Sentences with phrase «over the first half of this year»

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LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

What has really happened in private equity over those decades is that investors, net of fees, did about 25 % better than the S&P up through the 2005 «vintage» year (denoting funds that first drew capital in 2005).

Revenue for the first half of this year was $ 560.6 million, an increase of 51 percent over the same period last year.

This involves taking the estimates that clients have come up with for what they expect to spend in retirement — and then running a simulation of what would happen to their portfolio if they spent 25 % more than that over each of their first 15 years.

That means employees who are currently exempt from overtime pay who earn less than this threshold will become nonexempt — employers will suddenly be required to pay overtime to over four million more employees within the first year of implementing the new rules.

The company didn't venture into the realm of flavors sooner because it first needed to build up its staff, he says, adding that headcount has doubled over the past year.

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

The first - of - its - kind Amazon Go store opened in Seattle this week after just over a year overcoming glitches in beta mode, when it was only open to Amazon employees.

«I am honored to serve in the role of First Lady, and look forward to working on behalf of the American people over the coming years,» Trump said in a statement.

Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the first quarter of 2015, real hourly compensation was up 1.8 % over the previous year and jumped at an annualized rate of 5.5 % compared to the last quarter of 2014.

It was the first sighting of the polynya in over 40 years.

We offer four months over the course of the first year.

According to the chart below — not to mention every single piece of research written by Hussman over the past year and change — the first qualification has been more than met.

Within her first year of running Bee Downtown full time, Bonner sold over 50 hives, enabling her to make a living wage and hire a beekeeper.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent the first years of his mandate shunning China on human - rights grounds, but as the global economy has shifted he has become «Mr. Panda Man» — a reference to the PM's fawning over two cuddly Chinese ambassadors.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

While Slack's work force — around 600 employees — is tiny next to the likes of Google and Facebook, the company is growing so rapidly that its hiring over the next year or two could make it one of the first major tech companies to reach, or approach, gender and ethnic parity.

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

Dong says the company is «absolutely on track» to hit its goal, particularly invigorated by a 25 % surge year over year in Nike's overall China market in the first three quarters of 2016.

Meanwhile, BHP has made a $ 20 million donation over the next five years to the Telethon Kids Institute, with the first annual instalment of $ 4 million to kick - start Telethon tomorrow night.

It was a record for the second quarter of the year, as the summer months are usually slow for Netflix, and the company even bucked normal seasonality trends by posting sequential growth over the first quarter.

Over the past two years, Groupon's stock price has gone from $ 26 a share on its first day of trading in November 2011 to less than $ 3 a share a year later.

«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.

The rule will automatically extend overtime pay protections to over 4 million workers within the first year of implementation, resulting in a boost to many workers» wallets.

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Of course, this isn't the first time in the last few years that Dr. Greenspan has expressed his fears over the bond vigilantes.

Over the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationaOver the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationaover 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationaover $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationally.

That's a little over a year after Apple completed its acquisition of the music company, and five months since its replacement first appeared on the scene.

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

Over the course of three - plus years, McQueen — who has appeared in the MTV reality show Nitro Circus and FuelTV's Thrillbillies — has won Monster Jam's Rising Star Award, a monster truck racing title in New Orleans, and in 2010 he made Monster Jam history by landing the first - ever back flip in competition.

Revenue for the first quarter of 2013 was up 58 percent over the same period last year.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's major policy moves over the course of his first year in office have had a common denominator: They either overtly favor his base of support — the roughly one - third of voters who solidly back him — or they appear to penalize those states that vote Democratic.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

In the first two years, «Obama and the Democratic majorities bent over backwards to develop the Mitt Romney version of national health care and also to give a third of the stimulus package to tax cuts,» Jillson says.

«International investors have embraced the positive changes in the accessibility of the China A shares market over the last few years and now all conditions are set for MSCI to proceed with the first step of the inclusion,» Remy Briand, MSCI Managing Director and Chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee, said in a release.

First, I must thank each of you for the cooperation and support you've shown me over the years.

Sales for the first quarter were up 144 percent year over year, revenue is on track to top $ 1 billion this year and its paid active users has grown from 600,000 in 2012 to 9.5 million in the first quarter of 2015.

To spur manufacturing, the former Pennsylvania senator would give factory owners a 0 percent corporate tax rate in the first year of his plan, edging up to 20 percent over three years.

The 39 - year - old president, a newcomer to international diplomacy, will meet many of his counterparts for the first time over the next few days at the NATO meeting in the Belgian capital followed by a G7 summit in Sicily.

The first quarter year over year revenue comparison was negatively impacted by approximately $ 184,000 due to the adoption of the new revenue recognition standard (ASC Topic 606) as well as the loss of a large customer, representing revenue of approximately $ 800,000 in the current quarter, which was previously announced as lost in Q4 2017.

Here's an alarming fact for new entrepreneurs: Over 66 percent of all new businesses fail within their first eight years of operation.

First, forecast the business income over a period of years.

It's been over 35 years since Mario first appeared in 1981 arcade classic «Donkey Kong,» and, since then, he's been in, like, a lot of games (the Mario Wiki estimates somewhere in the neighborhood of 170).

First quarter sales of $ 15.2 billion were up 10 percent over the prior year, including 6 points of organic sales growth and 3 points of foreign exchange.

This is the most expensive new feature in the budget, at a cost of $ 680 million over the first five years.

Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences, if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.

It first became insolvent in 2012 after losing $ 1.4 billion over six years from contracts under which it sold the bulk of its output below market prices.

At first glance, the planned $ 600 million expansion of Perth's Karrinyup Shopping Centre seems to run counter to the relentless march of internet retailing, especially as a fresh report predicts that 50 per cent of all retail sales will be made over the internet in less than 10 years.

The business of getting people to give to charity has changed remarkably little over the 125 years since Andrew Carnegie first ushered in modern philanthropy with his book «The Gospel of Wealth.»