Sentences with phrase «first decline in growth»

It is the first decline in growth reported by the country following seven years of consecutive growth, having reached a record high of $ 1.62 billion in 2016.

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«The declining momentum should already become apparent in the first quarter, for which we expect gross domestic product (GDP) growth of only 0.4 percent quarter - on - quarter for Germany, whereas GDP grew by 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter,» Kraemer said in a note.

The fears, this time, are really twofold: The first has to do with a slowdown in earnings associated with a strong dollar and declining global growth.

The department store company, which has reported sales declines in its last 11 quarters despite closing dozens of weak stores, said on Thursday, that comparable sales rose 1 % in November and December, a modest increase to be sure, but one that puts Macy's on track to report its first quarter of growth in three years.

First, because they represented a transfer from net savers to net borrowers, they helped to exacerbate the split between the growth in household income (households are net savers) and the growth in GDP (which is generated by net borrowers), and so led directly to the extraordinary imbalance in the Chinese economy in which consumption, as a share of GDP, has declined to perhaps the lowest level ever recorded in history.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

«Although revenue declined, the first quarter of 2016 continued with a trend of low - level shipments growth on a global level with a variation in results by region,» said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner.

Thailand's first - half economic growth in 2014 may stagnate or decline from last year's fourth quarter on the slowdown in domestic economic activity, says a...

While the decision to leave the EU has caused notable market upheaval, global market declines were actually more extreme in the first few months of 2016 due to significant commodity price weakness, concerns regarding slowed economic growth in the U.S. and China, and monetary decisions by major central banks.

Declining U.S. growth and rising European growth in the first quarter looks less like divergence and more like...

The Canadian economy declined by 0.4 percent at an annualized rate in the second quarter, down from a revised rate of 3.6 % growth in the first quarter.

Globally, Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI), declined in 2017 for the first time after five consecutive years of mostly double - digit growth.

The first part of the problem is the declining growth in oil demand.

Despite this long transition of posting 20 + consecutive quarters of declining revenue, IBM has finally posted its first revenue growth in nearly six years.

It was the very first time in fiscal 2016, when Apple witnessed a notable 8.36 % decline in the overall iPhone sales, while in fiscal 2017, Apple recorded marginal growth of 2.3 %.

First quarter hourly compensation rose 3.4 % after a 2.4 % gain in the previous quarter, but real hourly compensation still fell 0.1 % after a 0.8 % decline in the fourth quarter, showing wage growth is still being outpaced by inflation.

That represents a 5 % to 9 % increase over last year, putting the company back in growth mode after the annual decline in the first quarter.

Indonesia's economy posted its lowest growth rate during the first quarter of 2013 in over the past two years despite having topped FDI records, exhibiting a mostly declining expansion trend since the last quarter of 2010.

CFO Dave Wehner first addressed the looming GDPR regulations in the company's opening statement, confirming that Facebook user growth in Europe may slow or even decline as the company gets people to agree to updated privacy guidelines required by the laws.

The first of your Pew reports shows decline or anemic growth in many denominations, including many of the biggest ones.

The first problem here is that, minus signs or not, the fluctuating growth rates for the oldline churches (quite healthy growth during the postwar revival; decline during the 1970s; some recovery in the first half of the «80s) tell us little if they are not compared, and compared over a number of decades, with the growth rates for the conservative churches.

The decline in Woolworths dragged the broader sharemarket lower, as the nation's biggest supermarket chain also missed an opportunity to beat rival Coles for the first time in five years in terms of quarterly sales growth in their food and liquor arms.

Silicon Valley Bank Predicts 2016 Decline in Wine Consumption After Decades of Growth: Total and per - capita U.S. consumption to see first drop in more than 20 years; Domestic fine wine shows modest sales groGrowth: Total and per - capita U.S. consumption to see first drop in more than 20 years; Domestic fine wine shows modest sales growthgrowth...

President Mahama noted that «A sector that is growing at 2.5 percent can not be said to be in decline and the figures we're seeing for this year are even more outstanding because the figures we see for the first quarter for the agricultural sector in terms of growth for first quarter 2016 is showing 3.8 percent, according to the Ghana Statistical Service quarter newsletter.

He said there had been a decline in the year - on - year inflation from about 17 per cent in 2016 to 10.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2018, while the supplied side improved driven by the growth in the agricultural sector.

They point to earlier figures showing a decline of 0.5 % in the final quarter of 2010 and growth of 0.5 % in the first three months of 2011 as proof of the coalition's ineffective grasp on the economy.

