The growth rate of sales price in seven cities rose by no more than 1% month over month.
This gradual shift towards a more favorable margin segments is how IBM plans to grow profits at more than twice the rate of sales growth (forecasted to grow 5% annually).
This would leave the race, according to Pauze, up to the three as-yet undecided states that have about the same rate of auto sales growth as the national average, namely Florida (29 electoral votes), Missouri (10) and Virginia (13).
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If you were to take out a 14th week of iPhone sales the growth rate would be 40%.
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Advisors in partnership with Wells Fargo found that spending at small retailers in November showed a 5.2 percent year-over-year gain, outpacing the growth rate of total U.S. retail sales even amid the effects of Hurricane Sandy, which impacted stores hardest in the Northeast.
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That is the fastest rate of like-for-like sales growth since December 2009, the group said.
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If you were to take out a 14th week of iPad sales the previous year the growth rate would be 9%.
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If you were to take out a 14th week of iPad sales the previous year the growth rate would be 66%.
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We believe that the advent of tablets, especially the Apple iPad, could further slow down the PC market growth and forecast an average growth rate of 10% for the global notebooks and netbooks unit sales in future.
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Earnings grew at a triple-digit rate in each of the past two quarters, on sales growth of 47% and 42%.
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The trend has emerged even more strongly during the holidays with holiday online sales expanding at a rate of 15% whereas retail growth for the season is expected to linger around 3-4%.
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On a constant-exchange-rate basis, total sales increased 8 percent due to same store sales growth of 8 percent.
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Sales in the country are expected to maintain a moderate rate of growth in the near term.
The Bank of Communications forecast nominal growth for retail sales at 16 percent and actual growth rate at 12.5 percent this year.
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On average for the last four years, they have seen sales grow at an annual rate of 26% and such strong growth is always looked upon favorably in our analysis.
With so much in the air regarding e-book sales (such as author royalties, size of market, rate of growth, etc) publishers are still running scared of e-books on the whole.
Therefore, in Q2 2011, while construction and other machinery sales will continue growing along with the global GDP, its rate of growth will likely moderate due to the many global economic challenges.
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In addition, GKN has a big presence in developing countries where automotive sales are expanding by 8% a year, four times the rate of growth in the world as a whole.
In light of the tough macro conditions while the PC market growth rate has slowed down, tablets and smartphones sales are witnessing tremendous growth which is expected to increase in the future.
From 2013 its sales will start adding an average of about five percentage points a year to the national growth rate up to 2020, when its impact on the economy will peak.
We estimate that the number of transactions processed by MasterCard will get a push from rising retail sales and will approach 57 billion by the end of our forecast period, an annual growth rate of 14% off of a roughly 23 billion base in 2010.
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