Sentences with phrase «fell at all last year»

Believe it or not, on a global basis, car sales barely fell at all last year.

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At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

After reaching a peak in 2000 at 634,000, the annual number of new firms fell to 505,000 in 2010, the last year for which BLS has data.

At nearly 300 large public companies, median compensation for CEOs fell 3.8 percent last year, from $ 11.2 million to $ 10.8 million.

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

He said that IEX found that the fill rate, or the percentage of trades executed at the quoted price, fell last year on NYSE.

In 2017, U.S. comparable same - restaurant sales fell 5.3 % at Applebee's, and also slipped at sister chain, the pancake - focused IHOP, where they declined 1.9 % last year.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

And iCloud, the company's service to back up photos, video, documents and user settings over the Internet, has laboured for years to meet Apple's «It Just Works» standard without ever living up to expectations (internal frustration with the situation boiled over last fall when Apple insiders talked — anonymously — to reporter Jessica E. Lessin at tech news site The Information about the business unit's disarray).

Still, the launch came at a time when cryptocurrency markets fell sharply from their record highs last year, suggesting interest may have declined.

«These [fall] benefit meetings with clients are a time to look at last year's tax return and see what they can do differently with benefits to help next year's taxes,» said John Gugle, CFP and principal at Alpha Financial Advisors.

After hitting record highs at the end of last year, these cryptocurrencies suffered large falls in the first quarter of 2018, but have slowly started to recover.

Sales at building materials and garden equipment suppliers fell 2.2 percent, the weakest reading since May last year.

Meads told Business Insider that he had managed to sell it at an auction last year, but then the customer, who wanted to bring it to Iran, had problems at taking it out of the country, and the sale fell apart.

The last time oil averaged less than $ 2 for a full year was 2004, which was also the last time gasoline at stations in some states fell below $ 1 a gallon.

But the Vegas hotel fell into the hands of Onex, which separated the Strip property from its parent last year after strategically acquiring more than US$ 200 million of its debt — at discount prices.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

The number of Series A, or first - round, deals also fell, to 255 from 339 at the same time last year, according to VentureSource.

Last year, Seeing Machines signed a deal with construction vehicle manufacturer Caterpillar to install systems in 40,000 of the company's mining trucks that sense when drivers aren't looking at the road or are falling asleep at the wheel and alert them with an alarm and a vibrating seat.

Over the last several years, consumers worldwide have fallen victim to waiting too long to pre-order new Apple hardware, leaving them with two options: wait a few more weeks until it reaches their homes or stand in line on launch day in hopes of getting one at an Apple store, third - party retailer, or carrier.

Office Depot reported quarterly sales fell 9 %, including a 6 % drop at stores excluding those that have been closed in the last year.

Dozens of malls have closed in the last 10 years, and many more are at risk of shutting down as retailers like Macy's, JCPenney, and Sears — also known as anchor stores — shutter hundreds of stores to staunch the bleeding from falling sales.

Samsung sold more phones than anyone else, but sales slowed and profits fell last year as other Android - phone manufacturers made similar devices at half the cost and Apple finally released two big - screen iPhone models.

The 62 - year - old Lee was a JPMorgan vice-chairman, a master of the investment - banker universe, and a man at the top of his game when he fell ill last Wednesday during his morning workout on his treadmill in his Darien, Connecticut home.

On the other end of the spectrum, Pakistan fell from its perch as the top performer in the region at the end of last year.

The other Canadian airports to make the top 100 include Halifax's Stanfield International Airport at 58, up 10 places from last year, and Montréal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau Intl Airport which fell five spots to 83 overall.

Gross margins for the third quarter fell to 47.5 percent from 48.8 percent last year, as it had to resort to increased promotions to sell products that would usually have been sold at Sports Authority.

I didn't make a lot of money, but I did get at least a small positive return from each of the asset classes I own, including equities, which is something given the TSX fell 11.07 % last year.

Profits at conventional Canadian broadcast networks fell 85 % last year, according to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission, from $ 152 million in 2011 to $ 23 million in 2012.

Uber also said its U.S. ride - hailing market share fell from 82 per cent at the start of last year to 70 per cent in the fourth quarter.

Comparable sales fell 17 % at Sears and 13 % at Kmart, a striking result given that they exclude the dozens of weak stores the company has culled in the last year.

Shares at Genworth fell 45 % last year, prompting Fortune to dub it one of the five worst investments of 2014.

Last month, the burger giant posted a steeper than expected sales decline, with global sales at restaurants open for more than a year falling 1.8 % in January, the eighth straight month of falling sales.

The available short - term capital resources Bombardier needs to stay in the air fell by a billion dollars at the end of the last fiscal year, to 3.8 billion dollars.

However, the annual rate was still being held down by a fall in fruit prices at the beginning of last year.

Even as stock market rose last year, pension funding levels at America's biggest companies in 2014 fell to levels not seen since just after the financial crisis.

The average rate on the 30 - year fixed at its highest level in more than four years and is not expected to fall back as it did last year.

Inspections in the last two years had found widespread deficiencies at the facility, from understaffing and repeated incidents of falls requiring hospitalization to failures in training and record keeping and ignored complaints of sexual harassment.

Looking at the data, I would bet the short side for it specifically — it's fallen about 4.5 % over the last year and thus far shows no signs of pepping up much.

We upgraded our view on U.S. consumer discretionary stocks last fall and still believe that households are in a better position than they were just a few years ago: Consumer debt is down while household wealth is up, gasoline prices are much lower than a year ago and the U.S. is creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s.

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«Commercial oil stocks in the OECD fell further in August and the difference to the latest five - year average has been reduced by 168 million barrels since the beginning of this year, however, there remains another 170 million barrels of stock overhang to be depleted,» OPEC said at the end of last month.

The executive, who co-founded Dish more than 30 years ago, contacted Deutsche Telekom AG last year, expressing an interest in buying its T - Mobile US Inc. unit after a deal to merge T - Mobile with Sprint Corp. fell apart, people with knowledge of the matter said at the time.

In the years leading up to last fall's boom of interest in crypto, Silver says that he used to be heckled at every conference he spoke at, but that now, «rather than being booed off the stage and being told that everything was a utility token, I was wrong, that I was killing innovation, and that I was this horrible person,» people are actually listening.

I too have been amazed over the last 20 years at how some continue to dismiss ecommerce while their stores fall into decay.

The number of homes listed for sale, which stood at an 11 - year low at the end of last year, fell even further in January, according to a report released Thursday.

Treatment charges (TCs), the fees miners pay smelters to process their ore, are likely to fall by at least 13 % to $ 140 / t to $ 150 / t or below for 2018 term contracts, from around $ 172 / t last year, according to four trader and analyst sources.

The Greenback is recovering the bulk of last week's losses, with the Euro weaker despite German IP and Exports better than expected, and Euro Unemployment coming in at 7 year lows — Sterling falls to October Lows on Article 50 headers — Turkey's Lira fresh record low on Moody's, Peso eyeballing lows into Auto Show Headers.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier this month that food - at - home prices fell 0.1 % in November, the seventh straight month they've declined, and over the past 12 months, they're down 2.2 % from the same time last year with meats, poultry, fish, and eggs posting the biggest drops and now sitting 6 % below the year - ago figure.