Sentences with phrase «first quarter of the year»

MILAN — Carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles reported Thursday a 60 percent rise in net profit for the first quarter of the year as sales improved, particularly in the Americas, and demand rose globally for its Jeeps.

Worldwide demand for gold totaled 973.5 tons in the first quarter of the year, according to the Council's latest report, down 7 percent year - on - year.

Barrick is in a stronger position now to focus on growth opportunities following two credit upgrades from rating agencies in the first quarter of the year.

U.S. market volatility picked up dramatically in the first quarter of the year.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

The company has announced that it will buy 5 % of its outstanding shares for $ 2 billion in the first quarter of this year.

With an expected launch in the first quarter of this year, you may have to rain check the gift.

UBS said Friday its net income rose 79 percent in the first quarter of this year.

Sales in central London have tanked 41 percent in the first quarter of this year to just 3406 sales compared with the previous year, data from real estate investment adviser London Central Portfolio showed Monday.

In the U.K., data showed an increase of 2.1 percent in wages in the first quarter of the year, but real wage growth turned negative.

Merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector dropped to less than $ 1 billion in the first quarter of this year — the lowest since 1994, according to figures recently published in The Globe and Mail.

The brand reported Thursday an increase in net profit during the first quarter of the year.

Even though the average American's 401 (k) balance rose 2 % since the first quarter of the year, the average account was still down 2.5 % for the three months ending in June compared to a year ago, according to a Fidelity analysis of 14.2 million people through the end of June.

He expects to see something of a Trump bump in sales for the first quarter of this year, which would mimic the rise in the stock market and overall consumer optimism following the election.

Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences, if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.

Millennials had been driving the nation's overall homeownership rate, showing the biggest gains throughout 2017, but they dropped back in the first quarter of this year.

In the first quarter of this year, $ 1.2 billion in funding was given to companies that build or work with connected devices, according to CB Insights.

Almost 73,000 new customers signed up in the first quarter of the year, an increase of 228 % on the previous quarter.

The Teranet — National Bank release comes just days after a somewhat more upbeat report from Royal LePage, which posited that lousy weather has kept buyers inside in the first quarter of the year.

LONDON — Revenue at trading platform Plus500 jumped 284 % in the first quarter of the year, led by a surge in cryptocurrency trading, the company said on Tuesday.

Millennial homeownership fell from a three - year high of 36 percent in the fourth quarter of last year back to 35.3 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to the U.S. Census.

While we saw an increase in pay each month in the first quarter of the year, small business workers experienced a slow and steady decrease in pay each month since April.

Retail deals comprised the smallest share of mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter of the year, according to Thomson Reuters data.

The Disney CEO also noted that 83 % of all multichannel households turned to ESPN in the first quarter of this year, and that 96 % of all sports programming is watched live, which he called «particularly valuable in today's rapidly changing advertising marketplace.»

In the first quarter of this year alone, Valeant dragged the hedge fund down 16 % alone.

The first quarter of the year is probably the best time to negotiate a favorable contact rate or take advantage of special programs designed to bring much - needed business into radio stations (after business owners have just finished blowing their budgets on the holidays).

Among those 300, 40 raised a total of $ 95 million in 2014 and the first quarter of this year.

Life - sciences companies closed deals worth $ 166.3 billion in the first quarter of this year, surpassing the value of all 2014 deals combined, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Global ECM deal volume totaled $ 196.2 billion in the first quarter of this year, down 11 % from $ 220.4 billion in the first quarter of last year, according to Dealogic.

All of these wearables should arrive sometime in the first quarter of the year.

The unit of AOL that both belong to generated income of just $ 13 million in the first quarter of this year.

Fewer than a quarter of U.S. consumers polled in the first quarter of this year had heard of the Switch, as this chart from Statista, based on a recent Nielsen study, indicates.

Twitter says it wants to do more NFL - style deals — and it points out that it aired more than 800 hours of live - streaming content in the first quarter of this year, including sports, news and entertainment.

In the first quarter of this year, its cigarette shipment volumes fell by 11.5 % year - on - year, but its heated tobacco shipments were up almost ten-fold — overall, unit shipments were down 9.4 % and net revenues were down 1.4 %.

The private sector is deploying more capital — according to Thomson Reuters, global merger - and - acquisition activity in the first quarter of the year is up 10 % over a year earlier — and U.S. consumer housing starts are up.

Playboy, the industry's patrician grandfather, lost $ 1 million in the first quarter of this year and has shed more than 12 % of its workforce.

JUNIOR hydrocarbon explorer Nido Petroleum Limited has made considerable progress with its project in China and expects to produce oil in the first quarter of this year.

Sales of stretchy garments, made with Lululemon's high - tech fabrics, exceeded expectations in the first quarter of this year and forced the company to accelerate some of the deliveries.

Click - through rates reached a new high of.88 % during the second quarter, while at the same time costs per click slipped to $ 0.46 from $ 0.53 in the first quarter of the year.

The advertising giant presented higher - than - expected net sales in the first quarter of the year, despite the exit of its founder Martin Sorrell.

From the first quarter of this year, Teva's financials will give a breakdown by region rather than by type of business.

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).

The global economy appears to have lost some momentum in the first quarter of this year.

A recent report says apartment rents in the Colorado Springs area rose again in the first quarter of this year.

Exports have been picking up here too recently, and were the main contributor to economic growth in the first quarter of this year.

For example, over the past three months, payroll gains have averaged about 150,000 per month, as compared to an average of more than 200,000 per month over the course of 2015 and the first quarter of this year.

Goods exports, which reversed a slide in the first three months of 2016 to jump by 9.6 % the first quarter of this year, were credited for the Chinese economy's stronger growth.

The US economy returned to growth in the fourth quarter of 2001 and posted strong growth in the first quarter of this year.

Finally, General Motors has raised its quarterly dividend by 6 percent, to $ 0.38 per share, beginning in the first quarter of this year.

He says the company met its projections for the first quarter of this year and is on pace to exceed its projections in Q2 and the rest of the year.