Sentences with phrase «year highs earlier»

After hitting two - year highs earlier in the week, bitcoin prices fell notably entering Wednesday, nearing correction territory after enjoying a sharp rally.

The price of gasoline hit two - year highs early on Monday with many Texas refineries shutting down.

China monopolizes over 90 % of trading globally — the Bitcoin Price reached 2 year high early December 2016 — approximately 70 % of Bitcoin mining within Chinese borders

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Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

The main stock index dropped by as much as 2.4 percent earlier, while the benchmark 10 - year government bond yield rose to 6.944 percent, the highest since August 2017.

Jay Z, née Shawn Carter, bought the Swedish company Aspiro, which offered high - quality «lossless» music downloads, early this year for a reported $ 56 million.

Issa finished high school two years early, and then went to his parents» home country of Lebanon for college.

Another customer recently reached out about having the ashes from his home, which burned down during the wildfires in Ventura County, California, earlier this year, put into a ring — which Archer says the company will be able to execute, thanks to wood's high carbon content.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

Third - quarter 2017 reached the highest level of early - stage investments in more than a year, according to Crunchbase.

The stock has gained 22 per cent so far this year and hit an all - time high earlier this month.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Commercial rental revenue increased 18 % from the year - earlier period due to higher demand and higher pricing.

According to CNN, feed prices were unusually high earlier in the year, and it has taken longer than anticipated for favorable chicken costs.

Gross domestic product grew 1.1 % in the third quarter from a year earlier, the latest government estimate showed, higher than the advance estimate of 0.6 % growth and a 1.0 % expansion in the Reuters survey.

U.S. refining margins rallied to the highest in nearly two years early this month.

Suncor Energy Inc., the world's second - largest oil - sands producer, said first - quarter profit fell 23 percent on lower output, higher costs and absence of a gain from insurance settlements a year earlier.

The benchmark 10 - year JGB yield was up 9 basis points at minus 0.050 %, touching its highest levels since early April.

Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook received a 74 percent increase in his annual bonus for fiscal 2017 as the iPhone maker posted higher revenue and net income, after a rare decline a year earlier.

Apple has been casting itself as a protector of user privacy in recent years, particularly earlier this year when it battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a high - profile case involving accessing encrypted data stored on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

Two years earlier the stock had traded as high as $ 40 a share.

They include remittance apps, such as Remitly, TransferWise and Xoom — an early player bought last year by PayPal Holdings Inc. for $ 890 million — along with companies such as Lendup and Oportun, which lend to high - risk borrowers.

Earlier this year, in the first quarter, VC spending hit its highest point since 2001, with $ 10 billion across 888 deals.

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.

US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high - ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the «right hand man» of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.

«Look, there might be a cautionary lesson in LeBron for kids: this is what happens when you attempt to leave high school a year early to join the NBA.»

Souki was the highest paid CEO in the U.S. last year, according to a New York Times / Equilar survey published earlier this year.

Those were the facts, as outlined by the SEC and the National Association of Securities Dealers in a high - profile news conference earlier this year.

That's nearly 5 % higher than a year earlier, and a whopping 33 % higher than in 2012, when the average balance was only $ 69,400.

Isle of Man - based GVC, which has grown rapidly into one of Britain's biggest online gambling companies, and high street - based Ladbrokes held talks about a deal earlier this year but they broke down without agreement.

Perhaps the most high - profile example of how such misconduct can destroy value is Uber, the ride - sharing company rocked by allegations of harassment and sexism early last year.

«The high adoption rate of AWS cloud services by organizations around the globe has translated into some of the top salaries for those IT professionals choosing to pursue these certifications in particular,» Global Knowledge said in a blog post from earlier this year.

The Korean conglomerate earlier this year released the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 +, two smartphones that were universally celebrated for their outstanding design and high - end power.

Starbucks» stock price reached an all - time high in early November, up more than five times from its 10 - year low in 2008.

They rose to 3.20 %, the highest level since before a central bank stilled their rise earlier in the year.

In the past, Chadwick served as the finance chief at a number of high profile companies, including Skype leading up to its acquisition by Microsoft (msft) in 2011, at McAfee leading up to its acquisition by Intel (intc) that same year, and earlier at Cisco (csco).

BEIJING (AP)-- U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, who oversaw the handling of potential crises over the flights to U.S. diplomatic missions by a persecuted legal activist and a high - profile police chief, said Wednesday he will step down early next year.

The yield on the 10 - year Treasury fell below 2 % for the first time since May 2013 in early trading in Europe, while gold rose to a three - week high of $ 1.213.60 a troy ounce, as investors once again shunned anything that smelled remotely of risk.

The latest report departs from previous estimates pegging the company's value during an IPO at $ 25 to $ 35 billion, higher than the $ 20 billion valuation Snap received when it raised funding earlier this year.

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.

While Chinese banks tend to front - load loans early in the year to get higher - quality customers and win market share, the lofty figure was even higher than the most bullish forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.

Unlike earlier this year, high - quality names can be had for reasonable prices.

For example, an early - stage, high - growth company with limited revenues and prospects for negative operating income for the next few years would find this to be a good option.

Treasury yields edged higher in early morning trade with the 2 - year yield near 1.90 percent and the 10 - year yield near 2.48 percent.

The major indexes also snapped four - week winning streaks and are now at least 3.5 percent below all - time intraday highs set earlier in the year.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia - Pacific shares outside Japan extended gains to 1.2 % in its sixth straight session of increases, just 0.9 % shy of its one - year high touched earlier this month.

Since launching in Pakistan earlier this year, the high costs of car ownership and low cost of wages have thrown up unexpected problems for the company, offering captivating insights into the prevailing political economy and the role of capital owners in a sharing economy.

That's a 14 - year high, and a twofold increase over the already elevated levels seen a year earlier.

And earlier this year they both cut their highest premiums — for buyers with 5 % down — by another 15 %.