Sentences with phrase «past year marked»

This past year marked a transitional period in housing as the market moved through quickly escalating prices to a sustainable, long - term recovery, comprised of reduced delinquencies and foreclosure starts as well as rising home values.

This past year marked many climate - change milestones.

This past year marked a big year for the LGBT community, with the Supreme Court ruling that marriage between same - sex couples was legal across the country.

Not being able to nurse my older daughter past the year mark motivated me to make it a goal the second time around.

Not exact matches

The company is reportedly planning another billion - dollar raise — marking the eighth round of funding it has sought in the past five years.

In the past year, the rumor mill has sputtered out names including entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, and rapper Kanye West.

«Given the steady growth of the Mexican import segment in the US over the past few years, the addition of Sol represents a key addition to our portfolio,» Molson Coors CEO and President Mark Hunter said in a statement.

Keeping the planes in service past the 30 - year mark isn't recommended because the technology becomes obsolete and difficult to maintain.

For Allegiant, however, such great numbers actually mark a stark drop from the past two years, when its almost 30 percent margins were among the best in the industry worldwide.

I know you were fairly intimately involved in the various acquisitions that Canadian Tire has made over the past few years, like the Forzani Group that operates Sport Chek and Mark's Work Wearhouse.

Though the world has witnessed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg undergo some striking changes over the past 10 years, some fundamentals — like his wardrobe, for instance — have remained largely unchanged since he started a college social network in 2004.

With a year as impactful and chaotic as 2017 finally coming to a close, it's time to look back on all of the people whose work and art have made a mark on us over the past months.

When he hits the mark, Bezos, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, becomes the first man to bump Gates from his perch in seven years and is only the sixth man to hold the «richest person» title in the past 30 years, according to Forbes.

That marks a drastic change from the past few years, during which time the company lost more than half its workforce.

The past couple of years have been marked by investor revolts against the level of salaries paid to top executives at some London - listed companies including Sky Plc and Pearson Plc (pearson - plc).

«This stock is still making lower highs for the past few years, I am very skeptical of this move, and if it's truly marking a change in the long - term trend,» Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

The beermaker's financial performance has earned Brito high marks from Wall Street — the stock is up more than 150 % over the past four years, compared with the S&P's 68 % gain — but it is Brito's management style that has earned him a place on Fortune's 2013 Executive Dream Team.

For the past four years, Mark Titus has done a great job becoming the world's most famous walk - on.

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

Jia declined to comment on Trump's decision not to attend the summit, which would have marked the US president's first visit to Latin America since taking office last year, but mentioned Chinese President Xi has visited Latin America three times in the past four years.

As Boomers become Zoomers (A moniker meant to describe their continued momentum past the 65 year mark — and one I personally love since I'm smack in the midst of that cohort!)

Indeed, Dickson, Flaherty and Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney all have huge credibility, thanks to their country's performance over the past two years.

Last year, 111.3 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl, according to Nielsen, which marked a low when compared to Super Bowl viewerships in years past.

I'm guessing Bill is way past $ 10 million a year in podcasting revenue, and my pal Leo Laporte (for whom I have had the privilege of sitting in as host from time to time) is also at that $ 10m mark after laying the groundwork for the rest of us.

Mark - I have been trying to launch the following for the past 3 years and believe this is the best way to allow entrepreneurs to bring back the economy while allowing people to still save money and spend money that is put to use on them.

The net worths of top tech entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have rocketed by a combined 21 per cent over the past year to reach $ 1.08 trillion, according to Forbes newly released 100 richest people in tech list.

At Legg Mason, which has struggled in the past five years, 2013 marked a turnaround, a shift driven by confidence in new management and improvement in company operations, said Macrae Sykes, an analyst for Gabelli & Company.

Well past the midway mark on the veterans and military hiring front, Starbucks is also expanding its efforts to hire Opportunity Youth — 16 - to 24 - year - olds who are neither employed or in school; an estimated 5.4 million young Americans.

In January of this year, the Dow soared past the 22,000 mark for the first time, and this new milestone has many watching the market carefully to see if the jumps signify a bigger upward shift.

Yet volatility is still below its long - term average, and the low - volatility climate of the past few years is incompatible with a world marked by slow growth, unstable inflation expectations and a likely Federal Reserve rate hike before year's end.

The company has beefed up its management ranks in the past year with the appointment of former Telstra deputy chief financial officer Mark Hall as CFO and Richmond Football Club director and former SEEK executive, Joe Powell as CEO.

It's up 31 % in constant currency for fiscal year 2012 coming in, as Mark said, at $ 3.7 billion, and that's on top of a 30 % growth number last year, over $ 1.5 billion of incremental revenue over the past 2 years.

This could mark the beginning of a substantial decline that all of the «perma - bears» have been forecasting for the past few years.

Several people close to Trump said they would be surprised if Tillerson stays in his post past his one - year mark in January.

Jakhar also said Prozo has achieved revenue of $ 1.2 million in the past eight months and aims to touch the $ 5 million revenue mark in the current year.

With just 40 % -50 % gains needed to break the four - digit mark, AutoZone could easily reach that milestone within a few years if it continues to enjoy the success it has seen in the past.

The pick - up in growth over the past year has been driven by a marked increase in domestic final demand.

Part of the marked increase in US dollar oil prices over the past year has simply reflected the depreciation of the US dollar.

The CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®), which has been relatively quiet over the past couple years, spiked up and crossed the 50 mark intraday on Feb. 5, 2018.

Eduction Minister Jeff Johnson could introduce an Education Act, which would mark the third time the Tories have attempted to introduce a consolidated piece of education legislation in the past few years.

Over the course of the past two years, we've seen a marked shift in buyer behavior and buying choices.

This marks the fifth significant transaction in the past three years, and the largest to date for Micro Focus.

Huge cost savings are waning for U.S. shale oil companies, marking an end to the drastic price cuts on equipment and services over the past 16 months that helped them survive the worst industry downturn in six years.

This measure has fluctuated around the 3 per cent mark for much of the past year, but is well below the levels of the previous two years.

The past twelve months were historic for the S&P 500 Index, marking the first calendar year since 1926 when every month experienced a positive total return.

This marks the fifth increase in the past two years.

I am a female pastor in Seattle that publicly called Mark D out in 2006, met with him then and voiced concerns for the past 8 years.

Mark, I can, off the top of my head, count on one hand the number of churches that have closed in the past two years in just one diocese, on top of that, several elementary schools and one high school.

We've had ten years without a temperature rise, and this past winter, in both hemispheres, has marked a substantial downturn.

«While there are a lot of risks out there, it feels less risky than in the past 25 to 30 years,» Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics, told The New York Times.