The last time inflows over a comparable period were higher was Dec. 08-Feb. 09.
This is the highest level for a comparable period since the first half of 2007.
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The average self-pay monthly churn rate fell to 1.8%, from 2% in the comparable period last year.
The apparel and accessory company's gross profit margins improved by 459 basis points versus the comparable period last year.
In the past 12 months the economy has grown at a faster rate than during any comparable period in the 1990s.
Amazon said it has sold 3x as many books so far in 2011 as it did in the comparable period last year.
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Despite lagging recently, the Loan 100 continues to outperform in the year-to-November at 9.32%, versus a loss of 0.08% during the comparable period last year.
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While some analysts may be wary of spending patterns due to the slow-moving economic recovery, many point to the sector's progress from last year's comparable period.
For the first 10 months of 2012, a total of 10.8 million passenger cars were sold in China, up 7.6 percent from the comparable period last year.
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There were, again, 63 that had been sitting for more than a month, when in a comparable period of time in the Bush administration that number was six.
For the first quarter of fiscal 2002 (ended June 30, 2001) earnings per share were up 7% over the comparable period in fiscal 2001 and sales rose 59%.
The company said that season-to-date TurboTax desktop units are down 2% form the comparable period last year, but that TurboTax Web units are up 19%, for a blended increase of 11%.
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There is no comparable period in 2011, because the company didn't begin producing sand until July of that year after building a facility with an integrated railway line in Wyeville, Wis.
The performance in Q was better than in the comparable period in 2011 due to higher average realized prices as well as higher production and sales of copper, gold, and molybdenum.
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The September output figure was flattered by the value of Olympic ticket sales, while the additional bank holiday for the Royal Wedding also reduced output in the comparable period a year ago, the NIESR said.
Best Buy estimates that its domestic market share was down 110 basis points from the comparable period last year for the three months ended October 31, citing weakness in TVs, mobile computing and gaming software.
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As for breaking the calendar-year record, that appeared an eventuality given the frenetic pace of issuance over the past three months, but recall that high-yield supply at midyear was actually 4% lower than the comparable period a year ago.
There are a number of similarities that suggest that America is entering a comparable long period of economic malaise.
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Fuel costs for the airline were comparable to the same period of last year.
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Within this two-month period, comparable store sales increased 10.1 percent in November and 4.2 percent in December.
In 2008-2009, UNESCO condemned the murder of 125 journalists, a tally comparable to the previous period - 2006-2007 - when the Organization had reported 122 murders.
Returns so far this year for the Pimco Total Return fund were 1.37% as of May 15, putting it in the bottom 14% of comparable funds for the period, according to Morningstar.
The comparable number for the same period in the 1996 election cycle was 4.30%.
Local air passenger traffic declined 2.9% during January to November 2012--the most recent period for which comparable numbers are available--to 53.41 million, according to government data.
Of course, the current period doesn't seem comparable to that euphoric time.
In the same period last year, Kiosk Jewelry comparable store sales rose 4.2 percent.
In the period 2005-2008, the comparable numbers for extra-backyard dominance was 16 for the dollar, 4 for the euro and just one 1 for the RMB.
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On Oct. 23, Prologis Inc. reported results for the third quarter 2012, the first period of year-over-year comparable results for the combined company.
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