San Francisco rents increased 1.5 percent from February to March and were up 3.3
percent over the last quarter.
Clear Capital reports that national home prices gained 9.3 percent over the last year and 1.6
percent over the last quarter.
Not exact matches
The transport bottlenecks have increased the discount buyers take for Canadian oil
over U.S. light crude and Cenovus said its differentials averaged $ 24.28 per barrel in the first
quarter, a 67
percent jump when compared with
last year.
Yet ticket prices have been declining much more modestly, falling roughly 3
percent per
quarter over the
last year.
Revenue for the first
quarter of 2013 was up 58
percent over the same period
last year.
Yum China: Up
over 50
percent this year, this recent Yum Brands spin - off has been putting up strong results for the
last several
quarters and Cramer expects no different on Thursday.
Last quarter it grew 19
percent year
over year, faster than any other category, as the App Store logged its highest - ever revenue amid game craze «Pokemon Go.»
It's an area where Apple has struggled in recent years, with sales down 14
percent year
over year
last quarter.
Ford Credit saw earnings before taxes rise 33
percent over the same
quarter last year, to $ 641 million, but the company now expects full - year EBT to be flat or lower than
last year.
Sales of small businesses with revenues of about $ 350,000 rose eight
percent in the second
quarter of 2011
over the same period
last year, but the news isn't quite as good as it sounds.
The company said that it is planning on delivering a little
over 12,000 vehicles in the third
quarter, which is a 60
percent increase in car deliveries from the third
quarter of
last year.
Amazon's first
quarter sales reached $ 51 billion, a 43
percent increase
over last year.
More than 81 million subscribers pay Netflix $ 8 to $ 12 a month, and slowly but unmistakably these consumers are giving up cable for internet television:
Over the
last five years, cable has lost 6.7 million subscribers; more than a
quarter of millennials (70
percent of whom use streaming services) report having never subscribed to cable in their lives.
The Minneapolis - based financial services company also announced a dividend of 90 cents per share, an 8
percent increase
over the previous
quarter and the 11th quarterly dividend increase in the
last nine years.
Its gross domestic product (GDP) for the second
quarter rose 6.9
percent over the same period
last year, beating expectations and putting the country on track to meet the International Monetary Fund's 2017 growth forecast of 6.5
percent.
Last month, the brand reported fourth -
quarter sales of $ 8.7 billion, a 1.8
percent rise
over the year - earlier period, along with a comparable sales increase of 1.3
percent.
The company had its first profitable
quarter ever in Q4, reporting profits of $ 91 million on $ 732 million in revenue, a jump of 2
percent over last year.
AutoNation beat Wall Street estimates in its fourth
quarter, driving sales of $ 5.7 billion, up 4
percent over last year.
That would be the same
percent increase it saw in the first
quarter of
last year
over the first
quarter of 2014.
In 2014's first
quarter, the median price for luxury Manhattan properties soared 43.3
percent over last year, according to the latest market report from appraisal firm Miller Samuel.
Other drivers: Its «other products» category, which includes Apple Watch and AirPods, grew 38
percent year
over year
last quarter to nearly $ 4 billion.
The retailer reported better - than - expected earnings for the fourth
quarter of
last year, bringing in revenue of $ 8.7 billion, a 1.8
percent rise
over the year - earlier period, and positive same - store sales.
This was a new company record for the most cars delivered in a
quarter and represents an approximate 52
percent increase
over Q2
last year,» Tesla stated on its press release.
However, after announcing that their sales for the second
quarter had risen by more than 20
percent investors had solid grounds to place faith in the stock which has seen numerous ratings upgrades
over the
last few months.
More than half (57
percent) said the national economy has improved
over the
last year, and about a
quarter of business owners said their businesses had benefited a great deal from the improved national economy
over the past year.
AWS operating margin was 17
percent in the first
quarter, down from 23
percent in the same period
last year, owing to a 62
percent increase in operating expenses year
over year.
That means Twitter's business declined roughly 8
percent over the same
quarter last year, but that's still better than Wall Street was expecting.
During a
quarter featuring historic market sell - offs and major breaking business news such as a government shutdown and tariff negotiations, FBN saw its Business Day audience grow 13
percent over last year.
Facebook made
over $ 17 per user in the U.S. and Canada
last quarter, but users from the company's «rest of world» category, which includes users in South America and Africa, brought in less than 10
percent of that number.
«
Over a
quarter — 27
percent — are
last - minute food shoppers, planning to spend the eve of the holiday shopping for groceries,» the study reports.
The Grizzlies are holding opponents to 39
percent shooting in fourth
quarters and overtimes combined
over their
last six, and just 26
percent in six overtime periods (or 30 minutes).
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of
over three -
quarters of a billion dollars, a rise of about 3
percent over last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.
Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of
over three -
quarters of a billion dollars, or around three
percent from
last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.
And on the local level, where municipal governments in New York are gearing up to make spending plans with a 2
percent cap on increasing property taxes, the fiscal outlook is worsening.Year -
over-year local tax revenue declined an average 1.7
percent over the
last four fiscal
quarters.
Dating site PerfectMatch.com has seen a 47
percent increase in members
over the same
quarter last year.
This is a 35
percent increase
over the
last quarter.
This is a problem that needs addressing since a study just published in the Harvard Business Review found that «The time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50
percent or more
over the
last two decades and that, at many companies, more than three -
quarters of an employee's day is spent communicating with colleagues.
Third
quarter results improved to 536,397 units, a 4
percent increase
over last year's sales.
MONTVALE, N.J. — Mercedes - Benz USA (MBUSA) today reported its highest March on record with sales of 21,417 new vehicles, an increase of 17.9
percent over last March, bringing year - to - date total sales to 51,242 new vehicles, a 17.1
percent increase compared to the first
quarter 2005.
eBooks have hit a steep popularity curve in Russia in the
last few years with the growth rate pegged at 25
percent for the third
quarter over the
quarter before it.
This marks a thoroughly impressive jump of 84
percent over the same period
last year and a 44
percent improvement
over the previous
quarter.
But while Apple's iPad shipments grew 48.1
percent over the same
quarter last year, Apple's market share slipped for the second
quarter in a row (down to 43.6
percent from 46.4
percent last quarter) as No. 2 vendor Samsung continued to nip at the Cupertino company's heels.
Publishing Sales of comics to the direct market increased 12
percent in September
over the same month
last year, lifting the third
quarter by 7
percent.
The company's PC sales have consistently grown ahead of market rates
over the past three and a half years, and in the
last quarter grew by eleven
percent year -
over-year.
Barnes & Noble's retail segment, which consists of its bricks - and - mortar stores and BN.com, also fared badly: Revenues were $ 1.0 billion for the
quarter, down 9.9
percent over last year.
And
over a
quarter of renters (26
percent) say they don't have a policy because they don't know where to buy one, up from 20
percent last year.
Today that fund has $ 112 billion in assets, and once you account for survivorship bias, it has outperformed more than 90 %
percent of its competitors
over the
last quarter of a century.
It came to rest at just
over 48
percent nationally in the fourth
quarter last year.
Over the
last quarter, Suncor Energy is up more than 24
percent.
Last September, when third
quarter results were being announced, cyclical stocks fell 5
percent in just
over a week.