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The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes was one of the surprise announcements in this week's Nintendo Digital Event.

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Despite the sheer number and size of spending announcements in today's Ontario budget, a lack of detail and the fact that the bulk of the budget was leaked last month leaves few surprises.

In July, Eli Bartov, a professor at New York University Stern School of Business and two other researchers found that «aggregate opinion» from tweets before earnings announcements could predict earnings surprises as well as market reactions for individual stocks, leading to outperformance of 5 % to 10 % per year.

Amidst the barrage of new TVs and connected fitness trackers unveiled at last week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas came a surprising announcement from chipmaker Intel: a $ 300 million investment in training and recruiting female and other groups of under - represented computer scientists.

The Indian prime minister made a surprise announcement on Nov. 8 that the aforementioned notes, which account for more than 80 % of currency in circulation in India, would be rendered useless, in order to curb India's black market.

When Coinbase surprised markets in December with an attempt to immediately roll out trading of bitcoin cash, critics pointed out the price of the bitcoin offshoot rose into the announcement.

Their announcement included a few surprises — a larger - than - expected capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day, and a $ 300 million marine terminal in Saint John, N.B..

Trump's surprise Tuesday morning announcement capped off a series of bizarre days that in retrospect offered indications that Tillerson's future in the administration was shaky at best.

Hartford HealthCare's announcement last week that the hospital giant will form a joint venture with a health plan is not as much of a surprise as it may have seemed in an industry under pressure to control crippling costs.

As for related reports that Carney indulged in private conversations with Liberals about seeking their party's leadership, back before his surprise announcement late last November that he would be leaving next spring to become governor of the Bank of England, his answer today indicated that those were one - sided discussions.

Combined with pressures we observe on profit margins, my impression is that investors may be surprised at the number of companies that attempt to offset earnings disappointments in the coming weeks by pairing those reports with cost - cutting, in the form of layoff announcements.

Hewlett - Packard's (HPQ) stock plunged more than 20 percent Friday, wiping out $ 12 billion in share value, as investors recoiled from a series of surprise announcements that portend major changes for the world's largest tech company.

The announcement that AOL is likely to close or sell off the social networking site Bebo comes as no surprise to industry watchers, marking the latest in a string of acquisitions that seem to have become the kiss of death for web startups.

Soglin continued to defend his office not contacting WEDC prior to the surprise announcement in November of the Oscar Mayer closure.

Their announcement included a few surprises — a larger - than - expected capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day, and a $ 300 million marine terminal in Saint John.

It will not have been surprised to see that after an initial plunge in the value of virtual currencies following the bank's announcement, their worth has soared right back to where it started; nor will they be blind to the fact that this clearly represents the same Chinese investors going back in, whether through Hong Kong virtual exchanges like TideBit, or perhaps through Japan, which officially authorized 11 cryptocurrency exchanges in September just as China banned them (South Korea launched its own ban later in the month).

This may surprise some given the recent default announcement of Puerto Rican debt, which is a vivid reminder of why it's important for investors to be completely aware of what they own and the risk they take in search of yield.

The Bank of Canada left its key overnight interest rate unchanged in its April 15 announcement — no surprise there.

The first reactions are coming in from international property professionals to today's surprise announcement of a snap UK general election in June.

In a week where much of the Internet was all atwitter about Mobilegeddon, Google's pre-announced algorithm change that will favor mobile - friendly sites in mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed algorithIn a week where much of the Internet was all atwitter about Mobilegeddon, Google's pre-announced algorithm change that will favor mobile - friendly sites in mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed algorithin mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed algorithm.

Last week, in a somewhat surprising announcement, the Donald Trump team announced that billionaire Betsy DeVos would be the country's new Secretary of Education.

Typical of this would be the occasion that evangelist Chad Dedmon saw a woman healed in Walmart which so excited the cashier it led to the surprising announcement over the store tannoy — «God is healing people in aisle 3!»

That the works on nature should prove to illuminate and be illuminated by the works on metaphysics is not at all surprising if we take seriously Whitehead's announcement, in the preface to the second edition of The Principles of Natural Knowledge, of his intention «to embody the standpoint of these volumes [on the philosophy of nature] in a more complete metaphysical study» (PNK ix).

(CNN)-- When my colleague and friend, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, told me to come quickly to Rome to assist him, I understood that help was needed in dealing with a deluge of media requests in the aftermath of the pope's surprise resignation announcement on February 11.

The announcement came as no surprise, since golf's governing bodies proclaimed in November their intent to ban the stroke, which players make by jamming belly or longer putters into various parts of their bodies, and which the regulators believed inhibited the «skill and challenge» that was «integral to the traditions of the game.»

The big surprise had come earlier, with the announcement that «Bama coach Wimp Sanderson had edged the Wildcats» Eddie Sutton in the Knoxville News - Sentinel's annual poll for Southeastern Conference coach of the year.

