained insights and wisdom from a month - long trip to India.

Following this result, financial markets were sent into a tailspin with futures diving overnight, the British pound collapsing, and US stocks, after finding some stability early in the day on Friday, tumbling into the close as the Dow and S&P 500 wiped out all of their gains for 2016 in one fell swoop.

After bringing these people on, you still aren't going to have additional dollars in your startup's pocket, but you'll be well - on - your - way to a solid team that's dedicated to gaining your product traction, which is about 80 percent of what most early - stage investors look for in the first place.

With the «holiday season» kicking off earlier and earlier every year, if executed effectively, these handful of weeks can deliver massive financial gains.

May 2 - U.S. stock futures gave up earlier gains on Wednesday stemming from Apple's forecast - beating results, as caution set in ahead of the Federal Reserve's comments on inflation and monetary policy.

Rather, the reconstruction of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with facilities like New Lab, will provide a home for the new face of manufacturing in the U.S. Uncle Sam is gaining a foothold in some of the earlier stages of manufacturing, a process called prototyping, and in some of the more sophisticated, advanced types of manufacturing.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia - Pacific shares outside Japan extended gains to 1.2 % in its sixth straight session of increases, just 0.9 % shy of its one - year high touched earlier this month.

This feature, launched in early May 2014, has gained a lot of interest with more than 157,000 tweets containing #AmazonCart sent out in under two weeks.

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

Shanghai aluminum, nickel and lead crept higher, but copper gave up early gains to trade slightly lower as the dollar hit a four - month high, making the metal more expensive for holders of other currencies, and zinc slipped.

A 2010 review of research backed this up, adding that people with rapid weight loss early on were not more likely to gain back the pounds than people who lost weight gradually.

An earlier exit poll indicated that the center - right alliance would gain between 248 to 268 seats in the lower house of parliament, short of the 316 needed for a majority.

«Any Weakness for Early Sales of iPhone 8 Could Be a Case of «Short - term Pain for Long - Term Gain,»» Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson advised in a Friday note.

Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.

EBITDA is defined as earnings (net income or loss) before interest expense, net, (gain) loss on early extinguishment of debt, income tax (benefit) expense, and depreciation and amortization and is used by management to measure operating performance of the business.

Earlier this month, Carrey — who has gained a reputation for being a political artist on Twitter — tweeted a drawing of Hannity as a WWE wrestler fighting InfoWars host Alex Jones in front of an audience, writing «if you believe wrestling is real u may even believe Fox News,» but «wrestling doesn't harm viewers.»

Adjusted Net Income is defined as net income excluding (i) franchise agreement amortization, which is a non-cash expense arising as a result of acquisition accounting that may hinder the comparability of our operating results to our industry peers, (ii) amortization of deferred financing costs and debt issuance discount, a non-cash component of interest expense, and (gains) losses on early extinguishment of debt, which are non-cash charges that vary by the timing, terms and size of debt financing transactions, (iii)(income) loss from equity method investments, net of cash distributions received from equity method investments, (iv) other operating expenses (income), net, and (v) other specifically identified costs associated with non-recurring projects.

Landing International Development gained 19.2 % after announcing earlier this week that the city council in the metro Manila community of Paranque had approved its plan to build a casino resort.

And that is attributable to the roll out of new mail products that's gaining some pretty wide acceptance here... and that's working early on.»

Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.

Research shows that traders were 1.5 to 2 times more likely to sell a winning position too early and a losing position too late, all to avoid the regret of losing gains or losing the original cost basis.

Although its early investors got Quincy through those near - death experiences, the struggling fashion startup couldn't gain enough traction to secure a Series A round of funding from venture capitalists and the young company — barely a year old — shut its doors in January 2013.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Monday that it hired Justin Schmidt as head of digital asset markets to help clients gain exposure to cryptocurrencies, and cryptocurrency - focused hedge funds have continued to open even amid the market slump earlier this year.

Modest gains for technology companies have helped U.S. stocks recover almost all of an early loss Thursday.

Economic activity is gaining momentum, and despite a bumpy start earlier in the year, we expect an expansion of 3.6 percent in 2014 and 3.9 percent in 2015.

In Hugo Chavez's early years, before he ever started talking about socialism, one of the major reasons the wealthy pushed so hard to try to get rid of him was that he gained control of the tax service and actually started forcing wealthy people to pay their taxes.

Earlier this month, Bank of Montreal chief economist Douglas Porter said in a research note that his team is «fielding plenty of questions» about an increased capital - gains rate.

Assuming a 35 percent tax rate on corporate capital gains, the swap could save Berkshire more than $ 1 billion, on top of tax savings from two similar transactions earlier this year.

The Labor Department also revised the state's job gain in January to 14,800 jobs, up from an earlier estimate of nearly 13,000, a point emphasized by the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.

Our most recent buy entries into $ FB (Facebook) resulted in two separate price gains of 49 % and 12 % earlier this year, but we would still consider re-buying $ FB in our newsletter if it presents us with a low - risk re-entry point (such as a cup and handle pattern) in the coming weeks.

The motivation for doing so reflects the societal gains that I talked about earlier from the banking system engaging in an appropriate amount of maturity transformation.

Too early, too aggressive — Rate hikes occur too early and too fast, a prospect that may stall recovery and lead to incremental losses of 2 percent for stocks and gains of 7 percent for government bonds