«This would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth,» the researchers said, noting that a portion of India's new energy consumption must be from «low - carbon» resources in order for global emissions to peak and then swiftly decline.

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

While declines in emissions have previously occurred during periods of economic crisis, this would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth.

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This Futuresource K - 12 report tracks global device sales and shows that 2015 saw strong double digit growth in shipments compared to 2014, the first quarter of the year fell by more than 15 % to 4.8 million units compared to the same period in 2015 with the largest declines taking place in Latin America.

In the previous year, 2010 - 11, per - pupil spending fell 1.6 percent from a year earlier — the first time that spending growth reversed and began declining.

A group of researchers found that, although students» growth in passage comprehension remained close to average from first through fourth grade, their spelling scores dropped dramatically by third grade and continued to decline in fourth grade (Mehta et al., 2005).

In its first quarter financial report in 2014 Facebook anticipated that «mobile usage will continue to be the primary driver of our user growth for the foreseeable future and that usage through personal computers will decline worldwide, including in key markets such as the United States and other developed markets in Europe and Asia» (emphasis mineIn its first quarter financial report in 2014 Facebook anticipated that «mobile usage will continue to be the primary driver of our user growth for the foreseeable future and that usage through personal computers will decline worldwide, including in key markets such as the United States and other developed markets in Europe and Asia» (emphasis minein 2014 Facebook anticipated that «mobile usage will continue to be the primary driver of our user growth for the foreseeable future and that usage through personal computers will decline worldwide, including in key markets such as the United States and other developed markets in Europe and Asia» (emphasis minein key markets such as the United States and other developed markets in Europe and Asia» (emphasis minein Europe and Asia» (emphasis mine).

We are also expecting the pace of domestic growth momentum to decline in the second half of 2018, after a boost from net exports in the first half of the year,» writes Sally Auld, chief Australia and New Zealand economist at J.P. Morgan, in a recent briefing.

Our superb investment results in General Growth Properties, where the stock price had declined more than 99 % before we made our first purchase, gave us confidence that we could assist Valeant in a turnaround after its stock price collapse.

Psychological effects of book value growth Many mortgage REITs posted a return to positive book value growth in the first quarter of 2014 after declines throughout 2013 and investors were throwing away their shares in mortgage REITs in panic mode.

First, researchers have suggested that wage growth has slowed because the bargaining power of unions has declined as employment in unionized sectors of the economy has declined.

Based on the strength of these launches, we see a shrinking category decline in quarters 3 and 4, culminating in one of the strongest first quarter growth numbers that we've seen in a number of years.

In the first half of the 12th Century there is a marked growth decline across northern Fennoscandia.

Europe has also seen a general decline in emissions despite continued economic growth, and a small drop in global emissions in 2015 was the first that did not coincide with a worldwide economic downturn (see «Have Global CO2 Emissions Peaked?»).

«One big shift is the rate of GDP growth in China which for first decade of this century averaged over 10 %... that has now declined to little over 7 %,» he said.

It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop - either through catastrophic «overshoot and collapse» - or through well - managed «peak and decline.»

That led Facebook to show fewer viral videos, which in turn contributed to a 700,000 user decrease in U.S. and Canada daily active users — its first decline ever anywhere — and Facebook's slowest DAU growth rate it's ever reported.

Facebook's growth and revenue have consistently gone up over the years, but in late January the company reported that people were spending less time on the platform and it experienced its first - ever decline in daily users.

Smith identified bitcoin as the first truly digital asset that has already triggered a global push beyond paper currency, with mention of its extraordinary growth in 2016 and declining volatility.

The company was willing to go so far as to make changes that led to its slowest ever user growth rate, and its first decline in total users anywhere as the U.S. & Canada region actually lost 700,000 Facebookers.

Samsung has posted its first quarterly operating profit decline in two - years, creating concerns about growth ahead of its next - generation flagship launch in the spring.The company reported operating profit of $ 7.7 billion during the fourth calendar quarter... Read more

While surviving the declined labour productivity in the last two quarters, the first quarter statistics revealed a modest but hopeful increase by 0.3 % for Canadian businesses, with a decrease in costs by 1.8 %, attributed in some way to the slight, but slowed growth in hourly compensation.

* Achieved 4 consecutive years of growth in a secular declining industry for Western Region and turned around national vertical market sales from negative to positive after 6 months for the first time in 4 years.