The unusually high growth rate for the sector is due to both a significant year -
over-year increase in oil prices and a comparison to unusually low earnings in the year - ago quarter.
Not exact matches
The March
increase was the largest year -
over-year move since it hit 2.4 per cent
in October 2014, just as the
oil -
price slump was getting underway.
On what the driving force behind the rally
in crude
oil prices has been recently, Pickens said, «Now you are approaching 2 million barrels a day year -
over-year on
increase in demand.