For those at the top, even a relatively small uptick in the stock price can translate into millions of dollars in paper profits.
While Norwegian crime rates still look insignificant compared with a country like the United States, the uptick in violence, however small, has unsettled many here.
Cisco's small uptick was especially impressive because the company's shares have lagged behind the broader market all year.
Though dispersion in political attitudes has generally declined over the last 60 years, the last four years have brought a small uptick.
Investors saw the small uptick in core inflation as a sign that the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates.
Despite the small uptick, advancing issues outnumbered those that declined by 843 to 633, with 493 remaining unchanged.
The United States was entering the downswing of a small uptick at the beginning of what would be the worst industrial depression in history.
The small uptick during the summer seems to have reversed direction.
The small uptick - 1.1 percent - was not nearly enough to offset a longer-term drop in median household income.
The first exclusion, which was widely publicized, gave Johnson "a little bump" in name recognition and produced "a small uptick" in donations.