Sentences with phrase «percent dip in»

There was a 40 percent dip in the number of home sales in 2009 compared with the peak in 2005.

The South saw a 4.7 percent dip in sales -LRB-(unchanged from a year ago) and the median price in the South was $ 231,300, up 6.2 percent from a year ago.

Heck, maybe you yourself struggle with the summer productivity slump, which can lead to a 20 percent dip in workplace productivity.

That's despite a 5 percent dip in battery capacity in comparison to the iPhone 6.

The rest of us may have to vacation closer to home: Even the relatively modest 30 percent dip in air travel after September 11 proved a boon to old - fashioned local attractions like the Texas State Fair and the Bronx Zoo.

Still, as someone currently in the firing line of these perverse aberrations, I find it particularly interesting that the same hive mind currently shrieking about a one percent dip in Breath of the Wild «s average Metacritic score can't help doing exactly what it accuses others of — bombing something else because they can't handle the idea of anything other than their Precious potentially succeeding.

Meantime, last month, a 10 - percent dip in Lower Mainland home sales offset a 14 - per - cent increase across the rest of the province, reports B.C. Real Estate Association chief economist Cameron Muir.

Taiwan - based E Ink Holdings — the display supplier for major e-reader brands, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble — reported a 46 percent dip in revenue for its second financial quarter of 2013 compared to the year previous.

During two days of regular use, with the GlowLight on and off, and Wi - Fi on, we saw about a 15 percent dip in the battery.

The slowdown follows a 1.7 - percent dip in October sales, which Ford claims was «anticipated» given that inventory of the popular Mustang and F - 150 remains low as the automaker switches from producing the outgoing models to the 2015 versions of both cars.

The bad news is that from 2016 to 2017, schools statewide saw a 2 percent dip in student participation, with many large urban districts showing disappointing double - digit decreases.

Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

The barriers lining Wall Street — which the owner of Milk Street Cafe said caused a 30 percent dip in his business and forced him to layoff 21 workers — were initially removed Wednesday afternoon.

Data showed 39 cities with wage standards of $ 10 had a 2.2 percent dip in employment of low - skilled workers, according to Shobowale's testimony.

Most impressive: a 12 percent dip in shootings, putting the total at 998 — the first time it fell below 1,000 since the department started collecting stats in the early»90s.

Uber, meanwhile, had a 10 percent dip in riders around the same time, according to 1010data, a data - management company in New York that analyzed consumer spending data to come up with the figures.

By charting death rates against those historical changes, while controlling for health care spending, health insurance, and wealth, the authors were able to attribute a 20 percent dip in infant deaths to a 10 - week extension in paid leave.

The trade group that represents the commodity blamed the fall on a 15 percent dip in investment in gold bars to 254.9 tons, as investors in the U.S., China and Germany held off from buying the yellow metal.

They also did not confront the mystery of the major 20 - percent dips in brightness that Kepler observed while studying the Cygnus field of its primary mission.

Not exact matches

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from last year's decade - high rate of 2.4 percent.

What isn't in question, however, is that many retailers saw this year's Black Friday figures dip 11 percent from last year's.

Meanwhile, investor confidence in both Brazil and China fell six percent and dipped two percent in India, the survey found.

And these investors are dipping into some dogs of the market this year, such as telecom — 27 percent of million - dollar accounts said telecom was among the sectors with the most potential in the fourth quarter, up from 18 percent in Q3.

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from...

PARIS, May 3 - France's Thales posted a 7.2 percent underlying rise in first - quarter sales on Thursday as growth in defense and transport systems offset a slight dip in aerospace revenues.

PARIS, May 3 - France's Thales posted a 7.2 percent underlying rise in first - quarter sales on Thursday as growth in defence and transport systems offset a slight dip in aerospace revenues.

The nation's sharpest decline in business bankruptcy filings in the past year was Denver, where filing dipped 26 percent.

NEW YORK / LONDON, Jan 18 - Gold was flat in a narrow range on Thursday, first dipping as the dollar rose and then rising as the dollar moved lower, but bullion's gains were limited by higher U.S. $ 12, or 0.9 percent, at $ 1,327.20 per ounce.

Hollande's approval rating dipped as low as 4 percent in November 2016.

HTC's market value has slumped about 75 percent in the last five years to $ 1.8 billion as its smartphone market share dipped below 2 percent.

Mylan saw its stock dip almost a third of a percent during after - hours trading, following members of Congress saying it cheated taxpayers by underpaying Medicaid in rebates owed on sales of its lifesaving device EpiPen.

«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.»

New orders for manufactured goods increased 2.1 percent, the largest gain since July last year, after dipping 0.1 percent in February.

In second - term election years, then, equities dipped an average 4 percent, compared to an average increase of 7 percent during all election years.

The share of mortgage balances 90 or more days delinquent dipped to 2.3 percent from 2.5 percent in the previous quarter.

For the past several weeks, the greenback has plunged in value, dipping more than 1 percent last Wednesday alone — its biggest one - day pullback in 10 months.

Maryland added more than 14,000 jobs in August, the second - highest monthly gain in seven years, as the unemployment rate dipped to a pre-recession level of 3.9 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.

U.S. federal subsidies for renewable energy, which includes biofuels as well as renewable electricity generation, has declined by 56 percent since 2013, dipping to $ 6.7 billion in 2016.

The longest - ever streak without a 5 percent drop in the S&P 500 Index may end with nothing more than a dip, if history is any indication.

The deal comes one day after Amazon reported strong fourth - quarter profit growth and a 42 percent rise in revenue, but its shares dipped in after - hours trade on concerns about its profit margins.

And while Nike's stock has climbed 25 percent in the past year, its revenues for the first nine months of its current fiscal year grew by only 4 percent, with North American sales dipping in crucial areas, like footwear.

Maryland came in at No. 2, with prices dropping 1.5 percent, while Washington, D.C., came in third, with a dip of 0.5 percent.

Was the slight difference in returns worth the huge dips and pops experienced over time by a 100 - percent allocation to the S&P 500, not to mention the added stress and anxiety?

Swire Pacific shares dipped 0.9 percent in early trading in Hong Kong on Feb. 9 to HK$ 74.05, outperforming a 3.1 percent drop in the benchmark Hang Seng index.

Shares in Shanghai dipped 1.5 percent amid reports that the government would retain restrictions on foreign investments in the housing market.

The vacancy rate dropped to 18.2 percent during the first quarter, a six - year low according to real estate firm Colliers International, and will dip lower once the Salesforce lease is factored in.

For existing homes, sales dipped 3.4 percent in October but were still about four percent higher than the previous year, while sales prices rose for the 44th straight month and were up 5.8 percent from the same time period.

Incyte shares fell 3.6 percent to $ 65.71 in after - hours trading on Monday, while Lilly's stock dipped 1.2 percent to $ 80.20.

The company's comparable sales dipped a more modest 0.5 percent in China.

WPP shares dipped around 4 percent in the first few minutes of trading Monday in London as the market reacted to the news.