Sentences with phrase «essentially flat year»

The S&P 500 was essentially flat that year.

At the mid-year mark, the Canadian large cap benchmark TSX is essentially flat year to date.

Louisiana standardized test scores for third - through eighth - graders stayed essentially flat this year: 69 percent of those students scored at or above grade level compared to 68 percent last year, according to results released Wednesday.

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Overall sales were essentially flat last year, but profits jumped 16 %.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

The investors are frustrated that shares in Jazz, a $ 9 billion pharmaceutical company known for its narcolepsy drug Xyrem, have remained essentially flat over the past year.

Cornell has been the CEO for two - and - a-half years now, and Target's stock price is essentially flat.

The exception to this weakening pattern is year - over-year payroll job growth, which continued to improve through January, and was essentially flat in February.

Restaurant expenses in the quarter were essentially flat to last year on a percentage of sales basis as lower credit card expenses were offset with increased preopening expense related to 9 net units opens in the quarter and additional openings in early fiscal 2013.

The best performing mutual fund for the decade of the 2000's actually earned over 18 % per year over a decade where the popular market averages were essentially flat.

It said talk of a double - dip recession was misleading and that growth had essentially been flat for two years - but warned that this situation was avoidable.

The bellwether S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were essentially flat, and major foreign indexes were all down (some sharply) during the same period, after a volatile year marked by weak global economic growth, slumping U.S. corporate profits and uncertainty about the outlook for the China and the European union.

While total state spending has been held to two percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have been held essentially flat, School Aid is increasing by 6.5 percent for the 2016 - 17 School Year and will have increased by nearly 27 percent since 2011 - 12.

In the last four years, the tax cap is essentially been under 2 percent given the relatively flat inflation growth.

After 14 years since the last increase in unemployment benefits and over 6 years of an essentially flat minimum wage, Albany has finally answered the call of New York's hard working families, and begun to address the issue of rampant income inequality.

CDC's Environmental Health Laboratory would essentially be flat - funded at last year's enacted levels.

• On Tuesday, Jeffrey Mervis reported that buried inside the White House's essentially flat budget proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a $ 2000 a year increase in stipends for the agency's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

The National Institutes of Health, for example, gets $ 30.3 billion for this year — a 3 % increase from last year, an essentially flat budget.

Although the net effect of the various research measures was essentially a flat - lined science budget, the community was grateful that the government decided to delay by a year its efforts to rein in the federal deficit.

By one independent estimate, a carbon cap bill would take energy demand — predicted to go up 15 percent over the next 40 years — and essentially hold it flat.

It's during this portion of the film that Gervais offers up what just might be one of the most daring and flat - out hilarious interludes found within a mainstream comedy in recent years, as Mark essentially invents religion after convincing his dying mother that life doesn't end after you die.

After it was announced that New Jersey State education funding would remain essentially flat for the 2017 - 18 school year, NPS acknowledged a looming $ 30 million deficit because of rising costs.

He has promised to flat fund education for two years, essentially an 8 % cut, introduce an A-F grading system for all schools and create in - district school choice, all while adopting market - based «Money Follows the Child» to direct more state funds to privately run charter schools.»

State grants for special education, meanwhile, would get a $ 200 million increase from this year (fiscal 2017) up to $ 12.2 billion, while traditional Title I funding for districts would essentially remain flat at $ 15.9 billion.

But in a year where growth was essentially flat across the district, these schools improved outcomes across the board.

Dealer count across India is essentially flat, with organized dealers growing fastest at 23 % yoy; we expect this growth to continue over the next few years

They're essentially flat for the CTS, despite this being the first full year that the current generation is on sale.

Retail generated fourth quarter EBITDA of $ 53 million, essentially flat as compared to a year ago.

Consider the performance of Dodge & Cox International, which was essentially flat last year.

Loeb» s Third Point Ultra fund fell 9.1 percent in August and is essentially flat on the year with a 0.8 percent gain, one of the sources said.

The market in December last year was essentially flat one (ETF: SPY) but with fair amount of volatility thrown in.

The index is essentially flat, up just 0.20 % since the start of the year.

In addition, Sikorsky sales are expected to be essentially flat for the year as it faces increasing competition from Airbus Helicopters, Augusta Westland, and Bell in the commercial helicopter space.

As his charts for both taxable and tax - deferred portfolios show with 30 - year life expectancies, the SWR is essentially flat from about 30 % to 80 % equity allocations.

The best performing mutual fund for the decade of the 2000's actually earned over 18 % per year over a decade where the popular market averages were essentially flat.

In other words, the Dow essentially was flat for 16 years.

As you can see, there were strong cynical bull and bear markets during this time that caused the market to essentially remain flat for 16 years.

We had essentially 8 years of a progressive GOP President who pandered to liberal domestic interests; expanded medicare (free drugs), No - Child, higher spending and deficits and was flat out wiling to make a co2 compromise at certain points.

But according to British Petroleum's 2007 Statistical Review, between 2000 and 2006, America's total energy consumption was essentially flat — at about 17 billion barrels of oil equivalent per year.

In fact, the satellite and thermometer technologies seem to be diverging in what they are telling us in recent years, with the thermometers continuing to warm, and the satellite temperatures essentially flat - lining.

The facts are that tropospheric temperatures have stayed essentially flat for about 15 years.

Global temperatures move up and down in a narrow band, which is why the rolling 5 - year averages are essentially flat.

The trend in anthropogenic CO2 emissions was essentially flat and very low (averaging just 1 gigaton of carbon [GtC] per year) from about 1900 to 1945, when a significant portion of the modern glacier recession occurred.

The industrial sector's CO2 emissions, which fell by 3.9 % (56 MMmt) in 2016, have remained essentially flat in recent years despite increasing industrial output.

that's 8 years with the OHC essentially flat while CO2 has increased by approximately 16 ppm — what gives?

Dr. Judith Curry recently compared five data sets of global temperatures and found that all but one show the warming trend has been essentially flat for various periods exceeding 10 years in length during the past 18 years.

For example, she could have pointed out that the global temperatures have been essentially flat for 15 years and that small rises or falls on a plateau are to be expected.

How do they reconcile their theory with the fact that solar output has been essentially flat for 50 years?

The only time you and your heroes started admitting that GAT wasn't G, wasn't really A, and T wasn't really the best measure, was when their own reported temperature records had essentially flat lined for about 15 years.

If one picks 1998 as the «start date» for the current cycle of «lack of warming», one arrives at an essentially flat trend (Met Office tells us: «Our records for the past 15 years suggest the world has warmed by about 0.051 C over that period»).