Sentences with phrase «smallest uptick»

And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

Before Trump announced his presidential bid, foot traffic to his properties was steady year - over-year — and maybe even saw a small uptick.

Viewership of traditional television is on the decline, while movie attendance has mostly flatlined, despite a small uptick last year.

But with dynamics changing, some markets could see notable profit boosts from even a small uptick in the Euribor.

This investment led to the Nasdaq boom, but it took only a small uptick in interest rates to cause the whole technology sector to collapse in 1999 and 2000.»

And although there was only a small uptick in the maternal mortality at the hospital during that time (roughly 4 percent instead of 1 percent) the drop in the number of pregnant patients led caregivers to wonder if women were attempting home births and perhaps dying doing so, she says.

Cosmic rays are not dangerous to people on Earth's surface, though their air showers of radiation do contribute to small upticks in cancer.

Previously studies, she explains, have shown that a woman's likelihood of developing breast cancer rises slightly while she is on hormonal birth control, but that small uptick disappears several years after she stops.

A small uptick in gross from the holiday weekend (with more theaters) builds on a strong total.

Carol Burris of the Network for Public Education pointed out today on national Public Radio, that the proponents of test - based accountability took a very different posture in 2013 when a very small uptick in NAEP scores were cited by Arne Duncan as proof that the strategies in place were working.

It is difficult to see any real growth across the board since 2011, with math scores backsliding to 2009 levels, eighth - grade reading flat for four years, and a small uptick in fourth - grade reading that is not a significant increase from 2013, which, in turn, was not significantly different from 2011.

The most - improved delinquencies are the 30 - days - late balances, while the «severely derogatory» ones — debt that's at least 90 days late — saw a small uptick in the last quarter of 2016.

It could also encourage a small uptick in consumer spending, he added.

Data released today by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) show a small uptick in home sales nationally in March, their first monthly increase in three months.

Her recent blood test results showed a small uptick in the diabetes.

After a small uptick across all major cryptocurrencies, most of them are back to the slow downtrend first observed late last week.

How can you be sure your employment screening program will survive even a small uptick in hiring demand?

Labor - force participation had a small uptick since the previous month, increasing by 0.1 %, but over the year has increased by 0.5 %.

«We believe price increases will hold steady despite slowing sales growth, because homebuyer demand is stronger now than it was at the same time last year, and because we foresee a small uptick in homes for sale,» said Nela Richardson, chief economist at real estate brokerage Redfin.

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Even as corporate earnings continue to soar and big companies appear to be very profitable, I've remained cautiously optimistic about the economy, because the SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard data doesn't reveal the uptick in hiring we've wanted to see.

And the uptick in small online retail businesses has undoubtedly left big businesses feeling the impact.

Neither extreme is ever likely to be achieved anywhere, even in the most socialist or dictatorial countries, yet even a small, fractional uptick can represent a big shift in income equality.

Information technology franchise CMIT Solutions — which offers IT support to small and medium - size businesses — has concentrated several of its newer offices in the Washington area in response to an uptick in demand for tech help.

Information technology franchise CMIT Solutions — which offers IT support to small and medium - size businesses — has concentrated several of its newer offices in the Washington area in response to an uptick -LSB-...]

«With the removal of the uptick rule, firms are now shorting at will and destroying companies for small profits.

The ECB's latest set of macroeconomic projections reflected the economic backdrop, containing increased forecasts for growth in the next two years but a relatively small predicted uptick in inflation in 2018, and further out a headline rate of only 1.7 % by 2020.

The quarter also saw an uptick in smaller rounds - $ 250K - $ 1MM - perhaps a sign of renewed confidence in the ecosystem as investors take pre-seed bets on promising companies.

Small, who works with national chains and independent restaurants, says he's noticed an uptick in clients who have expressed interest in incorporating gochujang into their menus in the past three years.

Buoyed by an uptick in national polling, Donald Trump is expected on Wednesday to outline the reasons he still thinks he can win heavily Democratic New York as he accepts the small but influential Conservative Party's nomination for president.

At the Commerce Department, NIST's laboratories would see a small 0.7 percent uptick, a substantial boost of $ 95 million above the Administration request.

As «big pharma is actively seeking out investigations to do reformulations of existing small molecules into nanoparticles,» notes McNeil, there has been an uptick in career opportunities in both big and small firms in this sector, including startups.

But it could be a boon to plants, which showed a small but measurable uptick in growth in the months after Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991.

«We are seeing upticks in small clusters of childhood illnesses,» says the lead author of the Disneyland study, Maimuna Majumder, an epidemiologist and doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The sea ice uptick in Antarctica is small compared with the amount being lost in the Arctic, meaning there is an overall decrease in sea ice worldwide.

The steady uptick in warming, even with a relative slowdown in recent decades, means that the likelihood of seeing a record cold year in the future is, according to a quick calculation by Mann, «astronomically small.»

The Kauffman Foundation, which studies and promotes entrepreneurship, sees dramatic upticks on several indicators of entrepreneurial effort and small - business activity in 2013 — 14.

This has been counterbalanced to a limited extent by a slight uptick in traditionally - published unit sales: both Big Five and Small / Medium Traditional Publishers have each gained roughly 1 % in market share.

Because you're working on a smaller scale, this may not translate into a large uptick in immediate sales, but over the long term, having those positive reviews will lead to more interest and more sales, as well as prompting new readers to provide their feedback and get you even more reviews!

But I also see an uptick in novel sales when I visit smaller blogs.

This «gateway pet» trend is helping drive a recent uptick in small animal products such as (i.e., bedding and litter, cages and cage accessories, food such as hay and treats, etc.), according to market research firm Packaged Facts in the new report Small Animal Products: U.S. Pet Market Trends and Opportunismall animal products such as (i.e., bedding and litter, cages and cage accessories, food such as hay and treats, etc.), according to market research firm Packaged Facts in the new report Small Animal Products: U.S. Pet Market Trends and OpportuniSmall Animal Products: U.S. Pet Market Trends and Opportunities.

The organization said it is seeing an increasing number of owners surrendering large birds, and an uptick in hoarding cases involving small animals, such as hamsters, guinea pigs, rats and reptiles.

With the range of small pets that use litter boxes growing, pet stores can expect an uptick in litter sales.

Small banks aren't the only banks seeing a notable uptick in late payments either.

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?

Any small «upticks» or «downticks» in temperature that last less than several hundred years in our compilation of paleoclimate data are probably not robust, as stated in the paper.

By contrast the hockey stick shows virtually no change over 1,000 years in the mean temperature and only a small variation in temperature over the past 1,000 years (+ - 0.2 degrees variation from the mean)(ignoring the recent uptick in temperatures).

The big percentage uptick in the Bureau of Labor Statistics is partly due to the relatively small number of installers, which sits at 11,300.

In addition to draconian new sentencing provisions tucked into the Omnibus crime bill for small grow - ops, in Ontario I have noticed a very significant uptick in the number of individuals being charged for simple possession of tiny amounts of pot.

Say hello to the «solo entrepreneur»: Small businesses across the country are reporting an uptick in the hiring of non-traditional, independent contractors vs. traditional, full - time employees.

Rocket Lawyer Semi-Annual Small Business Index Reveals a Boom in Business And Uptick in Hiring Since December 2013