Not exact matches
«Compensation went up for every single executive save one
on a
year - over-
year basis and shareholders saw an 80 per
cent decline.»
This 22 -
year increase represents approximately 0.2 per
cent on that number and when one accounts for inflationary dynamics, this represents a serious
decline in real dollars.»
Following
declines over the past three quarters, driven by significant price falls, expenditure
on imports of goods and services rose by 6 per
cent in the September quarter, to be 3 1/2 per
cent higher than a
year ago.
In the U.S. retail market, the price of regular gasoline averaged $ 3.42 a gallon
on Friday, a
decline of 13
cents from a month earlier and down 38
cents from a
year before, according to AAA.
The figure marks a two per
cent year -
on -
year decline since 2016, and is significantly lower than the 85 per
cent recorded in 1983 when the annual poll was first conducted.
In Lion's dairy and drinks division, volumes fell 17.4 per
cent on top of a 7.3 per
cent decline the previous
year, dragged down by the sale of Lion's low - margin everyday cheese business in May and the loss of private label milk contracts with Coles and Woolworths in 2014.
When the write - downs were stripped out, Treasury's underlying earnings for the
year declined 14.6 per
cent to $ 184.6 million and the wine group was forced to rely
on currency adjustments to reach a previously projected profit guidance band of $ 190 million to $ 210 million.
But in contrast, GDP per capita has
declined by 12 per
cent under John Mahama's tenure as president when oil revenue and loans alone over the eight -
year period of 2009 - 2016 would amount to GHS248billion,» he said at the lecture
on the theme: «State of Ghana's Economy — Foundation of Concrete or Straw?»
Further, over the last
year these costs have started to
decline as the number of cattle slaughtered for TB has dropped by almost ten per
cent - a result of tighter biosecurity, controlled movements and TB testing systems forced
on the UK government by the European Commission.
The billionaires
on the index control $ 3.8 trillion, a 1.8 per
cent decline from the start of the
year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
So if your $ 100,000 home's value remains unchanged from this
year to next
year, the proposed 1 -
cent decline in the property tax rate for 2018 would result in a $ 10 decrease
on your property taxes.
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.
He said there had been a
decline in the
year -
on -
year inflation from about 17 per
cent in 2016 to 10.4 per
cent in the first quarter of 2018, while the supplied side improved driven by the growth in the agricultural sector.
Having
declined over 90 per
cent in just 20
years, the vaquita continues to plummet toward extinction despite a two -
year ban
on gillnet fishing that began in May 2015, as well as surveillance efforts by Mexico's government, environmental authorities and military.
In their survey
on wildlife losses, published in Science last
year, Rudolfo Dirzo, a biologist at Stanford, and colleagues, reported that terrestrial vertebrates are showing a «25 per
cent average
decline in abundance» and that «invertebrate patterns are equally dire: 67 per
cent of monitored populations show 45 per
cent mean abundance
decline.
The average ICT budget for a primary school is forecast to be # 13,800 in 2017/18 and # 58,230 for secondaries, a
year -
on -
year decline of 4 per
cent and 7 per
cent respectively.
This is a
year -
on -
year decline of -4 per
cent and -7 per
cent respectively.
ICT in secondary schools is being hit the hardest, with a
year -
on -
year decline in expenditure of 7.5 per
cent.
This
decline in expenditure continued last
year, with spending
on stationary down three per
cent.
It began in the 60s at least, when the numbers of women working in technology began to decrease, and it has got
declined ever since, with numbers of women working in STEM decreasing
year on year from 2011 to 2012 by four per
cent.
On average, it takes children 90 seconds longer to run a mile than their counterparts did 30
years ago and heart - related fitness has also
declined by five per
cent each decade since 1975, for children aged 9 - 17.
Apple led the global tablet market with 28.8 per
cent share in the first quarter of 2018 as tablet shipments reached 31.7 million —
declining 11.7 per
cent from the same quarter last
year, the International Data Corporation (IDC) reported
on Friday.
For every 10 tablets sold, five netbook or notebook sales will be lost in developed markets, it estimates, limiting notebook growth to 8 per
cent year -
on -
year in 2011, and pushing netbooks into a
decline of 13 per
cent, to 34 million units.
Android fanboys can at least take pleasure from Apple's
declining marketshare - down from 94.3 per
cent in Q2 2010 - but since Apple had so little competition a
year ago, such a shift was always
on the cards.
With the dollar close to par in the recent past, the number of Americans buying property in Whistler had been
on the
decline over the last five or six
years — dropping to five per
cent of all sales from a peak of 20 per
cent.
Deferred sales charges work
on a
declining scale that typically starts at 5.5 per
cent in the first
year (sometimes that applies to the amount you invested, and sometimes to the current value of your holdings) and
declines to 1.5 to 2 per
cent in the seventh
year before disappearing altogether.
The S&P / TSX composite was down more than 250 points
on the nascent new
year as of Wednesday, while the S&P 500 dipped below 2,000 and Europe's Stoxx index
declined 1.5 per
cent.
The CCA allows the cost of eligible assets to be deducted for tax purposes at a rate of 50 per
cent per
year on a
declining balance basis — which is faster than would be implied by the useful life of the assets.
Among the survey's 553 respondents, the average salary for a first
year associate has fallen to $ 66,000 — a nine - per -
cent drop from last
year, which had already seen a five per
cent year -
on -
year decline.
On what would be the additional capital requirement with regards to Basel - II operational risk and market risk»» Singh said, «We are at present carrying out the exercise and would NPA at the bank has also
declined from 48 per
cent last
year to 3.4 per
cent and its cost of fund has also
declined from 6.96 to 6.46 per
cent in the first half of the current fiscal.
And while voice ARPU
declined by a substantial 98
cents for U.S. carriers, data ARPU increased by a mere 4 percent to 53
cents as overall ARPU decreased 45
cents on the
year.
While resales in August remained
on the downtrend relative to a
year ago (falling 34.8 per
cent), the annual
decline was the smallest in three months.
While vacancy rates were
on the
decline over the past
year (from 5.60 per
cent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 4.50 per
cent in 2008) and rents continued to escalate ($ 21.36 to $ 22.90 per sq. ft. for the same period), softening demand due to weak economic conditions and the expected supply of several million square feet of new office space will pose challenges for some of the prestigious towers in Toronto's financial district during 2009 and 2010.