Sentences with phrase «time last week as»

I didn't have much free time last week as it was my final week in London over the Easter break so I was busy taking the last opportunities to see friends and I also had two evenings where I was expected on board the ship where I work.

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LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

The iPhone X has been Apple's top selling device every week since it came out last fall and was the best selling phone model in China, Cook noted multiple times on the call, as he sought to combat the negative narrative some analysts were pushing.

Just as the capital Kuala Lumpur settles down following a fraught rally last week, at which riot police turned water cannons on supporters of the PM, top U.S. media outlets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT), have reported yet more scandalous allegations about the country's sovereign wealth fund.

Since House Speaker Paul Ryan cancelled the vote for the Obamacare replacement plan last week, also known as the American Health Care Act, the Nasdaq has risen a quiet 0.2 % at the same time the Dow and S&P 500 slid 0.2 % and 0.8 %, respectively.

Or as newly unemployed AI expert Andrew Ng, who quit his job at Baidu last week, told her: «I think it's fascinating that in a rather short period of time he's inserted himself into the conversation on A.I. I think he sees accurately that A.I. is going to create tremendous amounts of value.»

The stock has topped the $ 900 - billion mark four times in 2018, including as recently as last week, before each time falling back.

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.

Last week, McDonald's announced a new initiative called «Phone Off, Fun On» as a way to get families to spend more quality time together.

As of mid-morning Eastern Time, the price of bitcoin had soared over 10 percent in the last 24 hours and crossed above the $ 4,000 mark for the first time in nearly a wTime, the price of bitcoin had soared over 10 percent in the last 24 hours and crossed above the $ 4,000 mark for the first time in nearly a wtime in nearly a week.

However, according to the Financial Times, only one - sixth of U.K. employers in general have submitted their data, as of last week.

The company last week generated a ton of media buzz when it announced Barbie would come in new shapes for the first time, as well as a second year to make the doll more racially inclusive.

«I've been spending a fair amount of time in the last few weeks just looking at this and saying, as a small company, how can we hedge more effectively?

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Last week, President Obama spoke at the Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University and signed an executive order urging the private sector to «share information related to cybersecurity risks and incidents and collaborate to respond in as close to real time as possible.»

Fed chief Janet Yellen's confidence as her team raised interest rates for the third time in six months last week surprised investors who had expected more caution about the economy.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

As the New York Times noted last week, Renren, the Chinese social network, went public at a valuation of 86 times its revTimes noted last week, Renren, the Chinese social network, went public at a valuation of 86 times its revtimes its revenue.

After naming long - time fashion industry veteran Paula Schnieder as its new CEO last week, the company is now evaluating a proposed takeover bid, reportedly from the private equity firm Irving Place Capital.

«This is about putting as much lipstick as possible on the pig in advance of Xi going into Washington where the administration is saying cyber attacks are the problem and the operating environment for U.S. firms is narrowing,» an official told the New York Times last week.

As The New York Times reported last week, that wasn't true.

Last week, we learned from The Guardian, The New York Times and Channel 4 that Cambridge Analytica may not have deleted the data as they had certified.

«Twitter's video ad product continues to perform well as advertisers continue to look for higher quality online video impressions,» wrote Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak, a long - time Twitter bear who upgraded the stock to equal - weight last week, citing improved personalization that's keeping users on Twitter for longer.

Last week, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, said it was time for investors to put between 5 and 10 percent of their portfolio in gold as a precaution against global and domestic geopolitical risks.

This is the fourth time since the so - called Fed attack last week disguised by the fake news as the «fat finger» trade.

Obviously, assorted crash analogs have by now gone out of the window — we already noted that the market was late if it was to continue to mimic them, as the decline would have had to accelerate in the last week of March to remain in compliance with the «official time table».

The second time we looked at this, we saw the Findus twist bring new energy to the story and as the chart shows, Tesco's Buzz score — which tracks whether consumers have heard something positive or negative about a brand — went further down and is only showing the very first signs of recovery in the last week.

The timing was fortunate, as it was my good friend Saurabh Madaan's last week as a Googler.

I've used it several times a week for a month and as far as I can make out, only an infinitesimal amount of the soap has been consumed so at this rate the soap will probably last me more than a year.

Twitter drives 4 times as much traffic as you think it does Over the last few weeks, TechCrunch has run a couple posts using their own referrer logs to measure how sharing on various social services drives traffic.

That is the main conclusion of the Greek media, but at the same time many see the recent debate as much more alive than the one held last week between all political leaders.

Trump has an unusually warm rapport with Macron, as evidenced by their handsy interactions this week; by contrast, the last time Merkel met with Trump in the Oval Office, the president caused a stir by appearing to ignore a suggestion to shake her hand.

The last time both indicators were at 0 % together (as they were last week) was in late 2008.

Rising to more than $ 1,000 for the first time ever last week, the cryptocurrency has reclaimed its place as the second - largest blockchain by total value, days after being temporarily surpassed by Ripple's XRP token.

Police inspector Anant Patel, who is also based in Amreli, was similarly arrested last week and will be questioned at the same time as Jagdish Patel.

Federal Reserve officials referred to an improved labor market last week as they announced the end to a third round of quantitative easing while repeating a pledge to keep interest rates low for a «considerable time.»

Late Monday, as VXX was spending a little time over 38.00 a trader used Weekly options to take a stand that the early week strength in VXX would not last.

Trading has been dominated by BTC in the last two weeks, and the most valuable coin continued to draw record volumes, as it surged to new all - time highs almost every day of last week.

The short term volatility indexes (VXST and VIX) were up a bit last week as the S&P 500 set multiple all - time closing record highs last week.

Even as last week unfolded, Times staffers were increasingly asking about the new hires, whose faces and titles they saw.

As we discussed last week with Paul Murphy, CEO of energy lending specialist Cadence Bancorp (NASDAQ: CADE), prices for natural gas are unlikely to see great upward volatility any time soon.

Last week, China cut interest rates for the first time in three years, as economic growth in that country has fallen to the point where talks of a hard landing are gaining momentum.

The National Weather Service warned last week that winds could get as high as 80 mph — in the range of a Category 1 hurricane — which was the first time the agency has activated the purple level threat warning in the state.

And how much was the timing of Trump's decision shaped by events spiraling out of his control — such as Monday's testimony about Russian interference by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, or the fact that Comey last week requested more resources from the Justice Department to expand the FBI's Russia probe?

In that time, we talked about death, joked about how her age finally caught her (as the previous week she had told me she thought it was starting to catch up to her) and then she told me she was afraid for the night to come because she knew it would be her last and she was afraid of being alone.

Donald Trump, who says he will announce next month whether he will run for president, called the Family Research Council's Perkins last week to chat for the first time, even though the thrice - married Trump isn't exactly known as a «family values» Republican.

«Mr Cameron», The Financial Times reported, «is being urged to accelerate tax breaks for married couples as part of his moral clean - up of Britain following last week's riots»:

Last week I wrote a post on spiritual refugees (people who have left the church and experience feelings of spiritual homelessness) and spiritually displaced persons (those who are still within the church and experience it as unhealthy for them but feel trapped at the same time).

Jenni Konner, executive producer of the HBO series Girls, told The New York Times last week: «I see this as a tipping point.