On a sequential basis, average home prices continued to be lower for the ninth straight month.
Regardless, its chicken unit swung back into profitability, on a sequential basis, while pork products remained strong.
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But on a sequential basis, DAUs were down 6% from 60 million in the third quarter of 2012.
Non-GAAP gross margins increased modestly on a sequential basis, but were down a sharp 2% year over year.
Green Mountain sold a total of 2 million brewers in the quarter, up 20% on a sequential basis.
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Mobile unique, which include those coming from Apple and Android devices, were flat on a sequential basis, but minutes increased 21%, comScore said.
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While the news is encouraging, the increase in home prices slowed on a sequential basis as they remain about 30% off their 2006-peaks.
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Traditionally Q4 growth has outpaced other quarters on a sequential basis.
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Retail was the second worst sector, with 8, 360 announced cuts in February, a 44% increase from January, which had already experienced a 17% increase on a sequential basis.
The company expects the commodity prices to cool down in the latter half of the year and, thus, we could see some margin improvement on a sequential basis.
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Essentially all of the increase comes from an extended online marketing customer base, which grew to 272, 000, up 25.9% from Q3 2009, and 7.1% on a sequential basis.
U.S. home prices declined 4.2% through the first quarter on a sequential basis, a further drop from the 3.6% decline recorded in the last three months of 2010.
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"While prices will continue to fall on a year-on-year basis, you can see some signs of stabilizing on a sequential basis, " said Kris Li, a property analyst from Shenyin Wanguo Research and Consulting.
While operations were solid significantly lower refining margins, added to a planned outage of their Whiting refinery as part of an upgrade, pushed their quarterly profit down more than 50% on a sequential basis.
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The National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday that average prices of newly built homes in 52 of 70 large and medium-size Chinese cities it surveyed fell in December on a sequential basis, up from 49 cities in November.
According to RealtyTrac, foreclosures sold fell almost 6% in April on a sequential basis to 57, 044, with new foreclosures slowing 2% to 214, 927, and foreclosure average sales prices gaining 4.3% to 172, 200. (Read Investors Consider Two-Sided Case-Shiller Data: Markets Open Higher).
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Hard drive shipments have been on a downward path as flash drives and tablets eat into their market, according to a report by iSuppli cited by Bloomberg, and will fall by about 4% on a sequential basis in the first quarter of 2011.
The largest chipmakers have essentially retained the same market share on both a sequential and yearly basis.
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Consumer sentiment data was flat both on a sequential and annual basis.
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The price of silver in the first quarter was much lower on a year-over-year and sequential basis.
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Revenues and profits declined on both a sequential and year-over-year basis.
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Our EMEA region experienced a fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline as pro forma revenues in constant dollars were down 6% and 8%, respectively, on a sequential and year-over-year basis.
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Going by the copper price data on the London Metal Exchange, the average realized price of copper for Freeport is likely to be lower this quarter on a sequential and year-over-year basis.
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