Sentences with phrase «sharper gain of»

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

In that regard, we tried to gain some perspective on this issue by looking at the behaviour of the foreign exchange market around the time of the flash crash in equities in May 2010 and the sharp movements in the yen just prior to the coordinated intervention in March this year.

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

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.

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

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.

From him Newman gained his self - reliance, his love of music and his sharp intelligence.

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.

World Team Tennis probably came closer to making a go of it than is generally recognized, but because it could never gain acceptance from the New York / national press, the league could never turn that final sharp corner.

He did look out of touch at times but the time on the pitch and the confidence he will gain from the goal should help that and I think he got sharper as the match wore on.

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.

Such a sharp reduction, he said, would dramatically improve student outcomes and build on the gains from the city's expansion of universal pre-K.

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.

By comparing healthy older brains and dementia - affected brains, she said, researchers could gain a better understanding of why some people stay sharp well into old age, while others decline.

On one hand, since bodybuilders want to achieve extreme muscularity, they are ready to chastise anything that could harm their precious mass gains (many studies have shown that excessive cardio leads to catabolism), but on the other, even the highest level of muscularity is kind of pointless without razor - sharp conditioning.

When i drink carbonated drinks or eat something really sweet i kind of get sharp sense's for a while with headache so i used to drink carbonated drinks cause now they cause ne headache i think this indicates that i have a high level of insulin and i had fair skin till puberty but then i had chicken poxs, jaundice and got a surgery for swollen appendicitis after which my skin colour became dull and a little dark and then i had acne on my face and on my back after that i also started gaining weight and moobs.

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.

on Connecticut and Arkansas show unusual gains on test of high school seniors; Massachusetts shows sharp decline

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).

We continue to work inside the tensions between process and product, between a sharp focus and the integration of ideas, between small, short - term gains and the deeper, longer view.

Based on the newly facelifted A3 hatchback, the RS3 Sportback gains additional power over its predecessor to keep it firmly at the very sharpest end of the hot hatch market, and also boasts new styling tweaks.

The all - new Lexus RX gets sharper styling, while the Hyundai Tucson gains a new fuel - efficient turbocharged gasoline direct injected motor, and the Mitsubishi Outlander steps things up with a level of refinement never seen from the diamond star before.

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One sharp downturn can erase years of investment gains you plan to live on soon.

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.

There can be periods of sharp gains but then periods of correction and consolidation.

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.

Dresden to Decin (July 2) is 40 miles, mostly following the Elbe River, but departing at one point to avoid an extra 1,000 ft of elevation gain at the sharp bend near Pirna.

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Sharp divisions and enigmatic paradoxes gain visual bodies in Valdez» work, comprised of harsh edges and tight colored strings.

Expect a sharp critique of social media and the corporations who control them, and a vision for circumventing that control to gain some measure of economic equality.

This time period is too short to signify a change in the warming trend, as climate trends are measured over periods of decades, not years.12, 29,30,31,32 Such decade - long slowdowns or even reversals in trend have occurred before in the global instrumental record (for example, 1900 - 1910 and 1940 - 1950; see Figure 2.2), including three decade - long periods since 1970, each followed by a sharp temperature rise.33 Nonetheless, satellite and ocean observations indicate that the Earth - atmosphere climate system has continued to gain heat energy.34

The paper includes a graph of temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere that gained the nickname «hockey stick» because of its vivid depiction of a long period with little temperature variation for nearly 1,000 years, followed by a sharp upward hook in recent decades.