Sentences with phrase «at around a quarter»

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Analysts think the economy is growing at a rate of around 2.5 per cent in the current January - March quarter, which ends this week.

Shark populations around the world started to plummet, with more than a quarter of shark and ray species now at risk of extinction.

By comparison, the average discount paid for Western Canadian Select oilsands blend crude from Alberta in the fourth quarter was US$ 12.26 per barrel and it has since spiked at times to around US$ 30 per barrel, a trend also blamed on constrained pipeline access.

There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.

GoPro has announced 270 job cuts and pre-announced that its first - quarter earnings would be at the high end of guidance, around $ 210 million.

In mid-February the company recorded a fifth consecutive quarter of sluggish sales, and comparable sales at Tim Hortons restaurants around the world slipped 0.1 per cent for the 2017 financial year.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

A research note by analysts at KGI Securities, seen by Apple news site Apple Insider, estimated iPhone X shipments in the first quarter of 2018 were at around 18 million devices — a significant reduction on previous flagship iPhones.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

In contrast to the 3 % GDP growth widely reported for the latest quarter, year - over-year growth in GDP, after peaking at 3 1/2 % in Q3 / 2010, has basically flatlined around 1 1/2 % for the last three quarters.

In the December quarter, underlying inflation was running at an annualised rate of around 2 1/2 per cent — right at the mid point of the target range.

The company's QNX unit, renamed BlackBerry QNX, currently employs around 400 engineers, some three - quarters of them at its facility in Kanata on the outskirts of Ottawa.

The insurer told the market at the time significant weather catastrophes including Californian wildfires and December storms in Australia during the fourth quarter, coupled with some adverse development of Hurricane Maria, added around $ US130 million to the net cost of catastrophes.

Its revised assumption is that the currency will trade at around 96 cents for the next quarter.

We expect to see GDP fall by 1 per cent at annual rates in the second quarter, and then grow by 3.5 per cent in the third quarter as oil production resumes, rebuilding around Fort McMurray begins and the new Canada Child Benefit lifts consumption.

With the news last week that Nokia lost $ 1.9 billion last quarter and rumors of bankruptcy swirling around them, I am more convinced then ever that Microsoft will buy at least Nokia's handset business.

At the end of the third quarter, Netflix had 69.2 million subscribers around the world, of which 66 million are paid; it has nearly 24 million paid subscribers internationally.

Management said Apple Music subscriptions are up 70 % without specifying a figure, but Apple Music chief Jimmy Iovine told Billboard at the end of September (around the same time that this fiscal quarter closed) that the service now has 30 million paid subscribers.

«There's this lingering unease about the stock because Steve is no longer around,» said Charles Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co. «The problems last quarter have raised the issue in investors» minds that Apple no longer has a leader of Steve's stature.»

They all charge fairly high fees if you aren't careful and their profits are staggering at around $ 10billion per quarter combined.

If the Bank doesn't see the output gap closing in eight quarters (by mid-2017), at which point it would assume that inflation is neatly around 2 %, then that's tantamount to admitting that the current degree of monetary stimulus is not sufficient to accomplish its mandate.

«The reduced full year guidance [at South Deep] is attributable to the ongoing impact of poor equipment reliability, the slower advance rates in Corridor 3 and delayed extraction in the composites, as well as slower rates of destress in the March quarter, again a symptom of the lower productivity related to uncertainty around the labour restructuring,» Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland said.

About one - quarter of the entire asset class has been refinanced within the past six months at average savings around 75 basis points, Russ estimates.

A surge in Australia's terms of trade has mitigated the effect of these developments on the trade deficit, which is estimated to have been around 3 1/4 per cent of GDP in the December quarter 2004, wider than at mid year but broadly similar to the outturns of the past year and a half (Graph 32).

Beginning the year at around $ 997, bitcoin experienced abrupt volatility in the last quarter as the currency witnessed immense buying interest in the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East and East Asia, pushing investors to look at the virtual currency from the perspective of an alternate asset class with barely any accountability.

