Sentences with phrase «country last quarter»

Same - store sales — a key benchmark — rose 7 percent in the country last quarter.

Not exact matches

Smurfit Kappa, which operates in 34 countries in Europe and the Americas, recorded a slight rise in full - year earnings to 1.24 billion euros ($ 1.5 billion) last year after a strong fourth quarter.

By its own estimates, there's a market for about 4,000 Tim Hortons in the country; there are now 3,453 with 24 opening in the last quarter alone.

The 7/22 FT reported: «Across countries that use the euro, average debt to gross domestic product reached 92.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, up from 92 per cent in the previous quarter and 91.9 per cent in the same period last year, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency.»

Its gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter rose 6.9 percent over the same period last year, beating expectations and putting the country on track to meet the International Monetary Fund's 2017 growth forecast of 6.5 percent.

Last week the China Gold Association announced that the country, the largest producer of gold, produced 98 metric tons in the March quarter, down some 3 percent from the same period last yLast week the China Gold Association announced that the country, the largest producer of gold, produced 98 metric tons in the March quarter, down some 3 percent from the same period last ylast year.

Just last week, these fears were compounded when Statistics Canada released new figures showing that Canada's economy had shrunk for a second straight quarter, meaning our country has met the technical definition for a recession.

Moorestown offers a bevy of different housing options for buyers looking to raise their families there — from majestic country estates to cozy, modern townhomes — and the median home sales price for last quarter was $ 545,000.

In his commentary that accompanied the fourth quarter update, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun noted that «A majority of the country saw an upswing in buyer interest at the end of last year, which ultimately ended up putting even more strain on inventory levels and prices.»

-LRB-...) Gross domestic product in the 17 - country euro zone grew only 0.1 % last quarter, or 0.4 % at an annualized rate, data published on Thursday showed.

A moderate slowdown from the surprise 7 % growth rate of the last quarter is in fact welcome, in our view, as the country rebalances its economy and downshifts to a more sustainable pace of growth that is less reliant on credit.

Four of the country's biggest banks posted strong earnings for last year's final quarter, with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) posting net - income growth of 20 percent and Toronto - Dominion Bank (TD Bank) 25 percent.

It is likely that the worldwide collapse of socialism will moderate some of the more extreme leftist sentiments in these quarters (though there is always some unlikely Third World country that these people will look to as, at long last, embodying «true socialism»).

The hands that made him fit belonged to 81 - year - old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, the Belair Stud trainer, who spent the last days before the race shuffling back and forth between one end of Barn A and his living quarters at nearby Olympia Fields Country Club — sandwiching between trips a flood of radio and television appearances and more than one breakfast and luncheon press conference with newsmen on hand from California, New York, Florida and all stations along the way.

The Iceland international, who was instrumental in his country's run to the quarter - final of Euro 2016 last summer, has been with The Swans since 2014.

@chris u are not ashamed to call urself yankee when we discuss soccer or to compare ur country with england when soccer is the topic.to remind u this is rugby nor basketball is real soccer & greatest sports ever.when was the last time ur country get to quarter final in world biggest soccer competition?

«RBS missed its lending target in the third quarter of last year and net lending to businesses by the country's banks fell in nine out of the last 12 months.»

The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent pay rise for public sector workers across the country.

Speaking on the floor of Parliament last week, the Minister said Ghana is «very safe», contrary to reports from certain quarters that security in the country is fragile.

McSally, whose campaign announced Monday that she had raised $ 1 million in the second quarter of 2015, was elected last year in one of the closest races in the country, beating Barber by fewer than 200 votes.

In the last quarter, we grew faster than many EU countries, and faster than the average, but we are well behind where we need to be.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, says he has presented a memo to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, on the recent release of economic performance of the country in the last quarter which showed that the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, grew by 1.92 percent.

Douste - Blazy announced his plan last June, saying that France has more people with AIDS than any other country in the European Union, and that about a quarter of those people are between the ages of 20 and 29.

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.

I'm just a country lady that loves horses, and wants to share the last quarter of life... laughing, riding, &...

The Ford Endeavour will go on sale in India in the last quarter of 2015 and will be brought into the country via the CKD route from Thailand.

In its latest housing affordability report, RBC says trends continued to vary widely between the country's various real estate markets in the fourth quarter of last year.

Late last night, in the fifth of ARC's «Operation Resolution» cases in three days, ARC assisted Macon County Animal Control in the rescue of 21 dogs found abandoned in horrifying conditions in an old country store with attached living quarters in Lafayette, TN, about an hour northeast of Nashville.

Of the country's top 25 largest metropolitan areas, 17 have seen increases in total consumer debt — mortgages, autos, home equity loans, bank and retail cards — in the third quarter compared to the same time last year.

Roni Horn has spent much of the last quarter - century commuting between her native New York and Iceland - a country she uses as both her studio and as material for an art that slips between genres and combines sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and making books.

The United States has been advocating a bottom - up approach since Copenhagen, and at talks in Warsaw last November countries were invited to communicate their intended contributions to emissions reduction by the first quarter of 2015.

Aqua has become the car of the moment in Japan, helping more than triple Prius family sales in the country to 175,080 in the first quarter, from 52,507 last year.

Following murmurs from last April about WhatsApp gearing up to allow payments in India, FactorDaily reports that Facebook employees in the country are presently testing the new functionality in the messaging app, and that the company plans to begin testing it with about 1 percent of its user base there within the first quarter of this year.

Smartphones released by the device maker accounted for around 48 percent of the total high - end smartphones sales in that Asian country in the fourth quarter of 2017, and that represents a huge growth for OnePlus in India compared to the same period last year.

Xiaomi is doing even better in India, where it overtook Samsung in the last quarter of 2017 to become the top smartphone vendor in the country — although Samsung disagrees.

But as a whole, the country has gone from 13.98 Mbps in last quarter's report to 16.31 Mbps, which is a sizable increase.

Further, over the last quarter, the company reports the website was visited by more than 4 million unique users from over 200 countries around the world.

However, the decline that started in the last few quarters continued in 2017, and right now, Micromax does not even feature in the list of top five smartphone players in the country.

For instance, over the last quarter century, Kids Count has ranked states overall on their child outcomes — with Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont consistently ranking among the top ten, and usually top five, states in the country.

Home prices in San Jose, Calif. — one of the nation's leading markets since the bust — posted negative 0.3 percent last quarter, marking the area's first foray into the red in five years with currently the lowest quarterly growth rate in the country, according to Clear Capital's recent Home Data Index (HDI) Market Report.