Sentences with phrase «second year of declines»

The record year for renewables, coupled with a second year of declines for coal, saw global CO2 emissions remain flat for the third year in a row, the BP figures show, increasing by just 0.1 %.

The results mark a second year of declining figures for Ashurst, which posted single - digit drops in revenue and PEP for 2014 - 15.

Not exact matches

Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves estimated that the top 8 cable companies lost 463,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2015 compared to a decline of 141,000 for the second quarter last year.

Investment bank Jefferies called current prices unsustainable and said production declines across most of the important non-OPEC producers is likely to set the stage for an oil price recovery in the second half of this year.

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 associates.

We already had some signs in the middle of 2016 that it was going to be a rough year for Apple: In the second and third quarters of the year, shipments of Apple's Macs were declining way faster than industry average, as people waited impatiently for the company to release a new MacBook Pro.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

A leading web analytics company says in a new report that traffic from Facebook to some of the top news publishers declined at double - digit rates in the second quarter of this year.

Some of these companies won't surprise you: There are several energy firms on the list of the Fortune 500's biggest losers, reflecting the enormous decline in oil prices that occurred in the second half of last year.

Still, the strong growth for Adidas in the second quarter, which builds on a 21.8 % increase a year ago after two years of declines, implies the turnaround story has got some traction.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

The company, which reports its second quarter results Wednesday, has faced years of declining sales, as well as tough competition from discounters and online stores.

PC shipments in EMEA totaled 17.8 million units in the second quarter of 2016, a decline of 4.3 percent year over year.

Nevertheless, I am not unduly worried because the magnitude of these declines has been modest, and because the New York Fed's three - year - ahead inflation measure has been gradually increasing since January and has reversed much of the decline observed in the second half of 2015.

NXP has struggled under the weight of weakened semiconductor demand since about the midpoint of 2015, with the company reporting a comparable sales decline (i.e., not including revenue from its merger with Freescale Semiconductor) of minus 8 % from the prior - year period in the second quarter.

Other income for the Direct Banking segment decreased $ 21 million from last year's second quarter as a result of lower late fees, lower transition services revenue related to the Student Loan Corporation and a decline in protection products revenue.

Digital subscriptions were up more than 25 percent year over year, helping to offset the first quarterly decline in digital advertising since the second quarter of 2016.

The index registered its second consecutive monthly decline after climbing to a 13 - year high of 60.8 in August on the back of a decline in supplier deliveries and new export orders.

For instance, Stratasys» year - over-year 3D printer revenue declined 11 %, 6 %, and 6 % in the first, second, and third quarters of 2017, respectively, and it suffered double - digit drops in several quarters in the preceding two years.

Looking ahead, further impacts from the exchange rate appreciation are likely to be limited: in fact, the prices of tradables (excluding food and petrol) were flat in the December quarter and their decline in year - ended terms moderated in the second half of 2004.

S&P earnings declined in the fourth quarter of 2014 and in this year's first quarter, and are expected to do so again in the second quarter, according to FactSet.

Over the following 4 weeks, the S&P 500 declined 13.95 % to 957.28 — its second largest short - term percentage decline of the past 18 1/2 years.

The company had $ 714 million in corporate level debt outstanding at quarter - end, a decline of $ 136 million from year - end 2011, including $ 608 million in non-recourse securitized notes payable and $ 103 million drawn on its $ 300 million warehouse credit facility, which was repaid subsequent to the end of the second quarter with proceeds from the company's securitization of $ 250 million of vacation ownership notes receivable.

The decline in the energy sector seen in the second half of 2014 and into 2015 has caused Fluor's stock price to drop 26 % over the past year.

Profits after interest have tended to decline over the past couple of years, reflecting the impact of the 1994 interest rate increases and a tendency for corporate leverage to increase, but they remain at high levels compared with historical averages; they can be expected to receive a further modest boost as interest - rate reductions in the second half of last year begin to feed through into profit results.

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).

This much is clear: the sharp decline in the S&P 500 yesterday (April 2) confirms that the downside bias in the first three months of the year has spilled over into the second quarter.

Despite the pronounced fall in approvals in the first half of the year, the level of activity is not expected to decline in the second half of 2003 given the large amount of work still in the construction pipeline.

I still expect production to decline in the second half of this year in the US, by the way.

Over the last forty year, (since second - wave feminism) the church in North America has been on a steady DECLINE — in numbers, soundness of doctrine and discernment.

This means another year of pain for shareholders and Watkins has warned profits would be lower in calendar 2014 than last year, confirming the company is heading for its second consecutive year of earnings decline.

A stronger second half performance has helped global alcoholic drinks giant Diageo to increase reported operating profit by 6.5 % to # 2.574 b, aied by exchange rate movement, for the year ended June 30th 2010 as gains in developing international markets offset declines in the mature markets of North America and Europe.

«According to IWSR, the U.S. beer market declined 0.5 percent in 2017, [and] total U.S. beverage alcohol con - sumption declined for the second consecutive year by 0.2 percent,» says Jessica Robinson, vice president of portfolio brands with White Plains, N.Y. - based HEINEKEN USA.

Sales of the UK's top 100 restaurant groups declined by 64 percent over the past year, according to a report from UHY Hacker Young, but execs from around the world will tackle those failures during the second annual Restaurant Franchising and Innovation Summit, 16 - 18 July in London.

Monday night's game, given the limpness of both sides in comparison to their 1999 versions, and given the slow, sad decline of the FA Cup, is not going to pulse with the same nervous energy from second to second as this game, and nor is it going to echo with the same import through the months and years to come.

For the last three years, Arsenal were climbing the table (from fourth to second) but again declining in terms of overall points collected (from 79 to 71).

The current system called for teams to forfeit a first - round draft pick when signing a free agent that declined a qualifying offer — a one - year tender at the average of the top 125 salaries in baseball — with the old team receiving a sandwich pick in between the first and second rounds.

And we're arguably doing this without one of our best hitters, our second best SP from last year, and Dustin Pedroia, who while in decline, may still be a boost to the offense as he is.

The upshot: after an initial decline in revenue in the first year of implementation, food service revenues fully rebounded in the second year.

Orland Park residents recycled fewer tons of materials in 2012 than the previous year, making it the second consecutive year the village has seen a decline, a representative from Waste Management said.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Apart from the remarkably higher incidence of diarrhea in weaned children the clear decline in the rates of diarrhea in breast fed children in the second year of life was also surprising since the older children were breast fed irregularly and their main diet was as for adults.

Trade union membership levels have been in decline over the last 30 years and are now at their lowest levels since the outbreak of the Second World War.

At the same time, the state's level of debt outstanding has declined for the second year in a row.

The state Teachers Retirement System expects to lower pension costs by 13.96 percent for school districts, the second straight year of declines, as a result of favorable investment returns.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Harold Macmillan declined a peerage on leaving office, but over 20 years after retiring accepted a second offer of the customary, hereditary earldom for retiring Prime Ministers, as Earl of Stockton; this was the last earldom to be offered outside the Royal Family.

Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), or the amount of air a person can forcibly exhale in one second, declined 3.6 milliliters (ml) / year faster in women who cleaned at home and 3.9 ml / year faster in women who worked as cleaners.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

It is the second year running that they have improved, following four years of decline.