Sentences with phrase «lower in the first quarter»

While GDP growth was disappointingly low in the first quarter, one of the bright spots came from higher business spending, or capital expenditures.

Following a record - breaking year for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, dealmaking declined to a two - year low in the first quarter of 2016.

As we detailed in our press release, the effective income tax rate was lower in the first quarter of this year due primarily to early adoption of amendment to existing guidance for employee share - based payment accounting and the recognition of incremental benefits from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit.

Global M&A activity was 18 % lower in the first quarter of 2016 than in the same period the prior year *.

Housing inventory hit a new low in the first quarter of 2017, bottoming out from the early days of the recovery from the recession, according to Trulia's recently released quarterly Inventory and Price Watch.

Assisted living occupancy reached a record low in the first quarter of 2018, according to data released Thursday by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care.

Meanwhile, Washington D.C. shifted from a near - record high assisted living occupancy rate one year ago to a near - record low in the first quarter, as growth in its inventory outstripped demand.

From its low in the first quarter, it surged in the second and third quarter and slipped slightly in the 2012 fourth period.

Not exact matches

Pfizer posted slightly higher sales and a 14 percent jump in profit in the first quarter, thanks to lower restructuring costs and a much - lower tax rate, but its revenue still missed Wall Street expectations.

Wall Street expects another huge jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower profits, compared with last year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.

CN Rail says it will purchase 350 lumber cars to meet growing demand for forest products despite lower segment revenues in the first quarter.

Berkshire Hathaway «s (brk - b) stock price touched $ 300,000 for the first time on Monday, reflecting investors» confidence in Warren Buffett «s conglomerate despite four straight quarters of lower operating profit.

Carlsberg's first - quarter sales fell 5 percent, weighed by a negative currency impact and lower volumes in Russia.

But unlike Calgary - based rival Cenovus Energy Inc., which temporarily throttled back oilsands output in the first quarter because of low prices, Husky says it is cutting output because it can make more money by buying «distressed» barrels from other producers.

Arkema reported a free cash flow of - $ 25 million in the first quarter of 2018, up against the first quarter of 2017 -LRB-- $ 44 million), thanks to higher EBITDA and lower taxes.

NEW YORK, May 1 - Pfizer Inc on Tuesday reported lower - than - expected first - quarter revenue as demand for some key drugs and international sales fell short of estimates, sparking a 5.1 percent drop in shares of the largest U.S. drugmaker.

U.S. health insurer Aetna, which has agreed to be bought by CVS Health, reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday as an adjustment for low healthcare spending late last year offset a rise in flu - related costs.

Household debt as a percentage of disposable income was was 163.3 % in the first quarter, Statistics Canada reported last week — only marginally lower than the record 163.9 % ratio the agency calculated for the fourth quarter.

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

Fitbit and Chinese low - cost gadget maker Xiaomi tied for first place with 3.6 million wearable devices shipped in the quarter.

Kraft Heinz's said stiff competition and a supply shortfall of one of its key frozen products will continue to hurt sales in the first quarter, following lower - than - expected sales and profit in the latest reported quarter.

Deals in the secondary market, as represented by Midland's 35 key housing estates, hit a low of 41 per week, 40 per cent fewer than in the first quarter of 2003 during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Deutsche Bank shares dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after reporting lower - than - expected revenue for its first quarter at a time when banking stocks have seen sharp gains after centrist Emmanuel Macron emerged as the winner in the first round of French presidential elections last week.

That came despite the fact Goldman failed to impress investors in its first quarter earnings Tuesday, posting trading revenue that was 2.4 % lower from a year earlier, at $ 3.4 billion for the quarter.

US gross domestic product was lower than expected at 2.6 % in the first quarter.

Merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector dropped to less than $ 1 billion in the first quarter of this year — the lowest since 1994, according to figures recently published in The Globe and Mail.

