Sentences with phrase «slow first quarter»

The volume of life company loan originations to commercial and multifamily properties stayed about level from the first half of 2012 to 2013 — that includes a very slow first quarter and a very busy second quarter.

Housing news continued to improve as pending home sales surged following a slow first quarter.

Strong job gains and an unemployment rate well off its peak, accumulating momentum in recent housing starts and sales, as well as a rebound in retail sales after a slow first quarter combine to point to consumers gaining confidence in the economic recovery.

The tour company, which operates Transat, missed expectations in its seasonally slow first quarter as its net loss attributable to shareholders was $ 6.6 million, compared with $ 32.1 million in the prior year.

The combination of resilient consumer confidence, moderately low interest rates and improved affordability across most of the country led to greater than expected activity during the typically slower first quarter, the company says.

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Same - restaurant sales at KFC rose 2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, the slowest growth rate in four quarters.

Same - restaurant sales at KFC rose 2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, missing analysts» target with the slowest growth rate in four quarters.

It was a record for the second quarter of the year, as the summer months are usually slow for Netflix, and the company even bucked normal seasonality trends by posting sequential growth over the first quarter.

But as overall deal flow slowed in 2016, investments for food delivery also dried up, and the sector raised just $ 159.6 million in the first quarter.

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.

A successful winter holiday season can provide momentum for a solid first quarter, in addition to offering some breathing room should the weather once again create another slow sales cycle.

While we saw an increase in pay each month in the first quarter of the year, small business workers experienced a slow and steady decrease in pay each month since April.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

«The first quarter's slowdown was led by consumers, whose incomes are under pressure from slowing employment and wage growth as well as rising inflation.

The 0.3 % growth in the first quarter marks the slowest growth since the beginning of 2016, the ONS said.

Despite rapidly accelerating revenue, the rate that Twitter added monthly active users slowed — less than 4 %, to 241 million, in its first quarter as a public company, and as low as 1.4 % in a recent quarter — worrying investors that Twitter might not be the mainstream product that its soaring valuation promised.

Philip Morris International shares plummeted 16 percent in the company's worst day since it spun off from Altria in 2008, after PMI posted mixed first - quarter results and said growth of iQOS, its heat - not - burn tobacco product, slowed in Japan.

It's become wildly popular in the country, though this quarter, device sales were slower than the company's expectations, Chief Financial Officer Martin King said Thursday on a call with analysts following the release of first - quarter earnings results.

The net effect is likely to be slower growth in tax revenues in the first quarter of 2018, and a possible fall in revenues as the year progresses.

This renewed crisis in the Eurozone comes at a time when the European economies appear to be slowing down after a strong first quarter, and despite this, policy interest rate increases by the ECB are expected in the coming months.

The central bank, which kept its rate at 1.25 per cent Wednesday, said slower first - quarter growth of about 1.3 per cent was largely a result of housing markets» responses to stricter mortgage rules and sluggish exports.

The U.S. tech giant notified suppliers that it had decided to cut the first - quarter production target to around 20 million units, in light of slower - than - expected sales in the year - end holiday shopping season in key markets such as Europe, the U.S. and China.

BRAD HALVERSON, CFO, CATERPILLAR: The first quarter got off to a slow start for project spend.

That was slower than 0.6 per cent in second quarter and 0.5 per cent over the first three months of 2017.

Growth in the first quarter was just a 0.8 % annual rate, the slowest in two years.

Meanwhile, first quarter growth in China decelerated to 7 %, the slowest pace in six years.

Last week's news that economic growth slowed in the first quarter supports the tame - inflation narrative.

«You're definitely seeing the impact of the currency headwinds in the first quarter results, and also the European economies have slowed relative to last year,» said Will Hamlyn, investment analyst at Manulife Asset Management.

Nestle SA posted slower - than - expected first quarter sales but held to its full year forecast for underlying revenue growth.

The economy grew at a 2.3 percent annualized pace in the first quarter, slowing from the October - December period's 2.9 percent rate.

Data showed that the U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter as consumer spending grew at its weakest pace in nearly five years.

The bank's chief currency strategist Richard Grace made the forecast changes to reflect a slightly quicker - than - expected slowing in the global economy over the first quarter.

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced last Thursday, April 26, 2018, that it would maintain its monetary policy and bond - buying program, as growth in the eurozone slowed in the first quarter.

Stocks post weekly losses in lackluster session as strong results fail to excite bulls First - quarter GDP tops forecasts but slows from previous quarterU.S.

However, as the figure also shows, forecasts for the first quarter of 2018 are for much slower consumption growth.

Other data last week showed that while U.S. economic growth slowed to an annualized rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter, wages and salaries shot up 0.9 percent during the same period.

The U.K. economy expanded by only 0.1 % in the first quarter causing year - over-year growth to slow to 1.2 %, its weakest level in 5 years.

The outcome varied by region, too, with most places recording slower growth in power use in the first quarter.

Oxford expects China's GDP to grow 6.5 percent this year, indicating significant slowing from the first quarter.

In the US, slower - than - expected first - quarter growth and stalled consumer spending may prompt Fed policymakers to delay raising rates.

That meant a net 69,000 fewer jobs were added in the first quarter of 2015, making the first - quarter average jobs growth per month only 197,000 — much slower than the 324,000 in the previous quarter.

Eurostat figures also showed that economic expansion across the eurozone slowed in the first quarter of the year.

That is substantially slower than the 3.5 % growth recorded in the first quarter, and well below the 2.9 % the government had expected.

But once the update reached all of Snapchat's users in the first quarter, user additions and sales slowed even further amid a public revolt over the new design.

Euro - area economic growth slowed in the first quarter, posing a challenge for the European Central Bank as it contemplates paring back monetary stimulus measures.

Spending on goods was slow in the first quarter of the year, despite rising consumer confidence since President Trump's election.

Analysts at Oppenheimer tempered their expectations for United Therapeutics Corp's (NASDAQ: UTHR) first - quarter citing the Maryland - based biotech's historic propensity to log seasonally slow sales during the start of the year.

It was already evident in the first and second quarters of this year that growth in China and other emerging markets was slowing.

Oppenheimer expects United Therapeutics to «report a seasonally slow» first quarter when it reports earnings on Wednesday before market open.

It said that economic growth was a little slow in the first quarter.