That was in sharp contrast with an increase in use of 12.7 percent
recorded a year earlier, the National Energy Administration said last week.
After climbing sharply in late 2003, industrial production and merchandise exports have levelled out in early 2004, although both measures remain well up on levels
recorded a year earlier.
The Nook division also reported a loss of $ 11m, though this at least was less than the $ 29m loss
it recorded a year earlier.
Not exact matches
Then
early last
year, Bitcoin finally broke its old
record.
Earlier this
year, the household debt - to - income ratio hit another
record of 167.8 per cent.
The Italian food emporium Eataly
recorded a net loss in 2016, but that hasn't stopped the company from planning an initial public offering on the Milan stock exchange as
early as next
year.
That was down from $ 123.3 million or 50 cents per share a
year earlier when the Montreal - based company
recorded a number of favourable non-operating items.
A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally
early in the
year, boosting long futures positions to a
record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.
By the end of its deployment, its air wing had dropped over 1,118 bombs on ISIS target, passing a previous
record set by USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing
earlier that
year.
Hogan said he did not know the encounter was being
recorded when it took place five
years earlier in Bubba's home.
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney ruffled feathers
earlier this
year when he blamed the country's «abysmal productivity
record» on a lack of investment on the part of risk — averse CEOs, maintaining that while government has done its part, «business, thus far, has disappointed.»
The bank has a strong track
record on semiconductor deals, advising NXP on the sale of its standard - products business to a group of Chinese investors for $ 2.75 billion
earlier this
year.
Paid subscriptions jumped 30 million in the quarter and increased by 100 million from a
year earlier, he added, citing
record sales in the categories of apps, music, extended warranties, Apple Pay and iCloud.
When hackers stole 40 million consumer payment card
records from Target four
years ago, the retailing giant had just purchased one of the
earliest forms of cyber insurance.
So they listened as a dozen lawyers debated whether
records of conversations the two men had had with another group of lawyers
years earlier could be used against them at their looming fraud trial.
And at the University of Southern California's Marshall School, the average scholarship award for an MBA is now a
record $ 35,490 a
year, up from $ 33,650 a
year earlier.
The current
record holder for being the fastest to gross $ 1 billion is Comcast Corp - owned Universal Pictures» Jurassic World, which took 13 days after its release
earlier this
year, Rentrak said.
The Fox News debate held
early last month brought in a
record 24 million viewers, 7.9 million of which were between 25 and 54
years old, making this the most - watched GOP primary debate ever.
And crowdfunding has not raised anything remotely close to the
record $ 1.2 billion VC funding round that ride hailing app Uber raised
earlier this
year.
Many major retailers, including Kohl's (kss) and J.C. Penney (jcp), have set the deadline
earlier this
year for placing an order and being sure it gets delivered by Christmas, in a move aimed in part at handling the
record volume of packages retailers and shippers expect to handle.
Output in Ivory Coast surged to a
record 2 million tonnes in the 2016 - 17 season, from 1.2 million 10
years earlier.
At any point
earlier in the
year, however, the two company
records will look very different.
Earlier this
year, Reuters reported that the NSA collected more than 151 million
records of Americans» phone calls in 2016, even after Congress purportedly limited the scope of the government's data collection powers.
However on an adjusted basis, the bank said it earned a
record $ 1.41 billion or $ 3.18 per diluted share for the quarter, up from $ 1.15 billion or $ 2.89 per share a
year earlier.
In the last quarter, Cineplex's concession revenue per patron grew 9.4 per cent to a
record $ 6.29 compared with $ 5.75 a
year earlier.
She wasn't racing the field but the clock, spending most of the race more than a second - and - a-half under her own world
record pace, set
earlier this
year.
For fiscal 2017 as a whole, each of the five biggest Canadian lenders reported
record annual profits for a collective total of $ 40.3 billion in net income, up nearly 13 per cent from a
year earlier.
During Virgin's
early years, one difficult decision we had to make involved Virgin
Records, which at one point was in desperate need of cash to sign bigger artists.
Fibernetics has hit sales
records each month since the corporate relaunch, and customer complaints are at an all - time low, he said in an interview
earlier this
year.
Morrison said the month ended about three - per - cent below the 10 -
year average for sales in August, signalling a return to historically normal activity after
record - breaking sales
earlier this
year.
And,
earlier this
year we moved nearly a billion dollars in electronic rent payments in a single day, beating the previous
record from May 2014 by 24 percent.
Canadian Natural production averaged a
record 1.02 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, a 19 per cent increase from the
year -
earlier period, as it ramped up the latest expansion of its Horizon oilsands mining and upgrading project.
For example, Houston home prices didn't really crater until late 1987, even though the job market plummeted a
year earlier and oil prices
recorded their biggest
year - over-
year decline in 1986's first half.
Virgin America
recorded net income of $ 10.1 million in 2013, a vast improvement from the loss of $ 145.4 million reported a
year earlier.
During the boom
years of the
early and mid-2000s, Roger and Lynda Cruz appear to have used the house as an ATM, taking advantage of its rapidly increasing property value to refinance often and take cash out, real estate
records suggest.
And although the company announced a
record stock buyback program
earlier this
year, Icahn would like to see it increased even more.
Billionaire Jack Ma - led Alibaba Group said also that its net income for the second quarter was 7.07 billion yuan, or $ 1.06 billion, down 69 % from a
year earlier when it had
recorded a one - time gain from a revaluation of the company's health and pharmacy business.
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While Barbara Stymiest will provide a detailed review of our first quarter results that were released
earlier this morning, I am pleased to report
record earnings for the quarter with net income of almost 1.5 billion dollars, up 28 per cent from a
year ago.
President Trump's campaign promises for tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and deregulation sent consumer confidence soaring
earlier this
year, pushing stocks to
record highs amid hopes for a range of economic stimulus.
And construction costs — including materials and labor — rose nearly 4.5 percent in New York City in March from a
year earlier, according to figures from national construction news magazine Engineering News -
Record.
A local teenager who broke a Guinness World
record when he started his charity Kids4Community
earlier this
year, is now putting together hygiene kits for Hurricane Harvey victims.
Apple at that time had had yet another good quarter: sales of the new iPhone 4 were going well (a
record, with phone sales up 94 %
year - on -
year to 14.1 m, and iPad sales too had begun gaining momentum — up from zero when the iPad went on sale in April 2010, just six months
earlier, to 4.2 m for the three months to September.
The EU competition regulator revived a long - dormant antitrust probe of the search giant once she took office, and
earlier this
year, she slapped Google with a
record - breaking $ 2.7 billion fine for prioritizing its shopping search service over rivals» offerings.
The CAAM said sales of both passenger and commercial vehicles totaled a
record 21.98 million units, up 14 % from a
year earlier, the fastest pace since 2010.
This is already evident in the recent sharp declines in the forward indicators of housing activity after the strength
recorded earlier in the
year.
In September 2015 sales were just 0.3 % or 130 transactions below the
record set six
years earlier, according to new figures from The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).
-LRB-...) The European Union's statistics agency Wednesday said consumer prices in that month were 1.4 % higher than a
year earlier, an increase from the 1.1 % rate of inflation
recorded in February.
While Facebook remains more than 10 % below a
record set
earlier this
year, it has sharply rebounded from recent weakness, when a scandal over how it handled its user data pushed it into bear - market territory, or a decline of at least 20 % from a peak.