Sentences with phrase «about a quarter said»

By contrast, 40 percent of those who would like to export said they don't have goods or services that are exportable; a slightly smaller percentage said they didn't know much about exporting, and about a quarter said they would worry too much about getting paid.

About a quarter said they'd retire, travel, or engage in hobbies.

In that survey more than 60 % of small law firms reported spending about eight hours per month on their billing process — and about a quarter say it can take up to 16 hours.

Not exact matches

Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.

CEO Rob Peabody said Husky cut back heavy oil production by about 5,000 barrels per day in the first quarter and substituted mainly blended bitumen bought from other Alberta oilsands companies to send to its U.S. refineries in Ohio and Wisconsin or to the refining complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

In the second quarter of 2013, tech IPOs represented about a quarter of all IPOs — and plenty of analysts are saying that we're going to start seeing a lot more tech companies (especially enterprise software) go public in the next several months driven, in part, by a backlog generated in a sluggish 2012.

Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp said the agreement is important because methane is responsible for about a quarter of today's warming, and the U.S. and Canada are the world's second - and fourth - largest emitters of oil and gas methane respectively.

«I've talked in past quarters about the momentum we have built in our components business in Europe,» said Hamada.

It said production in the three months ended March 31 fell by about 10 per cent to 300,400 boe / d compared to the first quarter of 2017.

The executive told analysts on a conference call on Friday to discuss the sports retailer's abysmal second quarter results that he wasn't concerned about companies like Adidas and Nike (nke) selling on Amazon.com (amzn), saying that quality in - store experience remained a crucial protection against the massive online retailer.

In addition, while the iPhone X is the most expensive Apple phone to date, starting at about $ 1,000, Tim Cook said during the conference call that the phone was also the most popular phone sold in China during the quarter.

Three quarters of Canadian CEOs say they fear disruption in the next three years — but many appear to be unsure about what to do

«We spend about a quarter of our lives at work,» says «Originals» author Adam Grant.»

Dimon said third - quarter trading revenue will drop about 20 percent on a year - over-year basis.

Today, emerging market bonds, according to different groups out there, different major broker dealers, say about three quarters of emerging market bonds are investment grade, and the market is about a trillion and a half dollars, in terms of depth and breadth.

Close to 90 percent said they're optimistic about their companies» prospects into the first quarter of 2016.

Even the Wall Street Journal and New York Times recently said that their print advertising revenue fell by about 20 % in the latest quarter, and as a result both companies are looking at layoffs and restructuring.

Google (GOOG), she says, lost share in China, dropping to 17 % in the third quarter, from about 19 % in the second quarter.

Ford is expecting commodity costs will be a $ 1.5 billion headwind this year, with about $ 500 million of that coming in the first quarter, Shanks said.

Nike CFO Andy Campion gave some extra clarity about future orders on the company's conference call, saying there had been less correlation between orders and revenue than in the past, and thus Nike would change how it would report those figures in future quarters (likely to de-emphasize Wall Street's attention to those numbers).

After two quarters, Borne says, the new system has elicited about 95 % of the effort he was hoping to see from his staff.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

But the phone - backed securities market will be tiny in comparison to the multi-trillion dollar mortgage market — Verizon says it plans to securitize about $ 2 billion per quarter.

The company also said that fourth quarter revenues will hit $ 1.12 billion, while 2014 fiscal sales will reach about $ 4.06 billion.

Lewis says the ingredients for the company's juices currently account for about three - quarters of input costs.

This new rule is also coming at a time when 401 (k) plan investors are about to see all - time highs in their portfolios when fourth quarter statements come out in early January, Glassman said.

The company said it sold 3.4 million devices during the quarter, about in line with the 3.47 million that analysts had expected, according to a StreetAccount consensus estimate.

Viacom has asked CBS to sweeten its merger bid by about $ 2.8 billion or almost a quarter more than CBS's offer, people familiar with the matter said.

But there's something particularly special about the third quarter that conjures up stock movements not seen throughout the rest of the year, says Goldman Sachs.

«This quarter's findings reveal strong optimism about future prospects for the industry,» said Jennifer Scanlon, president and chief executive officer of USG Corporation, «and also highlight a real need to address ongoing concerns about skilled labor shortages and the impact it has on building in the U.S..»

Spirit said ship - set deliveries or complete sets of parts for each aircraft to Boeing fell about 2 percent to 183 units in the first quarter ended March 29, while those to Airbus rose about 3 percent to 208 units.

If we were teetering on the edge of financial strain every quarter, I couldn't say that about Macy's but I can because we have a very strong balance sheet.

About a quarter of young adults say they personally have insurance through their parents, while another 1 in 10 have purchased insurance through an exchange.

«When we surveyed elders 20 years ago, about a quarter of them thought they might do remunerative work after reaching retirement age,» he says.

«They range anywhere from the million - dollar Sundance hit, all the way up to something on a much larger scale,» like Will Smith - starrer «Bright,» Sarandos said in an investors» interview Monday about Netflix's third - quarter 2017 results.

Sixty - three percent are «hopeful» about their firms» financial future, and 52 % said they saw a slight or significant improvement during the last quarter.

APPLE STILL «FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS,» the company's CEO Steve Jobs said in a news release about Apple's great sales numbers from the holiday quarter.

NEW DELHI, April 11 - Ghana will launch its first exploration licensing round in the last quarter of this year offering about six offshore blocks, deputy energy minister Mohamed Amin Adam said.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

The business is more complex than it may appear, he said: Groupon has salespeople in 47 countries, negotiating deals with a quarter of a million merchants, and «at the same time, [we are] innovating [and] thinking about what Groupon will become in three or five years.

About a quarter of U.S. workers in the technology sector, which has faced criticism for a lack of diversity, said they felt discrimination at their workplace in a survey released on Tuesday by job site Indeed.com.

Japan's No. 3 lender also said it was looking to cut 19,000 employees or about a quarter of the total workforce in 10 years.

She probably knows some things about planning, resolve, multitasking, and stretching a quarter into a dollar, Hamilton says.

PITTSBURGH — Paint maker PPG says it will lay off about 1,100 people and take a pretax restructuring charge of between $ 80 million and $ 85 million in the second quarter.

About a quarter to a third of the teams in Blank's Lean LaunchPad classes at Haas actually launch a startup, Blank says.

About half the economists surveyed by Bloomberg News now say the Bank of Canada will drop its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to 0.5 % today.

The second - quarter results mark the third consecutive quarterly increase in optimism about the U.S. economy, reaching one of the highest levels since the Great Recession, the survey says.

Dollar General slashed prices 10 % on average on about 450 of its best - selling items across 2,200 stores during the quarter, Chief Executive Todd Vasos said on a conference call.

But while Digit has saved about a quarter of a billion dollars for its users, CEO Ethan Bloch says the company has earned only «a tiny amount» in the current interest - rate environment.

About a quarter (23 %) of those asked said they would consider leaving their job if their work spouse left.