Buyer gloom despite fall in prices Jul 3, 2008
5 times the lower quartile of income in the UK.. Prices would have to fall a long way before a junior nurse, or even two junior nurses, could afford to buy a house, said Steve Nickell, head of the NHPAU and provost at Nuffield College, Oxford. (Financial Times)
Scale Venture Partners Expands Technology Investment Team May 7, 2008
About Scale Venture Partners Based in Foster City, California, the ScaleVP team is a long-standing partnership with a consistent, top quartile track record of returns. Scale Venture Partners' insight-driven investment strategy, extensive operating networks and go-to-market expertise help identify and build winning portfolio companies in technology and healthcare markets. (PR Newswire)
Policy Points: The politics of tough choices during tough fiscal times Apr 16, 2008
BOB TANNENWALD, FED RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON: In both years we were well into the bottom quartile and we have been there every year except for one ... PATRICIA McGOVERN, FORMER SENATE WAYS AND MEANS CHAIR: I would have said in 1988 we were in the top quartile ... If we took a poll of 20 people on Tremont Street, I bet you anything all of them would all say we are in the top quartile even now. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
What if this was your pay rise? Jan 25, 2008
it's particularly obscene given the lack of restraint in pay in the top quartile, and the conspicuous lack of any redistributive policies from the "Labour" government. the objective is to shaft the PAYE sector at all costs. (BBC News -- UK)
Enerplus and Focus announce strategic merger Dec 3, 2007
Both properties currently have top quartile operating metrics, including low operating costs, excellent capital efficiencies and repeatable capital programs. Focus is also contributing six minor properties with approximately 3,400 BOE/day of production in the areas of: Red Earth, Pouce Coupe/Progress, Mantario/Marengo, Hatton/Medicine Hat, Sylvan Lake and Cabin/Kotcho. (Canada Newswire)
First Uranium reports results for the three and six months ended September 30, 2007 Nov 12, 2007
TORONTO and JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 12 /CNW/ - First Uranium Corporation (TSX:FIU, JSE:FUM) (ISIN:CA33744R1029) ('First Uranium' or 'the Corporation') today announced that it recorded net income of $3. " "Our focus remains on advancing uranium and gold production at both of our projects," continued Mr. Miller. "Construction is well underway and we are on schedule to commission our own gold plant at the Ezulwini Mine in April 2008 and the uranium plant in June 2008. (Canada Newswire)
You don't have to be in mining to earn a pot of gold Nov 2, 2007
The company would seek shareholder approval to increase annual director fees by 80 percent to R150 000, after a study found existing payments were in the "lower quartile of the market", said the report. Annual fees paid to Motsepe would rise 51 percent to R210 000, while those for attending meetings would climb to R13 000 a session, said the annual report. (Business Report, South Africa)
Oriel Chooses Atmospheric Acid Leach Process to Unlock the Value of the Shevchenko Nickel Project, Kazakhstan Oct 11, 2007
- Low operating costs - expectation is that given the low cost availability of acid and the favourable leach dynamics, cash operating costs will be in the 2nd quartile of the world's nickel producers cost curve. - Construction of Phase 1 commercial processing expected to begin Q2 2008, or as soon as practicable after completion of relevant engineering studies. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Tough market for UKs first-time home buyers Sep 5, 2007
A first-time buyer couple on lower quartile earnings of 25,899 needed to save up almost a full years take-home pay 96 per cent to put down a deposit and pay stamp duty on an average 174,575 starter home. House prices have risen by more than 11 per cent a year since 1996, but first-time buyer incomes have grown by just 3. (Financial Times)
Rio to spend $2bn on alumina expansion Jul 4, 2007
Rio's aluminium chief executive, Oscar Groeneveld, said the project "firmly" positioned Rio in the first quartile of the alumina cost curve. Rio shares moved back through the $100-a-share level, closing $2. (The Age)
2005 Am Law 100 Apr 29, 2007
But any measure that puts Wachtell in the second quartile of profitable law firms can't be all that its creators hoped. VPL is a different cut on efficiency, putting in high relief which firms produce the same value at a faster rate. (Law.com)
Where's the Dobbs Democrat? Apr 12, 2007
")I'm not denying income inequality is rising--I wrote a based on the reality that income inequality is rising--or that Bush-era prosperity, in particular, hasn't been as widely shared as prosperity in other eras. My suggestion is only that if you keep the economy going and stop new immigrant entrants from flooding in at the bottom, entry-level wages will eventually rise and people will start complaining (as they did in the late 1990s) about the "U-shaped" economy in which the rich and the poor... (Slate)
David Brooks, Neoliberal: Apr 6, 2007
They'll just be richer low-earners,) You'd want to look at something like the median wage in the bottom quartile (which seems to do only a little better than the median in ). 1:42 A.M.. (Slate)
Carbon Risk and Negawatts - Using Energy Efficiency Programs to Reduce Your Carbon Exposure Mar 29, 2007
Which assets and locations are in the top quartile of energy performance and what best practices can we learn from them. Which assets and locations are in the bottom quartile of energy performance. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Diamond Hill Investments Annual Letter to Shareholders Mar 17, 2007
Our focus continues to be five-year returns, with the goal defined by rolling five-year periods in which: * Client returns are sufficiently above relevant passive benchmarks, * Client returns rank in the top quartile of similar strategies, and * Absolute returns are sufficient for the risk associated with the asset class. For our clients, our value proposition is: * We are experienced investors, * We employ a proven, intrinsic value discipline for our various strategies, and * We have aligned... (PR Newswire)
Nuvista Energy Ltd. Announces 2006 Year End Results Mar 2, 2007
Despite the increase in per unit operating costs, NuVista remains in the top quartile for oil and natural gas companies in its peer group. For 2007, NuVista's operating costs are expected to trend lower than the fourth quarter of 2006 and are forecasted to average approximately $6. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
The jewel in the Alcoa crown Feb 17, 2007
AWAC owns eight of the world's largest alumina refineries, of which five are in the bottom cost quartile. Better still, in coming years it will be able to increase the capacity of its existing refining operations by about a third from the 2006 level and, because it is adding to base plant, the operating costs (excluding raw materials) of the new capacity will be some 30 per cent below current levels. (The Australian)
LionOre Announces Positive Results from Selkirk Pre-Feasibility Study and Approval to Proceed with Bankable Feasibility Study Feb 3, 2007
The reserve and resource estimates have been independently prepared by Lower Quartile Solutions (Pty) Ltd and are calculated in accordance with the requirements of Canadian National Instrument 43-101(Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects). Information in this report relating to exploration results is based on data compiled or reviewed by Mr. K. Botepe (Manager Exploration, Tati Nickel Mining Company (Pty) Ltd an 85%- owned subsidiary of LionOre) who is a member of the Australasian... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
