Sentences with phrase «performance gains of»

Microsoft are touting performance gains of up to 50 % with their new API, and they actually showcased a tech demo 3DMark running in crummy old DirectX 11, and then in slick new DirectX 12.

Phil Spencer had a long Q&A and he answered some of the questions about the console, he also said that he himself and the team were actually surprised by the performance gains of the console.

So you can see that the allure of a high performance version of a car, a G63 AMG compared to a regular G series, a CTS - V over a regular CTS might have little to do with the actual performance gains of the car.

Does any one believe that there are tables that provide the performance gains of students based upon the effectiveness of teachers in the inferior public schools that are unsafe and that have class rooms that are mayhem.

A: SGOs are based on academic performance gains of a teacher's particular students.

Another study found that it took Texas charters ten years to achieve the performance gains of their traditional school peers.

In their seminal report Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment, British researchers Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam showed that improving the quality of classroom feedback offers the greatest performance gains of any single instructional approach.

And they found that the group that trained according to their genotype experienced performance gains of more than 600 %.

Simulations of the proposed algorithms clearly illustrate the performance gains of the new algorithms over previously proposed approaches.

Whoa I thought the article might be overhyping the performance gain of the memory but it destroys all the other phones on the chart, only the Z3 came close in a few charts and and even then it was still over two times faster than in all but one test.

Not exact matches

The company attributed the performance to its international business, where it saw higher expenses, lower profit margins and weaker gains from sales of assets.

The gain occurred even though 2017 has been Berkshire's second straight year of mediocre operating performance relative to prior periods.

«We served more customers more often, achieved our best comparable sales performance in six years, gained share in markets around the world and made tremendous progress with growth platforms such as delivery, mobile order and pay and Experience of the Future.»

The blame for the sub-zero performance of last year's top 10 dividend payers fell squarely on a single stock, without which this basket would have rewarded investors with a 7 % gain.

The tech out performance was well in excess of what we thought, and about six weeks after that vol spike, you typically see a momentum unwind and so tech, in the crosshairs of both regulatory and trade concerns, have underperformed and given back about half of the relative gains.

«Our second quarter performance exceeded our expectations, driven by a return to growth for Coach, sales gains at Stuart Weitzman and the contribution of Kate Spade as we continued to make progress on the brand's integration,» CEO Victor Luis said in a statement.

He notes that while the tools available for identifying raw talent made gains with performance - measuring software and online recruitment tools, the results of these searches has hardly improved.

U.S. stocks underperformed emerging markets stocks, which was the only one among the three major regions — U.S., developed markets ex-U.S. and EM — to turn in positive performance as of Thursday, but even emerging markets barely eked out a gain, up about one half of 1 percent.

Consider maintaining a running log of leadership or performance lessons learned using apps such as Evernote or Any.do to capture insights gained while «in the moment.»

... But thematic ETFs are gaining acceptance, particularly since some of them have delivered excellent performance of late,» said Neena Mishra, director of ETF Research at Zacks Investment Research.

Millionaire households in North America attribute much of their wealth gains to positive performance of existing assets, like stocks.

«We believe short - term gains could fade shortly after earnings season as «the usual» sector overhangs weigh on H1 / 18 performance, namely the housing market and NAFTA,» National Bank of Canada Financial Markets analyst Gabriel Dechaine told clients in a research note.

Even though these programs tend to be more expensive than loans and lines of credit, a large group of merchants turn to them because they can gain access to financing more quickly and easily and because the repayment schedule tracks their business performance.

EBITDA is defined as earnings (net income or loss) before interest expense, net, (gain) loss on early extinguishment of debt, income tax (benefit) expense, and depreciation and amortization and is used by management to measure operating performance of the business.

Since confidence is something we all need — when you feel more confident, your performance almost always improves — I spend a fair bit of time thinking about how to gain confidence.

«While the GRE is gaining acceptance among business schools, it's still fairly new to the MBA admissions process and programs are not in a hurry to embrace it due to its lack of history in predicting business school performance,» said Liza Weale, Kaplan's executive director of pre-business and graduate programs, in a statement.

All the best, I realized that I left the growth factor a bit lacking in that message, but I also think you will find that in most investment senerios the compounding of the dividend / income is what drives portfolio performance rather than capital gains.

He later stepped aside in favor of Mattrick after Zynga's financial performance began to falter when a string of newer games failed to gain much traction.

Returns are calculated after taxes on distributions, including capital gains and dividends, assuming the highest federal tax rate for each type of distribution in effect at the time of the distribution Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

(Sec. 13309) This section requires a three - year holding period (one year under current law) for certain net long - term capital gains with respect to partnership interests held in connection with the performance of investment services.

Although dividends are an important attraction of the stock market, your overall long - term performance primarily depends on capital gains.

Benchmarks like the S. & P. 500 and the Russell 3000 index, which measures the performance of the 3,000 largest American companies, have gained 6 percent.

In this case, many LPs have incorporated the high performance of Unicorn valuations into their overall results which has created very strong performance gains for the venture capital category.

Yes, that's crisis - torn Somalia, although the gains seem to have more to do with expatriates sending gobs of money home than anything fundamental in the domestic economy, and are a repeat of the shilling's 2013 performance against its foreign - exchange peers.)

Consider that from a performance perspective, HYGH has outperformed its massive, well - established nonhedged competitors this year, registering the lone gain for the year of the three.

Over a 12 - month period (ended June 30, 2017), global hedge funds, as measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, delivered decent gains of 6.0 % in US dollar terms.1 That's a vast improvement in the performance of these alternative investments from the prior two years.

Figures include reinvestment of capital gains and dividends, but the performance does not include the effect of any direct fees described in the fund's prospectus (e.g., short - term trading fees) which, if applicable, would lower your total returns.

Based on the company's performance or other factors, the value of its stock may rise or fall, meaning that its shareholders either gain or lose money.

For confirmation that the market is poised to pullback, one must also assess the performance of the top - gaining stocks during the current rally.

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It's also important that traders don't measure profits based on percentages or pips gained or lost on each trade or based on the percentage account performance over xyz period of time.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

You might be thinking about the outsized gains in Netflix and Amazon, however, we are seeing massive relative out performance of the larger stocks not just in the S&P 500, but in the Russell 2000 as...

That difference in performance is a source of risk, but it has also been the primary source of our gains in recent years.

The San Francisco Giants replaced complex and time - consuming legacy disk with Pure, gaining performance, resilience, and effortless management — to say nothing of all the space (racks and racks reduced to one shelf).

The performance of technology stocks over the recent past has been striking: In 2017, for example, the information technology sector of the S&P 500 posted a 38 % return, while the broader S&P 500 Index gained 22 % (Source: Bloomberg data).

The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance,» in Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad - based Stock Options, ed.

The net negative fluctuation in financial income and expenses was primarily due to lower income related to gains from venture fund investments, which positively affected the third quarter 2017 and foreign exchange fluctuations, partially offset by the absence of an impairment charge related to the performance of certain private funds investing in IPR, which negatively affected the third quarter 2017.

Except as required by Section 162 (m) of the Code with respect to a SAR intended to qualify as performance - based compensation as described in Section 162 (m) of the Code, there will be no restrictions specified in the 2014 Plan on the exercise of SARs or the amount of gain realizable therefrom, although restrictions may be imposed by the administrator in the SAR agreements.

The near 9 percent slump in Chinese stocks was their worst performance since the depths of the global financial crisis in 2007 and wiped out what was left of the 2015 gains, which in June has been more than 50 percent.