Profits from the unit were down 33% from the first quarter and 21% from last year.
The measure showed a slowdown from the first quarter's upwardly revised rate of 2%.
The national unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, up nearly four points from the first quarter of 2008.
But retail and manufacturing continued to post even stronger gains, up 7 percent from the first quarter.
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On an annual basis, results in Q1 were even worst, down 5.1% from the first quarter of 2010.
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Overall, capital markets pre-tax profits are seen dropping 40% from the first quarter.
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By contrast, Greek wages were down 6.2% from the first quarter of 2010, while Irish wages were down 2.6%.
This is a dramatic change from the first quarter of 2009, when average job loss was 753, 000 per month.
Furthermore, revenue rebounded sharply from the first quarter growing about 10%, reflecting improved interest margin and raised asset management fees.
Harley-Davidson has already said they expect shipments to be down 24% to 30% from the first quarter a year ago.
That's down from the first quarter, but right on track, they say, for their strategy of targeting the early primary and caucus states.
We also have data from the first quarter of 2013, where stops are down again and crime has not gone up.
Starting from the first quarter, the business segment financial disclosure will reflect the organizational changes, which took place in December, 2011.
After two quarters of nominal growth, their collections were down by nearly a whole percentage point from the first quarter last year.
Although he believes JetBlue is making progress from the first quarter, he also feels the company is being conservative in their filing.
The economy grew 11.9% in the second quarter from the first quarter.
And indeed, the volume of megawatts of photovoltaic modules produced in the U.S. fell 11% in the second quarter from the first quarter.
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Maybe from the first quarter of fiscal 2014, one can expect the effect of a weak yen to reflect on the income statement.
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The latest figures from IPO research firm Renaissance Capital show only 33 IPOs filed, down 26.7% from the first quarter a year ago.
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Its GDP growth in the second quarter looked recessionary, down 0.7 percent from the first quarter and up 2 percent on the year.
Its second-quarter revenues from consumer finance, which includes Champion and other lending operations, was down 5.6% from the first quarter and 11.8% from last year.
Data from the first quarter of this year has been consistent with previous years: Black and Hispanic people accounted for the vast majority of stops.
To make matters worse, effective rents (what tenants pay for office space) fell 0.9% from the first quarter and a whole 5.7% from the year earlier.
Juniper estimated that the total number of smartphone shipments reached almost 200 million in the first quarter of 2013, up 30% from the first quarter of 2012.
From its database, Equifax determined total credit card debt in each of the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions from the first quarter of 2009.
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My calculations show that operating earnings should decline 63.5% from the first quarter, then another 33.2% from the second quarter and an additional 24.9% in the third quarter.
Investment rose 8%, however, from the first quarter of 2011.
Furthermore, we expect the gross margins to erode further as the effect of patent expiration takes place from the first quarter of the fiscal 2013 (i.e. from October 2012).
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However, from the first quarter of 2008 through the current quarter, expectations about future credit access were statistically worse than views of access to borrowing over the prior 12 months.
And today's report on productivity and expenses showed that unit labor costs grew 4.2% from the first quarter, above the consensus of 3.8%--nearly four times the growth rate of productivity.
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