Sentences with phrase «on point this week»

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The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note added roughly 60 basis points this year, topping the 3 percent mark this week for the first time in four years.

People are also pointing out that Twain's comments were published less than a week after she appeared as a guest judge on «RuPaul's Drag Race.»

Total target timeline from first day on payroll to first points on the board: two to three weeks for small - business reps, two to three months for the enterprise reps who sell to big companies.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

I'll have more on that later this week, but I found the point particularly poignant when learning about Boivin's story.

The reality of today's business landscape, when reflecting on the past week, is this: Being a woman in business, surrounded by supportive male counterparts, is perhaps not the point anymore.

Last week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply - chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»

Last week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»

After getting to know Ehret's work, Jobs became something of a nutritional extremist, subsisting on carrots for weeks at a time — to the point that his skin reportedly started turning orange.

As a recent client note from BNP Paribas pointed out last week, Chairman Ben Bernanke laid out the bank's strategy on «threats to financial stability» quite neatly in his latest public address.

In order to find the potential turning points that will take an industry in a new direction, leaders must give their employees permission to stop focusing only on what needs to be accomplished by the end of the day or week.

«We've been looking at our growth week on week for the past year saying at some point real soon, it's going to slow down,» says Cal Henderson, Slack's CTO and a co-founder.

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to publish its final rules on net neutrality in the Federal Register at some point this week.

That's down three points from 2015, when 56 percent of respondents reported not having taken a vacation in a year and 41 percent admitted to having not been on a leisure trip of at least a week to a place 100 miles or more from home in more than two years.

If this process sounds too tedious, you can also make a point of assessing your to - do list a couple of times a week to see how much bandwidth you have and, based on that assessment, decide whether you can take on helping others at that time.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

A sell - off on Friday left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 260 points for the week and the blue chip index remains down 7 % on the year, while the tech - heavy Nasdaq composite is now off by almost 13 % this year.

U.S. stocks have opened the first full week of 2015 with a steep decline, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping 331 points, as falling oil prices weighed on the energy sector.

Dec 1 (Reuters)- U.S. stock futures pointed to a reversal of some of this week's gains for Wall Street on Friday as a delay in voting on a Republican tax overhaul kept investors on edge about its passage.

But there no question of any EU «boots on the ground» in Libya, which has become a main launching point for people traffickers since being plunged into chaos with two rival governments and a significant number of Islamic State militants, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said last week.

Dec 1 - U.S. stock futures pointed to a reversal of some of this week's gains for Wall Street on Friday as a delay in voting on a Republican tax overhaul kept investors on edge about its passage.

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.

Negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico wrapped up the seventh round of Nafta talks this week in Mexico still hoping for a breakthrough on the biggest sticking points.

In a news release last week, Crescent Point said the Cation nominees are unqualified or offer experience that isn't needed on the board and that Howe and Pinder are too close to the company's director retirement age of 75.

As the New York Times pointed out on Tuesday, there have been seven events since the economic crisis of 2009 where the S&P 500 has fallen five percent in the course of a week.

Still, the McCurry family makes a point to go on vacation and went on a seven - week excursion to Mexico last year.

On this day two weeks later, nonetheless, it is the right time to look at a widely - noted stock market prediction that Buffett made 17 years ago, in 1999, and that is just reaching its terminal point.

When news broke earlier this week that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson planned to skip a NATO meeting, Shapiro pointed on Twitter to a failure to fill staff vacancies.

Volatility as measured by the VIX, which had surged on the recent downwards moves, dropped by 4 points to roughly 18.5, eversing all of its jump over the past week.

A Shanghai index for U.S. West Coast (USWC) freight rates rose 23 points last week to 2,265, and brokers said quotes had risen a further five points on Monday.

Last week's televised town hall on guns and school safety has led to finger - pointing by the father of a Florida school shooting survivor and CNN.

She points out the discrepancies between the amount of time people claim to spend on work during a week, for example, and the number of hours that studies using time diaries actually show we spend making productive contributions to our jobs.

The Cowboys have their season on the line and the Seahawks scored just seven points last week.

In economic data, total mortgage application volume fell 0.2 percent for the week and was 0.8 percent lower than a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted survey.On Tuesday, U.S. markets finished in the red, with the Dow closing down more than 400 points, while on Wednesday, markets in Europe and Asia were both trading deep in the red.

The comedian pointed specifically to a popular segment Last Week Tonight ran two years ago on state lotteries, which relied heavily on the work of The Oregonian newspaper reporter Harry Esteve.

In Asia, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent on January 15, more than two weeks before its scheduled meeting, catching markets by surprise.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

And then your second point on commodity pricing, so you're right, corn's done a big run - up in the last week, $ 6.50 corn and December priced at $ 6.50.

This week the average interest rate on 1 - year CDs rose to 0.42 percent, 1 basis point higher than it was last week.

Last week Schroepfer was on the sharp end of lots of awkward questions from visibly outraged committee members, with Collins pointing to what he dubbed a «pattern of behavior» by Facebook that he said suggested an «unwillingness to engage, and a desire to hold onto information and not disclose it».

Case in point is recent IPO Acacia Communications ($ ACIA), which broke out on the week of July 12 to close 40 % above the first print of its 10 - week moving average.

Well before analysts had the chance to grill Apple executives, pundits spent the week debating the $ 329 price point on the iPad mini, which has a 7.9 - inch screen.

The downside is that the interest rate on a HELOC is variable and often tracks any movement in the federal funds rate, which is expected to increase up to three more times after this week's quarter - point hike.

Trump delays metal tariffs on EU, Mexico and Canada: Reuters Special Counsel Mueller has far - ranging questions for Trump: NY Times US consumer spending and price inflation picked up in March: Reuters Pending homes sales in March for US point to subdued growth: CNBC Dallas Fed Mfg Index: mfg activity rebounded «strongly» in April: Dallas Fed Chicago PMI edges up in Apr, remains relatively subdued vs. recent history: MW Fed expected to hold rates steady this week and raise rates in June: Reuters Rising gas prices on track to deliver most expensive driving season since 2014: AP Initial Q2 GDPNow estimate for US economy is a strong 4.1 %: Atlanta Fed US Treasury in Q1: 2018 borrowed the most since 2008: Bloomberg

Last week I noted that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I expected the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

Stocks didn't suffer a particularly tough beginning to the week; the S&P 500 fell 0.04 points on Monday, its smallest single - day drop since 2012.

For example, U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields closed in on 2.50 percent last week, roughly 50 basis points (0.50 percent) higher than their late April levels.

From that point forward, I went on to do 5 days a week.

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We believe the Brexit vote will continue to be top of mind this week, as polls point to a marginal lead for those on the «leave» side.