And Walmarteven managed to show a re-acceleration in itse-commercegrowth, the pace of which hadslipped for nine straight quarters until lastquarter, when they jumped 12%.
SunPower has only been offering solar leases since 2011, yet it already has signed over 14, 200 leases in nine states, its executives said during a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter earnings last week.
The bank left the base rate at its all-time low of 0.5% earlier this month, but two of the nine members of its monetary-policy committee backed a quarter-point rise, according to minutes published this week.