Sentences with phrase «year point in»

Three of the very best mobile and handheld games this year point in one direction: down.

The events of the last fifty years point in the direction of another national effort being mounted in the foreseeable future to accelerate improvement in education.

Not exact matches

«We were not crossing into Pakistan that day,» she said, according to USA Today, «We had been in Pakistan for more than a year at that point.

Games have consequently ballooned in scope over the decades to the point where they typically require $ 100 - million budgets, teams of hundreds and several years to produce.

In the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percenIn the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percenin this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percent.

For a number of years, the two were estranged, to the point where Sumner tried to buy out Shari's stake in Viacom and CBS (as he bought out her brother Brent).

I point to the fact that I've been on this journey with Starbucks for nearly eight years now on the board — be eight years in March of 2017.

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

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.

The special issue approaches investing from both domestic and international vantage points, providing a well - rounded look at where you might put your money in the coming year.

As you pointed out, my life in business started with Student magazine when I was a few years older than you are now.

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

It's also important to remember that funding comes in at the end of the four year competition, if you win — so it's up to competing teams to fund their entries up to that point.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

McLean points out that it took Atlantis 15 years to raise its first $ 30 million, whereas Blue Ant zipped past the same milestone in only 14 months.

«We do not see an imminent turning point in commodity prices and thus forecast further negative repercussions on the Canadian economy next year,» Sebastien Lavoie, assistant chief economist at Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, said in an analysis of the Bank of Canada's latest policy statement.

The state - owned oil firm is expected to list on the Saudi stock exchange in the second half of this year, but an international listing — which was at one point tipped to happen at the same time — is said to have been temporarily shelved.

But nobody in his camp was prepared for the outcome: Turnout in the off - year primary was nearly double what the Grayson campaign anticipated, as Paul piled up an eye - popping 23 - point margin across the state.

Twenty percent of those surveyed said that using all of their earned vacation days in the next 12 months was a top priority, up seven points from last year.

When I ask which boy could be the next Lionel Messi — Barcelona's superstar, and some would argue the best footballer in history — a staff member points to a lanky 11 - year - old in neon - orange cleats, darting across the field.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

And then there are the more nuanced signs of trouble, such as the collapse of support among rural Americans, whom Democrats lost by eight points in 2008 and by 28 this year.

Case in point: Soda sales declined in 2016 for the 12th consecutive year.

Nesi points out that Roar Organic in five months won over more retailers than his other products did in three years.

But when that retailer stop expanding in the years that followed, Vision Quest Lighting's finances started shrinking to the point company founder Larry Lieberman was considering bankruptcy.

You want to get to a there, a point in the future (usually three to five years out) at which time your business will have a different set of resources and abilities as well as greater profitability and increased assets.

The current outlook for the S&P 500 at 2,787 for the end of this year is now 150 points, or 5 percent, below the outlook in January.

Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year.

It's an annual tradition at this point: Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Razer debuts a bizarre prototype that may or may not become an actual product.

To illustrate that point, the report cites data that suggests the U.S. has become less entrepreneurial over the past 40 years as startups have struggled to compete in increasingly consolidating industries.

Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year.

That's the point Bezos has been emphasizing for 20 years, and it's clearly articulated in this initial letter to shareholders.

Eleven years later, he's in Inc.'s offices, sitting on our café couch, with a small, rectangular device called the Scout angled to point directly at his forehead — his temple, to be precise.

For evidence, Ratner points to the way the rolling monthly trading volume of the Russell 1000 index has doubled in the past 20 years and become more spiky.

The company offers a big data analytics platform which aggregates private MLS data and analyzes years of home transactions to identify real estate specialists in specific neighborhoods and price points.

This could have huge implications: The study points out that 5.4 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone.

It may be a moot point in the end because European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, last year agreed to take a majority stake in the jet program and the two plan to build the aircraft in Alabama, where Airbus makes narrowbody passenger planes.

That took the share price (TIME) to $ 17.75, its highest point in more than a year.

Since the bond market's «flash crash» back in October — when US 10 - year Treasury yields fell 34 basis points, or 0.34 % in one morning — concerns regarding liquidity and how resilient the bond market might be to shocks have lingered around the market.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

If the Bank of Canada hikes two more times this year, some households could be renewing at a rate 75 basis points higher than what they previously paid, according to Rob McLister, CEO of intelliMortgage Inc. in Toronto.

The drugstore chain is one of Canada's strongest retail brands, and the company climbed by 4.6 points and two spots in this year's Reputation Institute survey.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note added roughly 60 basis points this year, topping the 3 percent mark this week for the first time in four years.

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

The company had been teasing consumers for a year at this point, starting with a pop - up shop in Toronto featuring designer Jason Wu.

That's their lowest point in a year.

«They even make a point of getting my 96 year old mother a shopping cart in the parking lot to use as a walker,» Mudhall wrote.

Valued at just US$ 12 million six years ago, Twitter had a market cap of over US$ 40 billion at one point in December.

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.