Sentences with phrase «year highs last»

The benchmark 10 - year U.S. note yield rose to a four - year high last week, while the short - term two - year yield reached its highest level since 2008 on Tuesday.

The price of a gallon of gas reached a three - year high last week and is poised to climb even higher in the next couple of weeks, thanks to rising oil prices and seasonal trends.

DUBAI, May 1 - Saudi stocks slid 0.6 percent on Tuesday as concerns grew about rich valuations for blue - chip stocks after the region's biggest stock market hit a more than a two - year high last week.

Given that carbon dioxide had very little to do with centennial warming — and the sun (including UV) was at a 1000 year high last century — cooling for 500, 10,000, 100,000 years seems in the cards.

It shows also a 1000 year high last century in El Niño frequency.

It was revealed in April that the number of Crown Court cases being dropped hit a five - year high last year partly as a result of a reaction to the Savile revelations and an over correction on the part of our justice system to address a past failure to take the victims of sexual abuse seriously.

U.S. construction spending reached an 11 - year high last month, according to Reuters.

The latest reading is the highest since February 2008 and comes after another widely watched index of consumer confidence, put out by Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan, held at a five - year high last week in its final November reading.

Home prices in Kitsap County skyrocketed to a five - year high last month as the available supply of homes on the market continued to dwindle, according to Northwest Multiple Listing Service statistics for the month of March.

The number of homes sold in the county last month increased by 8 percent from the same time last year, hitting a seasonal five - year high last month, up to 295 sales from 273 in 2017.

Both metrics have underwhelmed in recent months, however — with corporate bond yields hitting a three - year high last month as property value appreciation has slowed and reports in September that REITs were trading at nearly a 15 percent discount to what investors would pay for buildings individually.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

However, that's due in part to a high comparative base from the second quarter last year, when the U.K.'s unexpected decision to leave the EU caused a huge surge in trading in the last week of June.

The shares had hit a 12 - year high of US$ 54.31 on the last day of April.

That has prompted investors to take another look at the widening interest rate differential trends between the United States and Europe which hit the highest in nearly 30 years at 236 basis points last week, and protracted weakness in the greenback.

One of the best - performing stocks in the last 30 years is about to see an «explosive» move higher, according to a top technician.

While the stocks have been hot over the last year, they are all down sharply from their recent highs.

One such firm, Datalogix, was acquired last year by Oracle for a rumoured high nine figures, a tidy sum for a black - box process that, at the end of the day, can essentially only correlate interest and purchase behaviour.

The company sold 52.2 million phonesin the March quarter — higher than the 51 million sold during the same quarter last year, but analysts were expecting 53 million.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

The complaints from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines as high as 40 % compared with last year.

That's compared with 43 startups last year and 33 in 2014, though it's still higher than levels of prior years.

According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), global debt levels rose by a further $ 21 trillion last year (US dollars), leaving total outstanding debt at $ US237 trillion, the highest level on record.

Brisbane - based law firm Shine Corporate has made its second acquisition in Western Australia, paying $ 13.3 million for personal injury specialist Bradley Bayly Legal, after paying a higher price last year for Stephen Browne Personal Injury Lawyers.

Russia is not the only country sending high - powered delegations to the I.S.O. technical committee focusing on blockchain standards, which got its start last year.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

And the amount of money these mutual funds are pouring in is worth noting: «Last year alone, global mutual fund investors poured $ 23.7 billion into 192 VC transactions — the highest amount of capital invested ever and a 66 % increase from the year prior,» states the release.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Bulls are now worried they are losing control of the narrative that drove stocks higher all last year.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

Perth's CBD office market recorded $ 740 million worth of major transactions in the 12 months to March 2018, more than three times higher than it was this time last year, according to research undertaken by Savills Australia.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

The TSA found close to 4,000 firearms tucked away in carry - on bags last year, the highest number since it began keeping track in 2005.

But Cohodes gave a detailed presentation of his case against Home Capital last year at a high - profile investor conference, and he'll engage with anyone who reaches out with questions.

«The total volume of small - business financing increased by 18 % over the same period last year, and reached the highest level since Feb. 2008, its latest data show».

High - intensity training may have seen the biggest growth last year, but the pendulum is already swinging.

According to new data from the Pentagon, incidences of rape and sexual assault within the U.S. military are up 10 % over the last fiscal year, reaching the highest number of reported assaults since at least 2006.

Before becoming president of Emily's List, Stephanie Schriock managed the winning 2008 Senate campaign of Al Franken — whose resignation last year made him the highest - profile Democratic casualty of the movement.

This means we have a billion dollars of investment in our downtown and we have the highest rising home prices in the mid-South last year.

Well, TRE finally got up and running late last year, and companies with more than $ 1.5 million in annual sales can now sell their receivables online to the highest bidder.

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

The common currency rose to a two - and - half year high against the dollar on doubts over the U.S. currency but also after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi gave two speeches last week with no indications about the bank's next steps for monetary policy.

Despite the high quality, the average dollar - per - litre value of WA wine has dropped in the last five years, which Ms Dent attributes to competition pressure pricing premium producers out of the market.

Nonetheless, Fossil shares are back to where they were about a year ago at $ 15.33 after precipitous drops in the last 12 months, but just a fraction of their $ 131.98 all - time highs only six years ago.

What's more, the news - reading public has grown accustomed to announcements of multi-million-dollar investments over the last 15 years, a period of extremely active venture capital funding, which reached new highs in 2015.

With such high rates of engagement, it's no wonder he's moved up 4 spots since last year from # 11 to # 7.