But we should also keep in mind that Under Armour is still driving stellar growth in international markets, where revenue climbed 52 % (57 % at constant currency) last quarter and still only comprised around 20 % of total sales.

Soros Fund Management, which had 1.55 million shares in the group as of the end of the June quarter — at the time valued at around $ 28 billion — completely dissolved its position over the three months ending in September, Securities and Exchange Commission filings revealed last night.

As a result, the trade deficit has remained at around 2 per cent of GDP for the last three quarters, although it has declined from the peak reached in the middle of 1999.

GDP growth lifted noticeably around the turn of this year — and was running at a bit above trend over the year to the March quarter 2014.

Shares of GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO) gained around 13 percent early Thursday morning to trade at $ 10.10 after the action camera and drone maker impressed investors with an encouraging third - quarter update.

The stock of Tenet was up around 15 % in late - morning trading, at US$ 27.60 a share, after the Dallas - based operator of hospitals reported net income in the latest first quarter of US$ 99mln, or $ US0.96 a share, compared to a net loss of US$ 53mln, or US$ 0.53 a share, in the first quarter of 2017.

Household credit increased at an annualised rate of around 23 per cent over the June quarter, with lending for investment housing expanding at an even more rapid annualised rate of 34 per cent over the quarter.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

At the docks, import prices have increased by around 10 per cent over the four quarters to June.

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

Consumer price inflation has been relatively steady over recent quarters at an annual rate of around 2 1/2 per cent.

The net income deficit recorded a slight rise in the September quarter to $ 5.6 billion, though at 2.8 per cent of GDP, it remains around its average level of the past five years.

Chief Financial Officer Karen Hoguet said sales of cold - weather merchandise were $ 50 million lower than expected during the quarter; the hurricanes» impact was estimated at around $ 20 million in losses.

After busy days, running around, open air meetings, driving the autobahn at white - knuckle speeds, getting to know our German and American hosts, listening to my husband preach through interpreters, and hosting barbeques in the former east Germany, we would settle all the teens into their rooms, and retreat to our spartan quarters.

Lisbon was home to a quarter million, at least 60,000 of whom perished, both from the initial tremor (reckoned now, like the Sumatran earthquake, at a Richter force of around 9.0) and from the tsunami that it cast up on shore half an hour later (especially murderous to those who had retreated to boats in the mouth of the river Tagus to escape the destruction on land).

I usually have around a quarter of a tub left when I feel I need a fresh tub so have been looking at recipes to include yoghurt and have been compiling a folder of things to try.

Over the fourth quarter, Dairy Crest's cash collection has been stronger than anticipated and its net debt at 31 March 2012 will be around 5 % lower than market expectations.

This time around, instead of mixing all the flour in the recipe at the same time, I mixed the dough with 2 1/2 cups of flour and incorporated another quarter cup while kneading.

AgCAP, with dairy general manager Wolfie Wagner, was already looking at a portfolio of four dairy farms in Tasmania, and could potentially make acquisitions before issuing a prospectus for the new fund, likely around the end of the first quarter of next year, Mr Newnham said.

At the brewery's four San Diego taprooms, Grapefruit Sculpin is the top - seller, accounting for around a quarter of production.

Around the middle of the second quarter the Rams recovered a fumble at the Chiefs» 7 - yard line.

The Oklahoma City Thunder withstood an early run and hot shooting by the Houston Rockets, calmly hanging around until the second quarter when they used a run of their own to take a 58 - 54 lead at halftime.

So there was an air of hostility from some quarters when Ivan Gazidis met around 250 Arsenal fans at the Emirates yesterday.

That might not be enough to see them through to the quarter - finals as PSG winning by a scoreline of 2 - 0 or higher at home would hardly be a shock, so Guardiola may have a point about sniffing around for their players now.

I imagine Pope Francis wears the helmet to bed at night and lounges around in his private quarters with the Jordans protecting his feet.