Sentences with phrase «slowed during the first quarter»

Consumer spending slowed during the first quarter, to just 0.1 per cent growth, leading some observers to believe they were focused on consolidating debt after borrowing heavily during the recession.

Despite economic growth of 3.0 percent annualized for the fourth quarter of 2011, incoming data suggest that economic growth slowed during the first quarter of 2012.

Even though the economy slowed during the first quarter, the outlook for the rest of the year remains generally sanguine.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Despite this slow down, both Chromebooks and Windows devices saw unit growth during the first quarter while Apple continued to see both Macbook and iPad volumes decline YoY.

«Projects in Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina all slowed significantly during the first quarter, while those in Venezuela are under threat for the rest of the year due to the difficult economic conditions within the country caused by the fall in oil prices» commented Philip Maddocks, Market Analyst, Futuresource Consulting.

Sony Ericsson on Tuesday reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2011, during which profit fell sharply on slowed device shipments.

The busiest months for mortgages from Calgary seem to occur during our first quarter (represented by the brown bars) with 30.77 % while our slowest is the fourth quarter (represented by the red bars) with 18.46 %.

During today's earnings call covering the first quarter of 2018, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked whether investors should be concerned about slowing upgrade rates due to Apple's battery replacement program and the fact that consumers may opt to replace their batteries instead of purchasing a new iPhone.In response, Cook said that he couldn't answer because it wasn't something that Apple took into account.

However, it's worth noting that component orders during the first and second quarter are typically low because these quarters are regarded as slow seasons for Apple's iPhones.

While a decline in part orders during the first half of the year is a common trend as it is usually a slow sales season and companies tend to launch newer products during the second half of the year to target the holiday quarter, the report states that the decline in iPhone X part orders is more than usual.

On the economic front, data generally came in below expectations, with growth slowing a bit during the first quarter.

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.

Sales of Manhattan apartments during the first quarter of the year hit their slowest pace since the nadir of the Great Recession, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal.