Sentences with phrase «cent growth helping»

Breath of the Wild also re-entered the Top Ten, with a 11 per cent growth helping the title to chart at No. 9.

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The top three US equity benchmarks closed mixed with the Dow slipping as IBM plunged 7.5 per cent after it reported narrower profit margins in the first quarter and no revenue growth unless one factors in help from a weak US dollar.

French food group Danone achieved better than expected first - quarter sales growth of nearly 5 per cent, helped by Chinese demand for its baby formula products, cementing guidance for higher profit and sales this year and beyond.

While the flagship iPhone X may not have matched the hype from its launch late last year, the device's $ 999 starting price helped boost phone revenue growth 14 per cent.

Over the same period, the Canadian dollar appreciated from a record low of around 62 cents U.S. to above parity, helping to reduce the inflationary risks that came with the stronger growth and increased income.

A recovery in advanced economies may help President Benigno Aquino achieve his goal of bolstering growth to as much as 8.5 per cent by 2016 as he transforms the country into a manufacturing hub.

Nonetheless, organic growth was 4 per cent, helped by the continued efforts of the group to strengthen its position in the functional health and wellness category.

It was initially seeking a deal with a new private equity backer who could take a 51 per cent stake in Accolade and help drive its Chinese growth strategy.

Business secretary Vince Cable escaped with only a six per cent cut to his budget, with the Treasury going easy on his department so it can help spark growth in the British economy.

FSB research shows that 44 per cent of small firms would take on more staff if the government cut national insurance, so such a measure would produce an environment for growth and help create much needed jobs.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

BMW sold 7,138 units in the same period, a growth of 17.3 per cent, on robust demand for the new BMW 5 series sedan, helping it make a comeback to the No 2 slot after many years.

Overall, growth in the first quarter was helped by exports, which were up 1.7 per cent following a drop of 0.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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The report says Ottawa's regional economy is still feeling the effects of government spending cuts, which weakened demand and slowed price increases, but economic growth expected in 2014 will help increase demand and unit sales by about 2.5 per cent per year from 2015 to 2017.