Chipotle expects the cost of food to account for 33.5% of the sales this quarter up from 32.6% in the third quarter.
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The FDIC list of Problem Banks jumped to 829 from 775 with 45 bank failures in the second quarter up from 41 in the first quarter.
That represented 30% of all its ad sales for the quarter, up from 23% last quarter and in a traditionally tough quarter.
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Apple said it sold 4.9 million Macs in the quarter, up 1% from the same quarter last year.
Hutchinson said it shipped about 118 million disk-drive suspension assemblies in the quarter, up 15% from the second quarter.
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The company, which installs solar panels on the roofs of homes, businesses, schools and government agencies, completed 46 megawatts of projects in the first quarter, up 12% from the first quarter of 2012.
That overall occupancy is up 20 basis points from the third quarter and up 50 basis points from the year ago.
However, consumer spending was the main driver for growth and picked up 2.9% in first quarter, up from a 2.1% rise in the previous three-month period.
Scottish first-time buyers typically borrowed 79% of their property's value in the second quarter, up from 77% in the previous quarter but still below the average of 80% in the UK as a whole.
He believes that revenue from the mobile news feed compared to desktop news feed rose to 5-1 in the fourth quarter, up from 3-1 in the third quarter, as Facebook pushes better quality ads towards mobile.
The annualized rate of GDP increased to 1.8% in the third quarter, up from 1.3% in the second quarter.
The firm sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in the fourth quarter, up from 2.9 million in the third quarter.
Real growth domestic product grew at a 2% annual rate in the third quarter, up from 1.3% in the previous quarter.
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On Friday it was reported that the U.S. economy (GDP) grew 2.0% in the 3rd quarter, up from 1.3% in the second quarter, and better than the consensus forecast of 1.8%.
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Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expect figures to be released on April 15 to show the world's No. 2 economy grew at an annual rate of 8.0% in the first quarter, up slightly from 7.9% in the fourth quarter.
The company shipped 118 million CDMA chips in the quarter, up 28% from last year and 6% from the September quarter.
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The U.S. economy likely grew at a healthy 3.1 percent annual rate in the first quarter, up from only a 0.4 percent rate in the fourth quarter.
LCDs TV shipment growth in the quarter was up just 9%, the slowest year-over-year growth quarter for the segment ever.
Miami's Ray Allen, no doubt helped by his role as sharpshooting closer, has been heating it up in the last stanza, scoring 6.8 points per fourth quarter, up from 4.5 during the regular season.
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Carrying the day were record sales of iPhones and iPads -- the latter of which sold 22.9 million units during the quarter, up from 15.4 million a year ago and 14 million last quarter.
The company shipped 287 MW of solar products in the quarter, up from 244 MW in Q1 and 181 MW in the year ago quarter, but a bit below the previous forecast of 295 MW. The company noted that 10.1 MW of shipments were to one customer that will be recognized in Q3.
According to the research firm DisplaySearch, overall TV shipments in the first quarter were up just 1% from a year ago, and fell 29% from the fourth quarter, in a sharper-than-seasonal drop that reflected very high Q4 shipments that were stronger than sell-through.
Occupancy at SL Green's Manhattan buildings reached 95.4% in the fourth quarter, up from 94.6% a year earlier and 95.1% in the third quarter.
Strategy Analytics, a research and consulting firm, estimated that Apple shipped 17.7 million mobile phones to grab a record 34% of the U.S. market during the quarter, up from 12.8 million units shipped and a 25.4% share in the fourth quarter of 2011.
The Company's laptop shipments worldwide in the quarter were up 23 percent year- over-year.
But Nokia also shipped 110.4 million units in the quarter, up 2% from last year.
BMW, which also owns Mini and Rolls-Royce, delivered 448, 200 vehicles worldwide in the quarter, up 5.3%.
Gross domestic product jumped 9.8% in the fourth quarter, up from 9.6% in the third.
Apple also sold four million Macs during the quarter, up 7% from a year ago.
He now sees sales of 28 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 25.3 million previously.
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