Sentences with phrase «years earlier declined»

Nationally, graduation rates fell slightly during the 1990s; the ratio of the number of regular diplomas awarded to the number of 10th graders enrolled three years earlier declined from 77 percent in 1991 to 76 percent in 2001.

Not exact matches

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.

If he falls in the range for 71 - year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have declined over the years he is probably not suffering from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.

The surplus was still down 47 percent from a year earlier, with the trade balance remained in deficit as the yen's decline has pushed up costs of imported fuels immediately while its impact on exports will take some time to be fully seen.

Earlier this month YPF's CEO Miguel Galuccio announced a five - year plan to invest up to $ 7 billion annually to recover from declining oil and natural gas output.

The producer price index (PPI) dropped 0.8 % in August from a year earlier, the slowest pace of decline since April 2012.

Household spending fell 0.4 % in October from a year earlier, less than the median estimate for a 0.6 % annual decline, as shoppers spent less on food and transport.

Alcoa, in particular, likely suffered from plummeting aluminum prices due to huge supply in China last quarter and is expected to report profit declines from a year earlier.

Market volatility through the first quarter led to a 20 % decline in takeover activity versus the same period a year earlier, and now regulators are flexing their muscles to hinder transactions that have already been announced that involve reducing taxes or competition.

Southwest said its net income declined to $ 388 million, or 62 cents per share, in the quarter, from $ 584 million, or 88 cent per share, a year earlier.

Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook received a 74 percent increase in his annual bonus for fiscal 2017 as the iPhone maker posted higher revenue and net income, after a rare decline a year earlier.

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.

However, we do know that the impact of a market decline in the early years of retirement is even worse than in later years.

The report revealed a significant decline in operating income year - over-year and flattening day - to - day business orders «following significant declines earlier in the quarter,» according to president and CEO Jim Keane.

In its financial results earlier this year, the Times reported virtually zero revenue growth, primarily because of the decline of print.

Earnings per share estimates have been cut considerably since TripAdvisor's last report and now reflect a 23 - percent decline from a year earlier.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

Oliver Camilo, the company's co-founder and CEO, declined to disclose revenue or terms of its celebrity partnerships, but he says AppMoji reached profitability earlier this year, and has been growing steadily each month.

The Busch family ran the company for nearly 130 years, even after it went public, but the stock stagnated in the early 2000s when Michelob and Budweiser fell into a sharp decline as Americans gravitated to wine and spirits.

As of early November, shares were up almost 37 % since the beginning of the year (compared with the S&P 500's (SPX) 0.4 % decline).

In the previous quarter, net sales decreased 18.5 percent from a year earlier on a 20 percent decline in UGG sales.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

Sales in that category nearly tripled last quarter compared to a year earlier, though the company declined to give specific results.

Oil prices continued their months - long decline Monday, with the price of crude briefly falling below $ 50 per barrel for the first time in more than five years earlier in the session on account of global oversupply.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell downplays the impact from exchange - traded funds on the market decline earlier this year.

With some early stage investors worried about valuations, financing of new startups has been declining for the past two years.

Further, the decline in housing starts and permits after the expiration of the $ 8000 housing credit was probably an important factor in the slowdown in GDP earlier this year, and as I wrote last week, probably plays a role in ECRI's recession call.

However, the decline in the fraction of households headed by a business owner under 30 began about 15 years earlier.

Trump called for a boycott of Apple products earlier this year after the company declined to provide the FBI with security - weakened software to help crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Earlier this year, John Dowd, the seasoned white - collar defense attorney who was leading Trump's negotiations with Mueller's office, resigned amid frustration that Trump was not following his advice to decline an interview.

Almost 500,000 people cut the cord in the fourth quarter, shrinking the audience for pay TV by 3.4 % from a year earlier, the largest decline since the trend emerged in 2010.

The U.S. tech group, which suffered from the inclusion of notable casualties from the internet stock bust of the early 2000s, such as Palm, Viasystems Group, Genuity, and Infonet, had a median decline of 17.2 % in their first year.

For example, Houston home prices didn't really crater until late 1987, even though the job market plummeted a year earlier and oil prices recorded their biggest year - over-year decline in 1986's first half.

While earlier in 2016 the time - based Wi - Fi share across the four carriers showed a decline over time, this trend did not continue and, in particular, the Wi - Fi share for T - Mobile users increased to an all - year high, though still showing the lowest share among all carriers.

All the «other» operating systems, such as BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone, combined to comprise 11.2 per cent of the market, with BlackBerry representing 8.9 per cent overall, a decline of 6.1 per cent from a year earlier.

The app, which allows customers to immediately purchase any product with a single swipe, also reportedly received an investment from Snapchat earlier this year, Re / code reported, although reps for both companies declined to comment.

Its nine - month earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization have declined to $ 431 million at the end of September from $ 493 million a year earlier.

During the first four months of the year, mine production fell 8.1 percent from the same time a year earlier due to declines in Australia, India, Peru and Ireland, according to the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.

Headline inflation, as anticipated, has climbed a bit this year as earlier energy price declines have fallen out of the year - over-year inflation calculations.

Indeed, the downturn in the US government - bond market at the end of 2016 and earlier this year benefited many fixed income arbitrage managers who were able to take advantage of the price decline in US Treasuries during those periods.

In the Fall Update, the government will not only be able to show the elimination of the deficit (something no other G - 7 country has achieved) one year earlier than targeted, but also to show a declining debt ratio, rapidly approaching the government's target of 25 per cent, the lowest since the 1960s

«The sharp decline in March export growth after very solid performance in January and February suggests some exporters may have front - loaded exports (early) this year due to concern over the possibility of a Sino-U.S. trade war after the U.S. hiked tariffs on global imports on solar panels and washing machines,» said Lisheng Wang, an economist at Nomura in Hong Kong.

And despite recent declines in oil prices, the federal deficit will be eliminated in 2015 - 16 and possibly even one year earlier.

Shares of the chip maker are down 9 percent, their steepest decline in more than two years, after Bloomberg reported that Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020.

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.

«Output, new orders and employment levels all rebounded in June, suggesting that manufacturers are starting to experience a turnaround after the declines seen earlier in the year.

Despite this early decline in profits per revenue dollar, Joshi insisted that «2018 is a corner - turn year in our multi-year turnaround.»

In exchange for the ability to fund these early - retirement adventures, many retirees are willing to accept a potentially smaller lifetime benefit, even if it also means accepting a declining standard of living in their later years.

They declined to say how much they would be investing, but said that they would make investments of between $ 500,000 and $ 2 million in early stage companies and that they had enough capital to invest for several years.

The U.S. added 1.3 million owner households over the last year and lost 286,000 renter households, the fourth consecutive quarter in which the number of renter households declined from the same quarter a year earlier.