Sentences with phrase «of the surprise announcements of»

One of the surprise announcements of the most recent Nintendo Direct was a set of amiibos for Mario Party 10.

Even the slightest possibility of a surprise announcement of Team Ico's elusive The Last Guardian getting a release doesn't absolve Sony from needing to prove to gamers why they should be playing titles on a PlayStation 4 and not an Xbox One.

I got a behind - closed - doors demo of the upcoming monster slaying adventure, which was one of the surprise announcements of Sony's E3 showcase, and I'm officially hungry for more.

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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.

«I was really surprised she wore that particular coat for the announcement... I think it's very touching of her to take that moment and to share it with a Canadian brand.»

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.

The surprise announcement came after a series of turbulent media appearances by the former Wall Street financier, capped off by a profanity - laced tirade to a New Yorker journalist last week.

But general manager of Microsoft Advertising Rick Song, who was visible particularly during the company's annual digital showcase events, is the first bigwig to leave following the surprising IE10 «do not track» default announcement.

Shares of the still - fledgling cannabis industry mainstays like Canada's Aphria, Aurora, and others rose anywhere from 1 % to more than 4 % after Boehner's surprise announcement, outpacing broader markets.

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.

And it may have surprised many shoppers, given that there was no announcement of its release.

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.

Recall that just days before the budget was tabled there was a surprise announcement that costs for cleaning up Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s nuclear program were going to be $ 2.4 billion higher than expected.

A surprise mass layoff that last week chopped about 40 % of its staff was followed by an only slightly less surprising announcement on Sept. 23 that Fairfax Financial was an interested buyer.

Think of it as far - fetched or genius, but one thing Musk's announcement shouldn't be is surprising.

The budget is a lengthy document which is always full of surprises, so there will be plenty of announcements that are off of everybody's radar and will be worth looking for as well.

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..

Few people were surprised by last month's announcement that HMV would be shuttering all 102 of its Canadian stores.

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.

The timing of the announcement also came as a surprise to White House aides, even those who had been informed days earlier of the imminent shake - up, two sources familiar with the plans said.

That has to be one of the major lessons taught by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's surprise announcement today that the federal, Ontario and British Columbia governments have finally, after years of setbacks and delays, agreed to set up a cooperative regulator for securities markets.

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.

While reporting its first - quarter earnings on Wednesday, the company made the surprising announcement that it was going to «significantly cut back» the amount of money it spends on its facilities and equipment..

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.

Given that it's been going through a lot of trouble related to third - party developers it brought a surprise announcement to take your mind off of privacy concerns.

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.

This is not overly surprising, as we would not be very surprised if we did not see any major moves ahead of this week's Federal Reserve announcement.

Papandreou's surprise referendum announcement so startled world leaders that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, two architects of the debt deal, summoned Papandreou to Cannes for emergency talks Wednesday.

The stock market's love affair with the Trump economic agenda was tested last week after the president's surprise announcement that he would slap tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.

The president's bump stock announcement surprised the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which did not appear to have been informed of the pending remarks from Mr. Trump.

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.

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagard said Thursday the Swiss central bank's announcement that it would remove a 3 - year - old cap of 1.20 francs per euro was «a bit of a surprise.»

Sounding yet again like a cheerleader for opponents of Alberta's energy industry, Notley, head of the left - leaning NDP government, reacted positively to U.S Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton's surprise announcement that she's opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf.

What's even more surprising is that at the time of the announcement, management said it has already secured 1.2 million tons» worth of long - term customer contracts that include cash pre-payments to help fund the mine and commitments for four of its Sandbox logistics crews to deliver direct to site.

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 algorithm.

He can be suave, seductive, hilarious, edgy, controversial and, thanks to all the eyebrows and questions that arose after the announcement of his new album, Man of the Woods, somehow surprising.

A recent meeting of ministers associated with the prosperity - preaching Word of Faith branch of charismatic Christianity received a surprise announcement: Pope Francis had sent a message to the conference.

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.

Part of the astonishing surprise of the announcement of the Savior is how inclusive it is.

We need not therefore be surprised if the Psalms, and the Prophets, are full of the longing for judgment, and regard the announcement that «judgment» is coming as good news.

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).