Sentences with phrase «year grades in»

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Canada moves from 14th - place and a «D» grade in 2009 to 2nd place and a «B» grade in 2013 (the latest year for which comparable data are available).

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

How it Innovates: While most competing teaching platforms offer the same features as they did 15 years ago (like delivering quizzes and publishing grades), D2L is already leading a major shift in the industry: It's harnessing data and analytics to become the Netflix of education.

Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

Kids start a new grade of school, Jews like me celebrate the New Year with Rosh Hashanah, and businesses kick in new plans for making the most of the remaining yYear with Rosh Hashanah, and businesses kick in new plans for making the most of the remaining yearyear.

That device's screen, which DisplayMate tested last year, also earned an A + grade from the company and performed exceedingly well in nearly all metrics, and it could keep pace with the Galaxy S9 in a variety of areas, including color accuracy and brightness.

A second - grade classroom in Erie needed 21 buckets to catch leaks following a snowstorm two years ago.

During the summer, Mom would have us do all the reading and learning in preparation for the next year's grade.

It's perhaps what you'd expect from a kid who skipped four grades, two in elementary and two in high school, and graduated from the University of British Columbia four years early at 18.

«I probably had the lowest grade in my first - year business class.

And so, essentially, the average student in Chicago looks like they're learning six years worth of math and reading skills in the five - year period between third and eighth grade.

With a change in the drill orientation, the high - grade zone was instantly apparent and the rest was history with respect to Lady Ada all those years ago.

Mark Barden, whose seven - year - old son Daniel was shot to death in his first - grade classroom, said he and other Sandy Hook parents had been advocating for the bill for more than three years.

High - grade hits of copper and gold from the maiden drill program at Jubilee sent Hammer's share price soaring from 3.4 cents in mid-December to a peak of 5 cents early in the new year.

My fourth - grade teacher didn't help when she announced I was the worst speller she'd seen in 25 years.

After teaching grade school in public schools for several years, Robin Wes used his physical education, psychology and motor development degrees to open The Little Gym in 1976.

Fitch and S&P joined DBRS at the end of 2017 in giving Portugal's debt an «investment grade» after years of considering it «junk.»

Families with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 last year.

Children born in 1990, most of whom are now in the fifth grade, are just entering their key consumer years.

It said in a note Friday: «With the recent back - up in both IG [investment grade] and HY [high - yield] spreads to their respective 3.5 - year wides, a discussion has emerged about whether the market is sensing the next default cycle around the corner or is simply «overreacting» to some exogenous but ultimately irrelevant events.

When I was in the fifth grade, my mother perpetrated the worst kind of atrocity one could on a 10 - year - old kid: she bought me a pair of Converse jogging pants, sort of.

When landmen from Cabot Oil & Gas came knocking on doors along the rutted dirt grade of Carter Road in Dimock, Pa., last year, they sold a promise many residents in the farming community were eager to hear: Sign a gas lease and the land might finally pay for itself.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

This leaves us roughly in the same position that we started the year, slightly overweight to spread product, i.e., investment - grade and high - yield corporate bonds and emerging markets (more recently, we also went back to a slight overweight on commercial mortgage - backed securities).

PTTAX underperformed intermediate investment grade bond fund peers in the past 12 months ended Feb. 24, but has an above - average five - and 10 - year annualized record.

Vaselkiv pointed out there was a «game changer» in February this year when «Moody's took a chainsaw to $ 150 billion of investment - grade oil and gas bonds, and downgraded very high - quality investmen - grade companies to BB,» which he noted was a one - time opportunity to prove the strength of their portfolios.

Over the last twenty years, investors have witnessed a steady decline in the interest rate on investment grade bonds, GICs and term deposits.

