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NightBird — spearheaded
by composer and pianist Jed Leiber (son of the late Jerry Leiber, co-writer with Mike Stoller of pop perennials like «Jailhouse Rock» and «Stand
by Me») and designed
by Hollywood Bowl acoustician George Augspurger — has hosted sessions
by artists ranging from Aerosmith to ZZ
Top, generating a multitude of bestselling records that average around 30 Grammy Award nominations each
year.
IF you measure the value of a chief executive
by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on
top in Western Australia
year in,
year out.
I've generally judged smartphone cameras
by the yardstick set
by Apple, since the iPhone has for
years led the way in
top - notch mobile imaging.
In the past
year, the median outlook for the Fed's
top rate in this hiking cycle has risen
by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percent.
The forward price / earnings ratio of the
top 25 % of S&P 500 stocks
by dividend yield is 17, vs. a 36 -
year average of 12, according to Ned Davis Research.
Cannabis edibles cracked the list of
top 10 food trends predicted for this
year by a panel of experts writing for the Specialty Food Association.
Perhaps equally surprising is Amazon's placement near the
top, considering last
year's reporting
by the New York Times that characterized it as having a hostile work environment.
The most successful investors think long term Here are the
Top 15 Canadian companies ranked
by total 5 -
year return
He was selected
by Barron's in 2016 as the
top financial advisor in the United States, after a 30 -
year career in wealth management.
However, as that happens, small businesses continue to be a
top target for hackers, with the number of organizations hit
by cybercrime rising each
year.
,» released in September 2013, received some 40 million online views in its first two weeks and scored an astounding 276 million
by December, becoming YouTube's
top trending video of the
year.
In a
year marked
by a significant milestone for rising interest rates (the 10 -
year Treasury note yield
topping 3 percent), an unusual winner has begun to emerge in the stock market: utility stocks.
He was recently named # 3 on
Top 50 Online Influencers in the World
by Entrepreneur Magazine and has been one of the
Top 10 Most Influential PPC Experts in the World for the past three
years.
During the 81 -
year period looked at
by the study, the
Top 10 companies have never, as a group, outperformed the S&P 500 in subsequent
years.
Top Olympic sponsors can pay about $ 100 million over four
years to the International Olympic Committee for exclusive marketing rights to the Games, and they keep a close watch for any guerilla marketing during the event
by their rivals.
When Cassini plunges into the cloud
tops of Saturn later this
year, it will mark the end of one of the most successful missions of discovery ever launched
by humanity.
It was 2007, and Ross, who was
by then the head of his nine -
year - old company, Starvox Entertainment, decided to set up a booth at the Arts Presenters Conference, an influential New York trade show where the world's
top theatre producers, promoters and venues converge.
Deutsche Bank is no longer one of the world's
top 15 private banks after a difficult
year for the German lender, a study
by Scorpio Partnership showed Monday.
«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive
years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough
by today's standards to land it in the
top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).
Total sales
topped $ 50 million last
year, thanks in large part to experiences like the one provided to me
by Laura.
Last
year's
top overall pick, Andrew Wiggins (who was drafted
by Cleveland and then traded to Minnesota), signed a rookie contract that paid him $ 5.5 million in its first
year.
Looking at the number of options awarded
by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their
top executive the same from one
year to the next.
Gorman's pay dropped
by less than 7 % last
year, which was the biggest pay drop among the
top bank CEOs.
In the final minute of this
year's decisive Game 7, with the Cavaliers leading
by three, Love got switched onto Stephen Curry at the
top of the key.
The co-founders project that revenue will
top $ 200 million
by year - end, with sales from Harry's itself accounting for a bit more than half.
Spurred in part
by the cash infusion, the company expects to see revenues
top $ 10 million next
year, says company CEO Dev Gandhi.
At the other end of the European benchmark, Cobham was a
top gainer, jumping 10 percent
by the close as it reported a pretax profit in 2017, after having registered a loss in the previous
year.
The firm's analysis of the so - called Equilar 100 (
top 100 companies
by revenue) finds that the female CEOs in this group earned an average $ 22.7 million last
year, while the male chiefs took home an average $ 14.9 million.
«
By next
year he's going to be a
top - five quarterback in this league, and that includes the two big dogs [Brady and Rodgers].
Along with the estimates, its stock price has also slid this
year, weakening the chances of Apple becoming the first company to
top $ 1 trillion in value
by market capitalization.
And De Beers, the world's
top diamond producer, saw sales during the first half of the
year fall
by more than 50 %, to US$ 1.7 billion.
Under Trump's tax proposal,
top earners — taking in more than $ 699,000 a
year — would see average annual tax reductions of about $ 215,000, according to an analysis
by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.
RTB revenue will
top over $ 26 billion
by year - end 2020, up from $ 8.7 billion this
year.
After three
years, the company was
topping a million in revenue, but Milne was paying up to $ 55,000 in interchange fees -; a small percentage of each transaction taken
by credit card companies.
Based on the GBTA study of 75 countries, here's a look at the
top 15
by total business - travel spending in 2012, with percentage growth from the previous
year:
We went out to the
top 13 banks and got a pledge from them to increase their lending over three
years by $ 20 billion.
What is the
top company
by revenue in your home state for this fiscal
year?
According to a report on food franchising
by Franchise Business Review, 51.5 percent of food franchises earn profits of less than $ 50,000 a
year; roughly 7 percent
top $ 250,000, with the average profit for all restaurants coming in at $ 82,033.
B8ta recently took
top honors
by winning the Store of the
Year award at the 47th annual Shop!
If you're angling to pay less in taxes this
year or simply want to stay on
top of all the new changes to the tax code, check out The Wealthy Accountant
by CPA Keith Schroeder.
«Fiscal 2018 was a record
year for Xilinx with revenues of $ 2.5 billion as we realized 8 % annual growth driven
by broad - based strength across multiple markets, reflecting our concerted efforts to accelerate
top line growth,» said Victor Peng, President and Chief Executive Officer.
«We had a good start to the
year with improving
top - line momentum and continued progress in margin expansion driven
by strength in Europe and AMEA,» said Dirk Van de Put, Chairman and CEO.
Moynihan said last
year he would make trimming costs a
top priority and would shrink annual expenses
by about an additional $ 5 billion
by 2018.
As one of the site's
top sellers wrote in a blog post in 2009: «Your odds of making $ 10,000 per
year [on Etsy] are better than winning $ 10,000 through the Powerball, though not
by a ton.»
The globe's 25
top - earning hedge - fund managers raked in an astonishing $ 11 billion last
year, despite producing disappointing investor returns, according to an annual list released Tuesday
by Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine.
Major carmakers will report December and full -
year 2017 US sales this week, and the expectation is that the
year will once again
top 17 million in total vehicles moved, but not
by much.
By the end of the first three working days of the
year, the U.K.'s
top bosses will each have earned on average as much as a typical worker will take home in all of 2018, according to a report.
A reform committee led
by Xi called on the Foreign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's
top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20
years to reach that level.
The National Bank's chief economist, Stefane Marion, predicts the S&P / TSX will hit 12,700
by this time next
year, while Warren Jestin, Scotiabank's chief economist, thinks the index will
top 12,750.