For example, luxury items, ranging from jewelry to cars, are experiencing lower turnover compared to the past.
Now that the holding company is in place, chaebol watchers give LG high marks among its peers: "It's much more transparent compared to the past, " Kim says.
Compared to the past few years, there will simply not be as many big-selling brand-name medicines losing patent protection, which means generic drugmakers cannot simply jumpstart growth by acquiring another generic drugmaker.
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Our market share estimates for Nokia indicate that the company will continue to lose share in the emerging markets, albeit to a smaller degree as compared to the recent past.
Oil prices are indeed uncomfortably high, but they are not straining the U.S. economy, especially compared to the price activity of the past three years.
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Estimates have broadly come down in the past sixty days, with only one estimate going higher in the past month, compared to five lower in the same time period.
Bob Ash, director of Wachovia 's small-business group, says loan volume has been steady in the past few weeks compared to the first quarter of 2007.
The FAA said the voluntary reporting system for controllers has provided nearly 10 times the data during the past three years compared to the traditional reporting system.
According to The Hulbert Financial Digest, dividend expert Investment Quality Trends has returned 17% in the past year, compared to the 11.5% gain for the Wilshire 5000.
In February, survey participants hired 0.17 workers on average over the past three months, compared to a net decrease in employment for 33 out of the past 37 months.
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The final criterion of this approach is relative strength, the measure of how a stock has performed compared to all other stocks over the past year.
Specifically, Governors must commit that their proposals will move at least 20% more people from welfare to work compared to the state's past performance.
Compared to similar readings of the past year, this ratio sits in the 20th percentile, implying that short-term options players are much more call-biased than usual right now.
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Compared to similar readings of the past year, the SOIR ranks in the 94th percentile, suggesting short-term options traders have rarely been more put-heavy during the past 12 months.
Above these levels, the tax rate on ordinary income has increased from 35% in 2012 to 39.6% in 2013, making each new dollar of itemized deduction worth 39.6 cents to the donor as compared to 35 cents in years past.
Some home buyers have tapped into the bank of mom and dad, receiving gifts or loans from family members. (A 2012 National Association of Realtors survey found that 30% of first-time home buyers received funding from relatives for downpayments.) Many others have pooled together funds to pay all-cash, fueling about 30% of all home sales in the past year compared to about 10% a decade ago, according to NAR.
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According to the Census Bureau, right-to-work states enjoyed a 11.3% net increase of new residents over the past decade compared to non-right-to-work states.
And to be sure, labor and infrastructure limits may slow the rate of growth compared to past years, but projections by JPMorgan Chase suggest that North Dakota will continue to enjoy GDP growth two to three times the national average for the next few years.
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India possibly didn't realise they were up against a team whose batsmen were in peak and insatiable form - England batsmen had scored, for example, six double centuries in the past 14 months alone, compared to eight in the previous 21 years.
Compared to similar readings taken during the past year, this ratio stands just 11 percentage points shy of a pessimistic peak.
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Compared to similar readings taken during the past year, this ratio registers in the 89th percentile, implying that short-term options speculators are currently more put-heavy than usual on SAM.
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Hersh is no doubt traveling light compared to the war correspondents of the past, but putting him and a photographer on the ground in Egypt, and producing and disseminating their work in a polished fashion, still costs real money, the kind a corporate parent like News Corp. brings to the table.
His home builder holdings have helped him produce an annualized 22.7% return in his model portfolios over the past six years (compared to 0.9% annualized for the Wilshire 5000).
In the past 10 years Italian labour costs compared to Germany have risen and the country has lost competitiveness.
The provisional temperature for this spring goes against recent form for the season, forecasters said, with eight of the past 10 years seeing warmer than average springs compared to the long-term (1981-2010) average of 7.7C.
Revenues decreased for 40% of respondents the past year, compared to 31% in December 2011.
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This requires that an investor evaluate each opportunity compared to others that have shown themselves in the past.
Growth has slowed compared to the astronomical rise in sales of the past few years, led by China.
Without an advocate, the rookies will suffer compared to past classes.
They see the problem manifesting as price deflation, even though, over most of the past 10 years, the yen has fallen in value compared to gold.
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