Systemwide occupancy rose 1.8 percentage points year over
year during the first quarter to 71.8 percent, and average daily rate increased 1.2 percent to $ 145.21.
With this backdrop in mind, consumer and investor confidence rose to their highest levels in
years during the first quarter.
Defined - benefit plans saw their best performance in 1.5
years during the first quarter, according to a report by RBC Dexia.
Typically, families that rely on credit cards spend more at the end of the year around the holidays and then try to pay some of it back in the new
year during the first quarter.
Industrial occupancy in the U.S. has hit its highest point in 30
years during the first quarter of 2016.
Not exact matches
During the
first two
quarters of the
year, earnings surged 15.5 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively.
He also noted that EasyJet had achieved # 28 million ($ 39 million) in «lean savings»
during the
first quarter of this financial
year.
During the
first quarter of 2016, Goldman reported its worst results in four
years as revenue tumbled 40 %.
During the latest
quarter, revenue in the unit rose 31 % to $ 2.9 billion, the
first gain in a
year.
During Apple's fiscal
first quarter ended December 31, the company's iPad revenue reached $ 5.5 billion, a 22 % drop compared to the same period in the previous fiscal
year.
The brand reported Thursday an increase in net profit
during the
first quarter of the
year.
During the company's
first two
years of operation, its revenue grew 400 percent
quarter - over-
quarter.
Box (box) also reported sales of $ 85 million in its
first quarter, which is a 36 % increase from the $ 62.6 million it brought in the previous
year during the same period.
The stock
first slid below a dollar late August, and has continued dropping ever since as Aéropostale reported its third consecutive
year of falling sales
during its fourth -
quarter earnings report last month.
The company delivered 10,045 of its Model S vehicles
during the
first quarter, a 55 % increase
year - over-
year.
The vow came as the Calgary - based company blamed clogged export pipelines for its worst heavy oil price discounts in five
years during the
first three months of 2018, contributing to a higher - than - expected $ 914 - million net loss in the
first quarter.
«There's like no way we could possibly satisfy demand this
year,» Musk told analysts Wednesday
during its
first -
quarter earnings call.
And the company forecast
year - over-
year growth of 10 percent to 29 percent in the current
quarter, which is not a big jump from the 26 percent growth rate it hit
during the
first three months of the
year (some of that can be blamed on foreign exchange rates).
The stakes for the iPhone 7 are high after sales of the gadget dropped
during two straight
quarters this
year, the
first declines in its history.
Despite the layoffs and poor performance in its
first quarter, Suncor, Canada's largest oil sands producer, continues pumping out crude, outputting 602,400 barrels per day
during the
first quarter — up 10 % from the same period last
year.
Those wrong things included Caterpillar's Chief Financial Officer Bradley Halverson who,
during a conference call, said «the outlook assumes that
first quarter adjusted profit per share will be the high watermark for the
year.»
Click - through rates reached a new high of.88 %
during the second
quarter, while at the same time costs per click slipped to $ 0.46 from $ 0.53 in the
first quarter of the
year.
Tesla also said it lost another $ 785 million
during the
first quarter — nearly double the $ 397 million loss from a
year ago.
The report on Monday from the Commerce Department was the latest indication that the rebound from the
first quarter's abrupt slowdown would not be as strong as experienced
during the same period last
year when output was chilled by cold weather.
Data from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) shows that acquisitions from HNWIs
during the
first three
quarters of the
year dropped 45 percent to $ 3.1 billion, compared to the same period last
year.
Revenue rose to $ 230.7 million from $ 150 million
during last
year's
first quarter, but didn't meet predictions for $ 244.9 million.
The platform clocked in Rs 65 lakh in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA)
during the
first quarter of the current financial
year, according to a filing by the Noida - based company with the Bombay Stock Exchange on October 12.
Advertising for Hershey's core chocolate brands was up in the
first quarter and should be up for the
year, CEO Michele Buck said
during the quarterly conference call Thursday.
This despite the fact that our most reliable statistical evidence indicates a recession in progress which will eventually be dated as having started
during the
first quarter of this
year.
That's twice the average 74 % return for those who moved out of stocks and into cash
during the fourth
quarter of 2008 or
first quarter of 2009.3 More than 25 % of the investors who sold out of stocks
during that downturn never got back into the market — missing out on all of the recovery and gains of the following
years.
Last
year, that commodity contributed 53 % of its gross profit and it supplied nearly 75 % of the total
during the
first quarter of 2017 due to a spike in steelmaking coal prices.
• Tesla's negative free cash flow increased to about $ 1 billion in the
first quarter, up from $ 277 million
during the fourth
quarter of last
year.
Apple on Tuesday reported that it sold 9.1 million iPads
during the
first quarter of 2018, giving the company its highest share of the worldwide tablet market
during that
quarter in four
years, according to IDC.
Goldcorp Inc. (TSX: G, NYSE: GG) late Wednesday reported that its output and profit fell
during the
first quarter, compared to the same period a
year ago.
Since the current expansion began in the summer of 2009, we have had 2 negative
quarters, and both occurred
during the
first quarter of the
year (2011 and 2014).
The bottom line is that much like the equity markets as a whole, we are likely to see a great deal of uncertainty
during the
first quarter of the 2017 financial
year.
Combined with the
first quarter, the publication said that total ICO funds raised
during the
first half of the
year came in at $ 1.13 billion.
Those efforts are bearing fruit, as corporate market share grew every
quarter this
year and as the carrier added 16,000 small and midsize corporate accounts
during the
first three
quarters.
Analysts have been revising up their earnings expectations for global equities in 2017 — a departure from the pattern of downward revisions
during first -
quarter reporting over the last five
years.
NOW reported $ 764 million in revenue
during the
first quarter, which was a 21 % improvement from the
year - ago period and 14 % higher sequentially.
Unfortunately, activity
during the
first quarter of this
year fell further still to an initially estimated 0.7 % annualized rate of growth.
Quick - service restaurants were the top performer based on same - store sales in the third
quarter with a growth of 2.2 percent, and have posted the highest total sales growth
during the
first half of this
year, at a rate of 4.7 percent.
There were no digital health initial public offerings in the
first quarter of the
year, which was exacerbated by macroeconomic factors that pulled the market as a whole down
during the
quarter.
Average assets under management increased $ 100.2 billion
during the
first quarter, a jump of 17 percent from a
year earlier.
So
during the
first quarter of the new
year, they expect 30 -
year mortgage rates to average 4.3 %.
Customers invested $ 8.8 billion in net cash into Price funds and other portfolios
during the
first quarter, compared with $ 12 billion pulled out through all of last
year.
The financing needs coming due in the
first quarter «imply that euro area banks will not have extra money as a result of the three -
year auction to purchase European sovereign bonds, using a carry - trade strategy, because the amount of fresh cash is less than the amount of bank debt that will mature
during the
quarter», Powell wrote recently.
This trend continued in the June
quarter to the effect that
during the
first six months of the calendar
year the S&P 500 hasn't yet been up or down more than 3.5 %.
Globally, stock ETFs took in US$ 27.8 billion in the past
quarter, and a remarkable US$ 121.2 billion
during the
first three
quarter of the
year.
Demand for this service, which clients know as «prime broker lite,» helped drive up revenue from securities lending by 37 %
during the
first three months of this
year from the
first quarter of 2015, and up by 5.5 % from the October - December
quarter.