Sentences with phrase «trade group said»

In October, sales of homes at $ 1 million and above surged by 16.2 percent from the year before, while overall sales of homes were up by just 4.7 percent, the trade group said.

Mortgage applications soared nearly 10 % this past week as record low interest rates lifted refinancing activity, an industry trade group said Wednesday.

Older vehicles can't handle blends of 15 percent ethanol, the Washington - based trade group said.

The Nuclear Energy Institute counts 12 companies engaged in developing SMRs, the trade group said during a media roundtable on the technology last month.

Just 33 percent of home purchases this year have been by first - time buyers, the trade group said, down from 38 percent last year and well below the long - term average of 40 percent, the trade group said.

An insurance trade group said recently that 126 of 211 passenger car and minivan models offered for 1992 would have driver's side air bags as standard equipment.

«A critical step in this recovery will be for VW to honor the future product plan that Mr. Horn and VW dealers fought vigorously for,» the trade group said.

«This 34 to one ratio of setbacks to successes underlines the difficulty of developing new medicines for Alzheimer's,» the trade group said in a news release.

March 23 - Automakers have launched an online tool that will allow U.S. car owners, insurers and regulators search for open recalls, an auto trade group said on Friday.

Mark Merritt of the PBM trade group says this settlement helped establish the «rules of the road» for an «emerging industry.»

Trade groups say such a ruling would upend the franchise business model.

A letter dated Sunday and signed by 45 industry trade groups says that imposing tariffs would only hurt US businesses and consumers and would not be an effective way to reign in China's worst practices.

The aluminum industry, the trade group says, supports more than 20,000 American jobs, both directly and indirectly, and accounts for $ 6.8 billion in economic activity.

But restaurant, car wash, and nail salon trade groups say the tipped credit is critical to their survival.

Real estate trade group says legislation «denies basic American principle of innocent until proven guilty»

The Consumer Electronics Association, an Arlington, Va. — based trade group says that Americans owned some three billion electronic devices in 2005, the latest year for which data is available, despite tossing or recycling about 304 million electronic devices that same year.

Trade group says eliminating older workers» ability to make pre-tax contributions will imperil retirement savings.

This is what the oil and gas industry trade groups say in public, it's what the regulators say (the New York SGEIS, for example), and so on.

In response to the study, insurance industry trade groups said the CFA is largely overlooking the benefits that credit histories play in auto insurance pricing.

The head of a top financial trade group says that companies he represents are growing comfortable with the virtual currency bitcoin.

And for the last two months of the year the trade group says same - store sales will grow 2.5 percent.

Not exact matches

TORONTO, April 27 (Reuters)- The TMX Group, which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and other exchanges, said on Friday that it was experiencing issues with trading on all its exchange platforms and would shut down all markets for the rest of the day.

At a bitcoin breakfast event in Manhattan in April, a group of them traded complaints («They ended up with a pound of soup where they threw in all the different bank rules and AML [anti-money laundering] rules... they ended up with something very salty,» said Tim Byun of BitPay) and hyperbolic predictions (if BitLicense is too stringent, New York City will «lose the next Wall Street» to Silicon Valley, Estonia, or North Carolina, said Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures).

C. Fred Bergsten, a member of the advisory council and director emeritus of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said the nonlabor members of the group warned not to focus on the «hobby horse» of the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico.

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

TORONTO, April 27 - The TMX Group, which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and other exchanges, said on Friday that it was experiencing trading issues on all its exchange platforms and was investigating the matter.

Nev Power, former boss of world No. 4 iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group, had criticised the speculative trade on Dalian, saying producers and users should be the main participants.

At the time, Toronto Stock Exchange operator TMX Group Ltd said only that it was experiencing trading issues on all its exchange platforms, and it eventually said it...

«The group trades at a 20 percent discount to the broad tape and is approximately 20 percent less volatile,» said Mike O'Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading.

MOSCOW, March 31 - The co-owner of Russia's Summa investment and trading group, Ziyavudin Magomedov, and two business partners have been detained on suspicion of embezzling large sums of state money, the Russian interior ministry said on Saturday.

Mark Merritt, CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), a trade group representing the 10 largest traditional PBMs, says that while «drug prices have gone up more than we'd like» over the years, his members have saved employers 25 %.

Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute said the trade group was disappointed in the agency's order and warned that upholding the status quo would lead to the retirements of more reactors in the U.S. «Once closed,» she said, «these facilities are shuttered forever.»

«We're looking forward to competing with other energy sources as a low - cost option,» said Tom Kimbis, interim president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group.

Cohn's departure would further set back those efforts and perhaps give the upper hand in the White House to a group of advisers seeking to scale back foreign trade, said a Wall Street executive who asked not to be named.

«The TPP literally replicates and expands on the same model as NAFTA,» says Lori Wallach, a trade expert at Public Citizen, a liberal - leaning advocacy group.

These companies subsequently persuaded the DMV to loosen the requirements, and a trade group representing the auto industry said the companies «appreciated the streamlined guidance.»

It said bitcoin's bubbles were created by a combination of hype, mystery, decentralisation and possible insider trading, suggesting that a small group of bitcoin owners were speculating on its price and manipulating general investors.

Keeping tabs on bills and other bookkeeping matters can be one of the easiest things to assign to a virtual assistant, says Kathy Colaiacovo, marketing director for the International Virtual Assistants Association, a Henderson, Nev. - based trade group.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

«If you look at the chart, it just exploded to the upside,» Peter Thomas, senior vice president at Zaner Group LLC, said of the copper futures trading.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

In a legal filing joined by other public interest groups and the consumer electronics trade association, the group said the justices should not become regulators of technology and «the court should not attempt to predict the future of television.»

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

The Internet Association, a trade group that represents tech and video companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix, had said last week that while Pai doesn't always side with the internet industry, «he is both thoughtful and willing to listen.»

While NABUCO, the trade group representing college and university business officers, is making the case that these tax reforms will hit students and employees of higher education, Skorina said it is going to be a tough fight.

«Safety and security — whether our employees» or our guests» — is top priority,» said Rosanna Maietta, vice president for communications at the trade group.

The Association of Enterprise Opportunity, the industry's trade group, says members help 300,000 businesses each year and have lent more than $ 2 billion in the U.S. over the past 10 years.

Its targets have included a Middle Eastern telecommunications company doing business in North Korea, a Japan - based entity associated with a United Nations group on sanctions and the general director of a Vietnamese trading company, FireEye said, declining to name the victims.

This week, UnitedHealth Group, the country's biggest health insurer, said it would review and, if necessary, adjust «facility claims for the most severe and costly ED visits for patients enrolled in the company's commercial and Medicare Advantage plans,» the trade publication Modern Healthcare reported today.

At the time, the trade group also said it planned to combat municipal proposals like Seattle's and those expected in Chicago and Long Beach, Calif..