Sentences with phrase «of early last month»

We heard rumors of it early last month, when leaks indicated the new system would have a 4K, thin - bezel Infinity Display, and would ditch the swivel frame design for a more conventional keyboard dock.

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Last month, Wilson, who is also chairman of Tech: NYC (and an early investor in Twitter (twtr) and MongoDB (mongodb)-RRB-, published his top ten reasons as to why Amazon should come to his hometown.

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

Then during an interview with Bloomberg Television early last month, he downplayed a series of market headwinds, saying that «the only real problem now is low liquidity and market volatility.»

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

Japan's short - term yields, of less than three years, turned negative last year, and earlier this month, the five - year JGB slipped close to zero several times.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen said last month that the U.S. central bank was getting closer to raising interest rates, possibly as early as September, saying that the Fed sees the economy as close to meeting its goals of maximum employment and stable prices.

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.

The company said Friday it earned net income of $ 15 million or six cents per share in the last three months of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43 per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by asset sales.

Government officials believe that the personal phone of John Kelly, President Donald Trump's chief of staff, was compromised by hackers months ago — possibly as early as December of last year.

It was an instrumental part of the military alliance of several rebel brigades known as Jaysh al Fateh that helped the mainstream Free Syrian Army regain control over a significant portion of Aleppo early last month.

Zuckerberg, in Facebook posts last month, disclosed a series of steps he said the company would take to prevent governments from manipulating it and said he had earlier been wrong to dismiss the possibility of Facebook being used in such a way.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

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.

In an example of how paranoid the politics in China are becoming, the Hong Kong press reported last week that Tencent's portal is now being supervised by a regulator in Beijing instead of its hometown Shenzhen, after the site ran a typo in a story covering a speech by President Xi Jinping earlier this month.

Hollywood's superhero season started early this year with the surprisingly massive success of Deadpool last month.

The development of crowdfunding, however, is powering another Renaissance of creators on a «much bigger scale,» said Ohanian speaking in New York City last week at the BBC Future World - Changing Ideas Summit earlier this month.

Monday night's retreat was the second straight failure for McConnell, who had to cancel a vote on an earlier version of his repeal - and - replace bill last month when defeat became inevitable.

The Fox News debate held early last month brought in a record 24 million viewers, 7.9 million of which were between 25 and 54 years old, making this the most - watched GOP primary debate ever.

Zhang Yiming, the chief executive of Bytedance, last month said on social media that the company would increase the number of employees handling censorship at Toutiao — a popular news app that's also part of the social media giant — to 10,000 after being temporarily banned earlier this year.

Users of digital currency bitcoin more than doubled in the Philippines in the first half of last year from a year earlier, Espenilla said, while bitcoin transactions purportedly passing through registered companies in the country range from $ 2 million to $ 3 million per month based on available estimates.

The fine is an early test of new CEO Jes Staley, a U.S. citizen and veteran of JPMorgan Chase Inc., who was said last month he aimed to resolve past misconduct issues as quickly as possible and build a more constructive relationship with regulators.

But during the last year especially, there has been a concerted effort in Washington to cut back some of these new regulations, with the Senate passing a bank regulatory relief bill earlier this month.

For example, the government changed its foreign ownership rules last year, and ensured that spectrum is set aside for another major player by denying the sale of smaller player Mobilicity's spectrum to incumbent TELUS earlier this month.

And last month, an international financial group owned by the world's central banks said Canada's credit - to - gross - domestic - product and debt - service ratios show early warning signs of potential risk to the domestic banking system in the coming years.

«One of the biggest problems that Dodd - Frank has caused is, it has restricted the lending to small businesses,» hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, a member of Trump's transition team, told NPR last week, echoing comments the president - elect made earlier this month to The Wall Street Journal.

Investors had sensed something was awry a month earlier, when Tesla said it had only made 260 of the Model 3 last quarter, well below the nearly 2,000 it had forecasted; some reports said the bottleneck was due to the carmaker assembling the vehicle by hand.

