Sentences with phrase «last year decreased»

The share of respondents who believe the economy is headed in the wrong direction remained at 57 percent last month, and those who says their household income is significantly higher than it was at the same time last year decreased four percentage points to 21 percent.

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The news of the program, announced Wednesday night, comes as a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows U.S. entrepreneurship education lagging and follows a decrease in VC fundraising last year.

Canada - wide, 67 % said property sales to foreign buyers increased in the last year (a number that's largely diminished because of a decrease in foreign buying in Calgary).

The decreases are largely the result of the oil glut and all - time lows for crude prices — last year, mining, oil producers, and metal companies lost a combined $ 70 billion on $ 1.3 trillion in revenue.

While they acknowledged that methane emissions by the energy industry have decreased over the last few years, they still expressed a belief that it needed to be regulated, so they put together new rules that would force energy companies to decrease their methane emissions by 40 % to 55 % over the next 10 years.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

The plummeting price of clean energy has allowed the US to decrease its carbon emissions over the last three years while the country's GDP has increased.

However, in the last two years, the practice has decreased (falling down to just 30 percent of purchases in 2013) as businesses have found more effective ways to fight back.

The number of smartphones reported stolen has decreased in the last year, particularly in major cities like New York, San Francisco, and London.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.

While some schools have seen a decrease in their enrollment, Sherbrooke can boast a 25 % increase over last year alone.

Last week, security giant FireEye (feye) said it was lowering its guidance due to a decrease in cyber security spending that it expects to occur this year.

However, the most recent labour force survey from Statistics Canada showed signs of hope: youth unemployment was 13.9 % in March, a 0.8 % decrease from the previous month and 0.5 % lower than the same period last year.

«We have implemented in the last two years a strong turnaround plan in France, with strong decrease of the employee numbers in France and the close of five out of seven sites,» Combes told CNBC.

Of the STEM disciplines, tech is the only one where the participation of women has actually decreased in the last 20 years, explained Judith Spitz, a former Verizon CIO of 10 years, during the 2016 Propeller Innovation Festival in Hoboken, NJ.

This has become even more apparent over the last year, as Facebook has decreased organic reach for pages to encourage businesses to spend more on advertising, because such a small percentage of your fans see organic updates — the ones you don't pay for.

But in the last five years, that lower age has decreased.

Here's a scary set of statistics: 78 percent of brand managers increased their output of content last year, yet saw a decrease in engagement of 60 percent.

The number who believe that life in the U.S. is better than life in Mexico has fluctuated over the years, but as of last year was measured at 48 %, a slight decrease from 51 % seven years earlier.

However, when compared to last March, the average price of a home in the GTA was down 14.2 per cent to $ 784,558 last month, a decrease from the average of $ 915,126 in the same month last year.

Over the last two years, Chili's traffic has decreased by more than 10 % as casual dining chains have struggled to stay relevant.

Commercial banks were the most profitable industry in 2014, recording a cumulative $ 103.9 billion in earnings, beating out diversified financials, last year's leader, which saw a 72 % profit decrease, from $ 151 billion to $ 43 billion, owing to revenue and profit declines for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The projected skid follows the 7.5 per cent decrease recorded last year but the association says residential sales in B.C. are still well above the 10 - year average of 84,800 units.

The federal - prison population has decreased significantly over the last three years from 220,000 in 2013 to 197,000 in December 2015.

Last month, Governor Jack Dalrymple called for a decrease in the state budget, since tax revenues are down and the budget outlook for the state is different from two years ago, when the price of oil was topping $ 100 per barrel.

The company has decreased its headcount by 14 % over the last year in a steady drip of layoffs, according to its most recent quarterly report, but it still employs more than 10,000 people.

Rogers followed with 9.6 percent and only 437 complaints, which is a dramatic 65 percent decrease in the number of complaints over the same period last year.

Our sales for the fourth quarter were $ 498 million, a 16.1 % decrease versus last year.

Forty - eight percent of respondents always or frequently deliver content consistently (e.g., on a defined, regularly scheduled basis) compared with 60 % last year — a 20 % year - over-year decrease.

Last year, to be with her grieving family, Ms. Powell Jobs decreased her board seats to five from eight.

Fifty - eight percent of Australian content marketers surveyed always or frequently focus on creating content for their audience over their brands compared with 72 % last year — a 19 % year - over-year decrease.

Compared to last year, gross margin decreased 150 basis points for the quarter and was down 220 basis points for the year.

China's imports continued to contract last month, with a year - on - year decrease of 2.4 percent, to 158.6 billion U.S. dollars, the General Administration of Customs said in a statement.

Also contributing to the decrease, the company's Latin America sales channels were down roughly $ 2.1 million compared to the second quarter of last year, as the company continued to be impacted by a stronger U.S. dollar.

That's only a 2 percent decrease from the same quarter last year, but a far cry from where it was seven years ago.

The decrease in ad revenue at ESPN was due to a difficult comparison with the Men's World Cup in Q3 last year, which more than offset the benefit of an additional game of the NBA Finals in Q3 this year.

Other income for the Direct Banking segment decreased $ 21 million from last year's second quarter as a result of lower late fees, lower transition services revenue related to the Student Loan Corporation and a decline in protection products revenue.

Median home price change expectations decreased from 3.3 % in August to 3.1 %, remaining within the narrow 3.0 % to 3.3 % band observed over the last 12 months, and staying well below the readings in the previous two years.

Excluding significant items, adjusted 53 - week full - year earnings per share decreased 14 percent to $ 3.20 (which includes $ 0.10 related to the extra week) compared to $ 3.74 last year, adjusted operating income decreased 15 percent to $ 1.728 billion compared to $ 2.037 billion last year and adjusted net income decreased 16 percent to $ 919.5 million compared to $ 1.090 billion last year.

SG&A expenses declined 2 % or $ 70 million to $ 3.47 billion, or 27.7 % of sales, a decrease of 50 basis points as a percentage of sales compared to last year.

Despite the region running on a gasoline supply deficit (compared to this week last year), all states saw prices decrease, which is in - line with the national trend, on the week: Wyoming -LRB--4 cents), Colorado -LRB--4 cents), Montana -LRB--2 cents), Idaho -LRB--1 cent) and Utah -LRB--1 cent).

Sales and marketing expense was $ 854 million or 11.9 % of net revenues compared with $ 832 million or 12.4 % of net revenues for the third quarter last year, a 50 basis point decrease in these costs in relation to revenue.

Also, Adobe said that merchants spent 47 percent more on Google Shopping Ads year - over-year last quarter, meanwhile they decreased spending on text - based ads by 6 percent during the same period.

Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $ 9.50 million or 94.11 % when compared to the same quarter last year.

However, he said the MLS home price index composite benchmark, which strips out the impact of changes in the mix of home sales, was down 5.2 % compared with a year ago and the number of new listings in April had plunged to 16,273, a 24.6 % decrease from the 21,571 listings seen last year at the same time.

Gross margin was 33.1 % compared with 34.4 % for the same period last year, a 130 basis point decrease.

The company's revenue from Power System decreased 19 % Y / Y last year.

Comparing AT&T's Earnings per Share (EPS) in the last quarter versus the same quarter in the prior year shows a -8.20 % decrease.

Domestic bond market volatility also decreased last year with 10 - year Treasury yields trading in a tighter - than - normal range.

Overall PC shipments fell 3.2 % last year, with Dell sales decreasing by 21 %, according to data from research firm IDC.