Sentences with phrase «seasonal decline in»

Despite a seasonal decline in the number of homes for sale, inventory numbers this winter are about 20 % better than they were last year.

«Appraised values have dipped along with the seasonal decline in sales around the winter months.

«With the seasonal decline in inventory beginning to occur in most markets, prospective buyers will likely continue to see competitive conditions through the winter.»

«Inventory has been extremely tight all year and is unlikely to improve now that the seasonal decline in listings is about to kick in,» adds Yun.

For some reason UAH shows a seasonal rise in the anomaly in February, and seasonal decline in the anomaly for May and June.

The batteries have pretty much drained and are unable to recharge due to the seasonal decline in sunlight on Mars.

Not exact matches

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associateIn September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associatein a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

National factory activity was expected to decline in April, slowing amid seasonal factors and underpinned growth in the manufacturing sector.

If you strip out «inconsistent seasonal adjustments,» the decline in February retail sales was 0.48 % (John Williams, Shadowstats.com).

Some of this decline in ad revenue can be attributed to seasonal factors, as not a lot of shopping takes place during the first half of the year.

Given the stock market's seasonal tendency to decline in the quarter, investors expected the period to be challenging.

Galaxy said such declines were part of «seasonal trends» in lithium prices, and noted that small retractions in prices were also witnessed in early 2017 only to be followed by strong price rises later in the year.

Crude oil's seasonal decline is highlighted in yellow in the following chart.

While there is a seasonal pattern in auction clearances, such that they tend to decline over the second half of the year, the fall in clearance rates in November and December 2003 was noticeably greater than in the previous two years (Graph 31).

«Refiners will maintain their high rates of utilization while demand declines toward its seasonal low in January and February.»

WASHINGTON (AP)-- U.S. manufacturing output declined in August for the first time in seven months, reflecting a sharp fall in production at auto plants that was due mainly to seasonal adjustment problems.

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But «while the Arctic maximum is not as important as the seasonal minimum, the long - term decline is a clear indicator of climate change,» Walt Meier, a sea ice researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement.

Amantadine and rimantadine are primarily used to treat seasonal flu in the United States and Japan, for instance, in nursing homes, says Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — but their use is bound to decline now, he adds.

The heavy snow even paradoxically fits with what is expected in a warming world, despite declines in seasonal snowfall.

Locally, declining sea ice is affecting the feeding and migration patterns of polar bears, whales, walrus and seals, and the people who live in the Arctic and rely on seasonal ice for their livelihoods.

Tablet Displays Dim Slightly in Q2 Shipments for tablet displays declined by 20 percent sequentially in the first quarter due to seasonal trends, with tablet device makers trying to flush out a significant amount of inventory that had built up in the fourth quarter of 2011 in light of slower consumer demand.

Shipments for tablet displays declined by 20 percent sequentially in the first quarter due to seasonal trends, with tablet device makers trying to flush out a significant amount of inventory that had built up in the fourth quarter of 2011 in light of slower consumer demand.

A decline in North American fixed income markets and seasonal cash outflows cause net assets of the CPP Fund to dip below $ 300 billion.

One or two cayes in the region are reported as once being popular seasonal nesting sites for swallows, though this appears to have declined in recent years.

Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.

My views on the cuttlefish numbers are based on my own observations - as a long time diver and observer of the cuttlefish I have seen a drastic decline in numbers over recent years, and I have also noticed a marked increase in seasonal water temperatures.

The measurements showed a seasonal increase in radiocarbon abundance in the summers and declines in the winters, particularly in the first year of sampling (2010).

• Solar generating capacity continues to be rolled out, as costs decline expanding to supply the seasonal maximum of daily average, with pumped hydro to provide daily balancing until superior technologies come on - line, and open - cycle gas turbines shifting to a purely back - up function, with consequent substantial reductions in overall fossil CO2 emissions.

There has been a decline in the average total seasonal rain during the period 1980 - 2011, according to a new study.

Populations in those regions might increase as a consequence, even though populations to the south (in «Divergent» and «Seasonal Ice» regions, purple and green on the map) would decline or be extirpated (Amstrup 2011; Amstrup et al. 2008, 2010; Obbard et al. 2010).

Daily and seasonal temps lag, we might see some more decline in the next couple of years.

But in the long run, coal consumption will continue declining — with current policies and the structural transformation of the economy from being a heavy industry - led, export - driven model to one sustained by services and domestic consumption — despite the annual and seasonal fluctuations.

Arctic sea ice in the Bering Sea and to the north of Greenland actually declined during February, a time when sea ice usually expands toward its seasonal maximum in early to mid-March.

Arctic sea ice extent in September, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been declining at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade.

IDC puts this as a seasonal decline post the festival season combined with demonetization impact for the low consumer sales in November and December.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, says sales activity was choppy throughout the country in November and housing inventory began its seasonal decline.

It's important to keep in mind that these declines could be attributed, at least in part, to seasonal changes.

Inventory of listings priced between $ 850k and $ 1.5 M have seen only a slight decline through seasonal averages during the same period, while listing inventory numbers in the luxury segments of the market at $ 3M and above have remained essentially constant.

Part of the decline is seasonal; prices tend to fall in the cold months and rise in spring, when shoppers leave hibernation.