While the equity market appeared at least partially shaken by the 10 a.m. reports -- the Dow Jones industrials turned a 112-point gain into a 42-point advance by midday -- long-term interest rates in the bond market extended their recent rise.
While the equity market appeared at least partially shaken by the 10 a.m. reports -- the Dow Jones industrials turned a 112-point gain into a 31-point advance -- long-term interest rates in the bond market extended their recent rise, a sure sign that deflationary fears are waning.
He's made a nine point gain among white voters, a 12-point gain among White men.
Two out of three Americans who watched the speech said they favor Obama's health care plans -- a 14-point gain from before the speech -- while 29 percent oppose the president's proposals, according to the pollsters.
Profits, meanwhile, were a tad below expectations, at 66 cents a share before a one-time gain, a penny below the consensus.
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To get Anderson localisation to operate in a random laser has not been easy, mainly because it is hard to find a substance that both acts as a high-gain medium and scatters light very strongly.
African American students in grades four and eight increased their marks on reading exams by 23 points, and eighth-graders posted a 40-point gain on the math exam, she said.
Other factors relate to discontinued operations (booking a one-time gain from selling a business is bad), corporate governance (companies get black marks for having poison pills), inventory (if it piles up faster than sales, then business may be weakening) and free cash flow (a declining number is bad).
They declared victory after producing a half-pound of Bio-PDO from one pound of glucose, a 500-fold gain in yield.
The 30-stock index finished with a 10-point gain, up 0.1% to 14, 548.
This is a carrot and stick approach -- in which the carrot may be the lure of an exclusive interview, and the stick is the publicists' insistence that you should cover disturbing half-chair half-woman type films as a trade-off to gain access to the cast of a great one.
Non-commercial activity in the legacy data also saw a net-long gain for platinum and palladium.
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This compares to a median monthly gain of 0.9% and a median three-month gain of 2.2% for all months since 1969.
With polling showing Republicans well-positioned to pick up Illinois, and with GOP challengers strengthening in South Carolina, Nevada and California, some Republican insiders are talking about the party making a run at 60 seats (a five-seat gain), which would give the GOP at least a theoretical ability to break Democratic filibusters.
Industrial production in the 12-member block edged up by 0.1% in December to give a 12-month gain of 2.5%.
Of particular interest for a retail company, same-store sales rose 4.1% in the recent quarter, up from a prior-year gain of 1%.
Its 31% increase in net income in the fourth quarter resulted primarily from higher operating profit, a pre-tax gain for the sale of its 18% ownership in the Game Show Network, and a lower effective tax rate.
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Adult beverage owner Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE:STZ) has been an overachiever from a technical standpoint, boasting a year-to-date gain of about 25%, and a year-over-year advance of around 96%.
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European and U.S. stock indexes saw some selling pressure Wednesday following some weak U.S. economic data that included a smaller-than-expected gain in a monthly ADP employment report.
One assumption is that you have, apart from the loss-harvesting trade, a long-term capital gain this year.
Since you've held both lots for more than a year, any profit is a long-term capital gain, taxed at a current top rate of 15%.
One of the reasons that I like to do it at one year is that if you are selling something at a gain then it's a long-term capital gain.
Before then a fund could be penalized for having too large a percentage of its profits from "short-term" gains--a painful rule given that a gain on a short sale is always treated as short-term, however long the position is held.
Washington sees Social Security reform as a zero-sum gain-if someone gains, someone else loses.
Although profit was down, backing out a one-time gain from the year-ago figures reverses that result.
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In November theglobe.com set a different kind of record with a first-day gain of 606%.
The declines follow a large surge in optimism that propelled the Dow to a triple-digit gain.
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Lithium battery chemistry, commercialized in 1991, changes this equation with a four-fold gain in energy stored per pound.
Those 12 consecutive years of rising prices gave its holders a six-fold gain.
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Or you could sell just the put, realizing a short-term gain on that.
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