Sentences with phrase «small gains of»

The South recorded home price appreciation of 1.2 percent quarter - over-quarter, doubling the small gains of 0.6 percent reported on last month.

Meanwhile, the South recorded home price appreciation of 1.2 % quarter - over-quarter, doubling the small gains of 0.6 % reported on last month.

That easily breezed past expectations for a smaller gain of 6.2 %, and was a noticeably stronger than the 6 % level of August.

The February contract squeezed a small gain of 44 cents in the final session of the year, closing at US$ 37.04 a barrel, while February natural gas rose 12 cents to US$ 2.34 per mmBtu.

NPD Bookscan announced that for the first three weeks of December books saw a 4 % to 7 % decline and only the last week of the year saw a small gain of 4 %, presumably people were buying last minute gifts.

After March's decrease of -1.7 % for the month, April brought us a small gain of 0.85 % for the S&P 500 index.

The U.S. stock market managed a small gain of 0.38 % with small - cap stocks gaining 0.86 % for the month.

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Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

And in conversations with a few of the key players at HMS and the filmmakers, I gained insight into how your small business should approach this kind of opportunity.

The tax code also permits the owners of a corporation, however small, to use his or her company to shelter income from passive investments, and to convert surplus revenue into capital gains, which are taxed at lower rates than income.

Rather, the market is healthy, but not trending much.By scaling out, you can not only take some smaller profits, but achieve two other things: 1) keep some amount of that original position in case the market picks up again; and 2) reinvest a portion (or all) of your gains into another position (perhaps one with a little more volatility and / or opportunity).

The downside of not maintaining social responsibility for a small business can be catastrophic, while the adoption of corporate social responsibility can help you gain all the aforementioned benefits.

Articles such as «The State of the Specialty Food Industry 2015» and «Small Food Companies Gain Ground on Big Brands» can give you valuable insight into the industry you are about to join, such as:

That's important because the majority of exporters are small, and as the economy experiences sluggish growth and weak job gains, they are generally seen as a bright spot for their reach beyond domestic markets.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

Use these resources, which are often free, to gain insight on topics such as when to expand, when to seek credit and the types of loans available to small businesses.

Perhaps most interesting, the report calls for Ontario to legalize crowd - funding for financial gain to provide startups and small to medium - sized enterprises with the same levels of access to seed and venture capital as their counterparts in the U.S and Europe.

So far, domestic small - to - mid-cap companies that get most of their revenues at home have weathered prospects of higher trade costs the best, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies up 2.8 percent for the year, nearly double the 1.5 percent gain in the larger - cap and more internationally - exposed S&P 500 index over the same time.

From saving a virtually priceless collection of art to providing a path for small businesses to gain a foothold, relationship capital in the Motor City is being leveraged every which way.

Definitely, cloud computing in accounting technology helping most of the small business leaders or among creative entrepreneurs it is gaining more thoughts to resolve the problems easily.

Hummingbird and the Opportunity for More Exposure — When you really think about it, the release of Hummingbird creates the perfect scenario for smaller websites to gain more exposure.

While you absolutely need goals in your business - they were why you opened the doors in the first place - there are other, smaller pieces of the puzzle that you need to always seek to do and, as you gain experience, establish as a part of the overall system of the job and the business.

RBS, which is 84 percent owned by the British government, will get 47 percent of the sale price, and expects to report a small gain on the deal, it said.

Microbrewing was gaining popularity, and hundreds of small breweries were springing up around the country.

Electronic keyless locks and smart locks are gaining traction, and the cost is within reach of small business budgets.

«The idea of making stores smaller and more efficient is gaining traction and we are further down that road than our competitors,» says Mansell.

Time - tracking and distraction - blocking software can help small - business owners boost efficiency and gain control of their day.

Now, I say this with one small caveat: Doing acts of kindness will help you gain approval and grow your network, but giving out favors is a weak way to grow your business.

While the open letter is still gaining traction, the 2,063 persons who signed the document as of Monday represent only a small fraction of the Wharton community.

One study conducted at UC Riverside found that Anglo - Americans benefitted more from happiness - increasing activities; however, researchers did see a small trend that Asians gained more from activities directed toward benefitting others» happiness, like writing a letter of gratitude, than activities strictly intended to benefit the self.

Kraft Heinz, the newly merged food behemoth joined under the direction of Warren Buffett and investment firm 3G Capital, kicked off trading on the public markets with a small gain on Monday.

Right now, CircleUp and many of its most promising «breakthrough» small businesses are using the popular marketplace of Jet.com to gain visibility in a partnership aiming to bring to market «tomorrow's best brands today.»

The resurgence of small retail and service businesses driven by tech is gaining real momentum.

Though much of the economy is doing very well, with 2014 being the best year for U.S. job gains since 1999, and stock markets at record highs, most small businesses and employees are not feeling it.

«It's a very good way for small publishers to be seen by buyers and gain credibility,» says Gary Kusin, president of Babbage's, a Dallas - based chain of 247 software stores.

The number of homes sold in February was the lowest for the month in seven years, and the median annual price gain was the smallest in nearly three years.

«There's another group [of small businesses] saying that this is a great opportunity to gain market share, and they're trying to be very innovative about how they do it,» King said.

A smaller countertop version of its technology could help 3D printing finally gain a foothold in the home.

In a February report, Synergy Research Group noted, «Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining its dominant share of the burgeoning public cloud services market at over 40 percent, while the three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft, Google and IBM — are gaining ground but at the expense of smaller players in the market.»

By coming together in groups of 10, 30, or 300, small companies are gaining the benefits of bigness.

And DB5 gains the potential brand appeal from an outsourced, automated system that helps it appear more like a corporate titan than a small business — key for a firm with big clients such as GE, AT&T and Girl Scouts of the USA.

Republican Representative Kevin Brady, chairman of the House tax - writing panel, offered to make smaller portions of Wall Street financiers» income eligible for a lower capital gains tax rate.

While the Deluxe staff on the tour are giving free presentations on many topics I've spoken and written about including Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, building Web Sites and lots of others, my presentation for this tour is on «local marketing» - how you as a small business owner can easily use the Internet to * successfully * gain visibility and sales within a local area at very little cost.

With that kind of scale, small gains in efficiency can translate to billions in savings for the construction industry, says Tristan Randall, strategic projects executive at Autodesk.

If employees are encouraged to contribute in small ways in their daily lives and can see the effects of their actions, they will gain personal satisfaction and feel greater commitment to the company, leading to more productivity.

Koch observed that small amounts of time can often lead to remarkable gains, and in other cases, large amounts of toil goes unrewarded.

Because labor accounts for a small portion of a product's manufacturing costs, the savings gained from outsourcing to China will drop to single digits for many products.

Intuit has integrated the online marketing software gained through its US$ 423.5 million acquisition of Demandforce with its QuickBooks accounting software, giving small businesses a way to make closer connections with customers, the company announced Thursday.

Some commenters suggested that the Department underestimated the harms to investors from NPRM's proposed delay, because the illustrative losses of investor gains did not include all types of conflicts nor all types of investment in addition to excluding the harms associated with rollover recommendations and small plans.

«Serving diverse communities has long been a focus area and priority for Wells Fargo, yet we know there's more work to be done, and it starts with gaining a deeper understanding of the experiences of diverse small business owners working with financial institutions,» said Lisa Stevens, head of Small Business for Wells Fsmall business owners working with financial institutions,» said Lisa Stevens, head of Small Business for Wells FSmall Business for Wells Fargo.