And, in a rather surprising announcement, Real Madrid want you to know they haven't talked to Pogba or any of his representatives about taking the French dynamo from Turin to the Spanish capital.

1) The announcement that LFTB would be included in the product available for purchase under the school lunch program; 2) The CEO of BPI, when asked about the fact that LFTB was already in 70 % of the ground beef on store shelves (a surprise in itself), made a statement to the effect that his goal was to get it in 100 % of the ground beef sold.

Marchione's surprise announcement comes one day after the Senate Democrats won two special elections in the Bronx and Westchester, putting them within spitting distance of re-taking the majority.

Seb Coe, architect of the London 2012 Olympics, will thank Labour for its role in securing the event in a surprise announcement at the party's conference in Manchester today.

Looking at Kratsman's body of work one can see where his surprise at the announcement of the EMET prize comes from: his sensitive take on the Israeli occupation in Palestine makes him seem far from being the establishment favourite.

In the days since Trump's surprise announcement, Cohn worked quietly to soften Trump's decision and convince him to backtrack — a campaign that was amplified by Republican leaders on Capitol Hill — but Trump learned of the efforts, became angry at Cohn's attempts and made that clear in the last 24 to 48 hourIn the days since Trump's surprise announcement, Cohn worked quietly to soften Trump's decision and convince him to backtrack — a campaign that was amplified by Republican leaders on Capitol Hill — but Trump learned of the efforts, became angry at Cohn's attempts and made that clear in the last 24 to 48 hourin the last 24 to 48 hours.

Paterson's announcement was not surprising after the general counsel for the city Board of Elections wrote in a July 21 e-mail that the governor intended to call a special election for Primary Day.

Cuomo's announcement did come with one major surprise — the design - build team will not be doing a redesign of Penn Station, which will be handled in a separate request for proposals.

The surprise announcement came as lawmakers debated an impeachment motion against the 93 - year - old leader in a joint sitting of parliament.

This is a much different tune than the one Democrats in both chambers were singing in the wake of the Senate Republicans» surprise announcement that they had signed the MOU with a top Cuomo aide — state Operations Director Jim Malatras — that basically said their conference had to sign off on the spending of any state cash to be used for creation of the database.

Mayor Bloomberg, who reportedly was taken by surprise by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State announcements on eradicating the fingerprint requirement for foodstamps and building the nation's largest convention center / casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, is getting his revenge this afternoon.

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan's surprise announcement that he will not seek re-election is hardly good news for upstate GOP Reps. Elise Stefanik of Willsboro and John Faso of Kinderhook, both of whom are holding their breath in the face of a possible blue tsunami.

As one of the few major policies of today's Budget that had not been leaked, Labour backbenchers cheered the announcement as the Conservatives were heard to gasp in surprise.

Langworthy said he had expressed interest in helping with the transition process but said the timing of the announcement was a surprise to him.

The state's chief ethics agency, JCOPE, has reportedly commenced an initial inquiry into complaints surrounding the office of Sen. Marc Panepinto, a Buffalo Democrat who earlier this week made a surprise announcement that he would not seek a second term in Albany.

The state Public Service Commission is on the verge of dropping down to just two board members after the surprise announcement that its chair, Audrey Zibelman, is taking a job in Australia in two months.

Osborne made the surprise announcement of a cut in capital gains tax (CGT)-- from 28 % to 20 % for higher rate taxpayers and 18 % to 10 % for those on the basic rate — in the budget as a way to encourage people to invest in shares.

Blears made her surprise announcement this morning — 90 minutes before prime minister's questions and only a day before the local and European elections — and she explained her decision in a statement virtually accusing Brown of being out of touch with the British people and their values.

Announcements of corruption charges no longer surprise anyone in New York, where at least 12 sitting or former state lawmakers have been arrested, convicted or sanctioned, or have resigned, after a host of ethical transgressions in the past two years alone.

A number of other Democrats expressed interest in running after Ackerman's surprise announcement, including Sen. Tony Avella, who was drawn into a potential primary with fellow Democratic Sen. Toby Stavisky by the Senate GOP; and S.J. Jung, a Korean - American district leader who ran a close NYC Council race in 2009.

Since his surprise announcement via an interview with the New York Times Sunday evening, Spitzer, who left office in March 2008 shortly after details of his involvement in a high - end prostitution ring became public, has made clear that he would use the city's shareholder position to be a watchdog of corporate America.

The final straw was Gov. David Paterson's surprise announcement to close a half - dozen upstate youth detention facilities, a move which violates cooperative labor - management activities, may in fact violate state law and could lead to loss of jobs.

Before he made his surprise retirement announcement, Israel raised $ 1.4 million and spent $ 1.2 million in the last quarter of 2015, leaving him with $ 933,449 in the bank, according to this campaign finance filing.

CITY HALL — Days after the city made a surprise announcement that new Success Academy charter schools would move into former Catholic school buildings in Washington Heights, Harlem and Rosedale, parents and education advocates took to the steps of the Department of Education Tuesday morning to protest the law that made it happen.