Sentences with phrase «point about a year and»

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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

This is a good one, and one I hated lying about in job interviews;) But I honestly can only see about 3 years ahead at this point.

He points out so far there hasn't been «an avalanche of cases,» and that only about 12 were launched in the past two years.

You always hear about the «overnight success» of a lot of businesses, but what most people don't see is the years of behind the scenes blood, sweat, and tears that go into pushing a business to that single point in time.

«One friendly but sharp - eyed commentator on Berkshire has pointed out that our book value at the end of 1964 would have bought about one - half ounce of gold and, 15 years later, after we have plowed back all earnings along with much blood, sweat and tears, the book value produced will buy about the same half ounce.

About 10 years ago I reached a point in my business where money would come in from a client, and I had the choice to give employees their paychecks on time, or pay the IRS.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

While several very good notebooks launched in the last year, there wasn't One True Laptop you could point to and say «this is the best machine for most people» the way you could about the MacBook Air years ago.

The business now represents about 13 % of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10 % a year earlier,» notes a Reuters report, which points to revenue from things like Pixel phones and cloud computing services for business customers.

The sticking point, though, is that combined RRSP and TFSA room isn't unlimited — it maxes out at about $ 37,000 a year for an individual making about $ 150,000.

A case in point: Beauty products, which generate about 15 % of department store visits, became a chronically weak spot for Macy's about five years ago, as it ceded market share to the likes of Ulta and Sephora.

A simulation by Oxford Economics suggests a 25 percent U.S. tariff on $ 60 billion worth of Chinese exports, with comparable retaliation, would reduce China's growth by about 0.1 percentage point this year and a little less next year, chief Asia economist Louis Kuijs in Hong Kong said in a recent note.

«We have a dedicated center for supply chain management,» Hartmann points out, adding that about six courses are taught in that specialty each year, that the school also offers a master's degree in supply chain management, and that the school's departments of operations and IT management has nine faculty members with industry expertise.

In his usual forthright manner, state Treasurer and Transport Minister Troy Buswell made some pointed comments earlier this year about the role of the state's port authority boards.

«Over the last three years the technology and performance has come down to the point where it's possible to think about a mass - market audience,» Paul says.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

«The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist,» Apple's CEO said, according to Bloomberg.

To buy a home, you'll need a credit score of about 640, explains Bill Liatsis, CEO and co-founder of online loan platform CreditIQ, and it would take about two years to get your score up about 200 points.

A Forbes piece recently highlighted the next five years of user experience trends, and made key points about how users are being changed by the internet of things, voice and bots.

Changing how people feel about their work is the point of Plasticity Labs, which Moss founded two years ago with his wife, Jennifer, the company's chief marketing officer, and chief technical officer Lance Mohring.

Yum Brands, in reporting third - quarter earnings, stated «foreign currency translation remains a strong headwind» and that it expected the exchange rate «to impact full - year earnings per share by about 5 percentage points.»

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.&rAbout five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.&rabout five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

Usually, Facebook takes every chance to obfuscate this point: Last year's F8 conference, for example, was as much about augmented reality and brain - typing technology as it was about improvements to its existing services.

At this point, the Times makes about $ 400 million a year in digital revenue, with about half of that coming from digital advertising and half of it from the paywall.

The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield rose 5.2 basis points to 3.035 percent on Wednesday, driven by worries about the growing supply of government debt and inflationary pressures from rising oil prices.

US 10 - year interest rates are about 230 basis points above German rates and about 280 basis points above Japanese rates.

As investors, we are generally happier when the consensus is worried and we highlighted some concern about this very point at the beginning of the year.

They talk about getting up to 3 or 4 %, which looks unlikely given that 10 year rates are at 2 % and as you pointed out their predictions of 10 year rates increasing have always been wrong.

This will lead GDP to be higher than otherwise by between about 1/2 and 3/4 of a percentage point over the course of two years (Graph 1).

Mortgage rates are not historically high today, but they are about half a percentage point higher since the start of this year and are clearly on an upward trajectory.

And the banks which generally do better when rates move up have outperformed the S&P 500 by about 2-1/2 percentage points this year, and would have gone even better had loan growth not been fairly anemAnd the banks which generally do better when rates move up have outperformed the S&P 500 by about 2-1/2 percentage points this year, and would have gone even better had loan growth not been fairly anemand would have gone even better had loan growth not been fairly anemic.

And, as Jason Del Ray pointed out three years ago in a post about Amazon's refusal to release its Prime figures, while Bezos himself has made it clear that he doesn't care much about what Wall Street thinks, many of his employees care very much about the company's stock price.

Last year, Marriott and Starwood completed their merger and have been releasing details about how to share points from one company to the other.

Just this weekend, he echoed that statement, with a more direct jab at Facebook, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, telling the audience at a conference in China, «The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist.»

Now my point is, «i'm old, i've been in the oil business for over 50 years and i've been a part of GETTING US THIS FAR, now, i suggest you be thankful for that tank of gas and Timmy's, I am all about passing the torch to the next generation.

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the bull market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the bull market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that bull final market peak.

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

But coupled with the 1,800 point loss from the past week, the DOW and the S & p500 are now down about 8 % from their highs, and down for the year.

A few other interesting points that I expect Tesla will address include, plans for production in China now that the door appears to be open, timing on Model Y since news came out that Tesla was aiming for a start of production in November 2019, and even though the company and Musk directly addressed it a few times recently, I expect analysts will want more details about Tesla's plan not to raise capital this year.

And I do think, John, you point to a factor here, which is we talk about and we've been talking about for a year, for example, the direction we want to go in but the development times — the development cycles are fairly extended because we have to develop dishAnd I do think, John, you point to a factor here, which is we talk about and we've been talking about for a year, for example, the direction we want to go in but the development times — the development cycles are fairly extended because we have to develop dishand we've been talking about for a year, for example, the direction we want to go in but the development times — the development cycles are fairly extended because we have to develop dishes.

May 8 (Bloomberg)-- Two years after the frightening spring day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost and regained about 600 points in a matter of minutes, we still don't really know why.

Those borrowers, who had an average of $ 56,202 in student loan debt outstanding, will realize those savings through interest rate reductions of 1.71 percentage points on average, and shorter loan terms on their new loans (about 5 years on average).

The company once again pointed to China as an area of intense growth, with sales there nearly doubling from year - ago levels and representing about half of total revenue for the quarter.

PICTURED ABOVE AND BELOW: The City of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are risiAND BELOW: The City of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are risiand single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are rising.

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3.5 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), and holds about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.