April 23 (Reuters)- Barrick Gold Corp, the world's largest gold miner by output, reported a 5 percent rise in first - quarter adjusted profit on Monday, primarily reflecting higher gold prices and lower depreciation.

Gross margin for the first quarter 2018 of 56.3 %, compared to 61.5 % for the first quarter 2017, was unfavorably impacted by fixed amortized prepaid royalties for embedded OEM licenses and lower perpetual license revenue in the quarter.

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

The strong first quarter aside, the company's overall revenue has fallen in back - to - back years when measured in U.S. dollars, with 2014 net income ($ 593 million) sinking to its lowest level since the recession - racked 2009.

The pork shortage, along with the bad weather that afflicted the eastern half of the U.S. this winter, lowered Chipotle's comparable sales growth by about 2 percentage points to 10.4 % in the first quarter, below the 11.8 % analysts were projecting.

Although Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) were lower, and the number of new listings fell to 31 from 43 in the first quarter of 2011, the amount raised through secondary financings was up by 89 %, and the amount raised through supplemental financings was up by 19 %.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Tater Tots - maker Kraft Heinz Co on Wednesday reported lower first - quarter sales, weighed down by weakening demand for processed foods in the United States.

HITTING THE SKIDS: Tesla tumbled 6.6 percent to $ 281.86 after the electric car maker said it lost $ 745 million in the first quarter as it is still struggling to produce more of its lower - cost Model 3 sedan.

Despite rapidly accelerating revenue, the rate that Twitter added monthly active users slowed — less than 4 %, to 241 million, in its first quarter as a public company, and as low as 1.4 % in a recent quarter — worrying investors that Twitter might not be the mainstream product that its soaring valuation promised.

While first - quarter corporate profits are expected to have notched their best growth in seven years, largely due to lower taxes, investors have focused on cost warnings from companies.

Carlsberg's first - quarter sales fell 5 percent, weighed by a negative currency impact and lower volumes in the key Russian market where its market share continued to decline, the Danish brewer said on Tuesday.

This is the first time in at least three years that Facebook's revenue is lower versus prior quarter, but it's obviously still a lot of money to make.

Cenovus» first quarter saw an increase in its oil sands production to 144,000 barrels per day, up 20 % from the same period in 2014, and lowered operating costs across its assets.

Chinese companies spent just $ 25.2 billion on overseas assets in the first quarter, while the number of deals fell to the lowest mark since 2005, according to data from Thomson Reuters.

Suncor said that while the discount Canadian producers face nearly doubled in the first quarter compared with last year's quarter, it had no impact on the company's earnings or cash flow, as low crude prices were offset by better midstream and downstream returns.

The 379,000 high - speed internet customers added in the first quarter is 8.3 percent higher than the previous quarter, but 11.7 percent lower than the first quarter of 2017.

These increases were partially offset by lower stock - based compensation expense as a result of forfeitures of stock during the quarter and making our annual stock grant later in the quarter than we did in the first quarter of 2017.

Although credit - card delinquency rates of 90 or more days remain low, they increased to 1.47 percent in the first quarter of 2016, the first increase since 2013.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. shares sank in early trading as the utility reported Thursday that its first - quarter profits were lower than a year...

Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 - point scale) for the first quarter of 2016, up from its low in October, 2014, driven by increases in auto loan and credit card delinquencies in 2015 — but far below the 60 - point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.

There is, of course, a great deal of skepticism about the 7 % real GDP growth rate that China has reported, but we should remember that in the first quarter, nominal GDP growth was much lower, 5.8 %.

Low volatility had been replaced by high volatility — Q1 had 23 days of daily moves greater than 1 % in the S&P versus seven such days for all of last year, and the first few weeks of the second quarter have seen similar swings.

Astoundingly, per capita government spending in the first quarter of 2016 — 27 quarters into the recovery — was nearly 3.5 percent lower than it was at the trough of the Great Recession.

On Tuesday, Tesla reported that it had managed to increase production of a crucial new model in the first quarter of 2018, although it remained well short of the company's already lowered target.