Sentences with phrase «percent pace of»

Existing - home sales in the West rose 0.8 percent a pace of 1.19 million in November and are 4.4 percent higher than a year ago.

The Commerce Department reported on Thursday that the economy grew by 3.2 percent in the final quarter of 2013, echoing the even stronger 4.1 percent pace of expansion in the summer months and providing the White House with a rare bit of good news despite dismal public approval ratings.

Not exact matches

After three years of sub-1 percent growth, Japan's GDP bounced back by 2.4 percent in 2004, a pace not beaten until 2010.

E-commerce sales in November and December will grow 17.2 percent to $ 94.7 billion, more than five times the pace of total retail sales growth of 3.3 percent, according to EMarketer.

The United States is currently expanding at its fastest pace in more than two years, having experienced growth of 3 percent or more for two consecutive quarters

Despite a focus on mobile, social and video under CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo struggled to keep pace with the rise of digital ads on Google and Facebook, seeing its market share slip to 1.5 percent of the worldwide digital ad market this year, eMarketer estimated.

Growth in consumer spending, representing two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, slid to 1.1 percent rate in the first quarter, the slowest pace since the second quarter of 2013 and following the fourth quarter's robust 4.0 percent growth rate.

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«This is a slower pace of growth than over the past 10 years, although much faster than the 8 percent growth seen between 2007 and 2013,» the report said.

At the end of last year, the price of a litre of diesel was 59.64 rupees, meaning it has risen by 10.5 percent so far this year, not quite keeping pace with the rise in Brent crude oil.

That puts core inflation at a pace of 1.8 percent year over year.

Employment in the franchising industry is predicted to grow 2.3 percent, matching the pace of growth in the last two years.

According to forecasts from the European Commission, Spain is set to grow at a pace of 2.6 percent this year.

That beat expectations for a 5.6 percent rise, and marked the strongest pace of quarterly growth in eight years.

Growth in that range would leave economic expansion for all of 2016 at around 1.7 or 1.8 percent — «a moderate pace,» for sure.

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.

As result of the weakness in consumer spending, the economy grew at a 2.3 percent rate in the first quarter after expanding at a 2.9 percent pace in the final three months of 2017.

Fueled by a surge of renters across all age ranges, rental prices nationally have grown at roughly twice the pace of average hourly wage growth, which was a paltry 2.1 percent over the past year.

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 1.1 percent annualized rate in the January - March period, the slowest in nearly five years, after surging at a 4.0 percent pace in the fourth quarter.

Sponsored content takes up about 5 percent of the content of the site, but it's the reason we've been able to grow at such a rapid pace.

A key driver of this «breakaway» performance is China, which is forecast to grow at a slower but more sustainable pace of about 7 1/2 percent in 2014, and 7 percent in 2015.

Shipments of batteries from US facilities are expected to advance at a 4.8 percent annual pace to $ 13.0 billion in 2015.

The median rent in the United State rose 2.8 percent over the past year to $ 1,445, the fastest pace of appreciation since May 2016, according to Zillow.

The official word from China's National Bureau of Statistics says its economy grew at a 7.3 percent annualized pace in the third quarter.

Sales climbed 2.2 percent to a 546,000 annualized pace, exceeding all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists and the most since February 2008, Commerce Department data showed Tuesday in Washington.

Looking forward, I expect economic activity to expand at roughly a 2 percent annualized pace over the next 18 months, appreciably above that of the past three quarters.

For example, after including the latest figures for growth on Thursday, the economy has expanded at annual rate of 1.8 percent under President Obama, half the pace of growth in the first five years of the Clinton administration, and below the 2.5 percent annual growth rate for President Bush between December 2000 and December 2005 in the same years.

As a result, we should have grown much faster than the 2 1/2 percent pace evident over the past couple of years and seen an inflation rate much higher than what we experienced.

China's exports rode a global trade boom last year, expanding at the fastest pace since 2013 and serving as one of the key drivers behind the economy's forecast - beating 6.9 percent expansion.

Its kiwi counterpart slumped to seven - month lows of $ 0.8078 and steadied just off that level even after data showed the New Zealand economy grew at an enviable annual pace of 3.9 percent in the second quarter, roughly in line with expectations.

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The government last week revised second - quarter gross domestic product to show GDP expanding at a 3.7 percent annual pace instead of the 2.3 percent rate it had initially estimated.

Although Hershey reports annual sales exceeding $ 7.4 billion, its growth pace slowed in 2013 and 2014, followed by a 0.5 percent sales decline in 2015 and a rise of just 0.7 percent in 2016.

Consumer sales of autos were on pace to rise 4.2 percent this month, according to TrueCar, compared to July of 2014, thanks to increased demand, summer sales events and the growing popularity of premium brands.

U.S. auto sales are on pace for the best showing since 2007 and a third straight year of at least 10 percent gains, only the fourth such streak since the Great Depression, as more - confident buyers return to showrooms.

According to gold - demand trends in first quarter 2017, published by the World Gold Council, the mandate for the precious metal dropped at an annual pace of 18 percent to 1,034.5 tons in the first quarter of 2017, from 1,260 tons a year earlier.

To answer that, first, consider that even at its frantic pace of growth, ecommerce still represents less than 10 percent of all retail.

Base money and the central bank's holdings of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) each have swollen to almost ￥ 400 trillion ($ 3.9 trillion), which is now 80 percent of the country's GDP, and they continue to expand at a pace of ￥ 80 trillion ($ 780 billion) annually.

The euro area's year - on - year pace of GDP growth was 2.5 percent in the first quarter, marking the first slowdown in eight quarters.

GDP (gross domestic product) rose at an annual pace of 3 percent in second quarter 2017, following a 1.2 - percent rise in the first quarter.

In February, the most recent month of available data, consumer prices advanced at their fastest pace in five years, hitting 2.7 percent year - over-year.

That's significantly better than the first six years of the recovery, because consumer spending, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of the economy, is advancing at about a 3.5 percent annual pace.

Existing home sales rose 1.5 percent, the briskest pace this year for an annual rate of 5.26 million.

Separate data from the Department of Transportation helps explain why: The number of miles Americans drove in August rose at the slowest pace this year, up 2.3 percent from a year ago.

While the number of previously owned homes for sale rose 1.8 percent in May to 2.3 million, at the current sales pace, it would take 5.1 months to sell those houses.

To fund the other (100 minus X) percent of your initial retirement spending, you will need a nest egg of $ Y based on the assumption that this income also needs to keep pace with inflation even though you won't need anywhere near that much over time.»

Rent growth is pacing almost a full percentage point behind the overall rate of inflation, which stands at 2.4 percent as of the latest data release, and is even further behing the growth in average hourly earnings which have increased by 2.7 percent over the past twelve months.

The company is on pace to have its best year ever in 2016, and it has already reached a 100 percent increase for Ganeden's 2016 first - half sales numbers compared to the first half of 2015.

The introduction of high - quality, limited - time products such as street tacos and walking tacos has put Taco John's on pace to improve sales 7.5 percent to 8 percent in 2015.