Sentences with phrase «increase since last year»

More than two in five employers (41 percent) say they are less likely to interview job candidates if they are unable to find information about that person online — a 6 percent increase since last year.

In fact, according to CheapOair's recent travel trends report, international air travel has increased by nearly 170 percent since 2013 — with a 30 percent increase since last year alone.

According to LinkedIn, Airbnb will top 100 million guest arrivals this year, a 25 percent increase since last year.

«Waiting times have already increased since last year and maternity services at Queens and Whipps are already struggling to cope,» he told the Evening Standard.

The number of trees in California's Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people's lives, officials said Wednesday.

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«Global levels of debt across all sectors rose by $ 21 trillion last year accounting for more than 80 % of the total $ 25 trillion increase since 2012.»

Sallie Mae also expanded its loan portfolio 20 percent to $ 18.6 billion since last year and increased loan origination by 7 percent to $ 2 billion.

«The total volume of small - business financing increased by 18 % over the same period last year, and reached the highest level since Feb. 2008, its latest data show».

We have not seen a huge increase in prices (since 2006 - 7) and prices are actually down a little in the last year.

NHL 12 has sold more than 415,000 copies since its release worldwide on September 13, a 19 % increase over last year and the franchise's best ever first - week sales.

The entire U.S. venture industry invested $ 84 billion last year, a 22 percent increase from the prior year and the most for any year since the dot - com bubble of the early 2000s, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

Verizon's stock price has already been battered since it admitted in January that it would not be able to increase its revenue in 2017 over last year.

In the first three months of the year, Goldman Sachs workers at the mega-bank saw their pay and benefits increased by roughly $ 23,578 since the same quarter last year, according to the bank's first quarter earnings release.

The 2 percent increase for next year marks a significant jump over last year, which was just 0.3 percent, and the biggest change since 2012, when older Americans saw a 3.6 percent raise.

Farmers planted more than 300 million acres of them last year, an 80-fold increase since 1996.

A study last year by the C.D. Howe Institute suggested that one out of every 10 mortgage - indebted households in Canada was «extremely vulnerable» to an economic or financial shock — a figure that's likely only increased since.

That's a 48 percent increase in incidents since last year.

Wage growth, however, was still lacking, as wages fell 0.2 % from November to December, and when compared to last year, December wages grew just 1.7 %, the smallest monthly increase since October 2012.

The multibillion - dollar industry, where players draft fantasy teams for sports including football, basketball and baseball, has drawn increased scrutiny since last year with the attorneys general of several U.S. states, including New York, Illinois and Nevada, questioning the legality of the games.

Both the public and Disney employees have been on increased alert regarding alligators since the death of 2 - year - old Lane Graves, who was snatched by an alligator last month while playing in a lake at a Disney resort.

Since launching Bioastra in 2008, she's grown her business from a one - woman operation to a team of 17 whiz - bang inventor - types; together, they've increased sales by 906 % in the last five years, landing the business at No. 82 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

The multibillion - dollar fantasy sports industry has drawn increased scrutiny since last year, with the attorneys general of several U.S. states including New York, Illinois and Nevada questioning the legality of the games.

Last year Streco hit $ 2 million in sales, and Pyramid $ 8 million — together a 10-fold increase in Strelitz's revenues since 1991.

About 60 percent of large companies across the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Australia have increased their spending on cybersecurity since last year's Target breach, Reuters reports.

On a year - over-year basis, however, the core PCE rose 1.9 percent last month, the biggest increase since February 2017.

New orders for manufactured goods increased 2.1 percent, the largest gain since July last year, after dipping 0.1 percent in February.

Currently, Zuckerberg's net worth is at $ 28.5 billion, up from $ 13.3 billion, an increase of $ 15.2 billion, which is one of the biggest gains among billionaires since last year.

If a company posted its best earnings of the last five years two years ago and has been lackluster since, perhaps it's under increasing competitive pressure, so have a look at qualitative factors showing what's going on.

The Coca - Cola Company (KO) has paid a quarterly dividend since 1920 and has increased dividends in each of the last 55 years!

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest monthly read of job availability and labor turnover (JOLT), showing that private non-farm job «openings» jumped a notable 14.10 % since January, climbing 27.79 % above the level seen in February 2010; private non-farm job «hires» increased a notable 4.33 % since January, climbing 4.65 % above the level seen in February 2010; and job «layoffs and discharges» increased 2.14 % since January while dropping 8.99 % below the level seen last year.

The agency also said wages grew 1.8 per cent last month compared to a year earlier for the biggest increase since last October.

Rumors of Alibaba's acquisition of Ele.me have been circulating since December last year with the peak hitting at the end of February when Beijing Hualian Department Store, a shareholder in Hong Kong - based Rajax which owns and operates Ele.me, announced that Rajax is indeed talking to Alibaba about increasing its stake in Ele.me.

At the end of last year, Broussard held unvested share awards valued at around $ 12.8 million, which have since increased in value as Humana's share price has climbed 18 percent.

He said the number of items Prime members can get within two days had grown fivefold since the last price increase four years ago.

Money managers increased their net long position in WTI by 32 percent to 208,292 futures and options, boosting the net bets on a rise in the U.S. crude benchmark by the most since December last year, according to data by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission reported by Bloomberg.

The report delivered to Flaherty showed the income of Canadian middle - class families did not grow as fast as other income groups over the last 35 years, with male workers in middle - class families having seen «little wage increases» since the mid-1990s.

For the players, among the key issues is the NHL's request for wage rollbacks of around 19 per cent, something many players are resistant to, especially given the large increases in NHL revenue in recent years — up 50 per cent to $ 3.3 billion, in the years since the last lockout.

While we don't expect to grow same - restaurant guest counts versus last year since we are up against the very significant increase we achieved last year, we do expect this promotion to be more profitable for guests this year because of lower seafood costs.

Average hourly wages were $ 26.12 last month, a meagre 1.1 per cent increase from year earlier and the weakest gain since the late 1990s.

With all of the increased benefits for Prime over the last four years since its last annual membership price increase, it's doubtful Amazon will see a significant uptick in cancellations.

Both industrial production and service sector output contributed to this increase, continuing the positive trends prevailing since early last year.

Data provided show housing prices in the surveyed cities rose 1.75 % on average in February from a year earlier, accelerating from the 0.63 % increase in January from a year earlier, the first increase of its kind since February last year.

The provincial government has boosted school maintenance funding by more than $ 20 million over last year, and has increased the AFG for the first time since 2004/05.

Home purchase mortgage applications increased 2.1 % last week (15.9 % y / y), up 26.7 % since year end.

The increases in banks» retail deposit rates since last year have, in most cases, been smaller than the rise in the cash rate (and lending rates), especially for transaction accounts and accounts with small balances.

Household debt outstanding, which includes mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and student loans, rose $ 127 billion between July and September to $ 11.28 trillion, the first increase since late last year and the biggest in more than five years, Federal Reserve Bank of New York figures showed Thursday.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

Notice that all three of the leading derivatives dealers have been increasing exposures since last year.

As of January 2018, China held $ 1.168 trillion in American debt, more than a $ 100 billion increase since the same time last year, but down about 11 percent from the record high above $ 1.3 trillion in late 2013.

Since its IPO, Textainer has increased its dividend each year, and has maintained that dividend for the last 25 years.