Sentences with phrase «year election day»

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The yield on Canadian 10 - year federal government bonds have climbed to about 1.6 % from about 1.3 % on Election Day.

Up until now, this issue has mostly been watercooler fodder, but with the Federal Reserve having raised rates in December and Donald Trump's election victory causing the 10 - year treasury yield to spike by 19 % since election day, many investors are now reducing their exposure to these rate - sensitive sectors.

Equally puzzling, Fischer said, is why the RNC would choose to begin coordinating with Trump now, three years before Election Day 2020.

The two that drew the biggest criticism last year: an unprecedented press conference in which he chastised Clinton for using a private server but ultimately cleared her of criminal wrongdoing; and a letter to Congress announcing that he was effectively reopening the case 11 days before the election.

Starbucks's stock is down 9 percent for the year, and Schultz is likely hoping that any customer backlash due to his vocal opposition of Trump will dissipate as Election Day grows more distant.

And two years down the track, the coalition has completely reversed its election day 54 - 46 per cent lead over Labor.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

The NSA document — which the Justice Department says was stolen and leaked to The Intercept by a 25 - year - old government contractor from Georgia — concluded that «Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local electoral boards» in the days leading up to the election.

The debate will continue until Election Day in November and well beyond, and this year's Top States study has given both sides plenty of ammunition.

With every passing day, the notion that Stephen Harper could pack it in before the next election and let someone else try to keep his fractious party whole enough to hang onto power in two years sound less and less far - fetched.

The Wall Street Journal reported just days before the 2016 election that the National Enquirer sat on a story about Trump having an affair with 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal, in 2006.

The biggest share of legal payments in the first quarter of this year — about $ 348,000 — went to Jones Day, a law firm representing the campaign in the investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and several congressional committees into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The 10 - year Treasury note yielded 2.21 percent Monday, up from 1.86 percent on Election Day on Nov. 8.

Of course, 2016 was shaping up as a fairly humdrum affair itself until Election Day, with year - to - date gains on the leading benchmarks in the mid-single-digit range.

«But it's also pulled back nicely, offering an inexpensive entry point, which increases risk and reward for the investor... With that all said, assuming DOC can hold on through Election Day, I think this could be a good position to own — especially through the end of the year.»

Near the end of June, the VIX was around 11 %, which is historically low and about half where it was just days before last year's presidential election.

By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.

Wynne said the announcement, made the day before the government tables its final budget ahead of the June election, is estimated to save families $ 17,000 a year.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

The Treasury yield curve has been steepening since the election, with 10 - year yields hitting one - year highs in recent days amid a bond sell - off.

In the immediate few days after Donald Trump won the Election, what we actually saw was the highest rise in the value of the dollar for nearly a year.

Negotiators have been working for days - and nights - on details of the bill, which is widely viewed as the last major piece of legislation likely to move through Congress in this election year.

«On International Workers» Day this year, lets renew our commitment to push for positive change that will benefit all workers,» says Patrick Colford, President of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, «With this year being an election year, we need to make sure that our elected representatives are accountable for improving fairness and making sure that economic prosperity benefits everyone.»

With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral challengers.

That's more than 6,000 points higher than it was when markets closed on Election Day 2016, at 18,332, and still 4,000 points higher from when it first hit the 20,000 - point mark in January 2017 just over a year ago.

«It took years of legal battles and a looming election for the Christy Clark government to do the right thing and halt the contamination with a 15 - day suspension of South Island Aggregates» permit.

At the end of last week, EUR / USD reached 1.1000 for the first time since November 9th last year — the day of the US presidential election.

It's a private matter, except 9 days before the election you try to shove down my throat that he actually is what he has done everything possible to avoid being or being seen as for the past 3.5 years.

World Youth Day takes place every two years and was planned long before the pope's election in March.

With just 100 days to go before polling day in this year's general election, a Christian charity's launched a new website that is aimed at helping Christians decide...

On the day before the election 4 years ago, Sarah Palin assured everyone that «His will will be done».

There have been election years when candidates were assassinated prior to election day, and years when they were killed not long after inauguration.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Freedom is not the pulling of a lever each year on election day but «requires that material possibilities be fully exploited and totally devoted to the enrichment of human life.»

There has been no shortage of good copy for newspapers this year, but back in the early summer, somewhere between the General Election, and before terrorist horrors in Tunisia, there was a brief few days when not much seemed to be happening.

While the election would not have been a GOP landslide, in a normal election year I think a reasonable GOP candidate would have led Clinton in the polls from nomination to election day.

A few days before the US election last year, new figures showed a rise in the number of jobs, though simultaneously the number registered as unemployed...

Vote for whoever the heck you want but remember that We The People are still gonna be here after election day... Change doesn't happen overnight, not in a year, four, eight, or even fifty if we can't work together.

Today is an election day, one of those so - called off - year, non-partisan election days.

Arlington Heights: Election day also marked the passing of an era in the largest northwest suburb, where an attorney was ahead by a small margin in a three - way race for the mayor «s seat, vacated after 14 years in the firm grasp of retiring Mayor James Ryan.

@MontyHarder Agreed, and an interesting fact to note is that we got rid of that model for Senators in favor of direct elections because an Illinois governor was involved ina scandal to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder... and almost 100 years to the day of that amendment to the constitution you had another Illinois governor do the exact same thing.

The explosion of Twitter marks one of the biggest changes in the digital political landscape in the last few years — in 2008, Barack Obama had all of 100,000 followers by Election Day, a number that was well above 20 million on Election Day 2012.

It was a year and a half before election day, earlier than he's ever backed a candidate in a statewide or city race.

If passed, it would allow 17 year olds who will be 18 on the day of the next general election to vote in both primaries and special elections:

«If Hawkins does that well on Election Day — something third party candidates often don't do — then it will almost certainly make this year's race closer than four years ago and keep Cuomo well below his total vote from 2010,» said Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg.

I had taken a day off work to go campaigning on the day of the local and European elections this year.

The explosion of Twitter marks one of the biggest changes in the digital political landscape in the last four years — Barack Obama had all of 100,000 followers by Election Day» 08, a number that's well above 20 million today.

Adeyeye, who, a few days ago resigned his position as the Pro-Chancellor of Ekiti State University in protest, after the state chapter of the party dashed his hopes and adopted Governor Ayodele Fayose's deputy as the party's flag bearer said, «the governor and myself are friends and I believe reason will prevail and we cooperate together,» and then «fight for next year's election, and win by the grace of God.»

During the campaigning days of this year's general election, Simon Roberts drove a motorhome around the UK chronicling candidates of all political persuasions.

Quite the social media push from the White House these days... purely a coincidence that we're in an election year, right?