Sentences with phrase «year earlier figure»

This represents an increase of 5 percent, compared with the year earlier figure.

Around three - quarters of countries tracked by the index recorded flat or positive annual price growth in Q1 2015, three years earlier this figure was closer to 47.2 %.

But in the class of 1998, the area that had produced basketball great Allen Iverson a few years earlier figured out how to top itself.

Not exact matches

«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund, one of the earliest backers of the fossil fuel divestment movement.

The streaming service still has plenty of time to figure it out, and Jones» appearance in «The Defenders» next year could offer up some early clues as to where the show heads next.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

This, of course, is a better figure than five years earlier, though it remains very small.

I think age and experience (I just turned 30 this year) mellow you out but it would have been great if I could have figured some of these things a bit earlier.

The company said Friday it earned net income of $ 15 million or six cents per share in the last three months of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43 per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by asset sales.

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It said a surge of strong numbers in late 2017 was followed by softer figures early this year, suggesting «some pulling forward of demand ahead of new mortgage guidelines and other policy measures.»

While Chinese banks tend to front - load loans early in the year to get higher - quality customers and win market share, the lofty figure was even higher than the most bullish forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.

Earlier this year, J.C. Penney posted strong first - quarter sales figures that showed the once troubled retailer regaining market share from rivals like Macy's (M).

Earlier this year, Ora.TV, a fledgling online digital television network funded by America Movil, bought TV production company Stick Figure Productions.

The figure was up 15 percent from a year earlier, compared to growth of 18 percent in the previous quarter.

Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.

Jeff Taylor, CEO of DEVISE, sold a seven - figure fitness website earlier this year, and he was kind enough to share how he was able to make it happen.

Earlier this year, one of our employees mentioned that while we give folks a lot of autonomy, we don't provide direct access to capital for cross-functional projects when we are figuring out budgets for the upcoming year.

Thomson Reuters figures earlier in the month showed investment banking fees rocketed to a 10 - year high in the first quarter, thanks to big mergers and acquisitions and the so - called «Trump bump».

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

VZ Wireless added 2.0 million retail postpaid net subscribers during the final stanza of 2014, bringing Verizon's total number of retail connections to 108.2 million, up 5.3 % from the year - earlier figure.

As you see in the next figure, excepting a few months in early 2012, it's undershot the Fed's 2 percent target for eight years!

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.

It's still early in the term for many of its equity offerings (which rely on a sale or refinance for a large portion of the return distributions), so management expects this aggregate figure to increase substantially over the next year.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

You started saving early to take advantage of the power of compounding, maxed out your 401 (k) and individual retirement account (IRA) contributions every year, made smart investments, squirreled away money into additional savings, paid down debt and figured out how to maximize your Social Security benefits.

And construction costs — including materials and labor — rose nearly 4.5 percent in New York City in March from a year earlier, according to figures from national construction news magazine Engineering News - Record.

We then calculate what the ratio would be if Amazon added 50,000 Amazon workers and 62,500 supplementary workers over a ten year period, as Amazon's RFP projects, and if the city's housing supply grew 20 percent faster than it did in the earlier period.1 We adjusted the 20 percent figure up or down to reflect differences in metros» level of difficulty in producing new housing, and we assumed that vacancy rates would drop to between 3 and 5 percent of the city's housing stock.

In the 12 - month period ended Dec. 31, 2017, Canadian ETF assets under management (AUM) held in U.S., international, global and emerging - market equities increased by a healthy 46 % to $ 46.2 billion from $ 31.6 billion a year earlier, according to figures from the Canadian Exchange - Traded Funds Association.

Yields on 10 - year US Treasuries rose close to 2.4 % after the release of May nonfarm payroll figures in early June, compared with under 1.9 % at the beginning of May and 1.6 % in January.

Official figures from Eurostat show that the fall in the eurozone unemployment rate has been painfully slow — declining to 11.1 % in April from 11.7 % a year earlier — and remains much higher in countries like Greece and Spain.

Five year figures at early 2014 were a classic case of «lies, damned lies and statistics».

Five year figures can be very misleading — particularly as at early 2014, where the adage «a rising tide lifts all boats» applies — yet they remain the industry standard.

In September 2015 sales were just 0.3 % or 130 transactions below the record set six years earlier, according to new figures from The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).

The December figure fell 6 percent from a year earlier, when planned layoffs totaled 32,556, and marked the third straight month that announced workforce reductions dropped year over year.

As for coworking, there are now over 780 coworking spaces in the US alone (2013 figures), which increased by 83 % from 2012 - 2013, according to a report released early this year by NAIOP.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier this month that food - at - home prices fell 0.1 % in November, the seventh straight month they've declined, and over the past 12 months, they're down 2.2 % from the same time last year with meats, poultry, fish, and eggs posting the biggest drops and now sitting 6 % below the year - ago figure.

Nevertheless, it is important to note that Verizon Wireless added 1.3 million wireless subscribers on contract - abed plans during the quarter, which is double the year - earlier figure.

According to Autodata, total vehicle sales slipped 2 percent in August from a year earlier, as inventories continued to pile up and prices of used vehicles declined, driving the industry's sales figures to their lowest in three years.

Earlier this year, I wrote an article (Bitcoin is the Dumbest Investment Ever) lambasting the digital currency and its minions (which I still stand by) but being the hypocrite that I am, I could see the room for further bubble expansion and figured, «why not jump on this wave and make a few bucks during this euphoric rise».

Investor lending rose in March for the first time in more than a year, official figures earlier this month showed and asking price figures from consultancy SQM Research paint the picture of a market that is still strong.

The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.

Many of the commodities have risen more than 40 percent last year and that figure in most cases will be much larger if we consider it from the bottom, which was largely made in early 2016.

Given this path for underlying inflation, CPI inflation is expected to dip temporarily below 2 per cent in early 2004 as the large March 2003 CPI figure drops out of the year - ended calculation.

Noting this potential to reinvigorate our economy, Canada's Immigration Minister John McCallum stated earlier this year that immigration figures are set to rise.

Trade data for the same month revealed the country incurred its first trade deficit in local - currency terms since early 2014, mainly due to a surge in imports, although the figures were probably affected by the timing of the Lunar New Year holiday.

But in early March figures revealed that a resurgence in production in US shale fields had increased US crude inventories to record levels, which pushed a leading benchmark for oil prices below US$ 50 per barrel for the first time this year.

This was little changed from the June figure, but noticeably below the results earlier in the year.

Total funds raised in the region dropped almost 16 % from a year earlier to $ 43 billion and slipped to 9 % of the global total from 11 % in 2015 (see Figure 2.10).

Monthly employment figures up to April, and other indicators such as industrial production, confirm the solid pace of growth in the early months of this year.