Sentences with phrase «percent from»

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.

Indeed, consumer awareness of Small Business Saturday jumped to 67 percent from 34 percent just two weeks ago, according to NFIB and Amex.

Sales of luxury goods in China hit 142 billion yuan ($ 22.07 billion) last year, up around 20 percent from the year before, Bain & Co said in a report on Wednesday.

New Zealand had a debt / GDP over 90 percent from 1946 - 1951.

Gross margins for the third quarter fell to 47.5 percent from 48.8 percent last year, as it had to resort to increased promotions to sell products that would usually have been sold at Sports Authority.

In 2016, more than 15 million Americans were victims of identity theft, up 16 percent from the previous year, according to Experian, a global information services group.

When the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index lost 10 percent from late January to early February, the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate U.S. Bond index fell more than 1 percent.

«The fastest average pay growth was in Boston in August, where median base pay for full - time workers rose by 2.4 percent from a year ago to $ 58,731 per year,» the report notes.

Forecasters expected first - quarter earnings for the sector would be up about 69 percent from a year ago, the highest percentage gain of any S&P 500 sector, according to Thomson Reuters data.

RBS also saw its mobile banking app usage grow by 21 percent from the same period last year.

Greater China and North Asia contributed the most to the bank's income compared to other regions, up by 8 percent from a year ago.

That represented an increase of 51 percent from the second quarter of 2012.

Bitcoin plunged at the end of a rocky week, taking the digital currency briefly below $ 11,000 and down 47 percent from its record high hit Sunday.

The report, released annually by the International Franchise Association, also forecasts a strong output for the franchising industry: $ 839 billion in 2014, an increase of 4.7 percent from 2013.

bucked the downtrend and rose, with three - month rates rising to 0.61077 percent from 0.60846 percent and overnight rates up to 0.30923 percent from 0.30615 percent.

Several weeks after his comments, in early February, stock markets stateside fell more than 10 percent from recent record highs, with major U.S. and global stock indexes moving into correction territory.

Moynihan had announced the bonus in late December, citing the tax bill that President Donald Trump signed cutting the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent.

In the days after we spoke, the S&P fell 10 percent from its recent high into correction territory for the first time in two years.

Lastly, Caucasian employees dropped to 56 percent from 59 percent.

In the three months ended in June, Crocs reported net income of $ 35.4 million, down 42.5 percent from the $ 61.5 million it posted the same quarter a year earlier.

The Niwot, Colo. - based shoemaker reported sales of $ 363.8 million, up almost 10 percent from the same quarter in 2012, but the slimmer profit margins sent the stock down 20.2 percent on Thursday from the previous day.

The $ 1.5 trillion tax overhaul is the biggest reform of the U.S. tax system since the 1980s and will see that corporate tax rate slashed to 21 percent from 35 percent.

Apple's stock hit correction territory Friday after falling more than 10 percent from its 52 - week high, but the massive tech company isn't alone in its gloomy performance.

A broad measure of joblessness that includes people who want to work but have given up searching and those working part - time because they can not find full - time employment fell to a fresh six - year low of 11.4 percent from 11.5 percent in October.

However, June is now iffy, with the prospects dipping to 50.3 percent from nearly 60 percent just a day ago.

A Morgan Stanley strategist thinks equities can surge more than 14 percent from their current levels despite their recent sharp pullback.

San Francisco rents increased 1.5 percent from February to March and were up 3.3 percent over the last quarter.

By the end of Monday, with the S&P 500 itself down, more than one - fifth of the stocks in the index were down at least 20 percent from their 52 - week highs, while two - thirds were off more than 10 percent.

Operating income is up 5.7 percent from a year ago.

Nevertheless, the latest gain in earnings left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have been in for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed would want to see before lifting benchmark interest rates.

inched higher, with three - month rates up to 0.63769 percent from Tuesday's 0.63692 percent and overnight dollar rates edging up to 0.31846 percent from 0.31769 percent.

Snapchat parent Snap debuted on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, opening trading at $ 24 a share and rising 41.2 percent from its pricing at the open.

To reach that line, Worth said, the S&P 500 would have to fall 222 points, or 7.7 percent from its all - time high hit last Friday of 2,872.87.

Dozens of other household companies are also down more than 10 percent from their own yearly highs.

As a matter of fact, in a study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, it was discovered that Millennials constitute 40 percent of the unemployed, as opposed to 37 percent from Generation X and 23 percent from the Baby Boomers.

Norwegian seismic surveyor raised its 2012 revenue guidance for the third time this year on Monday and said third - quarter revenue had increased 53 percent from a year ago.

Facebook, the world's largest social network, continued to expand its reach, hitting 1.55 billion monthly active users as of Sept 30, up 14 percent from a year earlier.

U.S. oil demand in August was slightly stronger than previously estimated, but still down nearly 1 percent from a year ago, the U.S. government said Wednesday.

Overnight Eonia rates dipped to 0.091 percent from 0.094 percent.

In the third quarter of 2013, O's ad dollars were $ 34.1 million, down 22.2 percent from $ 43.8 million the same time last year, according to The Association of Magazine Media, a non-profit industry association for multi-platform magazine companies.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

Total foreclosure activity last year in the Detroit area was down 42 percent from 2013, according to RealtyTrac, and its foreclosure rate is now below the national average.

The American retail giant upped its passive stake in JD.com to 10.8 percent from the 5.9 percent it reported about four months ago.

Ethereum fell roughly 9 percent from the open, trading near $ 627 as of 1:30 p.m. ET, according to CoinDesk.

After stripping out restructuring charges, GE earned 29 cents per share from continuing operations in the third quarter, down 9 percent from the period a year earlier.

In the third quarter, GE's cash flow from operating activities fell 78 percent from a year ago, to $ 4.1 billion.

However, the growth in certain activities classified as «core» shadow banking accelerated to 18.2 percent from a year ago at the end of the third quarter of 2017, the reported added.

According to data from the insurance broker Marsh & McLennan, its cyber-insurance sales grew 21 percent from 2012 to 2013 and for the first half of 2014 was double what it was during the same period in 2013.

During the campaign, he backed cutting the corporate tax rate — and the personal income tax rate to 33 percent from a top marginal rate of 39.6 percent.

Last year Goldman reported $ 8.5 billion in revenue from that business, down 2 percent from 2013, and down 61 percent from its peak of $ 21.9 billion in 2009.