After shying away from M&A financing in recent years, investment - grade borrowers returned to the loans market with... https://t.co/6AUTexrC6Q

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

Western allies press Trump to maintain nuclear deal with Iran: Reuters US intelligence monitors Iranian cargo shipments into Syria: CNN A trade war is a major risk for China's debt - ridden economy: CNBC Federal judge orders gov» t must accept new DACA immigration applications: WaPo Unification of Koreas still unlikely as leaders prepare to meet: Reuters US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in April after March decline: CB New home sales in US increased to 4 - month high in March: MarketWatch Richmond Fed Mfg Index turns negative for first time since 2016: Bond Buyer S&P Case - Shiller Home Price Index surged in Feb, up 6.3 % y - o - y: CNBC Federal Housing Finance Agency: US house prices continued to rise in Feb: HW Corp bonds with lowest investment - grade rating look vulnerable: Bloomberg 10 - year Treasury yield reaches 3.0 % for first time since 2014: CNN Money

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

Indeed, if we look at projects that opened in just the last two or three years, we see that they're of lower grade, meaning they don't produce nearly as much as older, easy - to - mine gold deposits.

Barely three years later he was named as a finalist for Fixed Income Manager of the Decade — a title that eventually went to Bill Gross — when, in a move that shocked the industry, he was summarily fired from TCW (makes you wonder about those stewardship grades).

«If this leads to a larger discount in tight oil grades, further incentivizing domestic processing, the U.S. may be set up poorly for strengthening distillate demand later in the year.»

It's not going to be possible to have the same type of 5 - 6 % annual returns in high - grade bonds that investors have become accustomed to for the past 30 + years.

In the past 20 years, the stock market has undergone two massive declines, and in both cases, short - term, investment - grade munis — those carrying an A rating or higher — helped investors stanch the losseIn the past 20 years, the stock market has undergone two massive declines, and in both cases, short - term, investment - grade munis — those carrying an A rating or higher — helped investors stanch the lossein both cases, short - term, investment - grade munis — those carrying an A rating or higher — helped investors stanch the losses.

They note, for example, that the size of large trades of US investment grade corporate bonds (so - called «block trades») has continuously declined in recent years.6 Furthermore, in most corporate bond markets, trading appears to be highly concentrated in just a few liquid issues, and concentration appears to be increasing in some market segments.

This year, in contrast, grades of the top - ranked Kellogg / UST program enjoyed the highest pay — on average, slightly more than $ 392,000, or roughly four times the average at the bottom of the scale.

These managers range from those whose time horizon is measured in minutes to those who hold positions for years; from those who knew they wanted to invest when they were back in grade school to those who still aren't sure investing is their calling; and from those with impeccable academic credentials to those without any degrees.

Simandou is the world's largest untapped high - grade iron - ore resource and is expected to sustain a mine life in excess of 40 years.

Of course we would like to see AXL pay down its debt as quickly as possible, but cutting the company's debt in half would likely push AXL to be an investment grade credit and this appears achievable within roughly 3 years.

Antofagasta CEO Ivan Arriagada said in a statement the company had expected to begin the year with poorer grades, but would move to higher quality ores and improve output as the year went on.

Refunding needs for speculative - grade US companies will reach a record $ 1.06 trillion over the next five years, the ratings agency found in a February report.

The Schulich School of Business at York University earned the top mark of 86 per cent, receiving a high grade in all three evaluated categories that continues a nine - year reign on top of our rankings.

In addition to raising a total of $ 22.6 billion in high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability FacilitIn addition to raising a total of $ 22.6 billion in high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability Facilitin high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability Facility.

Social Security sets out a few key rules for eligibility: The child must be unmarried, under the age of 18 or 19 years old, and in school no higher than grade 12.

By contrast, high - quality bonds such as those found in investment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greater degree.

In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 yearIn the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 yearin consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.

As to whether the stock market has put in a «real» bottom, Reynolds said he would like to see corroborating evidence of improving conditions, like the yield on the 10 - year U.S. Treasury note moving back up, and improvement in the investment - grade corporate credit market.

«My fear is that Treasury yields fell so much in the past year that if they continue to rise,» he added, «their prices will fall much harder than those of investment - grade corporate ETFs.»