Sentences with phrase «year gained about»

And last year we gained about # 25 - 30m from player sales, plus we realeased like 15 players freeing up an insane amount of wages so it's not like we just dropped # 80m end of story.

Not exact matches

Shares of Exxon are down about 4 percent over the last year, compared with a 9 - percent gain for the S&P 500 energy sector.

The major indexes have since struggled to hold gains for the year amid worries about rising interest rates, a U.S. - China trade war, prohibitive regulation on technology giants and a peak in earnings growth.

He failed his university entrance exams twice before gaining admission to Hangzhou Teachers University in 1984; after graduation he spent five years teaching English for 120 yuan (about $ 15) per month.

Rumours swirled this year about possible acquisitions by the Quebec - based pharmacy chain after it sold its remaining stake in Rite Aid (resulting in a gain of $ 158.3 million).

However, when he inquired about a booth, the organizers said that Starvox would be set up in a corner, and would likely have to attend for a few years before gaining the trust of the buyers.

However, about a year and a half ago I had my daughter Layla and gained about 50 pounds.

Even after Alphabet's more than $ 100 billion market gain this year alone, the company trades at just 23 times expected 2017 earnings, compared with about 18.5 times for the S&P 500, and is growing much faster.

Still there are questions about whether these changes, and others made over the past year, can actually help the service gain users.

Revenue peaked at $ 1.4 billion in 1996, and fell just about every year after that, as Napster, file sharing, and, eventually, iTunes and iPods gained popularity.

According to Martin, in addition to the revenue gains, Pokémon Go alone could add $ 5.5 billion to Apple's market cap over the next two years, or about $ 1 per share of added value.

The S&P 500 Index had gained about 16 percent this year, as of Nov. 24, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was about 19 percent higher.

In comparison, bitcoin has gained about 1,500 percent and ethereum is up roughly 9,200 percent this year, according to CoinMarketCap.

The company still loses about 12 employees a year, but to Schiff, it's worth it if it means gaining two valuable staff members.

The pace of oil and gas production gains has consistently surprised forecasters since horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, better known as «fracking», were pioneered in U.S. shale rock formations about ten years ago.

Even after last year's extraordinary job gains, only about 59 percent of the population is employed.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

Forecasters expected first - quarter earnings for the sector would be up about 69 percent from a year ago, the highest percentage gain of any S&P 500 sector, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Over the years, employees gain an intimate knowledge about clients» billing particulars.

Over long periods, home prices have gained about 4 percent a year while stocks have gone up close to 10 percent.

Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.

It's not the most appetizing option, but for every year you delay, you gain about 7 % in annual retirement income, assuming you save 15 % of your salary, according to the American Association of Individual Investors.

Their answer: 2,235, a gain of about 6 % over today's levels — not too bad, considering that expectations for corporate earnings next year have been steadily declining.

Oil prices collapsed on Thursday to their lowest since late November as investor worries about the world's stubbornly persistent glut of crude erased most of the gains that followed last year's OPEC's output cut.

The stock is up about 9 % from its closing price on Sept. 19, 2014, having gained nearly 80 % from its low point a year after the IPO.

While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

«Halftime Report» trader Jim Lebenthal is getting nervous about the stock market right now so he purchased an exchange - traded fund to protect the 9 percent year - to - date gain in his CNBC Pro model portfolio.

«After kicking off a Shopping feeds campaign, the SEO work that had been going for about a year gained significant traction, and traffic from organic search increased 325 % overall and more than 400 percent from mobile alone year - over-year,» she says.

As human resources staff gain comprehensive knowledge about the most popular desires of their employees, they can communicate more frequently about those items — ideally to a targeted audience — rather than deliver a canned, generic presentation about all benefits once a year to all employees.

But even with the latest setbacks, the area has still gained about 4,000 jobs compared to a year ago and its unemployment has fallen from 7.8 % a year ago.

For example, over the past three months, payroll gains have averaged about 150,000 per month, as compared to an average of more than 200,000 per month over the course of 2015 and the first quarter of this year.

In Hugo Chavez's early years, before he ever started talking about socialism, one of the major reasons the wealthy pushed so hard to try to get rid of him was that he gained control of the tax service and actually started forcing wealthy people to pay their taxes.

Moon Express spent about a year working with the F.A.A., the State Department and other agencies to jerry - rig what Dr. Richards called a «temporary patch,» using the F.A.A.'s existing authority to review rocket payloads in order to gain the approval Moon Express was seeking.

In hindsight, the stock market has followed this typical post-war pattern, and we clearly could have captured some portion of the market's gains over the past year had I ignored the risk of a second wave of credit strains (which I remain concerned about, primarily over the coming months).

Japanese shares hit a two - month closing high on Tuesday with financials leading gains after U.S. bond yields spiked to four - year highs and as investors remained optimistic about upcoming earnings.

When the yield on the S&P 500 was higher than that for the 10 - year, however, stocks rose an average 19 percent and gained in price about 80 percent of the time,» he wrote.

In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

A good percentage of the market's year - to - date gains have come on a quintet of technology and internet names, but even absent that, more and more Wall Street analysts are concerned about broad U.S. stock - market valuations.

This story is about the growth of the city's startup ecosystem, which has been gaining momentum over the last several years.

-- Thinking ahead, we moved about ~ 10 % of our net worth / equity gains from the past year into a short - term bond fund.

Also, ETFs such as the iShares Trust — iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT B --RRB- have gained from a price level of about $ 119 in mid-September to as high as $ 126.21 in the beginning of October.

While the stock market is up about 10 percent for the year — which is a nice gain for stocks in just eight months — the money people have made in stocks is puny compared with what's been made in bitcoin.

Because the survey has been conducted over several years, researchers from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Greenwald & Associates are able to trend results to gain an understanding of employees» changing perspective about their benefits over time.

Also, the relationships you've built through the blog over the years created opportunities to guest post about the eBook on other blogs to gain a wider audience.

Shares of UPS have gained about 4 % over the past year, lagging the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 15 % increase.

Our portfolios combined also had an unrealized loss of about 37 % in 2008 and gained back about 31 % of it the following year.

While there's a great deal of variation across individual market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year market cycle: a 135 % gain, a 30 % loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming in at less than half of the bull market gain).

Long - term investors who intend to buy and hold a stock should focus on longer - term beta to gain a better understanding of volatility, whereas short - term holders might not be concerned about the volatility experienced by a stock five to 10 years in the past.

Neha Chamaria: I'm getting increasingly apprehensive about Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) stock, which has already gained 43 % year to date, especially given the massive challenges the company faces.

Dash began 2017 at a price of only $ 11.26, bringing about 139-fold gains so far this year.