Also positively, fixed investment growth reached nearly 5% compared to the same period last year.
Net sales for the quarter were down 6% as compared to the same period last year.
On Black Friday, online sales grew by 24.3% compared to the same period last year.
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The airport posted a 0.6% increase in traffic last month, compared to the same period last year.
Gold, lead and zinc production was also lower in the first-quarter compared to the same period last year.
The Strathclyde and Lothian and Borders forces showed a slight fall compared to the same period last year.
Commercial loans also increased by 9% compared to the same period last year.
Gamers spent 42% less on video games in April compared to the same period last year, said market research firm NPD.
American exports grew almost 17 percent over the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year.
Toyota's quarterly vehicle sales were down 13 percent in China and down 15 percent in Japan, compared to the same period last year.
Nearly 3, 500 potholes have been reported to Somerset County Council since December, showing a 40% increase compared to the same period last year.
For the past four months, though, imports through the port of Los Angeles have been down compared to the same period last year.
Comparable store sales for Tiffany increased 9% worldwide during the fourth quarter compared to the same period last year, including effects from currency exchange rates.
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Lenovo doubled its smartphone sales in China in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, and its smartphone business is finally profitable.
Car sales were down 4 percent on the year in May and are now up 7 percent compared to the same period last year, Fenabrave said.
Silver equivalent production jumped 10% to 6.7 million ounces, 6.5 million ounces in silver and 3, 200 ounces of gold, compared to the same period last year.
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This amounted to a 470 billion won increase in profit from the previous quarter and a 16-percent increase in sales compared to the same period last year.
Thanks to a 100-day writers' strike that wiped out much of the season, both networks are down about 10% in total viewership compared to the same period last year.
The company expects passenger unit revenue (measured by revenue per available seat mile) to go up by 10.5% in Sept quarter as compared to the same period last year.
The NYPD has released crime figures which show that thefts involving Apple products are up this year a whopping 40 percent compared to the same period last year.
In that report, the minister suggested that oil revenues in the country plummeted 40 percent, while gas and gas products' export revenues fell by 45% compared to the same period last year.
Pachter reported Microsoft led the way in console sales last month, selling 355, 000 Xbox 360 units in the U.S. However, that figure is down 21 percent compared to the same period last year.
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The U.S. Census Bureau reported 1.1% increase in retail sales in September from the previous month and 8% increase in retail sales in Q3 2011 compared to the same period last year.
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That was 14% more than in October last year and reinforces the trend which has seen home sales rise by 7% in the first 10 months of the year, compared to the same period last year.
Nine months since the acquisition, Foodstar has grown by more than 20% compared to the same period last year due to additions in soy manufacturing capacity and expansion of the Master brand in more Chinese markets.
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But though digital sales may be up, combined digital and physical sales of PC games were down 21% in the first half of the year, and unit sales were down 14% compared to the same period last year.
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The government data regarding number of visas issued by the Dubai government in Q1 2011 compared to the same period last year showed an increase of almost 50% from 546, 782 visas issued in Q1 2010 to 817, 805 in Q1 2011.
This might translate into lower viewership for CBS. After three weeks of the opening of its 2012-13 broadcasting season, NBC was up 15% in ratings compared to the same period last year while the other broadcasting networks were down by 12% to 24%.
Although the rise beat analysts' expectations, Markit chief economist Chris Williamson described the data as "very volatile" and pointed out that the figures for the three months to the end of September compared to the same period last year showed the steepest fall since April 2009.
Recession across the border means that remittances to Mexico fell by 4.2% between January and August compared with the same period last year, according to the World Bank.
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