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The market for PCs is shrinking — global demand dropped 11 percent in the last quarter alone — and Dell's market share has been on the decline for nearly a decade.

In October, McDonald's reported a global comparable sales decline of 3.3 percent.

On Friday afternoon Asia time, U.S. crude declined 0.22 percent to $ 68.03 a barrel while global benchmark Brent fell 0.35 percent to $ 74.48 as of 3:06 p.m. HK / SIN.

Combined with renewables — which Macaulay expects are unlikely to generate more than 20 or 30 percent of global power supply — he thinks gas will continue to gain share as the use of oil declines.

PARIS, April 27 (Reuters)- Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows fell 18 percent in 2017 to $ 1.41 trillion, due partly to a sharp decline in flows into the United States as the prospect of tax reform reduced the incentive to engage in financial and corporate restructuring.

Government debt yields fell to multimonth lows, with the 10 - year yield slumping below 2.1 percent as stocks declined on global economic worries.

For the first quarter of 2015, Ford said 70 percent of its global revenue decline was due to the effects of currency - exchange fluctuations.

As of March 31, the law covered 11.1 million people; an Oct. 13 S&P Global Ratings report predicted that enrollment next year will range from an 8 percent decline to a 4 percent gain.

A more than 55 percent decline in crude oil CLc1 since last year has rippled through the global energy industry, forcing producers and their suppliers to make tough decisions.

And the pain won't end this year: The company projected global sales will drop as much as 4.9 percent more in 2018 after a 6.7 percent decline last year.

Which is why Moody's Investors Service says the global default rate for non-investment grade companies will decline to 1.81 percent by the end of this year, the lowest since April 2008.

«Our base case assumes 10 percent net decline of current paid global subscribers, conversion of one - third of U.S. trial subscribers and conversion of one - fourth of international trial subscribers,» Wingren added.

For example, a 1 percent decline in global GDP growth would result in a reduction in demand growth by 690,000 bpd.

U.S. - traded Chinese companies saw share prices plunge following the 2008 global crisis, while economic growth at home, even after a recent decline, is still forecast at about 8 percent this year.

As a result of degradation, overharvesting, and human activity, the global abundance of this habitat has declined by 85 percent, according to the Nature Conservancy.

Such declines may be reflected in the business of science; the National Academies reported the U.S. share of global high - tech exports fell during the last two decades from 30 to 17 percent, and its share of manufactured goods dropped from 33 billion in 1990 to 24 billion in 2004.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

Disruptions and declines in animal pollinators could increase global mortality by 2.7 percent, leading to 1.4 million more deaths annually.

They concluded that, based on a median value across all scenarios, there's a high probability of a 30 percent decline in the global population of polar bears over the next three to four decades, which supports listing the species as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

As a global average, education accounts for 51 percent of the decline in mortality — the biggest influence by far — according to a study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Last May biologists at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reported that global stocks of large predatory fish have declined by 90 percent since industrial fishing began in the mid-1950s.

A new analysis of worldwide customs and trade data published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark - fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade «Although we can't say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,» says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.

By the end of 2012, 35 mm film in movie theaters is expected to decline to 37 percent on a global scale, which is a dramatic decline from 68 percent of global cinema screens in 2010.

Even though Levi's is the global leader in jeans, accounting for 4.7 percent of the market ahead of VF Corporation and PVH, the $ 93 billion global denim market only grew at a compounded annual growth rate of 4 percent during the last 5 years, a rate which is due to decline to 2 percent over the next five years, according to Euromonitor.

IT hardware market research firm TrendForce reported May 10 that global tablet shipments for the first calendar quarter of 2018 recorded only 31.3 million units, a steep quarterly decline of 35 percent.

(AP)-- Global shipments of personal computers fell 7.1 percent in the first three months of the year, but the decline was smaller than expected and research group IDC on Wednesday said the industry could turn around by...

Apple's iPad continues to dominate the tablet market, with global shipments up to 9.3 m units according to the latest figures, though its percentage marketshare has declined by over 33 - percent thanks to increasing competition from consumer - centric rivals.

