Sentences with phrase «lower year than last year»

Year to date residential unit sales were 8.4 per cent lower year than last year.

Not exact matches

But it still recorded only 1.59 million new users, compared with estimates of 1.62 million — and sharply lower than the 1.9 million it signed up in the same quarter last year.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

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.

HR director Monika Fahlbusch boasts that Salesforce hired merely 4.5 percent of its more than 100,000 applicants last year — a lower acceptance rate than Harvard's.

WellCare's net income rose more than $ 100 million in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same time period last year thanks to stellar growth in its Medicare business and much lower - than - expected medical costs for its Medicaid plan holders relative to their premiums.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

Amazon is reportedly paying less than that, which means the acquisition price is significantly lower than the company's $ 1 billion valuation when it raised funding last year.

Last year, median household income in the United States was $ 59,039 — lower than the $ 59,992 median in 2007 or the $ 60,399 median income in 2000 — based on calculations by the Economic Policy Institute using Census data.

Seasoned deal - maker Walsh was much quicker than rival full - service airlines Air France - KLM and Lufthansa to embrace budget flying, buying short - haul carrier Vueling in 2015 and setting up IAG's own long - haul low - cost carrier Level last year.

Sotheby's has been a strong performer in the stock market recently, gaining more than 138 % in value after hitting a low of $ 19.13 in mid-February last year.

While more people booked travel on Southwest in the third quarter, fares on average were lower than they were a year earlier, especially for last - minute bookings.

But the sales numbers posted by «Advanced Warfare,» which has been a critical hit, were 23 percent lower year over year than those posted by last year's «Call of Duty: Ghosts,» according to Edward Williams of BMO Capital Markets.

In general, Canadian companies received lower scores this year than last, so marketers should take note.

«Anything much worse than that could unleash a wave of new selling, perhaps taking out key support at $ 15.50 and setting up a test of the previous lows from late last year,» said Steven Schoenfeld, founder of BlueStar Indexes, which develops indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli stocks.

Cheapflights, meanwhile, is offering up a list of 10 destinations to consider where the airfares are more than 15 percent lower than they were at this time last year.

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

Since January, Apple's stock has fallen by 5 percent, and it's only up 23 percent over the last three years — two percentage points lower than the S&P 500.

Although higher costs are predicted for installers in the U.S., their shares jumped as the tariffs were lower than the 35 % floated last year.

Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.

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.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

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.

«Asset values such as the stock market are at all - time highs, every major industry around the world last year grew by more than 20 percent, volatility is at an historic low.

Valeant, meanwhile, fell to its lowest point in more than five years, down nearly 90 % since its peak last summer.

The proportion of adults who are either working or looking for work fell last month to 62.7 percent, slightly lower than a year ago.

From its May 9 note:: «For the last three months, year - over-year growth in real personal income has stayed lower than it was at the beginning of each of the last ten recessions.

Stocks have plunged in the last week as traders worried about rising interest rates and inflation, bringing an end to more than a year of historically low volatility.

Amazon is paying less than Emaar's offer of $ 800 million, sources said, making it lower than the $ 1 billion valuation at the time of Souq.com's funding round last year.

A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed mortgage applications last week rose to their highest level in nine weeks as interest rates on 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages hovered at their lowest level in more than a year.

The newer console did get a sales bump this holiday season thanks to new Zelda and Mario games, but sales were amazingly lower than last year.

Overall, the second generation chips are about 10 % faster in benchmarks than last year's line, even with the lower prices.

This year, the difference between quarters has also been dramatic with the bank's provision estimate for second quarter dropping sharply to less than one - fourth of last year's quarterly low.

Over the last six years, more than nine of 10 journalists were killed in countries that scored lower than 45 on the index, and one in five journalists who died was covering a story about corruption.

Because PMI isn't seeing a surge in device sales, sales of Heatsticks, tobacco sticks that go inside the iQOS device, «are likely to be a little bit lower» than it forecast at the end of last year.

Gallup sees Americans spending an estimated $ 704 per household on Christmas gifts this season — quite a bit lower than the $ 770 they forecast last year.

Blacks in Minneapolis were 8.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for low - level offenses, such as trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to a study of arrests from 2012 to 2014 that the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota published last year.

Last year, the share of bidding wars for the hottest apartments fell by more than half to a four - year low, adding to evidence that the market slowed down.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

Midsize companies did a better job this year than last year of controlling their medical costs, mainly because of a willingness to change the design of their health plans to obtain lower prices.

Applications to refinance a home loan fell 0.3 percent last week and were 16 percent lower than a year ago.

The market environment in 2018 looks more normal than last year, with lower returns and higher volatility.

And net cruise cost, excluding fuel, is expected to be slightly lower than last year.

Its shares are up more than 60 percent in the last year and are now trading at near - record levels in the low $ 70s.

Unemployment, at 7.1 per cent, is slightly higher than it was a year ago, but lower than at most times in the last 40 years.

Occupancies for Caribbean and Alaska cruises are slightly lower versus last year, and occupancies for Euro cruises are lower than [indiscernible].

North American brand pricing is slightly lower than last year at lower occupancies.

Fleetwide occupancies at the present time are lower than a year ago, with pricing at the present time slightly lower versus last year.

The deficit will be $ 10.3 billion, which is barely lower than last year's record mark.

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.