Sentences with phrase «slowed in the first quarter»

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

Economic growth in the U.S. continued to slow in the first quarter...

Reesing: «Throughout most of that season, we were pretty slow in the first quarter.

Although sales slowed in the first quarter of this year, they are «starting to pick up steam» again, he said.

Though national office fundamental growth crawled even slower in the first quarter than in previous months, it's clear the...

The U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter and job gains — while growing — lost some momentum.

Yun said that growth in the Gross Domestic Product slowed in the first quarter, and possibly contracted.

Though national office fundamental growth crawled even slower in the first quarter than in previous months, it's clear the industry's reset button has been hit hard, experts say, and the next three years should beat records for quick rent growth and absorption.

Apartment completions slowed in the first quarter to 25,745 units, partly because of the severe winter weather in many parts of the country.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The US economy has continued to recover from the recession in 2001, though the pace of growth slowed a little in the first half of the year, with GDP increasing by 2.3 per cent over the year to the June quarter (Graph 2, Table 1).

The report saw investors slash expectations for a rate hike from the Bank of England at its upcoming meeting next week after overall economic growth slowed to near stagnation in the first quarter.

The Philippine economy grew by 5.7 per cent in the first quarter, much slower than market expectations, as it continued to feel the lingering...

Some of those macro forces include a deceleration in places like the U.K., where the economy grew at the slowest pace in more than five years in the first quarter of 2018, according to a report from the Office for National Statistics on Friday.

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