Consumer spending showed encouraging signs of
improvement during the fourth quarter, with 2009 holiday sales rising by 2.3 % over the depressed levels of the same period a year ago.
Not exact matches
The company's fixed income, commodities and currencies trading sales rose 12 percent
during the
quarter, which is a dramatic
improvement from the 46 percent revenue decline in its
fourth -
quarter.
And though exports of oil have increased, helping to shrink the U.S. trade deficit in energy by half from
fourth quarter 2016 to
fourth quarter 2017, the
improvement has had negligible impact on the much larger overall U.S. trade deficit, which grew
during that period.
During the
fourth quarter of 2017, the brokerage reported $ 900,000 in net income, an
improvement from a loss of $ 6.1 million in 2016's
fourth quarter.
The U.S. economic recovery gained additional strength
during the
fourth quarter, thanks to broad - based
improvement across most business sectors and geographic regions.
During the
fourth quarter, UDR also posted a time - elapsed video of a kitchen and bath makeover to its Web site to emphasize the dramatic
improvements being made to thousands of its kitchens and baths.