Sentences with phrase «last flat year»

The last flat year was 2011, when the S&P finished down by less than 0.1 point.

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Overall sales were essentially flat last year, but profits jumped 16 %.

That's a big reason why Bank of America grew profits nearly 13 % last year even while sales were flat.

The world's biggest sportswear maker last month reported flat sales in its home region for its fiscal fourth quarter, its worst performance for over six years amid strong competition from Adidas and Under Armour (ua).

It opened full - time in December of last year — a floor - through, gut - renovated homage to millennial pink: pink - and - white packaged products arranged on pink lacquered displays, pale - pink - subway - tiled walls, staff dressed in pink mechanics» jumpsuits, fresh - cut pink and white flowers and flattering lighting.

Chef Michael Caballo launched his version at Edulis last year; let history note that mine was flat duck No. 5.

Paychecks are flat over last month, with year - to - date growth remaining at 0.6 percent.

Sales at Gap North America, owned by Gap Inc., have declined in the past six months, and are flat compared to last year.

The campaign launches amid flat national rail ridership, with Amtrak reporting just above 30 million passengers for the last six years.

A third fund, established last year to blend the flagship funds» strategies into a single vehicle, this person has added, is flat through that same time period.

Last week, at a meeting with analysts, the company predicted that sales would be flat this year and that earnings would likely drop this year and next.

Ford Credit saw earnings before taxes rise 33 percent over the same quarter last year, to $ 641 million, but the company now expects full - year EBT to be flat or lower than last year.

Kraft's revenue was flat last year at $ 18 billion, for example.

Added to last year, when it lost 20.5 % in a relatively flat year for markets, the fund's declines are now greater than its 2014 gain.

Kynikos» hedge fund was up 22 percent last year, sources said, adding both funds are about flat in 2018.

Compound annual growth rates of the overall fashion industry have been flat or grown by 1 % to 2 % over the last 20 years, but fast fashion — driven by chains like H&M, Zara, and Forever 21 — has grown by more than 12 % each year.

Ken Hugessen, a Toronto - based compensation consultant, notes that the aggregate CEO pay for the TSX 60 was flat last year.

Without it, however, AECOM's organic revenue growth was flat last year, restrained in part by the effects of currency - exchange rates.

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Worldwide soup consumption was flat in 2013, reports consumer research firm Euromonitor International, continuing a trend of declining global sales in the category over the last five years.

«We still expect a long lasting economic expansion of moderate growth, which should rival the US record of 10 years with S&P EPS growth averaging 6 % until the next recession, on 5 % sales growth, flat margins, 1 % share shrink,» Bianco wrote.

Growth of delivery at dinner has remained flat over the last five years and has grown at breakfast and lunch.

As the 10 - year yield began to really break out last week, the focus was also on the yield curve that had been getting flatter and flatter to a 2007 low.

VA sales, which fell 9 percent last year to $ 95.6 billion compared to 2016, are expected to be flat to down 1 percent to 5 percent in 2018.

After six consecutive quarters of decline, the fourth quarter results for total annuity sales were flat, compared to this quarter last year, at $ 50.8 billion.

Last year, it was relatively flat — often a sign of impending recession, but instead a result of higher short - term rates with expectations of Federal Reserve tightening.

I find it very interesting that everyone assumed (including yours truly) that in a flat year the last low - volume week of the year will be up.

As a percentage of sales, SG&A expenses were 23.4 % and flat compared to last year.

Restaurant expenses in the quarter were essentially flat to last year on a percentage of sales basis as lower credit card expenses were offset with increased preopening expense related to 9 net units opens in the quarter and additional openings in early fiscal 2013.

The overall supply - and - demand situation in Dallas has been relatively flat over the last few years, but inventory increased a bit during 2017.

Jack in the Box comps for the year are at 0.9 %, but management expects that figure to drop to down 2 % to flat for the last quarter of the year.

It's basically flat over the last year, because it's given up between 20 - 25 % of gains just over the last few months.

Development activity in the prime residential real estate market in Moscow, Russia, has risen, but the price of flats has fallen 14 % in the last year, new figures show.

Organic growth was 5 % in 2015 before slipping to 2 % last year and coming in roughly flat in fiscal 2017.

The ratio between Morgan Stanley's Cyclical index and its Consumer index has nearly flat - lined in the last few weeks and has been exhibiting a third of the volatility this year as in years past.

While category - wide beer volume sales remain flat across IRI's measured multi-outlet and convenience channels (MULC — which comprise grocery, drug, club, dollar, mass - merchandiser, Walmart and military stores), up just 0.7 percent through May 15, growth in the craft beer category, which was growing double - digits at this time last year, has slowed considerably.

U.S. and Canadian coal loadings in the first and second quarter were up 2.8 % and 2 % respectively while commodity car loadings overall were flat and down 1.6 %, respectively from the same period last year.

Total revenue climbed 2.2 %, but comps were flat, and net income was within $ 100,000 of last year's total, sending earnings per share down slightly due to a minimally higher outstanding share count.

Hong Kong's private residential completed are forecasted to climb 52 % from an average of 14,500 flats per year over the last four years.

Modest growth in export quantities and prices, together with flat imports (on a quarterly basis), pushed the March quarter balance on goods and services back into a surplus of around half of one per cent of GDP, reversing the deterioration late last year.

The last flat period lasted from 1966 - 1982 — 17 years.

While sales at Australia's top branded food and grocery manufacturers were flat or in decline last year, according to IRI data, Procter & Gamble's sales have risen for two consecutive years despite the sale of brands such as Duracell, Nice n Easy, Cover Girl and Max Factor.

Household products have come a long way in the last few years — from stand - up and flat - bottom pouches to bigger, brighter labels and innovative closures.

Up until last year I had only had tostadas (the flat, crisp corn tortillas) that were fried.

In North Carolina last year — when I was also feeding my berry addiction with weekly flats of fresh - picked strawberries at the farm stand down the road — strawberry season was already coming to an end by June.

When Anya asked me to contribute a guest post last year while she was finishing up some work on her book, I was beyond flattered because mutual -LSB-...]

Georgia, with a season high in points, has won three of four entering the last week of the regular season, but the Bulldogs showed why they've been so fickle this year, leading by 22 early in the second half before falling flat offensively and letting LSU pull within single digits in the closing minute.

The guy is at his peak and has had 2 good seasons in his career, nearly all his goals last year were flat - track bully goals, none in UCL.

HOCKEY — What would have been biggest hockey trade of this year — Detroit Red Wing star Red Kelly to the last - place New York Rangers — astonishingly fell flat when Kelly and teammate Bill McNeill (included in trade to New York for Rangers» Eddie Shack and Bill Gadsby) refused to be swapped.

The man they call Monstatrezz, rightfully so, is a flat out beast; he averaged 14 PPG and 8.4 RPG this season, up from just 5.7 and 3.6 last year.