Sentences with phrase «points each year while»

Would you intentionally vary the number of measuring points each year while continuously moving them around?

Not exact matches

Furthermore, while The Guardian says that vodka sales showed an uptick of 1.6 percent last year, the Wall Street Journal points out that sales of Smirnoff brand vodka were down eight percent between June and December.

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

In his 15th season, at 33 years old, James is still as dominant as ever, averaging 34 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists per game while leading the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Similar articles appear every year (indeed, we at Fortune published one just last month) and while technically accurate, they strike me as missing the point.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

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.

Further, while the show's creators are quick to point out that late - night talk shows take time to develop, Comedy Central has high hopes that «The Opposition» can help return the network to its glory years as a political comedy powerhouse.

The S&P 500 has had a remarkable year — up 19 percent — while the Dow Jones industrial average added more than 150 points intraday Tuesday to trade at an all - time high above 24,000.

His exit is the latest in a string of departures from the unit, Recode points out, highlighting that one of the project's other cofounders, Jiajun Zhu, recently left for an unnamed startup, while another group, including cofounder Anthony Levandowski, went to found a self - driving truck startup at the beginning of the year.

So while the time for VIX to fall back to 15 has, in the post-financial-crisis era, shortened compared with what was seen before and during the crisis, history still points to the likelihood that volatility will remain above what was seen in recent years.

This year, Ogwumike has raised her scoring averaging to 20 points per game (third), on 59.6 % shooting (third), while grabbing seven rebounds per game (ninth), and leading the league in win shares.

While China's domestic security spending outstrips defense spending, though the government stopped providing exact figures four years ago, it has also struggled with some pointed intelligence failures.

A sell - off on Friday left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 260 points for the week and the blue chip index remains down 7 % on the year, while the tech - heavy Nasdaq composite is now off by almost 13 % this year.

A two - time Defensive Player of the Year who's led the league in blocks four years in a row, Griner is now leading the league in scoring, averaging 22 points per game on 57 % shooting while once again leading the league in blocks per game.

While geopolitical uncertainty was a major focal point earlier this year — with several North Korean missile launches initially sending investor scurrying into safe - have assets — risk appetite has since improved, with markets looking instead to stronger economic growth globally.

He points out that North American box office receipts have increased 6.8 % over last year at this time, while attendance should grow by 9.6 % to 17.7 million people.

She expects to see 3 % to 4 % sales growth per year going forward, while operating margins will grow to 18.5 % by 2017, which is 300 basis points above the its five year average.

This, Klosterman argues, is how it has always been (for a while we were certain the Earth was flat until that was proven incorrect), and from that starting point, he attempts to explore which ideas or truths we believe today may be seen as woefully incorrect 100 years in the future.

On April 3, he initiated coverage with a buy rating, and pointed out his report that the emerging markets «downtick» is leveling off, while U.S. enterprise and commercial markets is growing by 10 % a year.

Under this system, tariff s of 200 % to 300 % are imposed on foreign milk and milk products while here at home, prices are manipulated to the point where, according to a paper by former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, a typical Canadian family is paying in excess of $ 300 a year more than they need to for milk alone.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting point of China's nascent economic recovery.

As a person who, at various points in the last five years, has held paid accounts with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box, all while also paying for additional iCloud storage, I personally rely on AirDrop to move photos, videos and whatever else between my phone and computer all the time.

So, while Hilton says HHonors's changes match those made by competitors over the past few years, customers who see loyalty points as cash in hand are still indignant.

Nash, of Wealthfront, pointed out that it took his company two and a half years to reach $ 1 billion in assets, while it took Schwab six years.

Italian 10 - year bond yields fell 2.5 basis points (bps) to 1.754 percent while other euro zone yields were pushed higher by a sell - off in U.S. Treasuries and data suggesting the euro zone economy was not as weak as expected.

He also points out that advertiser - driven engagement was up 76 % year - over-year, while domestic ad revenue and international monetization jumped 73 % and 139 %, respectively.

Mark Mahaney, an analyst at RBC, points out that display advertising revenues grew by 46 % year - over-year, while click - based advertising grew by 17 %.

In economic data, total mortgage application volume fell 0.2 percent for the week and was 0.8 percent lower than a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted survey.On Tuesday, U.S. markets finished in the red, with the Dow closing down more than 400 points, while on Wednesday, markets in Europe and Asia were both trading deep in the red.

Additionally, Love's percentage of shots from two - point range fell from 64.5 % to 58.8 % last year, while his three - point attempts rose 35.5 % to 41 %.

Training and expense costs are tax deductible for Olympians but most Olympic competitors spend years working regular jobs or going to school while enduring grueling practice sessions that push bodies to their breaking points.

In the past three years, HYLD has returned negative 1.68 percent, while JNK is up by about the same percentage, with an expense ratio (0.40 percent) that is 83 basis points lower.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

The benchmark 10 - year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.75 % fell 2 basis points to 2.814 %, while the 30 - year bond yield TMUBMUSD30Y, -0.77 % slipped 3.3 basis points to 2.998 %, its third straight decline.

While the slope of the yield curve today may point to more modest returns in future years, we believe the bull market still has room to run.

At this point, health care is one issue I have chosen to deal with on a year - to - year basis, while also knowing that future changes might require us to work longer than we'd hoped.

The point is that some years stock selection is a futile effort, while other times it can be a endeavor worth pursuing.

I agree with it, for the most part, but as someone who reads a lot of investing articles, the general consensus among the «experts» seems to be that while we are OK now, within the next couple of years the bull market will end [as they always do at some point], and we will suffer a large crash.

While Facebook is still rated as the most effective platform overall, confidence in the platform slightly dropped (4 percentage points from last year.)

Gross pointed to the long - term success of the Total Return Fund, while acknowledging the tough year the fund saw in 2011, when it experienced significant net outflows after he bet against the bond market.

A lot of the upward momentum was disproportionately on the front end in response to the Bank of Canada's two consecutive interest rate hikes in the summer, while yields fell from the 20 - year point onward.

Last year, while shareholders were generally supportive of the 180 issuers in Canada who held say - on - pay votes, rejecting just two proposals — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX: CP) and Crescent Point Energy Corp. (TSX: CPG)-- the numbers are shifting.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

For example, while high yield spreads are considerably lower than they were at the January market bottom, they are approximately 200 basis points (2 percent) wider than they were two years ago, as Bloomberg data shows.

China's one - year sovereign bond yield has climbed 14 basis points since the devaluation, while the cost to insure the nation's debt against default jumped to a two - year high.

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.

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

While the S&P 500 peaked a few points higher in October of that year, the overall top - formation was followed by a 55 % market collapse.

Usage of our proprietary cards increased 10 basis points over the last year in the quarter reaching 48.7 % and while on the subject of credit I want to point out that we signed over new loan expansions of our partnership with Citi that now goes until 2025 instead of 2016 expiration of our original contract.