Duration is expressed in units
of number of years since it originally referred to zero - coupon bonds, whose duration is its maturity.
Not exact matches
A delay
of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small
number of test flights
since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after
years of preparatory work.
Ever
since it was first floated a
year ago, the idea
of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — two giant Internet and cable TV providers — combining in an $ 78 billion merger sparked concern in a
number of areas.
The
number of US air strikes in Afghanistan has spiked
since President Donald Trump took office a
year ago though the insurgents have hit back with deadly attacks, including a bloody Taliban raid on a Kabul hotel on the weekend.
While tech IPOs are at their lowest
number since 2008, health care, including biotech, is one
of the hottest sectors
of the
year for
number of filings, per Renaissance Capital's third quarter report.
He noted that the
number of circuit court judges the Senate confirmed set the record for the most in a
year since the system was established in 1891.
It is worth noting, though, that continent - wide surveys conducted
since Brexit show that support for the EU generally remains reasonably high across the 27 remaining member states despite the rise
of populist movements, bar the obvious exception
of Greece, which has been in an economic stand - off with the EU for a
number of years.
That might sound like a lot
of companies getting funded, but in terms
of the
number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a
year earlier — and the lowest
number since the first quarter
of 2012.
According to new data from the Pentagon, incidences
of rape and sexual assault within the U.S. military are up 10 % over the last fiscal
year, reaching the highest
number of reported assaults
since at least 2006.
The reason: In 1996, the government severely restricted funding for medical residents, essentially freezing the
number of slots that determine the flow
of physicians entering the workforce each
year, with only tiny additions
since.
Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the
number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a
year since 2006.
«The net effect is that the
number of new books published each
year in the U.S. has exploded by more than 400,000
since 2007, to approximately 700,000 annually,» according to the report.
Interest in Bitcoin also appears to have waned, with the
number of searches in the asset — which has generally followed its price — also falling
since the start
of the
year.
After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total
number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a
year earlier, the highest rate
of decline
since the trend
of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.
Every
year since, Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia has been made available in a limited run
of hand - sealed,
numbered bottles.
Among 18 - to 24 -
year - olds, the
number of cord cutters has grown by 60 per cent (to about 25 per cent)
since 2010, according to comScore.
Since he started advertising on Facebook a
year and a half ago, the
number of new clients who discovered the salon online has risen 20 percent.
Since January 2017 Reuters has sought to obtain the
numbers of asylum seekers who walked across the U.S. border into Canada in the
years prior to Trump's election.
During a dig that
year, archaeologists found the remains
of 42 children, a
number that has
since increased.
Since proposing the program two
years ago, IPF executive director Andra Sheffer says the
number of web series has grown from five or six total to 50 Canadian series.
Flipboard, the magazine - style app that got its start with the original Apple iPad, has been through a
number of iterations in the
years since its launch.
Yet his veto threats have been piling up rapidly
since Republicans took full control
of Congress,
numbering more than a dozen so far this
year.
In the 13
years since he left office, President Clinton has been a relentless and forceful advocate for a
number of causes: the fight against HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and the need to stem greenhouse gas emissions.
That's a poor showing compared to the 43 %
of businesses in the United States who reported using it last
year (the
number has probably grown
since then).
Last
year, 2014, ended with five million job openings ---- the highest
number since 2001, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
«Because Mylan's Board has determined that risk oversight is the responsibility
of the full board, all incumbent directors should be considered accountable for material failures
of risk oversight over a
number of years, when warning signs were available to the company but no actions appear to have been taken to mitigate or head off the significant potential risks that have
since materialized.
(This
number has steadily increased over the past five
years,
since the turn
of the financial crisis.)
While there have been improvements in some labour market indicators, the
number of people who have been unemployed for over a
year has remained frustratingly high
since the end
of the recession, as shown in the graph below.
The
year since hackers broke into Target and accessed millions
of credit and debit card
numbers has been a brutal one for cyberattacks.
Since starting to do this, the company has increased the
number of new features added to products 100-fold per
year.
Roughly 300,000 new videos are uploaded to YouTube each day, and the
number of channels with more than one million subscribers grew 75 %
since last
year.
Moving up a rank
since last
year, the southern city has a 95.6 percent startup growth rate: The
number of employees at a Nashville company grows an average
of 95.6 percent in the company's first five
years.
Not a shocker, but important to note: San Jose is
number six on this
year's list
of the top 10 cities, moving down three slots
since last
year.
In fact, the
number of these lawsuits has increased each
year since 2000, resulting in a total increase
of more than 450 percent and an aggregate cost
of $ 3.6 B (
since 2007).
Since last
year, there's been a 7 % drop in the
number of firms planning big capital investments.
In the three
years since, the
number of overdose deaths involving fentanyl has skyrocketed at a rate that outpaces deaths from any other opioid, including heroin, hydrocodone, and oxycodone.
CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a
number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter
of last
year that boosted its reach, so the rise
since then is smaller by comparison.
Clearly, Hampton has tapped into some business secret that makes people want to invest, and whatever it is, it's the same secret that has increased the
number of franchises inside and outside the U.S. every
year since 2007.
Since then, the 18 -
year - old business has grown apace (it recently made it onto the Inc. 500 list
of the nation's fastest - growing private companies), thanks in part to Buschman's painfully learned lesson on the importance
of comprehensive
number crunching.
The
number of people living with diabetes has tripled
since 2000, pushing the global cost
of the disease to $ 850 billion a
year, medical experts said on Tuesday.
Today's infographic comes to us from StocksToTrade.com, and it compares the 20 largest stock exchanges in the world in terms
of market capitalization, total companies listed, and
number of years since they were founded.
From Intelsat's $ 13 billion deal for OneWeb to Cisco's $ 3.7 billion deal for AppDynamics, the firm's tech, media, and telecom mergers and acquisitions team had its busiest start to the
year in terms
of number of deals
since 2000, announcing 18 deals in the first two months
of the
year valued at nearly $ 30 billion.
Since the middle
of last
year, the company's headcount has doubled to 35, and he hopes to bring that
number to 50 by
year end.
«The
number of «true» strikes — those verified by PITCHf / x — has increased from 82 % to over 90 % in the seven
years since MLB installed the tracking system,» Fox Sports says.
In the
years since Conley discovered Maslow, he has doubled the
number of hotels the company operates, and added restaurants, spas and other properties.
Since the middle
of last
year, when General Mills made the yogurt switch, a
number of analysts have upgraded the stock or reiterated buy ratings.
This quarter saw the lowest
number of bankruptcy notations in the 18 -
year history
of this series, continuing an overall downward trend
since the financial crisis.
Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing
number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next
year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).
Even if prices are expected to rise by the end
of the
year since high oil prices will no longer appear in the data, the
number will be far from the «below but close to 2 %» target.
The American legend had tried a
number of turnaround strategies and cost - cutting efforts in recent
years, but the company — which
since 2004 has reported only one full
year of profit — ran short
of cash.