The company, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, said it lost $ 3 million or three cents per share in the last three months of 2017, narrowing a loss of $ 8.9 million or 10 cents per share a year earlier.

Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) gave up on Twenty - First Century Fox stock earlier this year, it disclosed Monday — just as the owner of Fox News was embroiled in a widening sexual harassment scandal that culminated last month in the ouster of political commentator Bill O'Reilly.

Earlier this month Fortune reported that 17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailer had left their perches — or announced their intention to — in the last year and a half.

Gracia Martore, who earned $ 8.5 million last year, announced earlier this month that she will retire as CEO of Tegna Inc., the TV station owner and operator.

Exxon also has struggled in the past 16 months to unwind some of the biggest bets taken by former CEO Rex Tillerson, who left to become U.S. secretary of state in early 2017 before being fired by President Donald Trump last month.

While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.

Chuck Hagel, who served as defense secretary from February 2013 to last February, told the Atlantic Council earlier this month that backing down on the red line «hurt the credibility of the president of the United States.»

Eight months earlier, in March 2016, President Barack Obama had swept into town to commemorate the two countries» historic rapprochement, vowing to bury «the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.»

A senior Turkish official said Turkish intelligence cracked the app earlier this year and was able to use it to trace tens of thousands of members of a religious movement the government blames for last month's failed coup.

By their last NHL season, the Jets had trouble attracting fans to the rink, but as the Conference Board of Canada said in a report earlier this month, plenty has changed in the city since.

The surplus only lasted for 6 months and never approached the level seen in 2014 - 2015 (an OPEC production cut in early 2009 limited the length of the surplus and possibly its magnitude).

There are some signs of lower interest rates affecting the housing sector, and a few other bits of data which suggest that the US economy did not keep weakening early in the new year to the extent that it was in the last few months of 2000.

Giuliani said Thursday that the FBI's search of Cohen's home and office last month and the leak of Mueller's prospective questions for Trump to the New York Times earlier this week have dampened enthusiasm on Trump's team for the president to sit for an interview.

Last month, the brand reported fourth - quarter sales of $ 8.7 billion, a 1.8 percent rise over the year - earlier period, along with a comparable sales increase of 1.3 percent.

In a series of initial rulings over the last few months, the Commerce Department decided to levy duties of nearly 300 percent on the Bombardier CSeries, an early victory for Boeing that would increase the price of the rival plane in the United States.

New yuan loans probably dropped 14 percent last month from a year earlier, according to the median projection in a Bloomberg News survey of 37 analysts ahead of data due by Jan. 15.

I wrote last year about the Ally Bank 5 - year CD, which currently pays 2.37 % interest and charges a paltry two months of interest for breaking the CD early.

Here's a first look at Spotify's Q1 earnings, which are in line with the guidance it offered up earlier this spring: In its first - ever quarterly report since going public last month, the streaming music company reported revenue of 1.14 billion euros, operating losses of 41 million euros, 75 million paid subscribers and a gross margin of 24.9 percent.

As we pointed out yesterday in early trading «Ethereum got smashed below $ 200 in what might have been the last panic move of the long - term correction that started almost a month ago».

«In recent months, Mueller's team has questioned witnesses in detail about Trump's private comments and state of mind in late July and early August of last year, around the time he issued a series of tweets belittling his «beleaguered» attorney general,» Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Rosalind S. Helderman report.

These programs are often set to sell instantly when their algorithms recognize something adverse but, often, these applications of artificial intelligence tend to be more «artificial» than «intelligent» (as was also seen early last month with the overall stock market).

Over the last several months, even including a sharp drop and rebound in the stock market earlier this month, bitcoin (BTC - USD) and the cryptocurrency boom have been by far the biggest topic of discussion in financial markets.

In a statement issued last month, MBA officials stated: «we expect that the 10 ‐ Year Treasury rate will stay below three percent through the end of 2016, and 30 ‐ year mortgage rates will stay below 5 percent until early 2017.»