Sentences with phrase «year drop when»

The company generated sales of $ 236.3 m during October, November and December, which is a 25 per cent year - on - year drop when compared to the $ 334.3 m acquired during the same timespan last year.

Not exact matches

When T.J. Maxx and Marshalls parent TJX (tax) reported the chains» first quarterly comparable sales drop in memory in November, many observers wondered whether the off - price juggernaut was running its course after years of aggressive store expansion.

When the federal government dropped the budget last year, the Liberals put a big emphasis on helping Canada become more innovative.

That left Burton vulnerable to bad snow years, when sales would drop, or to new rivals who could swoop in and steal a chunk of the market.

Sometimes when I pick up my three - year - old daughter I'll drop by the yard to check in on the business.

When those prices collapsed anew a few years later, the central bank dropped the benchmark interest rate back to its crisis - era setting of 0.5 per cent %.

Frankly, if Twitter wanted to adopt a «no world leaders» rule now and then quietly drop it in three or seven years» time, that would be perfectly consistent with the company's history when it comes to safety and abuse, which is one of inconsistency.

The company was also forced to realign itself after sales dropped when it strayed to far from its strength in quality classic clothing last year.

Earlier this year, May's government was forced into a U-turn when it dropped a plan to increase national insurance contributions on self - employed workers after Conservative lawmakers protested that it broke the 2015 pledge.

Shares dropped roughly 1 % when Apple revealed that revenue for its flagship product, the iPhone, had risen a meager 1 % to $ 33.2 billion — which CEO Tim Cook attributed to consumers holding out for the iPhone that's rumored to release later this year.

For Allegiant, however, such great numbers actually mark a stark drop from the past two years, when its almost 30 percent margins were among the best in the industry worldwide.

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

The CEO of the Washington - based firm made jaws drop when he announced that, over the next couple of years, all of his employees would be brought up to the $ 70k mark — a change that would mean doubling the income of his lowest - paid employees.

When CVS wanted to make clear to Wall Street and Main Street it was pivoting its business much more toward to the health industry in 2014, it went as far as changing its name to CVS Health from CVS Caremark, and to drop tobacco products, a $ 2 billion a year revenue generator, from its stores.

But when unit sales start to drop year over year, what you have is a strategic problem.

Since last year, the near - term price of WTI crude, in Canadian dollars, has dropped by almost $ 25 per barrel, and the long - term futures price by $ 10, when you take into account futures market prices for Canadian dollars as well.

So when the insurer disclosed in November that it was taking a $ 345 million hit on its balance sheet in order to cover its additional claim liabilities — contributing to a $ 760 million loss for the year — Genworth's shares dropped 38 % in a single day.

When she was named CEO in 2007, guest visits had been declining for years, restaurant sales and profit trends were negative, and the company stock price had dropped from $ 34 in 2002 to $ 13.

JCP suffered a 25 percent drop in sales last year when then CEO Ron Johnson stopped offering customers coupons because, he thought, there was no need for a coupon when your prices are at bargain prices every day.

TIPRA also creates an opportunity for retirees and other people with low taxable income to wait until years 2008 to 2010 to sell appreciated securities when the capital gains rate drops to zero percent, thereby eliminating a capital gains tax liability.

As a result, bonds, which rise in price when yields drop, had a very good year in 2014.

U.S. exchanges only recently ended a six - year bull market, dropping 11 percent in August when China announced it was devaluing its currency.

When Apple reported its quarterly earnings this week, it reported a year - on - year drop in iPad sales for the 11th consecutive quarter.

The refinance boom dropped off last year around the same time lenders were adjusting to the QM rule, which made the rate of growth in origination slower when compared to the pace of 2013.

Despite a drop in profits at CBS last year, Moonves» 2017 compensation was boosted by $ 43.7 million in stock awards, which came in part when he extended his employment agreement last May.

So my plan is to have more cash on hand when this happens and be able to buy low if the market drops, as well as have enough cash on hand to sustain me for a few years while the market is recovering.

When cheap imports dropped the bottom out of that industry I picked up a fast - food manager training program, and three years later wound up in college where I did very well (including, of all things, enjoying learning about Shakespeare and Henry Clay!)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP)-- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported a 9 percent drop in third - quarter profit versus the same period a year ago, when the company had large investment gains.

Holiday was 19 years old when he dropped out of college...

After a blowout 2014 when long bonds were up nearly 30 %, they're up another 3 % in the first week of the new year as interest rates continue to drop.

When I was teaching at the New School already 50 years ago, graduate students were dropping out of the field because they couldn't fit reality into the curriculum.

For example, the median net worth for a person age 70 to 74 years drops to $ 31,823 from $ 181,078 when home equity is excluded.»

Goldman's FICC revenue should jump about 30 percent from the year - ago quarter, when it reported a 2 percent drop in total trading revenue, according to Harte's estimates.

But when you're dropping $ 5k a month on healthcare facility, you probably won't be around for 20 more years.

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).

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Sales of Apple's iPod music player continued to drop, with the company selling only 6.6 million of the devices, down 27 % from a year earlier, when it sold 9.1 million.

We are now well into the year when I said stocks would plunge in January and would prove to be a gaping «crack» in the economy by summer, and look at how seriously the market has fallen apart since it started to drop in the last week of... [Read More]

Check Your Withholding: The government estimates that most taxpayers will see a drop in their tax bill when 2019 rolls around, but because the new law has many twists and turns (especially for those who live in high property and income tax states), your best bet is to assume that your tax liability will be at least the same as this year.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

«We had anticipated a rebound in activity from earlier this year when the harsher than normal winter weather took hold, but the biggest drop in fixed mortgage rates in almost four years and resulting improvement in affordability also gave the Canadian housing market a boost of extra energy.»

Year - to - date traffic growth has fallen by 3 percent, which Fernandez categorizes as a «troubling scenario» when compared to the drop of 0.8 percent for all of 2015.

A further drop in applications is expected when another set of reforms is brought in this year.

The Toronto Real Estate Board revealed Thursday that the market saw 7,792 transactions in April, a 32.1 % drop from the same period last year when 11,468 homes were sold.

On 15 October, the yield on 10 - year US Treasury bonds fell almost 37 basis points (Graph 2, left - hand panel), more than the drop on 15 September 2008 when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

According to their survey archives, 30 - year home loan rates dropped from 4.53 % at the beginning of this year to 4.10 % by September 1, 2014 (when this article was published).

«This is the first drop we've seen though in the last year when a lot of new retail buyers have come in.

Even knowing that markets «correct» every few years, when you see the value of your investment portfolio drop 10 % or more, it can cause stress.

-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.