Sentences with phrase «sharp gains in»

Sales of previously owned homes posted sharp gains in May of 9.6 percent compared with a year ago and new home sales in May recorded their highest level in more than 2 years.

The dollar was marginally lower across the board, following the sharp gains in the aftermath of the ECB press conference and...

Practitioners» confidence in the housing market posted a slight increase in March over February levels, but rising interest rates and depleted inventories are holding back sharper gains in expectations.

The index's 20 - city composite showed the sharpest gains in San Francisco, Denver and Portland, and was up 5.5 % for October, a slight increase from the 5.4 % year - over-year gain in September.

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(The latest job report from the Department of Labor, out Friday, also shows a sharp slowdown in hiring in September, with gains in previous months revised lower.)

Deutsche Bank shares dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after reporting lower - than - expected revenue for its first quarter at a time when banking stocks have seen sharp gains after centrist Emmanuel Macron emerged as the winner in the first round of French presidential elections last week.

It was the second straight session of sharp gains for nickel, adding to Wednesday's 7.5 - percent spike, spurred by worries over tighter global supply for a commodity already in deficit.

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TORONTO, Jan 3 - Canada's main stock index notched its highest - ever close on Wednesday, boosted by a jump in shares of BlackBerry Ltd after it announced a self - driving deal with China's Baidu and by sharp gains for several marijuana producers.

TORONTO, Jan 3 - Canada's main stock index hit a fresh all - time high on Wednesday, boosted by a jump in shares of BlackBerry Ltd after it announced a self - driving deal with China's Baidu and by sharp gains for several marijuana producers.

Fed forecasts in March pointed to two rate rises in 2016, but a sharp slowdown in U.S. job gains in May and the prospect that Britain could vote next week to leave the EU have added to doubts about the economic outlook.

TORONTO, Jan 3 (Reuters)- Canada's main stock index hit a fresh all - time high on Wednesday, boosted by a jump in shares of BlackBerry Ltd after it announced a self - driving deal with China's Baidu and by sharp gains for several marijuana producers.

After the price of $ BITA spiked above the $ 20 level, we made a judgment call to trail a tight stop below the prior day's low in order to lock in gains in the event of a sharp pullback.

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At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin has nearly gained back losses from the extremely sharp drop in price yesterday.

The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average both declined for the quarter respectively, while the Nasdaq Composite Index managed a modest gain based largely on its sharp rise in January.

All of these bubbles and crashes have one thing in common: If you tracked them on a line graph, the sharp price gains people made day after day on the investment would form what's called a «parabolic curve» — one of the most reliable warning signs that an investment may be overheating amid hype and euphoria.

When German institutions — government, businesses and labor unions — negotiated among themselves at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in wage growth for its workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment by gaining trade competitiveness.

Indeed, the latest traffic figures from Port Metro Vancouver show sharp growth in shipments of wheat and specialty crops, and solid gains in meat, poultry and potash.

Sterling trimmed gains and stocks hit the session highs on Thursday after a major survey showed Britain's services sector struggled to recover in April from a sharp slowdown in March, further squeezing expectations of an interest rate hike next week.

U.S. stock futures point to sharp gains for Wall Street on Monday, as global shares rebound from their worst week in two years.

The markets took a marked turn downward Friday after the monthly U.S. jobs report showed that wages surged in January, representing the sharpest year - over-year gain since the recession.

In economic news, Canadian ADP Nonfarm Employment Change posted a sharp gain of 42.8 thousand.

U.S. crude futures fell in early Asian trading on Friday, partly reversing sharp gains from the previous session.

Futures Point to Full Week of Gains After Sharp Correction US equity markets could end the week with a full house of gains as long as indices manage to hold onto the small gains being seen in futures ahead of the Gains After Sharp Correction US equity markets could end the week with a full house of gains as long as indices manage to hold onto the small gains being seen in futures ahead of the gains as long as indices manage to hold onto the small gains being seen in futures ahead of the gains being seen in futures ahead of the open.

But sharp price gains in cryptocurrencies may be a sign of excess and have led some investors to call the market a bubble.

But even though bitcoin now sits at an all - time high, the gains come in the wake of a sharp slump in the digital currency in recent years.

The argument gains a good deal of persuasiveness from the sharp contrast in religiosity between that period and the «50s, when liberal and moderate Protestants were not only happily a part of the American way of life but enjoyed a growth curve comparable to that of conservative Protestants.

Just as above we made the contrast between the failure to achieve social harmony while people gained knowledge of natural harmony; we must now go a step further in recognizing that Whitehead's Harmony is an ideal as well as a factor of the actual world, though this contrast is not as sharp in Whitehead as in many philosophers.

Wine consumption is following the same trend and is expected to gain further momentum over the coming years, in view of the sharp increase in the number of Chinese vineyards producing wines from organic farming, especially in Yanqi in the country's Xinjiang province.

French cheese maker Fromageries Bel has registered a sharp rise in first half profits as a result of one - off gains from the sale of its soft cheese business in April.

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2) Since we are a city school, a sharp young black coach with a strong recruiting background can likely gain an edge in recruiting.

Be reassured that most babies gain as they should, says neonatologist Nancy Wight, M.D., medical director of lactation at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns, in San Diego.

Benbrook, who was not on the NRC panel, says that sharp increases in the price of biotech seeds, which started in 2007, could eat away at farmer's economic gains.

Stillman infuses this sharp - witted, frisky tale — based on the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan — with a bubbly effervescence as the widowed Susan (Beckinsale) maneuvers her way through society and finagles her way out of scandal while trying to gain matrimonial advantage for herself and her daughter during a visit to her in - laws.

The perpetually transformative actor Jake Gyllenhaal does a 180 - degree turn from his previous role of Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler, going from playing a spindly man who used his sharp intellect and lack of emotion to gain the upper hand to get ahead, to beefy one that is of below average intelligence, running all on emotion, and lashing out physically against anyone and anything that gets in his way.

The sharpest gains for these high - performing eighth graders in Texas were between 2000 and 2005, building on the improvement made in math by Texas fourth graders four years earlier.

Those at the very bottom — the lowest 10 percent — showed an even sharper gain of 17 points in reading and 12 points in math.

Commenting on the «ping - pong» pattern of scores examined over a number of years, Stanford University professor Linda Darling - Hammond notes that score gains made over one or two years are often followed by sharp drops in scores in subsequent years (Darling - Hammond, The Right to Learn, 1997).

«The staggering way the GT - R gains speed is still mentally hard to process, but with the huge increase in body control there is less squat under acceleration than with the standard car, so it actually feels slightly less intimidating because you feel in sharper control.»

Porsche has applied its usual nerdy attention to detail to the engine and chassis to give the GTS useful gains in power, torque and sharper handling than the regular Panamera 4S on which it's based.

Throttle response is massively sharper in Sport (as it should be) and the Honda feels as if it's suddenly gained an extra 50 hp.

Shares in Sharp gained 1.5 percent to 958 yen, outperforming a 1.2 percent fall in the benchmark Nikkei average.

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The pair could move up or down, and a sharp move in the direction opposite your position will wipe out your gains quickly.

This type of squeeze occurs in a strong financial market when there are sharp price increases and investors who are long a stock sell a portion of their position for a gain.

Statistics Canada said Friday that household worth in the country rose by three per cent to $ 217,700 on a per capita basis in the fourth quarter, largely as a result of a sharp 5.9 per cent gain in the value of shares and other equities held by Canadians.

U.S. stocks opened with slight gains on Wednesday, as major indexes stabilized following a sharp decline in the previous session but as rising bond yields continued to be monitored as a possible risk.

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