Sentences with phrase «third quarter point»

The chanting seemed to have a positive effect, for the home team quickly began scoring more points and by the end of the third quarter the point lead had increased to 20, with the Tigersharks leading 55 - 35.

Daniel Ives of FBR Capital Markets & Co. commented in a note on Monday that his recent field checks within the cybersecurity sector through the third quarter point to «white hot deal momentum» as companies and governments continue upgrading to next - generation security platforms and software.»

Not exact matches

Ubisoft, a mega-player in the industry, recently put out a third quarter earnings report, which pointed to growth opportunities in the $ 30 billion PC gaming market (according to the company), so it's a promising industry.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

The Thunder trailed the Magic by 21 points with about five minutes to go in the third quarter.

They also point to IDC's acknowledgment that its shipment figures were down in part because of Apple's release of its Apple Watch Series 2 towards the end of the quarter, not allowing the company to enjoy the full benefit of the new smartwatch's availability during the third quarter.

But disappointing third quarter guidance spooked investors, sending shares sliding more than 7 % at one point in after - hours trading to $ 73.49.

Still, the Fed has persevered in hiking rates gradually, with this week's raise being the third quarter - point move in 2017.

Third Point: The hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb disclosed Thursday that it bought more than 45 million shares of Ally Financial (ALLY) during the second quarter, giving Third Point a 9.5 % stake in the auto lender.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The 7 - 2 vote for the rate move, the Fed's third this year, raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

In tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quarter.

That rate is up two percentage points, compared to the third quarter.

The index reading of 33 decreased three points from the third quarter and it decreased 10 points from the first quarter.

Harrison pushed CN's ratio down to about 67 % over his tenure from a starting point of 76 % (about where CP's ratio sat in the third quarter of 2011).

Indeed, as labour economist Jim Stanford recently pointed out, our GDP growth fell behind six of the G7 in the second and third quarters of last year, beating only Italy with an average advance of 1.7 % during the six - month period.

As the company points out, users in the fourth quarter accounted for $ 6.39 billion of Facebook's revenue, compared to the $ 5.03 billion users accounted for in the third quarter.

Analysts at JPMorgan pointed out Thursday that shares of Royal Caribbean and Carnival have outperformed on average the S&P 500 during the third and fourth quarter over the past five years.

Forte pointed to indications on Overstock's third - quarter earnings call that the company could sell its home goods e-commerce business to focus on bitcoin's blockchain technology through its Medici Ventures division.

Third Point's Dan Loeb sold out of Snap shares in the second quarter, one quarter after buying the social media stock, according to a filing Friday.

Against the Falcons, Brady threw for a Super Bowl record 466 yards as he led the Patriots to victory after being down by 25 points well into the third quarter.

CFO Karen Hoguet specifically pointed to warm weather as one of the reasons for the struggles at Macy's at the end of the third quarter in fiscal 2015.

Economists said the two reports combined suggested that the third - quarter 3.5 percent annual growth pace could be cut by as much as half a percentage point when the government publishes its revisions later this month.

It was a volatile close to the third quarter for the stock market, as evidenced by the fact that the Dow fluctuated by at least 100 points in either direction for five days in a row last week.

«The third quarter brought several positive inflection points, new management is showing us that they understand the challenges and opportunities, and they are not sitting still,» Citi analyst Paul Lejuez explained.

The quarter - point increase was the central bank's third since last summer, after hikes in July and September.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

Yum Brands, in reporting third - quarter earnings, stated «foreign currency translation remains a strong headwind» and that it expected the exchange rate «to impact full - year earnings per share by about 5 percentage points.»

The Nielsen survey also found that recessionary sentiment is growing in Malaysia, up a «notable» 16 percentage points in the third quarter, with «nearly nine in 10 Malaysians feeling the country is currently in a state of recession.»

Mier's third - quarter consumer sentiment index (CSI) hit a new low of 70.2, down from the 71.7 points recorded in the preceding three months, as Malaysians realize that their money isn't going as far as it used to.

He points out that its cereal division — it makes Lucky Charms and other brand name breakfast foods — saw a 1 % increase in sales growth in its third quarter, while sales of its Greek and regular yogurt are increasing.

Commentary: «New equipment orders at Otis were up 19 percent over the year ago third quarter including favorable foreign exchange of 7 percentage points.

Check Point Software Technology (NASDAQ: CHKP) shares haven't recovered from the beating they took after the Halloween afternoon release of the company's third - quarter results.

October's third - quarter - earnings beat sent McDonald's shares to an all - time high, boosting the Dow by 47 points.

Some big names took stakes in Snap during the first quarter, including billionaire George Soros» hedge fund, activist hedge fund Jana Partners, Daniel Loeb's Third Point and Daniel Och's Och - Ziff Capital Management.

So for the purposes of our comparison, we used the third quarter of 2009 — the recession's low point — and compared it to the latest quarter in which all G7 countries reported.

The Federal Reserve raised the fed funds rate a quarter point to 1.5 percent on December 13, 2017, marking it the third increase in 2017 and...

Randy Hargrove, a Wal - Mart spokesman, pointed to comments from the third - quarter earnings call when the company said while the holiday would be competitive, that it was committed to being the No. 1 retail destination.

«From a marketplace perspective we're scaling fast, adding 8 million SKUs over the last three months alone,» said CEO Doug Mcmillon, adding that e-commerce contributed 50 basis points to third quarter U.S. comparable sales — its largest contribution yet.

Sales and marketing expense was $ 854 million or 11.9 % of net revenues compared with $ 832 million or 12.4 % of net revenues for the third quarter last year, a 50 basis point decrease in these costs in relation to revenue.

This is a sharp improvement from the 250 basis points of unfavorability we reported in the first half of the fiscal year and approximately 175 basis points of unfavorability in the third quarter.

As we've discussed before, beginning in the third quarter this year, Olive Garden began a transition in their promotion strategy: moving away from advertising 1 or 2 new dishes, occasionally with a price point, to featuring broader platform ideas that guests find more compelling.

Apple's disappointing third - quarter results were a rare miss for a company known for reporting blowout earnings, causing shares to plummet nearly 6 % to $ 567 at one point in after - hours trading.

Likewise, house - price inflation amplified more than estimated in the August Inflation Report during the third quarter, while the RICS survey of real - estate agents pointed to a fall in prices over the next three months.

Recent trade data from the ONS pointed to a slightly depressing net - trade number in the third quarter, although surveys for export orders remained robust.

«The third quarter of 2015 may have marked an inflection point in the growth of mainland [China]- related dollar credit,» reports the Bank for International Settlements.

As more companies reported «beat and lower» earnings, market expectations continued to fall to the point where third quarter index earnings growth is now expected to be half of what was forecast in June.

One big reason that the economy stabilized last summer and fall is the stimulus; the Congressional Budget Office estimates that without the stimulus, growth would have been anywhere from 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points lower in the third quarter of 2009.

Data from the Census Bureau's Housing Vacancy and Homeownership (CPS / HVS) survey show that the US homeownership rate increased to 63.9 percent in the third quarter of 2017, up 0.4 percentage points from the third quarter of 2016.