Out of the UK's total of 5.7 m small businesses, only 1.7 per cent applied for a loan or overdraft last year, the fifth consecutive
year of decline since 2012.
This is the 8th consecutive
year of declines since consumer insolvencies peaked in 2009.
Not exact matches
Barrick Gold shares have
declined 11 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
HudBay Minerals shares have
declined 22 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
The First
of Long Island shares have
declined 7 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
Gildan shares have
declined 11 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 %
since the beginning
of the
year, or less than half Disney's
decline.
Their
declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values
since the beginning
of the
year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.
The producer price index (PPI) dropped 0.8 % in August from a
year earlier, the slowest pace
of decline since April 2012.
The personal saving rate has
since declined 1.5 percentage points in a span
of four
years.
Home ownership has experienced the biggest
decline in two decades, and the number
of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a
year since 2006.
NiSource shares have
declined 4.5 percent
since the beginning
of the
year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has
declined roughly 1 percent.
Note the trend
since 2015
of diminishing
year - over-
year price gains that turned into actual price
declines late last
year (red columns) and took a bigger dip in March:
German American Bancorp shares have
declined 4.5 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
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.
The PC market itself has gone straight down the toilet in the nine
years since the acquisition, with 2013 seeing the worst
decline in its history, but Lenovo emerged as the king
of the whole stinky pile.
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).
The ambassador's response has consistently
declined to comment on the project
since his arrival last
year, saying he'd risk prejudicing the State Department's ongoing evaluation
of the project.
After
years of declines, U.S. oil production has picked up dramatically
since 2010 thanks to the so - called «shale revolution.»
Ryerson shares have
declined nearly 6 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
«
Since we began working ten
years ago to pass effective tobacco measures around the world, global sales
of cigarettes have
declined after a century
of steadily increasing.»
SP Plus shares have
declined 3 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
Despite this, however, even ESPN has seen a
decline in subscribers over the past
year — and that has had a very tangible impact on Disney's bottom line,
since about 45 %
of its profit comes from broadcasting assets like ESPN.
Energous shares have
declined nearly 9 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
«We have recovered from the
decline since in the last couple
of years,» he said.
Nutrisystem shares have
declined 44 percent
since the beginning
of the
year.
According to the Pew report, the latest newsroom employment figures (from 2014) show
declines of 10 %, which is greater than in any
year since 2009.
The
decline last
year was mainly due to record exports
of crude oil and petroleum products, made possible
since Congress lifted the U.S. oil export ban in December 2015.
The Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, to a lesser degree George Soros (
since his political giving does not approach the scale
of these men and has
declined in recent
years) are massively influential players in our political process.
That made it the best
year on Wall Street
since 1995, and it would take more than some short - term
declines in stock prices as investors convert theoretical profits to the folding - money kind or even the inevitable downward market correction (the bursting
of the proverbial bubble) to take the bloom
of this particular rose.
Nevertheless, I am not unduly worried because the magnitude
of these
declines has been modest, and because the New York Fed's three -
year - ahead inflation measure has been gradually increasing
since January and has reversed much
of the
decline observed in the second half
of 2015.
According to S&P data,
since 1930, there have been 13 instances where the S&P had a more than 1 percent
decline on the first day
of the
year.
Gross hasn't lost money in any
year since 1999, when PIMCO Total Return
declined 0.3 %, including dividends, and trailed 59 %
of the competition, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The postwar trade partnership, which worked so well during the «miracle»
years of Japanese growth, has been in
decline since the collapse
of Japan's «bubble...
Tesla stocks soared to a peak
of $ 291 in the past
year but have been on the
decline since September.
SCMP Group Ltd., which has posted three
years of profit
declines, has been suspended from trading
since February 2013 after the company failed to have at least 25 percent
of shares held by minority investors, the minimum proportion required for a company to trade its shares in Hong Kong.
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
Since then, the arbitrage strategy has
declined in a nearly linear fashion to the point where there were no
years where the strategy yielded more than $ 200 between 1959 and 1974 and in 11
of these 16
years an investor either lost money or gained less than $ 100.
«The leg - up in the US 10 -
year yield
since April 18 has lifted the US dollar and caused most
of the major - economy exchange rates to
decline, and test the lower - end
of their recent ranges against the US dollar,» he noted.
Western allies press Trump to maintain nuclear deal with Iran: Reuters US intelligence monitors Iranian cargo shipments into Syria: CNN A trade war is a major risk for China's debt - ridden economy: CNBC Federal judge orders gov» t must accept new DACA immigration applications: WaPo Unification
of Koreas still unlikely as leaders prepare to meet: Reuters US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in April after March
decline: CB New home sales in US increased to 4 - month high in March: MarketWatch Richmond Fed Mfg Index turns negative for first time
since 2016: Bond Buyer S&P Case - Shiller Home Price Index surged in Feb, up 6.3 % y - o - y: CNBC Federal Housing Finance Agency: US house prices continued to rise in Feb: HW Corp bonds with lowest investment - grade rating look vulnerable: Bloomberg 10 -
year Treasury yield reaches 3.0 % for first time
since 2014: CNN Money
Among the largest U.S. defense contractors, Northrop Grumman Corp has spent more than $ 12 billion on share repurchases
since 2010, even as revenue has
declined in each
of the past five
years.
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.
NXP has struggled under the weight
of weakened semiconductor demand
since about the midpoint
of 2015, with the company reporting a comparable sales
decline (i.e., not including revenue from its merger with Freescale Semiconductor)
of minus 8 % from the prior -
year period in the second quarter.
In Germany, ever
since the 2003 — 20 05 labor reforms that caused business profits to soar at the expense
of wages, German banks have exported the gap between rising savings and
declining investment — a figure that rose in less than five
years to become among the largest ever recorded.
And if you're retired and relying on government bond funds, the
decline since July has wiped out several
years worth
of income.
Worldwide smartphone shipments
declined 0.5 % in 2017, the first
year - over-
year decline the market has experienced
since the introduction
of what we now know as smartphones.
As the following chart illustrates, cumulative funding for ICOs has
declined steadily
since the beginning
of the
year.
Digital subscriptions were up more than 25 percent
year over
year, helping to offset the first quarterly
decline in digital advertising
since the second quarter
of 2016.
After retailers» Black Friday sales
declined, Super Saturday, for the first time
since 2005, is expected to edge out Black Friday as the top sales day
of the
year, according to mall - traffic tracker ShopperTrak.
What's more, both terms have seen a steady
decline in search traffic
since the start
of the
year.