Sentences with phrase «percent raise last»

The Rev. Al Sharpton gave himself a 71 percent raise last year after his National Action Network group drew a record $ 6.9 million in donations.

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In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

China produced over 30 percent of the 1 trillion eggs that were laid last year which has raised numerous environmental concerns on the continent.

Reiterating mid-term goals that include a 6 percent margin excluding Opel for 2021 - compared with 7.3 percent last year - Chief Financial Officer Jean - Baptiste de Chatillon said the targets will be reviewed early next year and could be raised.

Unlike crowdfunding which has never exceeded 10 percent of Series A dollars, in the last quarter, ICOs raised 32 percent as much as Series A startups.

The 2 percent increase for next year marks a significant jump over last year, which was just 0.3 percent, and the biggest change since 2012, when older Americans saw a 3.6 percent raise.

A survey last year by Mercer, a retirement and investment group, revealed that European pension funds would be inclined to raise their bond holdings when average long - term sovereign bond yields reached 2.8 percent.

Among that minority, an increasing number of raises came from promotions and new job responsibilities (24 percent this year vs. 10 percent last year).

At the same time, January retail sales fell unexpectedly in their biggest drop since last February, declining 0.3 percent, raising new concerns about the economy.

The company increased its dividend by 15 percent in 2013 and 8 percent last year, and said last April that it plans to continue to raise its dividend on an annual basis.

A temporary solution was found last year, gradually raising access to 60 percent of capacity until 2020.

Hogan says he sees a lot of startups get 90 percent of the way there then run out of cash, and it's often because they didn't raise enough during their last round and plan for enough runway.

The new finance chief of Spain also told CNBC that the southern European economy has been growing at a solid pace of about 3 percent in the last four years, but this doesn't mean that the problems raised during the euro zone sovereign debt crisis are over.

Worldsteel raised its estimate for last year's demand growth to 1 percent from 0.2 percent, primarily because Beijing's infrastructure - led stimulus resulted in a sharper - than - expected increase in China's steel use.

The group led by Stephen Riady's Overseas Union Enterprise threw in the towel after Thailand's TCC Assets, headed by billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, raised its takeover offer for F&N to S$ 9.55 a share last week and bought additional stock in the open market to build its existing F&N holding to more than 40 percent.

Morgan Stanley gave James Gorman the biggest raise yet among Wall Street chief executive officers for last year, boosting his pay 25 percent to $ 22.5 million.

Across party lines, roughly nine in 10 Americans support solar power, and according to a poll commissioned last spring by The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC), 69 percent of Republican likely voters and 80 percent of Democratic likely voters would be «unlikely» to reelect a politician who failed to raise the solar net metering cap.

Valeant became the face of high American drug prices when it acquired Isuprel and Nitropress last year and immediately raised their prices by 525 percent and 212 percent.

Last month, Boeing raised its quarterly dividend 20 percent and authorized a sweeping $ 18 billion stock buyback program.

North America accounts for the bulk of activity, with $ 1.6 billion raised there last year, a 105 percent increase on 2011.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

Shares in China Literature — the country's biggest player in the business, comparable to Amazon's Kindle Store — shot up more than 60 percent on their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange last week, after raising $ 1.1 billion in an IPO.

Devon, which operates in several large U.S. shale fields, also said last month that it would buy back $ 1 billion of its stock and raise its quarterly dividend by 33 percent after posting lower - than - expected quarterly earnings.

The Bay Area, as it usually does, dominated all other metros in total capital raised, snagging $ 1.74 billion in Q1 of 2016 — a decrease of 19.48 % percent from last year's $ 2.16 billion mark.

The recently published minute of the Fed's meeting last month showed some members of the policy committee have argued for raising interest rates more quickly in coming months because of strong economic growth, a robust job market and rising inflation, which last month exceeded the Fed's target of 2 percent.

The International Monetary Fund last month raised its annual growth forecasts for China and the euro area by 0.1 percent from its report in January.

... he's now a «bear market manager» and has raised his forecast for the yield on the benchmark 10 - year note to 4 percent to 6.5 percent, up from last year's forecast of 4 to 5.5 percent.

In addition, Oxford Economics found that employees who didn't use 11 to 15 days of paid time off last year were actually 6.5 percent less likely to have received a raise or bonus in the past three years compared with employees who took all of their paid time off.

Vick doesn't have great size for a wing at 6» 5, 175 pounds, but he's becoming a knockdown shooter (46 percent from three) and has raised his assists from 0.9 to 3.3 per game since last season.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

The last round of price increases occurred in April and May, when the major manufacturers raised wholesale prices by 8 percent to 9 percent.

Mayor Bill de Blasio played Santa Claus last year at taxpayers» expense, doling out raises to almost his entire staff — with 92 exceeding 10 percent.

De Blasio played Santa Claus last year at taxpayers» expense, doling out raises to almost his entire staff — with 92 exceeding 10 percent.

The UFT's contract expired in October 2009, making it one of the last unions to miss the 4 percent annual raises in the 2008 - 2010 round of bargaining.

Sen. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City), chairman of the Senate Health Committee, noted that Mylan Pharmaceutical has raised the price by more than 75 percent over the last year, bringing the cost of a two - pen set to $ 600.

«He's had six years to get something done to improve the quality of life in Central New York, including the last two as part of the Senate Democratic leadership team, but all he's done is raise taxes by $ 14 billion, increase spending by 14 percent in the middle of a recession and look the other way while his Democrat colleagues were investigated for corruption.»

He's said he'll recommend an increase in school aid by perhaps as much as five percent over last year, but he's also promised to not raise overall spending in the state budget above two percent.

Last year, Antonacci asked for a raise of $ 20,000, or 23 percent, that legislators rejected when they approved the 2011 budget.

The mayor described the cut in the tax rate as an effort to «cushion the impact of Southampton Town's recent reassessment of village properties, which raised total assessed values in Sagaponack by 20 percent since last year.»

Robert Lipp, budget review director, said raises under the law have averaged 1.09 percent annually over the last four years and a five - year freeze would save $ 154,737.

But Cuomo's willingness to use his bully pulpit — a poll last month showed he is viewed favorably by 70 percent of the state's voters — elevates the issue above others that he has pushed for with less vigor, such as raising the state's minimum wage.

We also know that after telling us last July that he was going to raise our town tax by only 1.9 percent St. Lawrence increased our town tax by 9.4 percent.

Reading between the lines, the report raises questions about how much Ulster actually lost during last year's «Cahill Sales Tax Crisis,» which deprived the county of a one percent sales tax surcharge in December and January.

«At only 4 percent of what the district attorney has raised in the last six months, the firm's contributions make up a very small portion of what has become the most vast, diverse and progressive network of financial supporters in this race,» he said.

After 16 months of tense negotiations that included a two - week strike last year, unions representing 45,000 Verizon employees announced tentative new contracts that call for an 8 percent pay raise over four years while requiring workers to pay more for health coverage.

On the other hand, people are truly outraged that our town board is going to do what I predicted before the last election — to raise its taxes far beyond the 2 percent cap.»

As for the minimum wage, Cuomo said last weekend that he would support the Working Families Party's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 10.10 per hour and to allow individual communities to seek state approval to set their own minimum wages up to 30 percent above.

Raising the minimum wage — which last went up a dime three years ago to meet the current federal rate — could mean passing along a 17 percent increase in expenses to her clients.

The top Renewal official, Executive Superintendent Aimee Horowitz, makes $ 179,763, a 2.5 percent raise from last school year.

The adopted budget — approved last week — allowed for the raise to be phased in over four years at 3 percent per year, county spokesman Brad Maione said.