Sentences with phrase «than a year earlier»

Aluminum prices rose sharply in the first quarter than a year earlier as output fell in top producer China, where the government has shut down some aluminum capacity.

That's nearly 5 % higher than a year earlier, and a whopping 33 % higher than in 2012, when the average balance was only $ 69,400.

That's only 4 % more than a year earlier.

That's 13 points lower than a year earlier.

The profit beat came as customers booked 31 % more nights in hotels than a year earlier, with travel bookings up 21 % overall, the company said.

But because it was a smaller loss than a year earlier, showing the shrinking retailer is at least cutting costs efficiently as its core business dwindles, shares went up 5 % though they remain down 70 % from their 52 - week highs.

The November reading was 1.6 % higher than a year earlier.)

At $ 5.6 billion, sales at general merchandise stores were about $ 100 million higher than in September than a year earlier, but essentially unchanged from June this year.

Comcast added 350,000 high - speed internet customers during the quarter, slightly less than a year earlier, but still the largest source of sales growth for the company.

President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections will be brought forward to June 24, more than a year earlier than planned.

Apple said it sold 52.2 million iPhones in the quarter, or 3 percent more than a year earlier.

Some 5.1 percent of Wal - Mart shoppers said they used Walmart Pay in June, compared with 5.5 percent of iPhone users at stores that accept Apple Pay, which launched more than a year earlier, according to a survey by Pymnts.com and InfoScout.

Showing that March 2017 volume was > $ 100 billion, 120 % higher than a year earlier and equivalent to 31 % of the USD IRS Compression figure of > $ 320 billion.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

While the total level of debt was $ 479 billion higher than a year earlier, it remains 8.2 percent below the peak of $ 12.68 trillion reached in the third quarter of 2008.

Chinese government data show that prices across 70 Chinese cities were 9.7 % higher in May than a year earlier, a larger year - over-year increase than the 9.3 % last September, when the current round of housing controls were instituted.

-LRB-...) Eurostat said wages were 2.0 % higher in the three months through June than a year earlier, the fastest rise since the first quarter of 2015 and up from 1.3 % in the previous three - month period.

The available data suggest nationwide average prices remained lower than a year earlier, driven by weakness in Sydney and Melbourne (Graph 25 and Table 7).

Although gross household wealth fell slightly in the March quarter, it remained 12 per cent higher than a year earlier, and 40 per cent higher than three years earlier (Table 6).

But more than a year earlier, documents in the criminal case against Nikolas Cruz and obtained by The Associated Press show school officials and a sheriff's deputy recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.8 per cent in the December quarter to be 2.6 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 54).

Real GDP in New Zealand rose by 0.8 per cent in the March quarter to be 5 1/2 per cent higher than a year earlier.

UK GDP rose by 0.6 per cent in the March quarter, to be 3.0 per cent higher than a year earlier.

In SDR terms, the Bank's index of commodity prices increased again in the June quarter, to be about 7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 27).

After rising very strongly in the second half of last year, GDP grew by 1.0 per cent in the March quarter, to be 4.9 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 2).

In the June quarter, the unemployment rate in the capital cities was 6.1 per cent, almost a percentage point lower than a year earlier.

-LRB-...) The European Union's statistics agency Wednesday said consumer prices in that month were 1.4 % higher than a year earlier, an increase from the 1.1 % rate of inflation recorded in February.

In the December quarter, the wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 1.0 per cent, to be 3.7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 72).

Business investment rose by a further 1.7 per cent in the March quarter, following strong growth in the second half of 2003, to be 9.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Passenger motor vehicle registrations fell by 13 per cent in the June quarter and were 17 per cent lower than a year earlier.

Industrial production is estimated to have risen by around 2 per cent over the three months to February to be 7 1/2 per cent higher than a year earlier, while exports have also continued to rise sharply in recent months to be around 30 per cent higher in year - ended terms.

The value of imports of goods and services rose again in the June quarter, to be around 20 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Sales of iPhones continued to defy expectations, as Apple sold 16.24 million units, 86 percent more than a year earlier.

Service exports were around 7 per cent lower than a year earlier.

The latest national accounts show that real GDP rose by 0.7 per cent in the March quarter, to be 2.9 per cent higher than a year earlier (Table 8).

The story reported that the median price ended the month at $ 685,000, essentially unchanged from February and nearly 8 percent higher than a year earlier.

In the three months to July, the average level of recorded employment was 2.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, but lower than the average level in the previous three months (Graph 33).

The wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 0.9 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms, to be 3.6 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 71).

While the reported number of vacancies declined in the June quarter, the series has trended upwards for some time and in the June quarter was still more than 10 per cent higher than a year earlier.

In headline terms, consumer prices rose by 0.6 per cent in the June quarter to be 0.7 per cent higher than a year earlier.

In the three months to October, the average level of employment was 2.2 per cent higher than a year earlier.

In the September quarter, the wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 1.0 per cent, to be 3.7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 74).

Over the past three months, the value of total loan approvals has risen by 12 per cent to be 31 per cent higher than a year earlier.

In the June quarter, consumption rose by 1.2 per cent to be 3.6 per cent higher than a year earlier.

In the December quarter, earnings increased by 1/2 per cent, although they remain around 11 per cent lower than a year earlier.

However, volumes are estimated to be moderately higher in the September quarter than a year earlier and the pick - up in world growth should see a recovery in manufactured exports.

In July, the level of employment stood slightly more than 2 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 19).

Although there was less capital raised in 2013 than a year earlier, there were more deals, and they were geographically diverse.»

In the four months through April, shipments were 20 per cent higher than a year earlier, according to data from the US Meat Export Federation.

Especially after burying a baby less than a year earlier?