Sentences with phrase «percent a year during»

The change is less dramatic for what the Commerce Department calls «intellectual property,» but still the statistics show an increase, a 4.6 percent annualized rate of increase this year so far from 4.2 percent a year during that earlier five - year period.

Mario M. Cuomo increased spending by an average of 6.9 percent each year during his three terms in office from 1983 to 1994.

Nonetheless, even the service sector has witnessed productivity gains of about 1 percent a year during the past three decades.

They grew by an average of 2.2 percent a year during the first decade of the new century, faster than the 1.3 percent annual average of the previous three decades.

Not exact matches

In fact, over the past two years, while the S&P 500 has jumped nearly 30 percent, the utilities sector has gained only 6.5 percent — besting only the consumer staples and real estate sectors during that time.

But BlackBerry smartphones make up only 2.9 percent of the global smartphone market, down from 4.9 percent during the second quarter last year, says Framingham, Mass. - based research firm IDC.

Last year, more than half of all online transactions during the holidays included shipping at no charge, a 10 percent jump from 2010, according to a survey of online shoppers by comScore.

The episode led to a 2 percent fall in sales during the second - quarter of this year.

During the first two quarters of the year, earnings surged 15.5 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively.

Societe Generale reported a 15 percent drop in net income during the third quarter of the year, as it prepared to resolve two legal disputes in the U.S.

U.S. Treasury yields rose sharply during the testimony, with the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note adding 5 basis points to hit 2.915 percent.

Best known for its the rabbit - shaped mac and cheese, Annie's reported $ 204 million in net sales during its latest fiscal year, up about 20 percent from a year earlier.

If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

Internet spending during the November - December holiday season in the U.S. is projected to reach about $ 107 billion this year, more than 11 percent of total holiday retail sales — the largest portion ever, according to EMarketer Inc..

(The marinas also had to contend with a 10 percent decrease in vacancy rates in the year following Sandy, as some tenants whose boats were damaged during the storm did not return.)

The government forecasts the economy will grow 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

The world's second - largest economy grew 6.7 percent year over year during the July - September quarter, unchanged from the previous three months, government data showed earlier this month.

The government forecasts growth of 4.5 - 5.5 percent this year, although expectations are for the figure to come at the low end of the range, putting Malaysia in danger of its slowest growth since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, when the economy contracted.

During the company's first two years of operation, its revenue grew 400 percent quarter - over-quarter.

But on the downside, shares of Singapore Airlines tumbled nearly 12 percent during the fiscal year.

Campbell's stock, before news of its plans to acquire Snyder's broke, was down roughly 18 percent during the past year.

IT services company Tiera, number 132 on the list, grew annual revenue 717 percent, to $ 29 million, during the three years ended in 2014.

Monthly active users (MAUs), a key metric for Internet companies, declined 27 percent year on year during the quarter.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

During President Obama's first year, the average index moved 1.47 percent a day.

Small businesses were a much sought - after commodity during 2017, with the number of sales transactions rising more than 26 percent from the previous year.

During the 20 - year period ending in 2012, the S&P 500 index returned an annual average of 8.21 percent, but the average person who invested in stock - market mutual funds earned only 4.25 percent.

But that result is actually a little bit better than what happened during the fourth quarter of last year when the economy shrank 6.3 percent.

«Year - over-year core CPI is now above 2 percent but it was also above 2 percent all during 2016, and so it's really only come back to the level...

Sales of Eggo waffles and MorningStar Farms veggie burgers, both in the frozen foods aisle, jumped more than 10 percent during the first three months of the year, Kellogg said Thursday.

Delinquencies on bank card payments, which are not part of the composite, fell to 2.41 percent during the quarter, a 22 - year low.

A new Olshan Realty report found that homes with prices of $ 4 million or more that went into contract during the year's first 12 weeks took an average price cut of 10 percent, the highest going back to at least 2012, according to Bloomberg.

They spent $ 8.5 billion on luxury goods overseas during the month — an 18 percent gain over last year.

This much we do know: Research done during the past 10 years shows top quartile franchisors put an average of 40 and 45.6 percent to the bottom line in 2001 and 2002 respectively.

Related: How Tech's Richest People Spend Their Vacations Last week, The Washington Post Company reported $ 138.4 million in revenue during the second quarter for its newspaper publishing division, down 1 percent compared to the same period last year.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

The arrangement is meant to last eight years; during that time, Shipp will take 30 percent of his students» speaking fees in return for assistance with business strategy, marketing, branding, product - line extensions, and — of course — the content and delivery of their presentations.

In the local market, gold prices were nearly 10 percent higher during the current festival period compared with last year, with prices trading around 31,573 rupees per 10 grams, the highest level since August 2016.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

But other retailers have been pushing the holidays earlier and earlier, looking to ensure that they won't miss out on sales during a year when analysts, on average, are forecasting holiday spending to be up only about 2 percent to 3 percent from last year.

The new finance chief of Spain also told CNBC that the southern European economy has been growing at a solid pace of about 3 percent in the last four years, but this doesn't mean that the problems raised during the euro zone sovereign debt crisis are over.

«We think we're at or near full employment in the U.S. Wed expect headline unemployment to dip below 4 percent during this year.»

Research firm GlobalData forecasts UK spending during the Black Friday period - Monday Nov. 20 to Monday Nov. 27 - will grow by 3.8 percent year on year to 10.1 billion pounds.

That survey, which polled 2,429 adults aged 18 years old or older, found about 87 percent of Americans don't buy the majority of their gifts during the Thanksgiving weekend.

Backed by $ 50,000 from Spaly, $ 30,000 from Dunn and $ 750,000 from angel investors, Bonobos grew 23 percent month over month during its first year in business and generated revenue of $ 1.8 million in 2008 and almost $ 5 million the following year.

Nearly 40 percent of companies in the XpertHR poll still believe confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements should be a part of sexual harassment settlements — and 1 in 5 said they have reached such a settlement during the last five years.

And the company forecast year - over-year growth of 10 percent to 29 percent in the current quarter, which is not a big jump from the 26 percent growth rate it hit during the first three months of the year (some of that can be blamed on foreign exchange rates).

Inventories decreased more than 6 percent during the period, while selling, general and administrative expenses also dropped from a year earlier.

During the first few months of 2017, ransomware attacks were up 250 percent over the previous year.

Their consumer loans in the year to February increased by about 3 percent, while non-bank lending to households during the same period soared by 9 percent, showing that banks» sluggish consumer lending is not a question of a weak loan demand.