Sentences with phrase «year highs in»

WASHINGTON — Cocoa butter prices jumped to 1 1/2 - year highs during March while cocoa bean futures traded up to 2 1/2 - year highs in London and 1 1/2 - year highs in New York amid indications of improving cocoa demand and earlier weather concerns about the West African cocoa bean crop.

The advanced report on new orders for manufactured durable goods fell 6.8 percent in July, after rising close to three - year highs in June.

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.

The Eurozone Manufacturing PMI survey's new export orders index has been hitting six - year highs in recent months.

Some are betting on further declines; speculative short positioning is at three - and - a-half year highs in the futures market.

Tokyo's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported Tuesday that job availability rose to 43 - year highs in July as unemployment held steady.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation remains stubbornly below its 2 percent target, but U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields spiked to near four - year highs in January as a bond sell - off gathered steam.

According to the latest Thomson Reuters / PayNet lending index, Small - business lending hit a four - year high in November.

Small business sentiment soared to a 12 - year high in December, as business owners looked forward to much better business conditions.

Business activity in the euro area hit a fresh six - year high in April on strong demand and increasing business prospects, new data showed on Friday.

The number of job openings in the U.S. hit a seven - year high in April, reflecting a labor market drawing strength from the nation's economic recovery.

Building approvals have also increased - bucking a nationwide trend of reductions in building approvals - while residential land sales in Perth and Mandurah hit a three - year high in September; both are indications of increasing residential construction down the line.

A survey from Capital One Bank says that small business conditions are improving and a survey from Citibank reveals a three - year high in owners» view of business conditions.

Healthcare AI VC deal volume and funding hit a five - year high in 2016, with almost $ 800 million in investments across 90 deals, according to TM Capital.

A gauge of U.S. small business confidence rose to a 12 - year high in December as optimism about the economy intensified among business owners following the November election, the National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday.

In France, business sentiment hit a 10 - year high in August, the country's statistic office said Thursday.

The greenback also surged to a 14 - year high in December following Trump's win, although it has pared some of its gains in January.

Thomson Reuters figures earlier in the month showed investment banking fees rocketed to a 10 - year high in the first quarter, thanks to big mergers and acquisitions and the so - called «Trump bump».

China allowed the yuan to drop after the Shanghai Composite index lost more than 20 % from a three - year high in June.

The dollar retreated from an 11 - year high in the previous session, falling about 1 percent to the euro EUR = after weaker - than - expected orders for U.S. durable goods in December.

U.S. job cuts soared to a nearly four - year high in July as the military announced plans to reduce troop and civilian workforce payrolls, according to outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Mergermarket notes in its Q1 - Q3 Trend Report that deal values for private equity buyouts reached a six - year high in the third quarter, at US$ 7.5 billion.

The median rent price hit a five - year high in March of $ 1,831 per month, up from $ 1,428 in March 2013.

The eurozone's stealth recovery has steadily accelerated since mid-2016, with the region's composite PMI hitting a six - year high in March.

But in the face of a 4 - year high in the 10 - year bond yield and a 2 - week high in the DX, limiting gold's decline to single digit was a relief.

-LRB-...) Orders of new machinery by businesses, considered a leading indicator of overall capital investment, surged to a five - year high in November, rising 9.3 per cent to Y882.6 bn.

Inbound migration rose to a 10 - year high in February 2014, when 6,100 Chinese applicants were granted citizenship.2 Last year, Chinese migrants made up 15 % of the 38,961 applicants who gained resident visas.

Not only is consumer confidence up, but homebuilder confidence, as measured by the NAHB, hit a 12 - year high in March, supported by an improving economy and President Trump's pledge to roll back strict regulations.

The number of private homes sold by Singapore developers reached a three - year high in March 2017, boosted by stamp duty reductions, new figures show.

Wall Street falls sharply amid tech and trade - war concerns: Reuters Korea expert recommends cancelling Trump - Kim meeting: CNBC US ISM Mfg Index edged down to still - strong 59.3 for March: MarketWatch US Mfg PMI rose to 3 - year high in March: IHS Markit Construction spending in US posted a weak 0.1 % gain in February: Reuters Eurozone mfg sentiment still positive in Mar, but eased to 8 - month low: IHS Markit German retail spending fell for third month in February: Reuters Fed funds futures predicting no change in rates at FOMC meeting in May: CME US visitor visas fall 13 % over past year: Politico

The average drop was 14 %, but in most years stocks rebounded, finishing the year higher in 24 of the past 32 years.2 Smart investors realize that such pullbacks are frequent, not a reason for concern, and can offer opportunities to add attractive investments at lower prices.

But a 23 - year high in its return on equity is unsettling some analysts.

FHA market share rose to a four - year high in December, according to several sources.

Last year marked a twenty year high in vocations to the priesthood, a resurgence of women --- young women --- accepting the call to religious religious life, and a major report in October found that there are an abundance of (over six - hundred thousand) Catholic men and women who are potential priests and sisters.

Mega deals climbed back to a six - year high in terms of deal numbers during the past fiscal year and are expected to remain a feature of the domestic landscape in 2014 - 15.

Reacting to the report, Highways Term Maintenance Association chief executive George Lee said: «This year's ALARM survey makes for very interesting and possibly surprising reading, as it seems to indicate a significant turnaround from previous surveys with a 10 year high in maintenance budgets, the budget shortfall dropping and the critical «catch up cost» dropping by # 2.7 Bn.

Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, responds to the figures released today which reveal a 17 year high in unemployment.

Cocoa futures in London climbed to a six - year high in July as the Harmattan reduced output from the smaller of two annual crops in West Africa.

The growth spans almost every sector, including the construction industry, which hit a 25 - year high in June.

It also jibes with other positive indicators, including an Oct. 8 Labor Department report that said the number of U.S. job openings reached a 13 - year high in August.

Fever - Tree has reported another period of very strong growth with full year revenue expected to be circa # 169m for the year to 31 December 2017 Latest News / news / latest; 6:06 p. Intel shares top 17 - year high in late trading after earnings, discussion of security challenges.

New homebuilding reached a 4 1/2 year high in December, welcome news for an industry that lost 2 million jobs during the downturn.

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Cryptocurrency trading saw a massive uptick in the past year as bitcoin's price skyrocketed to new highs.

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).

Prices on the London Metal Exchange soared by a third, lifting the metal to its highest in nearly seven years, after the United States imposed sanctions this month against billionaire Oleg Deripaska and his company Rusal, the world's No. 2 aluminium producer.

Lockheed delivered 66 of the high - tech, stealthy fighters last year to the U.S. and allies, 40 percent more than in 2016, hitting its target.

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters)- Oil eased on Wednesday, but held in sight of three - year highs reached the previous day, as rising U.S. fuel inventories and production weighed on an otherwise bullish market.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.