It doesn't break out profits by product segment, but its gross margin rate is declining.
The company also expects gross profit rate to decline at a rate similar to that experienced last quarter, owing to investments in new product launches.
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Sears Holdings saw its gross margin rate increase 130 basis points for the fourth quarter of 2012 and 90 basis points for the year from the comparable prior year periods.
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More than 50% of property managers say that, at a minimum, a monthly gross income should be at least 3x the monthly rental rate and approximately 30% of managers would accept an applicant based on gross income at 2.5x the rental rate.
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Our analysis compares the twelve month rate of change in real gross total debt growth versus the growth rate of real GDP.
From 2010 on, the target growth rate is gross domestic product plus one percent.
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Also, China reported a year-over-year Gross Domestic Product growth rate of 7.7% for the first quarter of 2013.
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Therefore, online advertising expenses have increased at a faster rate than gross profits, a trend we expect to continue in the future.
With mortgage money so readily available, the U.S. housing market took off, rising at roughly twice the rate of gross domestic product (GDP) over the five years to 2007.
Personal consumption expenditures advanced at a 1.4% annual rate, but gross private sector investment increased by only .07%.
It follows a day after the IMF censured Argentina for its manipulated statistics, most importantly its gross underreporting of the inflation rate.
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In a debate over the weekend between the Liberal party, PQ, Coalition Avenir Quebec and Quebec Solidaire, Marois said she would impose a minimum 5% royalty rate on the gross value of all mining production.
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But obviously, a maximum rate of 25% would generate significantly less gross tax revenue than the current system, which contains a top rate of 39.6% (actually, over 44% when factoring in Obamacare and the repeal of the PEASE limitation on itemized deductions).
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To compute real debt growth, we subtract the annual rate of change of the Consumer Price Index from the rate of change of gross total debt.
U.S. durable goods orders fell a whopping 13% in August, while the latest estimate for second-quarter U.S. gross domestic product saw the growth rate shaved by 0.4%, to just 1.3% growth.
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Meanwhile, local governments, overburdened with infrastructure projects, are raising taxes at three times the rate of increase in gross domestic product, just as exports to Europe are hit by the euro-zone crisis.
The analyst notes that over the last three years, Priceline has grown gross bookings at a 46% compounded rate.
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The truth is that defense spending at the rate of 4% of gross domestic product (less than that sustained with ease by Singapore) is eminently affordable.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, the official arbiter of the size of the U.S. economy, reported on Wednesday that real gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 6.1% in the first three months of 2009.
But it does not justify racking up debt at a rate equal to 10% of gross domestic product.
Even if the Fed doesn't ramp up its mortgage buying, an interest-rate shock could derail Mr. Gross's strategy.
America's aspiration should be that the U.S. economy, measured by gross domestic product, grows at a sustainable rate of 4% a year, after inflation.
And overall, its growth in revenue and gross profit is stable, while its growth rate in net income, on quarter over quarter basis, remains impressive.
The annual growth rate of the province's gross domestic product is expected to fall to about 10% from 14.5% last year, according to Global Insight Inc.
Over the past ten years its gross domestic product has grown at an annual rate of 6%, putting this economy far ahead of three of the largest European Union economies (Germany, France and Italy).
Employers, who normally share with the worker welfare costs amounting to nearly 42% of gross wages, would pay a flat-rate contribution of 25% on jobs up to euro400, reduced to 12% for mini-jobs (cleaners and au pairs, for example) in private households.
"Mortgage rates depend on a very steady interest-rate environment, " said Mr. Gross.
"We believe gross margin will continue to fall at a similar rate given the higher price of scrap silicon which we have confirmed in our recent trip to China, " Pichel said.
It calls for members of the Development Assistance Committee which is made up of 23 members states and the European Commission to provide development assistance at a rate of 0.15% of Gross National Income by 2013, and 0.2% of GNI by 2015.
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