The harshest decline was 2011 - 12, when the global book market contracted 7.4 percent.

The global tablet market declined 7 percent year over year during the second quarter, International Data Corporation reported in July.

New data from IDC shows that the global market for tablets declined in the first quarter of 2016, although Apple remains the dominant vendor, with its iPad line holding onto a 25.9 percent market share.

In the global scale of things, IDC says the tablet market saw a 10.1 percent decline year - on - year in 2015, with around 206.8 million units shipped.

Here's the list from top to bottom, with the economy listed as a top priority by 85 percent of those polled and global warming 30 percent: the economy, jobs, terrorism, Social Security, education, energy, Medicare, health care, deficit reduction, health insurance, helping the poor, crime, moral decline, military, tax cuts, environment, immigration, lobbyists, trade policy, global warming.

I quote: `'» Our surveys reveal a small decline in the proportion of people who believe global warming has been happening, from 84 percent in 2007 to 74 percent today,» Krosnick said.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

In the more adverse «disaster» scenario — which entails vast deforestation, dramatic biodiversity declines and increasing extreme weather — the global index falls by 15 percent, with the deepest losses felt in poor regions.

Third, the world has made progress in driving down tuberculosis, with 40 percent fewer deaths compared to 1990, and global malaria deaths have declined by nearly a third over the past decade.

The portion of Americans with mixed opinions about global warming has declined from 49 percent in 2001 to 36 percent today, according to a Gallup poll released on Earth Day Tuesday.

To put that in perspective, global emissions declined by just 1 percent for a single year after the 2008 financial crisis, during a brutal recession when factories and buildings around the world were idling.

Solar and wind barely made up half of nuclear's seven percent decline as a share of global electricity.

In April 2014, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that if we want to stay below the 2 °C limit, global greenhouse - gas emissions would have to decline between 1.3 percent and 3.1 percent each year, on average, between 2010 and 2050.

After a rare decline in 2009 due to the financial crisis, global emissions surged by a whopping 5.9 percent in 2010 — the largest absolute increase since the Industrial Revolution.24

Another new report, the REN21 Renewables 2014 Global Status Report, shows the cost of renewable energy declined sharply while global renewable energy capacity grew 8 percent to 1,560 gigawatts (GW) inGlobal Status Report, shows the cost of renewable energy declined sharply while global renewable energy capacity grew 8 percent to 1,560 gigawatts (GW) inglobal renewable energy capacity grew 8 percent to 1,560 gigawatts (GW) in 2013.

Since June 2010, public understanding that global warming is happening rose three points, to 64 percent, while belief that it is caused mostly by human activities declined three points, to 47 percent.

The American Chemistry Council's Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that global chemicals production fell 0.3 percent in March, following a 1.0 percent drop in February, and a 0.6 percent decline in JaGlobal Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that global chemicals production fell 0.3 percent in March, following a 1.0 percent drop in February, and a 0.6 percent decline in JaGlobal CPRI) shows that global chemicals production fell 0.3 percent in March, following a 1.0 percent drop in February, and a 0.6 percent decline in Jaglobal chemicals production fell 0.3 percent in March, following a 1.0 percent drop in February, and a 0.6 percent decline in January.

The increasing global temperature, for instance, is linked to the 15 percent decline in the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean, which experts fear could disrupt weather patterns.

There are plenty, but for a conservative example see IPCC Synthesis Report 2007 Table 5.1 which says to stay within 2 - 2.4 degrees global average temperature increase above pre-industrial (Copenhagen upper «low risk» target) and 425 - 490ppm CO2 - equivalent concentration at stabilisation, the required change in global CO2 emissions in 2050 (percent of 2000 emissions) is decline between 85 to 50 percent.

The United States is forecast to fall behind China as the largest producer of renewable energy with its share of global production declining from 24 percent today to about 15 percent in 2040, while China's share increases to about 30 percent by 2040.

Zero - carbon power as a percentage of global electricity declined from 36 to 31 percent between 1993 and 2014.

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