Sentences with phrase «compared it with»

When compared with previous industrial revolutions, the Fourth is evolving at an exponential rather than a linear pace.»

Wall Street expects another huge jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower profits, compared with last year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.

Netbacks, profit after subtracting transport and other expenses, averaged C$ 16.80 per barrel of oil equivalent in the first quarter, compared with C$ 21.25 a year earlier.

Apple's second - quarter earnings beat on Tuesday illustrated just how differently this company's stock behaves compared with the rest of the market, CNBC's Jim Cramer said.

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.

Compared with the prescriptive, black - and - white world of compliance, Worker Well - Being was broadly defined and open - ended.

The Swedish tax structure is favorable to businesses, especially when compared with that of China and the U.S. Sweden has a corporate tax rate of 22 percent — far higher than, say, Ireland's 12.5 percent, but lower than the United States» high - end rate of 35 percent.

The headline finding was that the working memory performance of both age groups improved when walking at their chosen speed compared with when sitting or walking at a fixed speed set by the researchers.

Revenue from motorcycles and related products rose 2.7 percent to $ 1.36 billion in the first quarter ended April 1, compared with analysts» average estimate of $ 1.23 billion.

Aetna's net income was $ 1.21 billion, or $ 3.67 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a loss of $ 381 million, or $ 1.11 per share, a year earlier that was related to costs for its failed deal to buy Humana.

The company added about 3.20 million subscribers internationally in the third quarter, compared with the 2.01 million average analyst estimate.

Shares of Exxon are down about 4 percent over the last year, compared with a 9 - percent gain for the S&P 500 energy sector.

«We used the program in 2009, and 90 % of the furloughed people came back, compared with 33 % before,» he says.

That compared with a 0.8 % gain in the benchmark Nikkei 225 share price index.

«We run it on a budget of about $ 500,000 per year, which compared with other campaigns such as Road Safety is a fairly lean and mean campaign.»

Some 78.6 percent of pull requests initiated by women were accepted, compared with 74.6 percent of those initiated by men.

Retailers object to this «honour all cards» rule because not all cards are created equal: sellers pay upwards of 3 % to process «premium» cards, like the Infinite, compared with 1.5 % for others.

Suncor reported that the discount paid for oilsands blend Western Canadian Select compared with New York - traded West Texas Intermediate crude widened to an average of US$ 24 per barrel in the first quarter, double the US$ 12 per barrel average in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Compared with standard commercial loan products, the underwriting examines cash flow closely as a basis for approvals and decisions on loan rates.

That's compared with shipping confirmation emails, which garner an average open rate of 107.4 percent and a 20.8 percent click rate.

At its analyst day, the company said it was gunning for sales in the year ending January 2021 to hit as much as $ 119.8 billion, compared with this year's estimate of $ 100.6 billion.

A 45 - minute session costs an insurance - reimbursable $ 80 (compared with upwards of $ 200 in major Canadian cities) and is conducted via encrypted video on TranQool's website — no app download necessary.

To put it simply: Pandora hasn't been doing great, particularly compared with the competition.

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

A national probability sample of 2,805 employed adults in the U.S. showed managers were more likely to consume alcohol at work, to be under the influence of alcohol at work, or to be suffering a hangover at work when compared with employees in low - risk occupations.

As a result 55 trains a day now run on the Sunset, compared with around 40 in the mid 2000s.

Union Pacific's freight revenues actually fell 1 % in the first quarter compared with the first three months of 2014, the first such decline in six years.

There were 2.1 million factory jobs at the start of 2007 compared with about 1.7 million now.

One of the ways the central bank assesses the mood of business owners and managers is to ask them how things such as current orders compare with a year earlier.

A two - month 2010 study of nearly 300 cancer patients at the Mayo Clinic found that those given 1,000 or 2,000 milligrams of ginseng each day reported feeling more energized compared with those who took a placebo.

Phoenix, Arizona - based Freeport said its quarterly profit attributable to common stock was $ 692 million, or 47 cents per share, compared with $ 228 million, or 16 cents a share, a year earlier.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was 7.27 billion shares, compared with the 6.55 billion - share average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.

Provo is too big to be quaint, but it's quiet compared with the line - around - the - block - for - gelato congestion of, say, Palo Alto.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

The transport bottlenecks have increased the discount buyers take for Canadian oil over U.S. light crude and Cenovus said its differentials averaged $ 24.28 per barrel in the first quarter, a 67 percent jump when compared with last year.

Hiring intentions also slipped; the balance of opinion on adding workers versusus getting rid of them was 34 per cent compared with an off - the - charts 59 per cent in the previous quarter.

Commerce Department data released Friday showed lower - than - hoped - for overall economic growth for the first quarter: an annualized 2.3 % compared with the Trump administration's aspirational 3 % target.

The easiest way for the Conservatives to «end geographic price discrimination,» or the higher prices paid in Canada compared with the United States, would be to reduce import tariffs.

However, the development of two other LNG plants already granted export permits by the National Energy Board has been slow, especially compared with competing projects in Australia.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia registered a slight increase in March compared with the same month last year, while sales for the 12 months to March were up 5.3 per cent on the prior year, according to the latest data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.

Sales were flat in North America, compared with a 38 percent growth in the Asia - Pacific region, but that was enough to knock 5 percent off the stock which has gained more than two - thirds in value over the past year.

L Brands expects to earn between 20 cents and 25 cents per share in the first quarter, compared with the 49 cents per share expected by Wall Street analysts, according to Thomson Reuters.

But it still recorded only 1.59 million new users, compared with estimates of 1.62 million — and sharply lower than the 1.9 million it signed up in the same quarter last year.

Crude inventories rose 2.2 million barrels last week, compared with expectations for a 2 million - barrel draw.

Chinese tariffs and taxes boost the price of Tesla's sedans and SUVs in the country by 50 % compared with the U.S.; the Model S sedan starts at the equivalent of $ 105,000, and the Model X at $ 130,000.

Average home prices in Dandong rose nearly 1 percent in April from March, according to data from the China Real Estate Association, compared with a 0.5 percent decline in the same period a year earlier, although city - wide averages tend not to fully reflect big price fluctuations at individual projects.

Singapore - headquartered bank DBS declined to reveal total digital red packet numbers, but said that there were five times more e-hongbaos sent last year compared with 2016.

Chinese direct investment in the European Union jumped by 77 per cent last year to more than 35 billion euros (US$ 38 billion), compared with 2015, while EU acquisitions in China fell for the second consecutive year, according to the Rhodium Group.

Sprint reported a profit of $ 69 million, or 2 cents per share, compared with a loss of $ 283 million, or 7 cents per share, in the year - ago quarter.