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Earlier this year research.

Earlier this year research commissioned by tsb revealed that one in seven new relationships in britain had apps to thank.

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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.

Earlier Wednesday, research firm NPD Group estimated that the industry's sales increased by 5 % last year, boosted by Star Wars toys — a property that is closely associated with Mattel rival Hasbro (has).

For instance, business spending on research and development has actually dropped to 0.89 per cent of gross domestic product in 2011 from 1.29 per cent 10 years earlier.

In the latest poll conducted by the Levada Center, a Moscow - based independent research organization, an amazing 60 % of the respondents said they believed that Russia was heading in the right direction, up significantly from 40 % a year earlier.

One such company, Midea, closed a $ 4 billion deal earlier this year to acquire Germany - based Kuka AG, a leading, global robotics supplier for plant and automotive robots with a research and development center in Austin, Texas.

Indeed, Canadian corporations have been on a «buying spree» in the past two years, having purchased 790 foreign companies, according to KPMG research released earlier in May.

For example, 79 % of households paid for traditional cable or satellite service in last year's annual survey by the Leichtman Research Group, down from 84 % three years earlier and the all - time peak of 88 % in 2010.

But earlier this year, a separate report from Counterpoint Research found that the iPhone was not the top selling smartphone in China in 2016, the first time Apple had been unseated since 2012.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

In a report earlier this year for the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Trent University economist Harry Kitchen argues it's time for governments, particularly at the municipal level, to stop offering price breaks for seniors.

And earlier this year, Microsoft doubled the size of its local A.I. research group.

Top Republicans announced the mammoth research bill last week, more than a year after the House by an overwhelmingly bipartisan margin approved an earlier version.

Earlier this year, a trio of economists, led by Danny Cohen - Zada of Israel's Ben - Gurion University of the Negev, released new research demonstrating this principle in action.

Thirty - six percent of Millennials — otherwise known as Generation Y, which includes those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s — were living with mom and dad last year, according to a report by Pew Research Center.

Advertising spending on Facebook's eponymous service grew 48 % in the first quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, he noted, citing data from advertising research firm Merkle.

Earlier this year, ThePointsGuy.com commissioned Princeton Survey Research, which interviewed 1,003 American adults, to see how people use travel rewards cards and what they do with those rewards after earning them.

Just earlier this year, security firm Malwarebytes discovered Mac malware that was reportedly spying on computers in biomedical research centers.

After spending a year meeting with Plain Sight's scientists several times and researching its technology, Rennick agreed to the merger in early 2005.

In a poll conducted earlier this year among several hundred corporate members of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a nonprofit business - research organization in Houston, more than half the respondents (56.8 %) said they worked in fully walled offices, while less than a quarter (21.4 %) claimed modular settings.

Here's why: When Blue Apron filed to go public earlier this year, it commissioned a study by research firm Euromonitor to track the migration of grocery store sales to online channels.

Research published earlier this year in The Wall Street Journal showed that 15 percent of NFL players declare bankruptcy after they retire.

But research on the contact lenses began several years earlier at the University of Washington, where scientists worked under National Science Foundation funding.

While some housing market trackers report a slowdown — price increases averaging in the single digits year over year, compared with 15 - 30 % in recent years — in the nine cities tracked by market research firm Dragonomics, prices were down 4.9 % in April compared to a year earlier.

American adults had less sex in the early 2010s than they did in the 1990s, to the tune of nine fewer times a year, according to new research published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.

There were more than 235,000 medical marijuana patients in the system across Canada at the end of September 2017, compared to roughly 98,500 a year earlier, noted Vahan Ajamian, a Beacon Securities Ltd. research analyst.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

So it's no surprise to see that, according to a Pew Research study earlier this year, 21 percent of the respondents 18 to 29 years old said helping others in need is one of the most important things in their life.

While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

Officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials told us.

Ian Katz, an analyst at the Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners, told me in an interview earlier this year that such high - profile actions might wind up being the Trump administration's preferred method for financial regulations and enforcement.

He spent four years in the research department of The Bank of Canada in the early 1960's working in the areas of monetary and economic analysis.

Research firm Kantar Retail's Leon Nicholas said retailers would open the promotional floodgates in October, while NPD's Cohen expects an early November start compared to last year's mid-November kick off.

BlackRock's $ 40 billion Global Allocation Fund paid out $ 13.4 million in commissions in the 2016 fiscal year for trades tied to research, compared with $ 28.8 million two years earlier.

Before joining Thundelarra in April 2012, he spent 29 years working in both the equities markets as a mining research analyst specialising in the exploration and early producer segment; and also in the debt markets as a project financier and as a corporate banker servicing the financing, hedging and day - to - day transactional banking needs of Australian resource companies of all sizes.

Greater Brisbane this year faces an oversupply of 8000 new dwellings this year as scheduled completions outstrip population - driven growth in demand, research group SQM said earlier this month.

The Congressional Research Service reported earlier this year that inflation - adjusted disaster appropriations have shot up 46 percent from a median of $ 6.2 billion between 2000 and 2006 to $ 9.1 billion between 2007 and 2013.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) undertook a study examining the extent to which the non-housing assets of certain retirees changed during their first 20 years of retirement (or until death, if earlier).

The overall global market for luxury products and services — including genuine one - percenter favourites such as yachts, supercars and private jets — hit $ 1.1 trillion in 2014, up about seven per cent from a year earlier, according to research by consulting firm Bain & Co..

Net occupancies climbed by 4.14 million square feet (384,000 square meters) in the second quarter, the least since 2.73 million square feet was added a year earlier, according to the New York - based property - research firm.

In early March, research search engine Yandex has shown that this year Kazakhstan search terms related kryptowalutą more often than in 2017.

The S&P CoreLogic Case - Shiller National Home Price Index rose 6.2 % in January from the same month a year earlier, while the average apartment rent increased a more manageable 3.9 % in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to real - estate research firm Reis Inc. -LRB-...)

The number of «underwater» homeowners in the fourth quarter of 2012 declined by 1.7 million from a year earlier, meaning 1.7 million U.S. households have regained home equity, according to data released Tuesday by CoreLogic, a research company.

In a research note earlier this year, Wall Street firm Needham & Co. predicted that Amazon will capture 50 percent of the online market share by 20121.

David Hildebrandt, President of the International Association for Financial Participation (IAFP), will be sharing some of the early research findings at this year's Canadian Employee Ownership Conference in June.

Investor lending rose in March for the first time in more than a year, official figures earlier this month showed and asking price figures from consultancy SQM Research paint the picture of a market that is still strong.

Saudi Arabia's new five - year development plan is aimed at making up for earlier underinvestment, says Keith Savard, director of economic research at Riyadh - based Samba Financial Group.