Sentences with phrase «per year decline»

The suggested 5 % per year decline can be used as a guideline for responsible action on a voluntary basis.

«Fishery bycatch rapidly driving Mexico's vaquita to extinction: Acoustic network documents 34 percent per year decline of critically endangered porpoise.»

One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has documented a devastating 34 percent per year decline of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita porpoise, according to a new study published this week in the journal Conservation Biology.

Harvard's Edward Glasser and former Kleinman Center Visiting Scholar Matthew Kahn found in their research that «holding family income and size constant, petrol consumption per family per year declines by 106 gallons as the number of residents per square mile doubles.»

Not exact matches

Best Buy Co. said comparable store sales dipped 0.8 per cent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 4, but that was better than the 1.7 per cent decline in the prior - year period.

The latest comes from analysis firm IDC, which found that tablet shipments declined 12.3 per cent year - over-year in the April - to - June quarter.

Net sales declined 6 % in constant currency to $ 1.83 billion, while net profit dropped to 51 cents per share from 63 cents the prior year.

Elliott declined to comment on Express's revenue numbers, users, or its budget (the latter of which Recode reported as $ 500 million per year in 2014).

Perth has suffered the biggest drop in house prices, falling 2.4 per cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia decline by the sharpest rate in nearly than three years.

As of the end of July, there were nearly 123,000 consumer proposals and personal bankruptcies filed by Canadians this year, a decline of 1.2 per cent from the same period last year.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia were down 15.8 per cent in May, adding to a sharp decline in year - to - date activity, though one bright spot was a pick - up in sales of luxury marques.

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

Yet ticket prices have been declining much more modestly, falling roughly 3 percent per quarter over the last year.

«Compensation went up for every single executive save one on a year - over-year basis and shareholders saw an 80 per cent decline.»

That would be a decline from the same quarter a year ago when earnings per share were $ 4.38 on revenues of $ 7.69 billion.

Southwest said its net income declined to $ 388 million, or 62 cents per share, in the quarter, from $ 584 million, or 88 cent per share, a year earlier.

Western Australia's peak business group has forecast an easing in economic growth in Western Australia in the current financial year to 4.5 per cent, a decline from five per cent previously tipped.

The company said profits sharply declined to $ 21 million, or 2 cents per share, from $ 312 million, or 29 cents per share, a year ago.

Earnings per share estimates have been cut considerably since TripAdvisor's last report and now reflect a 23 - percent decline from a year earlier.

Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline by 40 per cent over the course of the year.

Oil prices continued their months - long decline Monday, with the price of crude briefly falling below $ 50 per barrel for the first time in more than five years earlier in the session on account of global oversupply.

Japan's birthrate has been declining for years and hit a record low of eight births per thousand in 2014.

PC sales fell 3.5 per cent last year, according to the research group Gartner Inc., the first annual decline in more than a decade.

«Butter consumption remains solid after years of decline and increasing in terms of domestic per - capita consumption,» said BB&T Capital Markets analyst Brett Hundley.

The Danish beer maker, the world's fourth largest, announced the CEO transition on the same day that it reported earnings per share and gross beer sales volume declined for the second straight year in 2014.

The British Columbia Real Estate Association has released its 2018 first quarter housing forecast, showing residential sales are expected to fall 8.6 per cent to 94,855 units this year, with the decline continuing into 2019.

This 22 - year increase represents approximately 0.2 per cent on that number and when one accounts for inflationary dynamics, this represents a serious decline in real dollars.»

The total included $ 23.6 million generated during the last three months of last year, as a reduction of operating costs at Torstar's print divisions offset a 10 per cent decline in fourth - quarter revenue.

However, 4 % per year and one in four stand in contrast to the fate suffered by shareholders: an actual decline in the S&P 500 during this period.

The report said that «Facebook (including Messenger but excluding Instagram) saw a decline in total person - hours (number of users multiplied by hours of consumption per person) during September of -0.1 % year - over-year following a -0.9 % decline in August.»

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

This means that Pharma's IRR has been declining at a steady rate of about 0.9 % per year and is projected to hit 0 % by 2020.

All the «other» operating systems, such as BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone, combined to comprise 11.2 per cent of the market, with BlackBerry representing 8.9 per cent overall, a decline of 6.1 per cent from a year earlier.

Finally, by substituting the historic linear trend above into the IRR term of this equation, and the industry average investment period of 13 years into the c term, we get the following formula, which shows that nominal R&D productivity / ROI currently stands at about 1.2 (i.e., we get only 20 % back on top of our original R&D investment after 13 years), is declining exponentially by about 10 % per year, and will hit 1.0 (zero net return on investment) by 2020:

The company has suffered a declining pattern of earnings per share over the past two years.

ORACLE CORP's earnings per share declined by 22.5 % in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago.

In the Fall Update, the government will not only be able to show the elimination of the deficit (something no other G - 7 country has achieved) one year earlier than targeted, but also to show a declining debt ratio, rapidly approaching the government's target of 25 per cent, the lowest since the 1960s

That will be tricky given that 10 - year Treasuries currently yield below 2.20 per cent and this would decline precipitously with a recession and any move to cut Fed funds.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Over the next 20 years, that figure will decline to an estimated 2.5 U.S. workers per retiree by 2035.

The net result, as the Recode chart below shows, is tablet sales have slowed and are projected to decline about 1 % per year over the next 5 years.

Since Living Goods expects its cost per CHP to decline as it scales, it is more conservative to only include costs and benefits for the next 1 - 3 years than it is to include all 5 years.

Prada, for example, recently posted a 28 per cent decline in 2014 profits, while luxury giant Kering is attempting to turn around its Gucci brand after earnings tumbled seven per cent last year.

Despite this early decline in profits per revenue dollar, Joshi insisted that «2018 is a corner - turn year in our multi-year turnaround.»

Earnings per share have declined over the last two years.

Companies expect this trend to continue as costs keep declining — over two dollars per watt over the last five years.

The Bank estimates that over the past two years the level of investment in the oil and gas sector alone has declined by almost 50 per cent (Chart 3).

Even more remarkable and worrisome, Piecyk said, is that some analysts believe there is a chance Apple's current quarter, which runs through March, could see the first decline in year - over-year quarterly earnings per share in a decade.

Total CPI inflation in Canada has been around 1 per cent in recent months, reflecting year - over-year price declines for consumer energy products.