Sentences with phrase «drop by a quarter»

PayPlan knows from its own experience, as one of the UK's biggest free debt advice providers, that people feel the pressure at Christmas, with inquiries dropping by a quarter in December 2015, before rocketing up to 37 % in January.

Average housing prices here have dropped by a quarter in two years.

75 % payout ratio means that the earnings can drop by a quarter and the company is still able to keep the dividend at the same level than last year.

On Dec. 27, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that premium rates for mortgage insurance on loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration would drop by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing them in line with what rates were before the housing crash.

Over the forecast period, costs are expected to drop by a quarter in solar PV and 15 percent for onshore wind.

Not exact matches

Starbucks» first - quarter results show that the coffee chain continues to struggle with soft traffic in the United States, quantified by a drop in the number of transactions.

Loans outstanding to small businesses dropped in the second quarter by.4 percent, according to the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy.

Perth has suffered the biggest drop in house prices, falling 2.4 per cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia decline by the sharpest rate in nearly than three years.

The Saudi stock index was flat, restrained by a 1.9 percent drop by top petrochemical producer Saudi Basic Industries, which fell 2.1 percent after reporting lower - than - expected fourth - quarter earnings.

The drop isn't devastating, but it is significant: while fitness tracker sales slumped 7 % in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same timeframe one year ago, smartwatches boomed by 25 %, the vast majority of which were Apple Watches.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

Gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.5 % in the second quarter and 0.8 % in the first, which is exactly what the Bank of Canada predicted in July when it dropped its policy rate by a quarter point.

Subscription revenue at Time Inc. also fell by more than 14.5 % in the most recent quarter, and overall revenues dropped 3 %.

At the same time, iPad sales dropped again in the second quarter, falling by almost 23 % to 12.6 million units sold, which brought in $ 5.4 billion in revenue.

«Most retirement savers are accustomed to market volatility, but the swings in the second quarter were especially dramatic, including a 600 - point drop followed by a nearly 800 - point increase,» Doug Fisher, Fidelity's senior vice president for workplace investing, said in a statement.

To mark a quarter century of Just Do It, Nike this week dropped a new ad featuring star athletes like LeBron James, Serena Williams, Gerard Pique and Andre Ward, all narrated by Bradley Cooper, that urges you to step up your game.

The latter company is currently not profitable and its stock dropped by 15 percent in 2016's first quarter.

Last week, Sears reported that comparable sales last quarter fell 7.5 % at its Kmart discount chain and dropped by 9.6 % at its namesake stores.

Hammered by online retailers and abandoned by the geeky clientele who once found it indispensable (they're all at home now playing Destiny), Radio Shack's same - store sales have been dropping by 20 % per quarter.

Among the biggest losers are Newsweek owner IBT Media, which saw its visits drop by 47 % in the second quarter, and TheStreet.com, which saw a drop of 53 %.

In North America, where Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy, Mattel's net sales this most recent quarter dropped by 22 percent.

According to global market research firm NPD Group, LCDs now account for more than 90 % of TV sales — bad news for Panasonic, whose sales dropped by about 25 % in the second quarter of this year.

About half the economists surveyed by Bloomberg News now say the Bank of Canada will drop its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to 0.5 % today.

A drop in installations in regions served by SCE and PG&E between the first and second quarters of this year mostly involved U.S. installer SolarCity, a GTM Research analysis of installation data showed.

The slowdown in the British economy in the quarter was largely driven by a drop - off in the dominant services sector, the ONS said.

The Canadian coffee chain disappointed investors in May by missing its first - quarter projections and posting a drop in Canadian same - store sales growth.

Chevron cut operating and administrative expenses by 7 percent during the quarter, but it was not enough to fully offset the price drop.

Over the past five years, sales have dropped by about a quarter.

Lacking attractive new devices and hampered by manufacturing problems, Fitbit sold only 6.5 million trackers in the key fourth quarter holiday season last year, a 21 % drop from the same period a year earlier, according to International Data Corp..

TORONTO — Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX: L) plans to unveil about 700 Joe Fresh stores in the U.S. next year as Canada's largest grocery chain works to ramp up sales of its hip fashion line to help bolster earnings that dropped by 19 per cent in its most recent quarter.

A price war started last year by Agropur and Parmalat, Saputo Inc.'s two largest rivals, has led to a 12 % drop in the company's third - quarter Canadian - sector profit from a year earlier, he said.

On Thursday, AB InBev reported that Budweiser revenue dropped 2.2 % globally in the third quarter, dragged down by poor sales in the US.

While the value of M&A deals globally increased 67 percent year - on - year in the first quarter of 2018, the number of deals dropped by 10 percent to 10,338, preliminary Thomson Reuters data show, reflecting how deals on average are getting bigger.

MILAN (AP)-- Italian gas and oil company Eni says first - quarter profits dropped slightly as production grew by 4 percent amid rising oil prices.

Based on a formula incorporating prescription growth, reimbursment levels — growing to 45 % by year's end from 25 % in the first quarter — plus drop - out rates and payer discount estimates, Leerink is looking for $ 320 million from Dupixent this year, $ 206 million of that in the U.S.

The drop was sparked by Tuesday night's second - quarter report, which beat Wall Street's earnings targets (as usual) but also delivered a rare miss against top - line revenue estimates.

For Canadian Pacific, its oil shipments fell by 17 percent in the fourth quarter, and shipments for metals, minerals and consumer - products dropped by 24 percent.

That's the sound of PC sales dropping 13.9 percent in the first quarter of this year (according to a new report by the International Data Corp analyst group).

HP, the leading PC maker, saw its U.S. shipments drop by 23 percent in the first quarter, according to IDC.

By comparison, Gartner earlier this month said worldwide PC shipments dropped 9.5 percent in the June quarter, the steepest decline since the third quarter of 2013.

SHANGHAI / BEIJING, March 29 Bank of China Ltd (BoC), the country's fourth - largest lender by assets, on Thursday said net profit fell about 10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017, but the drop was smaller than analysts had expected.

Despite the profit drop this quarter, Sony upgraded its games profit guidance for the full year by 5.9 percent and sales by 4.8 percent.

The usual high - flying Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) stock has seen a drop of roughly 4.5 % in October after the company announced that it had produced 260 Model 3s and delivered 220 units in the third quarter â $ «far from Muskâ $ ™ s original guidance of 1,500 Model 3s produced by September.

Shares in Philips dropped as much as 4.8 percent on Jan. 24 after the Dutch medical equipment maker missed fourth - quarter sales forecasts and said it expected investigations by U.S. authorities to have a significant impact on its defibrillator business.

Since then, China has experienced net capital account outflows, and as these exceeded the current account surplus from mid-2014 until very early 2017, we saw reserves drop by roughly one quarter from their peak.

The most recent GDP release is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

Drilling into the quarterly trends, we see that funding dropped off three quarters in a row right after peaking in Q1 ’15 at $ 224M (a quarter mainly boosted by 21 Inc «s $ 111M Series C round).

is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 8.3 %.

«Samsung's smartphone sales declined 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 and its share dropped by 2.9 percentage points year on year.»