Sentences with phrase «higher than a year»

The sales numbers are staggering — signed contracts in April were 28 percent higher than a year ago, the strongest since 2005, according to RMLS, a real estate data firm.

For a retailer with scant discounting and zero debt, Nasty Gal has racked up some seriously drool - worthy numbers: international sales of $ 128 million in 2012, four times higher than the year before; 535,000 Facebook fans; 420,000 Instagram subscribers; 68,000 Twitter followers; and more than 2 million monthly unique visitors to the website in September 2012.

Prices averaged around $ 67 a barrel in the first quarter, nearly 25 % higher than a year ago.

That's nearly 5 % higher than a year earlier, and a whopping 33 % higher than in 2012, when the average balance was only $ 69,400.

Applications to refinance a home loan, which usually fall when rates rise, eked out a 1 percent gain for the week and were nearly 2 percent higher than a year ago, when interest rates were lower.

The November reading was 1.6 % higher than a year earlier.)

North American brand capacity in the third quarter is 38 % in the Caribbean, slightly up from a year ago; 24 % in Alaska, slightly higher than a year ago; and 25 % in Europe, which is about the same as last year.

Caribbean pricing is higher than a year ago at flat occupancies.

They were still 5 percent higher than a year ago.

Mortgage applications to purchase a home rose 1 percent for the week and are 4 percent higher than a year ago.

Delaware oil volumes were 8 percent higher than the most recent quarter and 149 percent higher than a year ago.

«Buyer traffic continues to be higher than a year ago, the typical listing has gone under contract within a month since April,» said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors.

The number of home sales that closed this spring were slightly higher than a year ago, but the lack of listings clearly held the market back.

However, assets under supervision were reported at a record $ 2.0 trillion, 6 % higher than a year ago, and assets under management were a record $ 1.4 trillion, 4 % higher.

The Treasury Department reports that the February deficit was 12.1 percent higher than a year ago, reflecting in part a drop of $ 5 billion in individual withholding taxes paid last month compared to a year ago.

Showing that March 2017 volume was > $ 100 billion, 120 % higher than a year earlier and equivalent to 31 % of the USD IRS Compression figure of > $ 320 billion.

Revenue came in at $ 231 million, 25 percent higher than a year ago but well below Wall Street's expectation for $ 244 million.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

While the total level of debt was $ 479 billion higher than a year earlier, it remains 8.2 percent below the peak of $ 12.68 trillion reached in the third quarter of 2008.

Yesterday's results were mostly more of the same: wearables were up a lot (more devices per customer); ASP's were down from last quarter but still 11 % higher than a year ago; 2 services revenue, meanwhile, shot through the roof for reasons that are still a bit unclear, but impressive nonetheless.

This was 2.9 percent higher than the revised April numbers and 8.9 percent higher than a year ago.

This was a sharp decline from January numbers but 2 percent higher than a year ago.

The Census Bureau reported new home sales for February that were 12.8 percent higher than a year ago.

Similarly, unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) picked up a little in the December quarter, rising by 1.4 per cent to be 2.3 per cent higher than a year ago.

Although gross household wealth fell slightly in the March quarter, it remained 12 per cent higher than a year earlier, and 40 per cent higher than three years earlier (Table 6).

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.8 per cent in the December quarter to be 2.6 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 54).

Real GDP in New Zealand rose by 0.8 per cent in the March quarter to be 5 1/2 per cent higher than a year earlier.

While no one is expecting a new peak in trading like the ones that occurred in 2009 and shortly before the financial crisis, the trading desks of the biggest U.S. banks are expected report revenue as much as 5 % higher than a year ago, say analysts at Credit Suisse.

UK GDP rose by 0.6 per cent in the March quarter, to be 3.0 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Following declines over the past three quarters, driven by significant price falls, expenditure on imports of goods and services rose by 6 per cent in the September quarter, to be 3 1/2 per cent higher than a year ago.

Service exports increased modestly in the September quarter and are around 5 per cent higher than a year ago.

In SDR terms, the Bank's index of commodity prices increased again in the June quarter, to be about 7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 27).

After rising very strongly in the second half of last year, GDP grew by 1.0 per cent in the March quarter, to be 4.9 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 2).

The Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers» index (PMI) showed that US industry has continued to expand, and while weak retail sales betray consumer caution, The Conference Board's consumer confidence index for June was still much higher than a year ago.

-LRB-...) The European Union's statistics agency Wednesday said consumer prices in that month were 1.4 % higher than a year earlier, an increase from the 1.1 % rate of inflation recorded in February.

Producer prices in the 17 nations that use the euro rose 0.4 % in July from June and were 1.8 % higher than a year before, the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat said Tuesday.

Manufacturing export revenues increased by around 4 3/4 per cent in the quarter, and are currently around 7 1/4 per cent higher than a year ago reflecting solid growth in volumes to most destinations.

In the December quarter, the wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 1.0 per cent, to be 3.7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 72).

Business investment rose by a further 1.7 per cent in the March quarter, following strong growth in the second half of 2003, to be 9.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Industrial production is estimated to have risen by around 2 per cent over the three months to February to be 7 1/2 per cent higher than a year earlier, while exports have also continued to rise sharply in recent months to be around 30 per cent higher in year - ended terms.

Despite the quarterly drop, prices still remain significantly higher than the year before.

The value of imports of goods and services rose again in the June quarter, to be around 20 per cent higher than a year earlier.

It was 1.3 % higher than a year ago... Read More»

This is contributing to a continuation of inflation rates that are below target in most advanced economies, although in headline terms they are mostly higher than a year ago.

It is important to note, however, that other things have not been equal: the Australian dollar has depreciated such that in $ A terms, commodity prices are actually higher than a year ago.

The latest national accounts show that real GDP rose by 0.7 per cent in the March quarter, to be 2.9 per cent higher than a year earlier (Table 8).

Equipment investment also rose in the quarter, underpinned by strong spending on computer equipment, to be 3.8 per cent higher than a year ago.

The story reported that the median price ended the month at $ 685,000, essentially unchanged from February and nearly 8 percent higher than a year earlier.

In the three months to July, the average level of recorded employment was 2.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, but lower than the average level in the previous three months (Graph 33).

The wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 0.9 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms, to be 3.6 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 71).