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Part of the reason for the high yield is that IBM's price has been in a nearly 3 - year decline at the same time that it has been increasing its dividend every year.

Not exact matches

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

Average home prices in Dandong rose nearly 1 percent in April from March, according to data from the China Real Estate Association, compared with a 0.5 percent decline in the same period a year earlier, although city - wide averages tend not to fully reflect big price fluctuations at individual projects.

These traders are «looking for the VIX index to continue declining from its recent year - to - date high and settle back nearer its 10.79 July / August average,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3, wrote in a client note.

He declines to share specific figures but says sales are increasing at a faster rate than did sales of Soylent 2.0, the neutral - flavored meal - replacement drink the company introduced a year ago.

The union declined to provide figures related to threatening situations that housekeepers have faced in recent years while working at Las Vegas hotels.

Bitcoin's price soared in 2017 — reaching a record high of more than $ 19,000 in December — but saw sharp declines at the start of this new year due to fears of regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

I spoke to Henry Siu, a professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in automation and the decline of middle - class jobs; he predicted that the trucking industry could automate within the span of one to two years.

In 2017, U.S. comparable same - restaurant sales fell 5.3 % at Applebee's, and also slipped at sister chain, the pancake - focused IHOP, where they declined 1.9 % last year.

This year, we at Canadian Business decided to calculate our annual Worst Jobs list a little differently — by income decline.

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

But the 10 - year yield, at around 2.2 % in December 2015, then declined to a historic low.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

An IRS spokesperson declined to comment on the investigation's new scope, which is limited — in the agency's words — to users with «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 15 period.»

Still, the launch came at a time when cryptocurrency markets fell sharply from their record highs last year, suggesting interest may have declined.

The decline in both has abated since then, but prices at the pump are still 30 percent lower than they were a year ago, according to AAA.

The headlines and the actual numbers have been at odds for a solid year, as month - over-month declines from 2016's torrid pace have made the overall market look far worse than it is.

Burr declined to go along with the White House's denial of collusion between the campaign and Russian hackers, who U.S. intelligence officials believe favored Trump in last year's campaign at the expense of Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

Sales at Gap North America, owned by Gap Inc., have declined in the past six months, and are flat compared to last year.

During an hourlong interview, Winkler repeatedly declined to describe his temper as a problem, noting that many employees have remained happily at Bloomberg News for years.

Inflation peaked at 3.8 % last year and has declined significantly as the Czechs, like the rest of Europe, dealt with declining wages and rising prices for goods like gas, imported clothing and pharmaceuticals.

A leading web analytics company says in a new report that traffic from Facebook to some of the top news publishers declined at double - digit rates in the second quarter of this year.

A few years back, with traffic declining at its «anchor» department stores, the shopping center converted a Lord & Taylor into three separate, smaller shops.

Background checks related to U.S. firearm purchases suffered their deepest quarterly decline in over three years in July, suggesting a sales slump despite price discounts aimed at improving customer demand following President Donald Trump's election.

This year, Kent declined a $ 2.5 million bonus, calling the past year at Coke «challenging.»

Households that spend $ 50,000 at age 65 tend to see a decline by about 15 percent over the next 15 years and 20 percent by age 85, according to Jonathan Guyton, a certified financial planner and principal at Cornerstone Wealth Advisors, in an article in the Journal of Financial Planning.

Udacity declined to comment for this story, so there's no word yet on how the company plans to avoid the mistakes it made at San Jose State this year.

«You're going to be able to look at it and say maybe it's not where Honeywell is but it can get there,» he said, referring the very different story at industrial rival Honeywell, which has seen its stock surge 25 percent this year compared to GE's 37 percent decline since in 2017.

Revenues have declined for five years straight (since 2009) at KBR (KBR), which provides engineering and construction services to the oil and gas industry as well as to governments.

In recent years, there have been claims that movie ticket sales would decline as more people opt for watching at home via streaming.

Even as the economy marched back toward prosperity over the past few years, both the number of us donating and the amount we give have declined; analysis by the Fraser Institute pegged the drop at a total of $ 11.1 billion between 2006 and 2011.

Last quarter, Ruby Tuesday saw a 7.8 percent decline in same - restaurant sales at company - owned restaurants and a 5.3 percent drop at franchise restaurants compared to the same quarter a year ago.

The total included $ 23.6 million generated during the last three months of last year, as a reduction of operating costs at Torstar's print divisions offset a 10 per cent decline in fourth - quarter revenue.

The port city of Tianjin saw the sharpest fall in its livability score among the eight Chinese cities surveyed, with the drop compounded by a decline in its environment score following an explosion at a chemical factory a year ago.

When the company reported earnings last week, 2014 became the first year since 2002 that the fast - food behemoth suffered a global decline in sales at outlets open for at least a year.

They are aimed at combating recent trends in cigarette smoking, which has been in decline over recent years.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

Last month, the burger giant posted a steeper than expected sales decline, with global sales at restaurants open for more than a year falling 1.8 % in January, the eighth straight month of falling sales.

He declined to say how long he expected to remain at the helm but said: «Ten years would be a long time.»

At his age, an injury could affect his game or he could decline quickly, as Peyton Manning did in his final year (though Brady doesn't have Manning's injury history).

Market declines of between 5 % and 20 % happen at least once a year, on average.

IPOs started to dry up in the middle of last year, notes Paragon; valuations of unicorn startups (valued at more than $ 1 billion) dropped, and employment declined.

Sales at Mattel dropped 11 % last year, the fourth consecutive year of decline.

So the discount chain, hoping to avoid the 1.3 % decline in comparable sales of the 2016 holiday season quarter during the most important time of year, is streamlining the number of promotions and making them simpler and easier to understand, Target executives told reporters at a briefing last week in New York.

The S&P 500 declined 1.4 percent to end at 2,677.67 — erasing its year - to - date gains — with industrials as the worst - performing sector.

The numbers also suggest that Penney is not getting that much of a lift from the ongoing declines at Sears (shld), whose appliance business Penney has been eyeing for two years now.

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, the annual global study often considered the gold standard in trust data measurement recently stated that, «In a year marked by turbulence at home and abroad, trust in institutions in the United States crashed, posting the steepest, most dramatic general population decline the Trust Barometer has ever measured.»