Sentences with phrase «remain flat year»

Portland's rents increased on par with inflation during the late 1990s, but last year rents gained less than 2 % and are expected to remain flat this year, according to Marcus & Millichap, which tallied the area's average rate at a little more than $ 18 per sq. ft.. In the Puget Sound, after rising from roughly $ 16 to nearly $ 20 per sq. ft. between 1997 and 2000, average rents have steadied or even decreased a bit, according to First Western Properties.

It said operating income however would remain flat year - on - year due to research and development expenses, as well as marketing costs for the PS4.

According to research firm IDC, tablet sales in India, one of the largest growth markets for the smart device, are expected to remain flat this year on account of mandatory BIS compliance and increasing demand for «phablets».

While state agencies have been receiving a 13 percent increase in spending, Mr. Perales said their budget will remain flat this year in order to create a savings of $ 1.3 billion.

Meanwhile, the number of gifts consumers will purchase for others remains flat year over year, at 14.

Despite a rosier economic prognosis than its Atlantic neighbours, Halifax home prices remained flat year - over-year in the second quarter at $ 298,753.

Meanwhile, the percentage of card offers advertising a 0 percent balance transfer APR remained flat this year.

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However, footwear sales in North America remained weak, while apparel sales growth in the region was flat year - over-year.

Paychecks are flat over last month, with year - to - date growth remaining at 0.6 percent.

Overall, food service industry traffic has been flat the first half of 2016, according to data from industry research firm NPD Group, and is expected to remain weak for the rest of the year.

At Stanford's Graduate School of Business, entrepreneurial summer interest has remained fairly flat over the past five years.

Assuming they and insurance companies buy as much as JP Morgan and others estimate, long - term yields may not rise at all this year and yield curves will remain flat.

Throughout the rest of the world, deal - making was relatively flat — as it has remained over the past four consecutive years.

In Montreal, year - over-year prices increased between 3.6 per cent for detached homes and 3.3 per cent for semi-detached, while prices for standard condominiums remained relatively flat.

Amazon was the third biggest tablet vendor with its fourth quarter shipments remaining relatively flat year - over-year at 5.2 million.

For one, HP said its sales in its unit for laptops and desktop computers remained flat relative to the previous year at $ 7.5 billion.

As shown in the chart above, the percentage of seats filled — or the load factor — for domestic flights has remained fairly flat at 85 percent in recent years, Bespoke said.

The investors are frustrated that shares in Jazz, a $ 9 billion pharmaceutical company known for its narcolepsy drug Xyrem, have remained essentially flat over the past year.

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

For years shareholders have garnered big returns while workers» incomes have remained flat.

Growth of delivery at dinner has remained flat over the last five years and has grown at breakfast and lunch.

The $ 330 - billion spending plan says while several economic indicators such as employment numbers and tax revenues are up, and this year's deficit will likely be lower than expected — there are risks ahead: oil prices are expected to remain low; Canadian exports may remain flat; and «possible U.S. policy actions affecting trade could restrain exports to the U.S. even further,» the budget says.

Given the maturity of this medium, spending on email remained flat for years, though its efficiency did draw some B2B dollars during the economic recession, according to a new eMarketer report, «B2B Email Marketing: Benchmarks and Best Practices for 2014.»

Retail sales are still up 3.2 % YoY but if they remain flat (seasonally adjusted) through December, like they have since January, the YoY growth rate will collapse to +0.8 % at year end.

For the year, PCE rose 1.6 percent from 1.7 percent, while core prices remained flat at 1.4 percent.

Export prices in SDR terms have risen sharply over the past two years, buoyed by the steep rise in global commodity prices, while import prices have remained broadly flat, reflecting competitive pressures in global manufacturing.

While category - wide beer volume sales remain flat across IRI's measured multi-outlet and convenience channels (MULC — which comprise grocery, drug, club, dollar, mass - merchandiser, Walmart and military stores), up just 0.7 percent through May 15, growth in the craft beer category, which was growing double - digits at this time last year, has slowed considerably.

Between 2000 and 2006, average wages remained flat despite an increase of worker productivity of 15 %, while corporate profits increased 13 % per year.

24 per cent of respondents expect their travel expenditures to remain flat in 2018, down from 32 per cent the year before

The fixed - income duration remained flat at just over two years, meaning that this portion of the portfolio should have little sensitivity to interest - rate movement.

Graham, 57, and his two boards of directors pointed out that most of his 2008 compensation came not from increases in his salaries, which have remained flat in recent years, but from accelerated contributions to his retirement.

Mean clergy income has remained relatively flat over the past 20 years, while others with graduate degrees, especially those in medicine and law, have seen their salaries rise.

Global sales figures remain stubbornly flat across the drinks sector with premium spirits brands suffering the most — a trend reflected in Diageo's year - end results causing the giant to revise its forecasts for the current financial year.

Russian dairy imports will remain flat next year despite total milk production falling, US Department of Agriculture analysts predict.

You'll be watching on TV, and that experience has remained largely unchanged for almost 80 years — 11 guys in one set of jerseys squaring off against 11 other guys in another set of jerseys on top of a flat green expanse.

Named «Emily Park «in honor of the wife of a park commissioner, the area remained basically untouched for about 50 years as apartment buildings and two - flats went up around it.

The greatest surprise isn't Osborne's dream of succeeding Cameron in Downing Street is fading but the Prime Minister's chief lieutenant remains in the leadership race, stumbling without so far falling completely flat on his face when he remains a potential rival to Boris Johnson or Theresa May or, coming up on the outside, Michael Gove when Dave departs in the months or years after the momentous, epoch - defining decision the country takes on 23 June.

For tax year 2017 and beyond, the percentage option will remain at 2.5 %, but the flat fee will be adjusted for inflation.

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.

Overall, however, the state expects to collect more Medicaid money from Washington in the next fiscal year than in the current one, even as enrollment remains virtually flat.

Over the last 12 years, chief executive salaries in Britain's top companies have quadrupled while share prices have remained flat.

He confronted «fears about the immediate future» amid the ongoing eurozone crisis and Britain's stagnant economy, which is expected to remain broadly flat until at least the beginning of next year.

In his budget proposal, Cuomo said state aid to municipalities and cities, which hasn't increased since 2008, would remain flat at $ 715 million for the upcoming fiscal year, and instead offers competition funds.

In a statement released this afternoon from NYCOM, Executive Director Peter Baynes warns against equating more aid — which has remained flat over the last several budget years — with a «bailout.»

The budget division is expecting overall revenue in the current year to remain more or less flat, but is project revenue to increase by 5.6 percent in 2017 - 18.

They also said the governor is proposing a $ 1 billion increase in aid to public schools and assumes the level of health care funding from the federal government will remain flat for the next fiscal year.

All state agencies are within their current budgets, which has remained flat for the past three years.

The contribution rates paid by local governments for the state retirement system will remain largely flat in the 2017 - 18 fiscal year, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on Thursday announced.

The flat plates of rock that Osmanagich and a number of his experts — including an Egyptian geologist — claim were handmade at least 12,000 years ago are actually the natural remains of a 7 - million - year - old lake bed, the dissenting geologists say.

Congress is on track to increase federal spending for research and development programs by at least $ 3.1 billion in fiscal 2017 over the previous year, a noteworthy boost at a time when overall federal discretionary spending is slated to remain flat, according to AAAS» latest analysis of federal spending programs.