The SPDR Diamonds Trust ( DIA) surpassed the October highs on the first day of the New Year.
The worst day of the year for the SPX was June 1, when it lost 2.46% (interesting figure).
Tuesday will be the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The busiest shopping day of the year on the High Street tends to be on or around 18 December.
And in another win for travellers, the nightly rate of 149 Canadian dollars is the same every day of the year.
Under flat-rate pricing, the price paid for electricity is the same for any hour of the day or season of the year.
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It was the hottest day of the year in the city, the sun pounding from above, the concrete radiating heat from below.
On the first working day of the year, however, the highly influential Bank of England lowered its key lending rate from a century-high 7%.
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To keep things that way, all companies nowadays hold their shareholders' meetings on the same day of the year, at the end of June.
The Russell Investments index of 2000 small-capitalization companies, meantime, notched a record on the first day of the year, and has climbed higher since then.
In other words, you can actually buy the equipment for your business on the last day of the year and still deduct the whole cost.
One thing I found interesting was the worst daily loss of the year was just 2.46%, and the best day of the year was a gain of 2.46%.
The problems this week involve one piece of the giant ongoing overhaul, the new dispatch computer system, rolled out Wednesday on the first hot day of the year, when emergency calls usually spike.
When the Huffington Post set the launch of its live video network for mid-August, it was with an eye to having all the major kinks worked out in time for the biggest news day of the year: the presidential election.
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Sir Alan Budd, former chief economic adviser to the Treasury, says that this will almost certainly have to be on the first day of the year to coincide with the bank holiday, as occurred with the first wave of euro entrants.
Held each June on the closest weekend to the longest day of the year (this year from 22 to 24 June), midsummer is Finland's most enthusiastic party -- an excuse for lakeshore bonfires, midnight airshows, drinking games, skinny dipping, saunas and all-you-can-eat banquets of grillimakkara (grilled sausages) served with mustard and the season's first new potatoes.
As the Dow jumped more than 300 points in the first trading day of the year, consumer sentiment fell to 71.3 according to the University of Michigan, down from 72.9 in all of December.
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Catherine Jewell, the Austin, Tx. job coach who was my source on a story about using the holidays to find a job, says the first business day of the New Year is not the best time to pounce.
South-east and east England experienced the hottest day of the year so far on Saturday when temperatures peaked at 32.4C (90.3F) in Suffolk.
There has been Westminster speculation that Mr Miliband will propose to Ms Thornton, a barrister and mother to their two children, soon, perhaps even choosing the most romantic day of the year to pop the question.
The sun is just setting on the first day of the new year.
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But Tommy can meet the guidelines by simply importing the all-Korean Timor until the very last day of the first year and then producing a 20%-local version.
The deal was received warmly by the markets given the extent of the relief rally that we have experienced thus far on the first trading day of the New Year.
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The number of refugees leaving the country has increased from 1, 000 a day at the beginning of the year to more than 8, 000 a day.
Jet Tila explained that red is considered especially lucky as lore has it children who were wearing red were able to ward off the evil Nian, a monster which appeared on the first day of the new year to eat livestock, crops and children.
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In 2010, Cyber Monday became the largest online sales day of the year for the first time.
Despite some recent frenzy about the stock market, with prices of the major indexes reaching near-term highs and day-over-day increases exceeding the best-performing day of the year thus far, there have also been daily price decreases reflecting the worst performance of the year.
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