According to WWF researchers, sea ice cover has declined by about 40% over the last quarter century.
Second from the left is the number in the news, the GDP growth rate over the last quarter.
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Another click fraud auditing firm, Anchor Intelligence, reports that click fraud has remained mostly flat over the last quarter, by contrast.
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Annual sales growth has slipped from an average increase of 57% per year over the last 3 years to an increase of 18% annualized over the last quarter.
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We are very interested to hear not just the change in gross margins over the last year but also the change in margins over the last quarter as well.
While all three issues flared to some extent over the last quarter, none proved to be beyond what the market had already priced in, setting the stage for a drop.
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The reason, in short, is because Alcoa has a long tradition of being the first major company to announce how much money it made or lost over the last quarter.
"Simply put, the CBO report shows that over the last quarter century (1979 to 2007, to be exact), the top 1% of income earners enjoyed far, far bigger real income gains than the other 99%, " he wrote.
Instead, he used an appearance at the Goldman Sachs technology conference in New York to reassure shareholders that Apple still has considerable room to grow and should not be judged on the apparent slowdown in its trajectory over the last quarter.
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Aggregate paid clicks increased about 16%over the third quarter of 2009, which is approximately 2% over the second quarter, while average cost-per-click edged up 3% over the same quarter last year, and 2% over the second quarter of 2010.
By the firm's count, those counterfeit sites increased 10% over last quarter and 19% over the same quarter from last year.
To sweeten the deal for investors, the company paid a dividend of 16 cents per share in the third quarter of fiscal 2012, which marked a 14.3% increase over the same quarter last year.
Wal-Mart reported mixed Q3 results with an 8% increase in its net revenues over the same quarter last year.
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Bank of China led the way, posting a 16.6% increase in net profits over the same quarter last year.
It was a whopping 68% increase over the same quarter last year.
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The consensus is currently expecting a profit of 89 cents per share from Baidu, a modest increase of about 6% over the same quarter last year.
On the earnings front, MAT is expecting to post a profit of 86 cents per share, an improvement of 11.7% over the same quarter last year.
Heading into the release, analysts are expecting a first-quarter profit of 39 cents per share from Cisco, an 8% improvement over the same quarter last year.
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The economy was in its fourth down quarter over the last five.
Consider that soft-drink makers today enjoy some of the highest operating profit margins in the food industry, even though some have reduced their calorie footprint (the average calories sold per capita) by a quarter over the last decade.
The Twitter also exec said mobile usage is over 40% quarter-on-quarter for the last few quarters.
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Corresponding to the decline in luxury consumer confidence, the average amount spent by affluent consumers on luxury goods and services in the second quarter 2011 declined by 8.4 percent from the first quarter and dropped 18.4 percent over same quarter last year, according to the survey.
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Merck and Schering split the profits from the medicines equally, and the drugs have been growth engines, with sales up 25% in the most recent quarter over the same period last year.
China Construction Bank shares ( HKG: 0939) are up 1.29 percent year to date and up slightly over 8 percent in the last quarter, beating the bank and real estate heavy FTSE China index.
The revenue growth in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year snapped the three-quarter streak of year-over-year revenue decreases.
Their sales growth has increased 22% over the last three years and their earnings are up 50% in the last quarter alone.
As evident from the chart above, the growth rate over last quarter has nearly halved from 19% in Q2 to roughly 10% in Q3.
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Although they shot up 12.6% in the first quarter over last year's figure, the fear is that the Sars-linked downturn elsewhere will rebound on how much money makes it home.
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