Sentences with phrase «than the last weeks of»

THERE»S NO BETTER TIME FOR PEACHES than the last weeks of warm weather.

Not exact matches

You may joke that the week you went on vacation flew by far too quickly, but if you stop and think about it, that week actually seemed to last much longer than one involving the drudgery of your day job.

Tencent lost more than $ 51 billion in market value in two days last week on news of largest shareholder Nasper Inc's 2 percent stake reduction for $ 9.8 billion, and also management's warning of margin pressure.

Last week, Statistics Canada reported a big drop in the issuance of building permits for single - family homes in cities with populations greater than 10,000.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein last week highlighted the client - coverage push in his annual investor letter, noting that it had resulted in more than 75 new mandates across a variety of industry groups and that the firm was 30 % of the way toward reaching its goal of covering 1,000 new clients.

A trustee of defunct Tokyo bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox sold more than 35,000 bitcoin, worth about $ 400 million at the time, to pay off creditors, according to details of the sale published by a company trustee last week.

Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.

Household debt as a percentage of disposable income was was 163.3 % in the first quarter, Statistics Canada reported last week — only marginally lower than the record 163.9 % ratio the agency calculated for the fourth quarter.

In a series of orders last week, Alsup disclosed that a former Uber security analyst's lawyer sent a letter to an Uber in - house lawyer more than six months ago.

«Emmanuel's only flaw is that he's younger than me,» Brigitte Macron told the French edition of Elle magazine in an extract of its cover interview, which was published last week.

Less than a day after U.S., British and French forces targeted suspected chemical weapons sites in retaliation to an attack that left dozens of civilians dead last week, Trump thanked the U.S. coalition partners.

Amazon Music, the No. 3 player in the global streaming music outside China, does not disclose exact figures, but reported last week it had «tens of millions of paid customers» and that subscriptions grew more than 100 percent in the last six months.

Last year, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets concluded that a single episode of The Big Bang Theory was more valuable to advertisers than an entire week's worth of viewing on YouTube.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Within four weeks of the exchange's launch last November, more than $ 1 million in receivables had changed hands, according to co-founder Nic Perkin.

Ashley Madison, an extramarital online dating site, has been in the spotlight for more than a month after hackers threatened to release the names and personal information of its 37 million members — a threat they made good on last week.

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

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.

Already in March most indicators have disappointed: the U.S. economy added a dismal 88,000 jobs last month, less than half as many as analysts expected; retail sales dropped 0.4 %, the largest decline since June of 2012; and this week durable goods orders, out last Wednesday, plunged 5.7 %, nearly twice the tumble expected and likely a sign that U.S. factories have entered a slump.

Canadian rock icon Neil Young's Pono digital music device has garnered rave reviews since a high - profile launch at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, last week, and more than doubled its fundraising goal of US$ 800,000 on Kickstarter.

Politico reported last week that more than 300 donors to the Senate campaign declined to allow transfer of their donations to the presidential campaign.

Last week, for example, TD Bank sold US$ 3 - billion worth of bonds covered by residential mortgages yielding 1.571 %, or quite a bit lower than 2.99 %.

Anecdotally, Jennifer Moss, co-founder and CMO of Plasticity, says clients have told them they've had more people crying at work in the last week than ever.

U.S. jobs data lit the fire at the end of last week, with higher - than - expected wage increases prompting inflationary concerns.

The reviews go back a few years, but there were more than from the last week at the time of writing, which indicates the product is rather popular.

GM also purchased the assets of the defunct Sidecar, and last week shelled out more than $ 1 billion for self - driving tech startup Cruise Automation.

Last week, the U.S. plane manufacturer secured an order valued at more than $ 37 billion at list price for 300 of its single - aisle and double - aisle planes during Trump's visit to China.

Clinton's campaign spent more than $ 1 million on TV ads last week alone with messages of their own making without the media's filter.

LONDON, May 2 - British construction activity rebounded faster than expected last month after succumbing to snow in March, but the upturn did little to alter the view of investors that the Bank of England will leave interest rates unchanged next week.

Bitcoin has been bottoming out over the last week, $ 500 higher than its lows in February of $ 6,000.

The U.S.Office of Personnel Management Chief Katherine Archuleta resigned last week after revealing that the recent data breach of government computers was much larger than originally thought.

Adding to their fury is the spill from the Keystone pipeline just last week, which saw more than 200,000 barrels of oil spill from the pipeline in South Dakota, shuttering a large section of the conduit for days.

McDonald's (MCD), which is suffering through one of its worst years in more than a decade, hinted at its investor meeting last week that it's looking to make progress in this department by simplifying ingredients.

Then last week, the government announced a depreciation of the country's currency, stoking fear that the economic slowdown there was even worse than it had let on.

The chain, which reported better - than - expected quarterly profit last week, recently announced that achieving the low - end of its U.S. comparable sales growth target of 2 to 3 percent in 2014 would be a challenge.

Short - sellers who placed bets that the shares of four big tech leaders, known as the FANG group, as spelled out by their first initials, were due for a fall have made more than $ 4 billion in profits over the last two weeks and more than $ 1 billion during the first two trading days in...

Which is why this report from JAMA Cardiology last week was so significant — more significant, I would say, than the amount of attention it received.

Kingfisher Airlines» owner, billionaire tycoon Vijay Mallya, has proposed to repay $ 603 million - less than half of what the airline owes to creditors, Reuters reported last week.

All four of Blackmon's touchdowns have come in the second half of the year and he has five games with more than 57 yards in the last six weeks.

The company's 38 ETFs have more than $ 1 billion in assets under management, as of last week, Ting said.

As Israeli cybersecurity giant Check Point noted in a post that sounded the alarm last week, the botnet is expanding «at a far greater pace and with more potential damage than the Mirai botnet of 2016.»

As of last week, Cloudera had more than 1,450 partners in the form of software and consulting companies building real - world applications with its technology.

TDC has more than three million mobile customers in Denmark and Norway and agreed a $ 2.5 billion media deal of its own in Sweden only last week.

Overall, the deal values EMC around 27 % higher than where it was trading before news of Dell's interest first broke last week.

Other data last week had painted a somewhat mixed view of the economy at the start of the year, with inflationary pressures easing — possibly pointing to softening activity — but better - than - expected import and export growth.

Last week, for example, CVS said that prescription drug «hyperinflation» — defined as price increases of more than 100 % and as much as 5,000 % — contributed less than 0.7 % to overall cost growth for its PBM clients.

Stocks have plunged in the last week as traders worried about rising interest rates and inflation, bringing an end to more than a year of historically low volatility.

The count of active oil rigs in the US for the fourth straight week last week and is more than 80 % higher than the low reached in May 2016.

The fund and the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - Term ETN (XIV) lost roughly 95 % of their combined value last week when the underlying VIX more than doubled in a single day.