Sentences with phrase «than a year ago»

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

The sales numbers are staggering — signed contracts in April were 28 percent higher than a year ago, the strongest since 2005, according to RMLS, a real estate data firm.

Factors are not only putting out more money but are willing to take greater risks than a year ago.

Of a $ 5 - million loan consolidation to refinance his firm, Matrix Asset Management, he told me more than a year ago, «Once we get the transaction out of the way, then all of our debt falls away.»

Less than a year ago, King — the executive that doubled sales of the company's TaylorMade - Adidas Golf business in the span of a decade — was appointed president of the company's North America business.

The news and publishing industries are on no firmer ground than a year ago as the quest for a sustainable business model continues.

Among other changes at the firm, Jon Rubinstein, who joined the company less than a year ago, will step down from his co-CEO position.

That is still better than a year ago, when sales fell 6.5 percent at its American full - line stores.

Quantopian's founder and chief executive John Fawcett said its membership has surged to 60,000 from 35,000 less than a year ago, while QuantConnect's founder and CEO Jared Broad saw a jump in its membership to 17,000 from 6,000 a year earlier.

The jobs market, even after the rebound in June, is still creating 28 % fewer jobs this year a month on average than a year ago.

Besides Uber, which is also making inroads with the technology, Amazon more than a year ago launched an in - house think tank to leverage autonomous vehicles for faster delivery.

Prices averaged around $ 67 a barrel in the first quarter, nearly 25 % higher than a year ago.

Less than a year ago conglomerate General Electric Co combined its oilfield business with Baker Hughes, creating the second largest oilfield services company by revenue.

Deficits will probably reach $ 1 trillion in the current or next fiscal year, almost double what the Congressional Budget Office had projected less than a year ago for 2018.

Less than a year ago, the school received a $ 50 million naming gift from alumnus and long - time retailing giant Allen Questrom and his wife, Kelli.

They think it could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared more than a year ago.

The DHP Rosedale Metal Canopy Bed Frame has a 4.4 - star rating based on 27 customer reviews, which isn't a ton, but we took into consideration that this model came out less than a year ago.

That means earnings per share is 4 % higher and P / E is 4 % lower than a year ago for those companies.

After all, it was less than a year ago that The New York Times reported that magazine sales — in particular, celebrity magazine sales — were in a state of sharp decline, and the numbers they cited for the first half of 2014 were grim.

These incidents took place as the market continues to soften, with February MLS sales running at only two - thirds normal seasonal levels and prices about 6 % lower than a year ago.

At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower returns from this development than they would have expected less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.

The company produces far fewer videos than a year ago, but they perform better.

The proportion of adults who are either working or looking for work fell last month to 62.7 percent, slightly lower than a year ago.

In Toronto, where less than a year ago a rundown semi-detached could sell for $ 100,000 or more over asking price, the era of the bidding war is fading.

Texas» total score was 30 more than a year ago, when it finished second to Virginia.

But those hefty paycheques go a long way to explaining the residents» impressive jump in total net worth — the average Kerrisdalian is 21 % richer today than a year ago.

Earlier, he told investors on an analyst call that fewer consumers viewed the brand as being discount driven now than a year ago, citing company data.

British Columbia is likewise feeling the pinch, as what was looking like a shale gas boom little more than a year ago has gone quiet.

She reiterated Trump's argument that the NFL protests, which began more than a year ago when 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the anthem in protest of police brutality, «disparage [s] the brave men and women in uniform» and American values more broadly.

Let's start with a column I still get complaints about even though it appeared more than a year ago.

Applications to refinance a home loan, which usually fall when rates rise, eked out a 1 percent gain for the week and were nearly 2 percent higher than a year ago, when interest rates were lower.

* Luxury apparel maker Canada Goose Holdings Inc, which went public less than a year ago, was last up 2.9 percent at C$ 40.92 after hitting an all - time high of C$ 41.90.

In economic data, total mortgage application volume fell 0.2 percent for the week and was 0.8 percent lower than a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted survey.On Tuesday, U.S. markets finished in the red, with the Dow closing down more than 400 points, while on Wednesday, markets in Europe and Asia were both trading deep in the red.

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Less than a year ago they held a net long position in 10 - year paper of 362,000 contracts, the largest in a decade.

Applications to refinance a home loan fell 0.3 percent last week and were 16 percent lower than a year ago.

«It was less than a year ago that we revealed the Bolt EV concept and promised to deliver a long - range electric vehicle attainable by the masses,» GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said in a statement.

Ever since Rihanna teased us with the announcement that she'd be launching a makeup line called Fenty Beauty more than a year ago, we've been not - so - patiently waiting for the line to drop.

North American brand capacity in the third quarter is 38 % in the Caribbean, slightly up from a year ago; 24 % in Alaska, slightly higher than a year ago; and 25 % in Europe, which is about the same as last year.

Caribbean pricing is higher than a year ago at flat occupancies.

North American brand pricing is lower than a year ago at slightly lower occupancies.

66 % of B2B marketers without a documented content strategy are creating more content than a year ago

Fleetwide occupancies at the present time are lower than a year ago, with pricing at the present time slightly lower versus last year.

They were 11 percent lower than a year ago, when rates were lower.

They were still 5 percent higher than a year ago.

Mortgage applications to purchase a home rose 1 percent for the week and are 4 percent higher than a year ago.

The supply of homes for sale at the end of July came in at 2.11 million, 9 percent lower than a year ago.

Delaware oil volumes were 8 percent higher than the most recent quarter and 149 percent higher than a year ago.

«Buyer traffic continues to be higher than a year ago, the typical listing has gone under contract within a month since April,» said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors.