«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at
some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.
rose by 3
points in the first quarter, with 52 percent disapproving and 34 percent approving of his job performance.
LeBron James had a stellar game on Tuesday night in Cleveland, scoring twenty - five
points in the first quarter en route to...
With a fast start vital in Game 3, O'Neal (10
points in the first quarter, four in the second) and Bryant (nine and six) neatly divided the load in the first half, when the Lakers raced out to a lead they would never relinquish.
Golden State overcame 17 turnovers with strong team defense, despite only forcing nine giveaways, allowing as few as 15
points in the first quarter.
Los Angeles got behind the eight - ball from the start, giving up 39
points in the first quarter and going down by 15 points.
After scoring 24
points in the first quarter Memphis tightened up in the second, allowing just 20 points.
That was a 13 - point win for the Rockets, who were able to put up 40
points in the first quarter.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you give up 28
points in the first quarter of your third home game of the year.
Being that it was the second time in six games that they got their doors blown off, I figured it was time to take a look under the hood and break down exactly how they allowed a team to come onto their home field and score 28 unanswered
points in the first quarter alone.
It's unclear what prompted the dispute between the two Arizona players, perhaps it was the fact that the Arizona Wildcats gave up 21
points in the first quarter.
After scoring 31
points in the first quarter of Game 6, Chicago wound up netting 42 the remainder of the game.
When Niko put up 14
points in the first quarter, the tone was set for the rest of the night.
Durant scored 15
points in the first quarter, then added nine in the second to help the Warriors take a 57 - 47 advantage at the break.
John Wall scored 11 of his 19
points in the first quarter and had nine assists, Otto Porter Jr. had 16 points and the Wizards beat the Sacramento Kings 110 - 83 on Sunday.
Derrick Rose scored 17
points in the first quarter including this half - court heave right before the buzzer ran out.
Houston goes full - pads once a week, but in a short window to prep for Thursday night games, Herman is doubting his approach after SMU scored 14
points in the first quarter and carried a tie game almost to halftime.
Westbrook scored 21
points in the first quarter, making nine of his first 10 shots as the Thunder led 42 - 30.
New York City scored 85.1
points in the first quarter of this year.
Both Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs ran in the top - three at multiple
points in the first quarter of the opening round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Both Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs ran in the top - three at multiple
points in the first quarter of the opening round...
MSD had a strong start in the first two quarters with 17
points in the first quarter and 22 points in the second.
Slated to make its debut at
some point in the first quarter of 2018, Amazon will first launch the app on Windows 10 PCs from Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and HP, with plans to expand the lineup of compatible hardware in the future.
Also, the Galaxy S8 is expected to debut at
some point in the first quarter of the year.
The A10X will power the next - gen iPad Pro models, which may arrive at
some point in the first quarter next year.
The Galaxy S9 is Samsung's next major smartphone release, a phone that should be unveiled at
some point in the first quarter of 2018.
Housing added 0.43 of a percentage
point in the first quarter, when the economy grew by 2 %.
The SIOR index, measuring the impact of 10 variables, declined 2.6 percentage points to 54.9 in the second quarter, following a strong gain of 6.8 percentage
points in the first quarter.
The national vacancy rate for community and neighborhood centers ticked up 20 basis
points in the first quarter to 7.7 %, while asking rents grew 0.4 %, reports commercial real estate research firm Reis Inc..
Total office vacancy for Washington D.C. stands at 12.5 percent, according to JLL, and year - to - date net absorption is at negative 218,756 sq. ft. Overall vacancy decreased eight basis
points in the first quarter, however, because 390,286 sq. ft. of existing office space was demolished.
NEW YORK CITY — Despite a variety of tailwinds buoying the U.S. office sector, vacancy sill increased 10 basis
points in the first quarter of 2018, according to New York - based commercial real estate data firm Reis.
But the one piece that stands out — secondary marketing income increased to 277 basis
points in the first quarter, compared to 248 basis points in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Not exact matches
Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales
in the
first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage
points year over year.
Gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.5 %
in the second
quarter and 0.8 %
in the
first, which is exactly what the Bank of Canada predicted
in July when it dropped its policy rate by a
quarter point.
«The industrial capacity utilisation rate
in the
first three
quarters reached 76.6 %, 3.5 percentage
points higher than the same period last year.»
Health care followed
in second place with 17 percent of venture capital dollars, up two percentage
points from the
first quarter of 2014.
Earlier this year,
in the
first quarter, VC spending hit its highest
point since 2001, with $ 10 billion across 888 deals.
The pork shortage, along with the bad weather that afflicted the eastern half of the U.S. this winter, lowered Chipotle's comparable sales growth by about 2 percentage
points to 10.4 %
in the
first quarter, below the 11.8 % analysts were projecting.
Jamie Baker, an analyst at J.P. Morgan,
points out
in an April 23 report that
in Q1 the company posted a $ 7 million profit, the
first time it's had a profitable
first quarter since 2000.
Twitter says it wants to do more NFL - style deals — and it
points out that it aired more than 800 hours of live - streaming content
in the
first quarter of this year, including sports, news and entertainment.
The U.S. central bank's monetary - policy committee raised benchmark borrowing costs by a
quarter percentage
point to a range of 1.5 % to 1.75 %,
in Jerome Powell's
first meeting as Fed chairman.
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is up for re-election
in a state where 58 percent of voters approved of President Donald Trump during the
first quarter, now finds himself 1
point underwater — 43 percent approve, 44 percent disapprove — after a net slide of 17
points from fourth
quarter, the biggest decline of any senator during that period.
On a conference call to discuss
first -
quarter results on Thursday, Crescent
Point executives said they would not comment on which side is leading so far
in shareholder voting.
Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases
in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 -
point scale) for the
first quarter of 2016, up from its low
in October, 2014, driven by increases
in auto loan and credit card delinquencies
in 2015 — but far below the 60 -
point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.
As a
point of comparison, Facebook generated $ 11.8 billion
in ad sales
in the
first quarter, up 50 percent from the year prior.
Cushman & Wakefield has posted warnings for both suburban Atlanta and suburban Dallas, noting that
first -
quarter vacancies climbed a half -
point in the former and nearly a full
point in the latter.
At the time, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, estimated higher oil prices had chopped 0.5 percentage
points from growth
in the
first quarter.
Whenever the Fed decides to act, the initial rate increase will be small — a
quarter of a percentage
point — but it looms large psychologically because it will be the
first increase
in short - term rates by the Fed since June 2006.
In the United States, despite weakness in the first quarter, a number of indicators, including employment, point to a return to solid growth in 201
In the United States, despite weakness
in the first quarter, a number of indicators, including employment, point to a return to solid growth in 201
in the
first quarter, a number of indicators, including employment,
point to a return to solid growth
in 201
in 2016.
Some big names took stakes
in Snap during the
first quarter, including billionaire George Soros» hedge fund, activist hedge fund Jana Partners, Daniel Loeb's Third
Point and Daniel Och's Och - Ziff Capital Management.